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476 | Breaking Through · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Don't underestimate the value and power of prayer.
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  Many things viewed through the lens of the world will seem impossible,
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  but God says He inclines His ear towards us and that all things are possible to Him that believes.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes a close look at Psalms 41.
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  I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my prayer.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I'm not sure there's anything more satisfying to your soul than knowing God hears your prayers.
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  So many times in the scriptures, we are encouraged to bring our burden to the Lord.
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  And so many times in the scriptures, we are told that if we ask,
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  we'll receive. If we seek, we'll find. If we'll knock, it'll be opened unto us.
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  Hebrews chapter 14 explains to us that we are to come boldly to the throne of God.
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  He tells us to cast our cares upon him, for he cares for us.
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  All through the scriptures we are
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  given the promises the examples and
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  the encouragement to come to the lord with
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  our burdens to come to the lord expecting an
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  answer to come to the lord expecting relief and i'm fairly certain that everyone
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  who hears this message if they're honest with themselves would say they found
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  themselves sometimes in their life where they were in a position where they
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  desperately needed God's intervention.
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  I imagine that we have found ourselves for a period of time,
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  and sometimes for an extended period of time, where we were praying for God
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  to come and answer our prayer, that we needed whatever that oppression was to cease,
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  and that I'm certain that there has been needs in your life that you came diligently
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  to God on your own behalf or on the behalf of others requesting that God would meet that need.
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  We've come desperately wanting God to reveal himself to us.
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  The psalmist David in Psalms chapter 40 writes these words in verses 11 and 12.
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  He says, withhold not thou tender mercies from me, O Lord.
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  Let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
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  For innumerable evils have compassed me about.
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  My iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I'm not able to look up.
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  They are more than the hairs of my head. therefore my
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  heart felleth me the psalmist
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  David is in that very predicament that I was talking
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  about in that place where he desperately needed God and in verse 11 he begins
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  with withhold not thou thy tender
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  mercies from me he begins to tell you in verse 11 how he knows who God is.
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  And so when you read verse 1 of chapter
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  40 you understand what he says when he
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  says i waited patiently for the lord he could
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  wait patiently for the lord to deliver him from his oppression and to deliver
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  him from the things that were causing him such a burden and to provide for him
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  what he had need of because he knew who god was and he proves that to us in
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  verse 11 when he says Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me.
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  O Lord, let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
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  David understood his own frailties. And David understood that he wasn't worthy of an almighty God.
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  And that he had nothing about him or within himself that would enable him to
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  deserve God, to preserve him. but he knew who God was and he trusted in him.
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  In verse 3, he says, and he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.
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  Many shall see it in fear and shall trust in the Lord.
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  David understood as he came patiently, waiting for God to deliver him,
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  waiting for God to give him the answer that he was asking.
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  He understood that when he did, he would have a new outlook on life and that
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  God would make all things beautiful again. And that the things that people meant
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  for harm for us and the devil meant for no good, that he would turn for good.
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  And David understood that God would be glorified in all things if he would just follow.
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  And in verse 12 of Psalms chapter 40, we are given the full understanding that David was not perfect.
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  And David didn't always get it right. But one thing was true about David. He knew who God was.
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  And his knowledge of God and his knowledge of what God could do for him was
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  enough to allow him to wait patiently.
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  Now, patience isn't one of my greatest virtues, but I can wait on God to do it.
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  You see, once I come to that realization that I need to give it to God,
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  and that should be instantaneously, and once I give it to God,
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  I can wait for God to fix it.
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  I've heard stories in my life where people have prayed for years upon years
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  upon years for the salvation of their loved one.
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  And when the whole world had given up on it, God saved that soul because he was tender towards him.
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  And he was patient with him and honoring the prayers of those that prayed until
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  somebody finally spoke of Jesus in a way that broke through.
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  And the Holy Spirit never gave up knocking on that person's heart's door because
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  somebody prayed patiently.
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  So many of us will pray about something for a little while, one,
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  two days, maybe even a couple weeks.
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  And we might even have in our hearts a desire to do it longer when we first start.
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  But something fades.
