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418 | Throwback - Speaking With Boldness · 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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  Your prayer every day should be that God gives you the words to say and the
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  courage and strength to say the words he has for you so that others may come to know him.
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  When your words come from Almighty God, they are going to have a kick.
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  Therefore, you should say them with power and conviction and without worry of what others may think.
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  Join us in this program, Speaking with Boldness, as Kim Miller of Woman at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through Ephesians 6.19, which says.
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  And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly
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  to make known the mystery of the gospel.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And when you look at Paul's words in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 19,
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  where he says, As for me, that utterance may be given unto me,
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  that I may open up my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel.
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  When you think of all that Paul has done in his life to this point,
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  and how God used him in such mighty ways,
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  you understand that when paul asked that he might be given utterance so that
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  he could speak boldly so that others would know christ that god granted that to him.
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  And we as Christians should have that same purpose and that same goal in our
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  lives that everything we do and everything that we say would lead others to Christ.
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  But in addition to that, we should have this sole purpose of going out and being
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  able to tell others about who Christ is and about the gospel and how the gospel
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  changes lives and it transforms lives.
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  And Paul gives us this account where he is asking for the boldness to open his
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  mouth to speak to others the gospel of Christ.
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  Not just to talk about who Christ is, but to be able to explain it and say it
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  in such a way that others would come to know Christ.
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  And that this mystery of salvation that others seem to have would be cleared up.
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  And after speaking to him, after he comes to you with the intent and purpose
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  to speak the words of Christ, that you would understand and believe in God.
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  And if you think about that for just a fraction of time, you will see that every
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  believer in their heart of hearts should have that same goal.
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  And so often in our lives, we
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  find ourselves in a situation where people around us do not know Christ.
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  And it doesn't seem to put us in an urgency to speak the gospel.
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  And I believe for some of us,
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  it's because we have just gotten so accustomed to somebody else doing it that
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  the best we can do is sort of point them to someone else i think also we just are afraid.
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  We're afraid of what others may think. We're afraid that the person we're talking
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  to may ask us a question we can't answer.
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  We're afraid that we may say something that offends someone.
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  And in the back of our minds, the devil is put in there that,
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  well, they'll never want anything to do with Christ again if I do this wrong.
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  So it's just best I say nothing. but you see paul in this passage gives us a
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  recipe that if each of us would take to heart.
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  And we would be praying to the lord to help
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  us to be boldly able to speak
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  the gospel in such a way that
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  the mystery of it would be taken away and that
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  those that we were in presence of who
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  we were speaking to about the gospel of christ would
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  be able to understand in such a way
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  that they would come to the saving knowledge of jesus
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  you see i think part of the problem that
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  we have is that we don't reflect on our lives in such a way as to prepare ourselves
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  for the times that we have coming about
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  in other words we need to prepare ourselves to do the work of the lord,
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  and that means we need to pray and in our prayers we need to ask the lord to use us,
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  to speak through us and to give us
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  the words to say in the opportunities that
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  he opens for us and then when we find ourselves in those opportunities we need
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  to be praying in our heart that the lord would teach us through the holy spirit
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  what it is we'd have to say and that he would speak through us and we need to
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  be living a life that we can hear the Lord when he speaks,
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  so that we can tell others who he is.
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  But it brings us back to that 2 Timothy 2.15, which is to study to show thyself
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  approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
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  rightly dividing the word of truth.
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  So often when the Lord puts us in a place, we are speechless because we have
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  nothing of him that we have studied or looked at or talked about or read or prayed with him to say.
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  Now i'm not saying that when you go
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  out into the world and you begin to find
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  yourself in situations where you are surrounded by
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  people who don't know the lord that for you to say
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  something to them you must be a bible scholar and you've
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  got to read it from cover to cover and you can quote all these
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  scriptures i'm not saying that because sometimes your
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  testimony of what god has done for you
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  and through you and what you can do
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  because of him and what he has given
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  you in the gift of salvation is a wonderful wonderful.
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  Testimony that softens hearts and
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  opens eyes to the lord but what
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  i'm saying is when paul said for
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  me i want that the utterance may
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  be given unto me that i may open my mouth boldly
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  to make known the mystery of the gospel his goal
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  was for the lord to give him the ability and
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  to place upon him the words to say that
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  he could make known the mystery of salvation and the gospel that was his goal
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  when you have a goal when you have a desire you work towards that goal and you
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  do everything you can to fulfill that desire.
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  And if your desire and my desire
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  was wrapped up in the same thing that paul's
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  desire is right here in this scripture we would
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  find ourselves in the word of god more often
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  we would study what it says we
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  would spend more time in prayer so that
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  the lord could mold us and make us into what
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  we need to be so that we are ready and able
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  and capable and willing when he
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  places us in the opportunity to speak
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  the gospel of christ but i
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  think what's happened in our lives is many
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  of us have just become lazy in the
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  gospel and so we categorize who
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  it is that should be doing that well of
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  course you would say study kim and of course you would you
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  would study and of course you're praying the lord has called you to speak and
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  teach his word but the bible says to go you into all the world and preach and
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  teach the gospel and he didn't say that just to the preachers or just to your
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  sunday school teachers he said that to his children,
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  And each of us have been placed in a place in our lives where there are people
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  around us who don't know the Lord.
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  True story. I've lived where I've lived for many years.
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  And it was just today, on Sunday, that I discovered in my heart that I didn't
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  have any idea where my next door neighbor went to church or if she did.
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  And she's lived here since before i
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  lived here and though i talked to her about
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  what i do and though i talked to her
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  about the places that we
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  bring the gospel though she sees that we are woman at the well ministries i
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  have never asked her where she went to church and because i leave earlier than
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  she would to go to church in my mind i guess i just assumed she went.
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  She's a wonderful lady she's incredibly nice but
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  i don't know for a fact that she
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  goes to church and so as i begin to look
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  at this message on speaking with boldness i thought to myself what What am I
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  going to do tomorrow to make sure that I am in her presence to ask her if she
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  goes to church so that I can then get to the place where I can say to her,
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  do you know Jesus?
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  Because it's a crying shame that I am on the radio, that I've written books,
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  that I speak in places, but I've never spoken to my neighbor directly asking her.
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  About her relationship with christ you see
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  if my goal was like peter's i mean paul's was in this and if i was bold like
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  peter was even impetuous as he was then i would begin to to make a plan which
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  i have to find out where she stands with jesus.
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  And be able to talk to her about the grace of God, the love of Jesus, the gift of salvation.
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  That's all that Paul is asking here for him.
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  What he wants is that ability. You see, and the Lord obviously honors that.
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  The Lord will give you the desires of your heart if you delight yourself in him.
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  And never have I seen a more true statement of delight in Jesus than to say,
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  what I want you to do, Lord,
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  is give me the words that I might be able to explain your salvation to those
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  around me so that they can come to the saving knowledge of who you are.
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  None of us are exempt from falling behind the laziness of saying it's someone else's job.
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  But all of us are required to tell
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  those people that God places in our path about
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  him and it's my prayer that
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  as you read this verse in Ephesians that you
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  like me begin to reflect upon your life and to truly see that the purpose you
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  have in life is to make Jesus known to those around you It is my prayer that
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  he uses me and you in amazing ways today and always.
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