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  And we cease praying for it when it doesn't happen. Do you know what I think fades?
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  I think it's our knowledge that God is working.
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  You see, none of us want to do something continually and not see any progress.
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  And for the Christian, we're no different. But we have to see progress through
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  eyes of faith sometimes.
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  We have to know that God is working because of what God speaks in our heart,
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  because of what he shows in his scriptures, because the King David said that.
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  He waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry.
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  You see, David also explains later on in the scriptures that we can't hold iniquity
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  in our heart or God won't hear our prayers.
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  But David shows us how to have a breakthrough. We don't have to send money to
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  the local church. We don't have to send money to the guy on TV.
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  We don't have to do the Facebook thing and God will prosper us.
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  We've got to do business with Jesus, who is our advocate with God the Father.
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  And we've got to understand in our hearts that we have to believe that he is
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  and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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  And we have to pray knowing that the answer is on the way.
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  I love it when I understood that when I give it to God, I need to follow it with, thank you, Lord.
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  I got to know in my heart that he has taken care of it and that the answer is coming.
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  And I want to thank him for the answer. When you do it that way,
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  there is no doubt that you are trusting in him.
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  And you know what? You'll walk away from that prayer and you'll have peace that
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  passeth understanding and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  I mean praising him for the answer before you see it with your eyes.
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  That's what David was doing when he waited patiently
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  because see if you don't see it with your eyes that's
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  okay but if you don't see it with your heart you're
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  not going to continually sit there in joy in peace
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  in that all knowing that all is
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  well entrusted in faith you're not going to do that you're
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  going to be anxious and the Bible says don't
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  be anxious for anything you see you got to
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  be willing to take god's answer because you know
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  who he is you see i've prayed many
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  a prayer for god to heal someone and in my heart and in my mind i had an idea
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  of what i thought that would look like but god had a different idea and god
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  healed him completely when he took him to the other side but you see i could
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  stand in my heart and in my mind and in my christian and walk and say, thank you, Lord.
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  Because I waited patiently, not because I'm special, but because I am the child
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  of the Most High God, and He never makes a mistake.
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  And when your faith is wavering, it's time to read. When your faith is wavering, it's time to pray.
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  When your faith is wavering, it's time to do business with Jesus,
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  and you need to talk to Him, and you can ask Him, Lord, increase my faith.
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  Lord, help me see in your scriptures something today that's going to help me
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  wait patiently I know who you are, Lord.
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  I love you, Lord. But something's a little wrong in my heart right now.
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  I need you to sweep through and clean it.
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  I need you to let me know that the world didn't give it to me and the world can't take it away.
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  I need you to let me feel the sun in my soul when there is rain in my sky.
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  Lord, I need you to help me today. Lord, don't let me falter. Don't let me waver.
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  Lord, give me the breakthrough. And I want the breakthrough,
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  Lord, that just lets me know that I've given it to you and you've got it.
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  And you're the almighty God that loves me. And let me wait patiently.
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  Let me remember that your ear is here. Lord, let me know of your loving kindness.
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  Lord, let me feel your mercies. That's the kind of breakthrough I'm talking about.
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  Because you see, the answer's not in your hands.
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  The results are not up to you. You can't do a thing.
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  The Bible says you can't even add one second to your life. Don't worry.
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  And that sparrow out there, the Lord feeds that sparrow and that sparrow don't have a soul.
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  That sparrow's not created in his image, but you are my friend.
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  And he died for you. How much more is he going to take care of you?
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  The Bible says if you can believe all things are possible to him that believeth,
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  Oh, don't underestimate the value and the power of prayer.
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  Give it to God. I mean, really give it to Him. Cast your care upon Him.
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  Don't pull it back. Don't get up from the altar wondering what happened.
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  But that's going to require you knowing him so that you can wait patiently.
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  I promise you that when you wait patiently, he's going to incline his ear to you.
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  He's going to hear your cry. And the answer will be better than you could have
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  ever imagined or dreamed up.
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  Because God is in control. And Jesus loves you, this I know.
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  Your breakthrough is waiting on the other side of your prayer.
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