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304 | Throwback - A Faith that Speaks · 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
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  well in John chapter four.
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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,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her 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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  As a child of God, there is so much God in you that all of the works accomplished
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  through your life have the potential to be amazingly effective.
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  Your faith will make you strong and open your eyes to see the jobs that God
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  has chosen for you, to show others the way to Him.
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  Join us in this program of Faith That Speaks as Kim Miller of Women at the Well
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  Ministries takes us through Philemon 1-6,
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  which says that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging
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  of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries and what
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  a pleasure it is to talk about faith.
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  Faith is such a gift that God gives us that enables us to have a peace that
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  passes understanding and a joy unspeakable and full of glory. And we talk about faith.
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  What is it? Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 1 says this.
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  Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.
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  Faith is knowing that God is in control, even when everything around you points otherwise. was.
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  Faith is knowing that God has your best interest at heart, even when you don't
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  like the answers that are coming your way.
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  Faith is being able to see God's hand in the midst of a storm.
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  And faith is what allows us to receive Christ as Savior, knowing that he is
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  the only begotten son of God.
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  And by placing our faith in him and placing our life in his hands,
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  that we'll receive eternal life.
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  The Bible tells us in that same chapter of Hebrews 11 in verse 6,
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  these wonderful words, but without faith, it is impossible to please him.
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  For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder
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  of them that diligently seek him.
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  When we come to God in faith, we must believe in who he is.
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  We must absolutely, positively, without any question or doubt,
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  believe that he is the son of God, believe that he will forgive us of our sins,
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  believe that he is the king of kings and the Lord of lords, and allow him to have reign in our life.
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  And today, as we're talking about a faith that speaks, that's what we're talking about. out.
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  We're talking about a life that is lived so that your decisions that you make,
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  the walk that you have in this world tells other people who Christ is.
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  And that's an important thing that each of us have an opportunity to do because
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  people are watching our lives every day and we claim to be a Christian and our
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  life needs to back that up because
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  the Bible tells us, and I believe that even if you haven't read it,
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  you would understand clearly that where your heart is, there will your treasure be also.
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  For where we really think something is and what we really believe in and the
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  things that we're amazingly passionate about, that's the stuff that we believe in.
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  That's what we protect. That's what we promote.
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  And so you can always tell how serious someone is about the Lord by how much
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  they talk about the Lord, how much they're involved in his doings,
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  how much they are interested in his word,
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  and how much they are really interested in spending time with him.
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  You see, it's a true fact that when you spend time with the Lord,
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  sometimes you're going to have an ouch type feeling.
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  Sometimes he's going to bring to your heart and your mind, things that he wants you to rid of your life.
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  And as you read his scriptures, you begin to see things that he asked of you
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  that you might be in his perfect will.
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  And then there are those occasions that he may ask you to do something in his
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  service that perhaps for whatever reason, that's not what you want to do.
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  And so there's some ouch moments spent with Jesus.
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  But every moment spent with Jesus is one that blesses us and blesses our life.
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  Spending time with Jesus is the best thing that we could possibly do,
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  and it's the most rewarding.
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  But as we live this life, people are going to really be able to tell whether
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  or not But you've been spending time with the king of kings because he rubs off on you.
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  His ways become your way.
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  His wants and his desires for your life. As your faith increases,
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  you begin to realize that that's what's best for you.
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  And you begin to enjoy the blessings of God by walking in his ways.
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  And suddenly your want tos have changed.
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  I believe that's all part of his word. When he said that old things are passed
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  away, behold, all things are become new.
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  And we are new creatures in him. looking
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  at these scriptures that we have talked about
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  in just these last few moments lets us
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  know that as christians we are a walking billboard for who christ is and i believe
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  that we need to take that responsibility quite seriously for how i live my life.
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  As a christian is going to show other sinners what i think of christ,
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  And how I acknowledge his presence in my life is going to reveal to them how real he is every day.
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  And in doing so, I have an opportunity to be a living testimony of Christ the King.
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  In doing so, I have an opportunity to be a living witness of the saving power of Christ,
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  of his amazing grace of his
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  incredible forgiveness and his unconditional
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  and unlimited love all things that we all need but especially those who don't
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  know the lord in the scripture that was read in your hearing today that the
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  communication of our faith may become effectual.
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  I believe that's what we're talking about. We need to tell other people about
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  this man called Jesus who changed our life completely.
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  We need to tell other people about the place that Christ has in our life.
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  And if we're walking in his will, that place he has is first and foremost.
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  And he said, don't have any other gods before me.
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  Most of the people who would be likely to be listening to this message would
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  not be people who have idols in their home like false gods or graven images
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  that are made in some sort of image of a god.
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  But we are likely to have jobs that we place before God's work.
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  We are likely to have hobbies that take more time than the time we give to the Lord.
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  We are likely to protect what we call ourselves instead of giving all we have
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  of our being and our self and our love to others.
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  So in many ways, we can be guilty of placing something before the Lord and anything
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  that we would place in front of him that would take our time and our energy
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  and our passion and our money would be something that he would consider wrong.
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  A God. But there's only one God, and that's the one true living God that we serve.
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  God the Father, whose Son is Jesus, whose third part of the Trinity is the Holy Spirit.
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  He created this world, and he offered his Son that we might have life.
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  And all three of them are the Trinity, which allows us to have a hope beyond
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  this world and a hope that allows us to live in this world.
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  You see, it's that faith that we're talking about that we need to communicate
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  by acknowledging the work of Christ in us,
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  by acknowledging his hands in our everyday life,
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  by being able to see that we really are the apple of his eyes as he told us
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  in Zechariah, to really be able to understand that he really is thy rod and
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  thy staff that comforts me,
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  as the psalmist David said, to really grasp the idea that every good and perfect
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  gift cometh down from the father of lights, and to really acknowledge that he
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  supplies our every need according to his riches,
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  to realize that he places the Holy Spirit within us to comfort us and And to
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  guide us and to bring to remembrance those things that we have need of when we have need of them.
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  That's a faith that we can communicate to others.
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  The Bible tells us in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 14 some amazing words.
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  He says, Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
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  Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick,
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  and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
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  And then he says this, Let your light so shine before men.
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  That they may see your good works and glorify
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  your father which is in heaven we aren't
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  saved by our works it's very clear we are saved
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  by the grace of god in his gift of salvation through the
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  faith that he allows us to have in him and the faith that grows as we watch
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  him work in our lives and in the lives of those around us but it's also clear
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  as james told us is that faith and that love that we have for christ that wants
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  us to work for him and the reality of it is in this scripture,
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  it's very clear that we are the light that is going to shine into a dark and sinful, wicked world.
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  And our works for Christ are seen by others.
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  And that enables them to see that God is real.
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  If you've come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, you realize that God is real.
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  And no doubt somebody was preaching a sermon somewhere that you heard,
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  and you were able to understand who Christ was.
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  And perhaps a friend or a family member or a loved one or someone who took the
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  time to reveal to you about who Christ was, allowed you to understand him in
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  such a way that you could believe that he was real.
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  And you were able to see that there was a difference in knowing Christ.
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  That, my friend, is what he's telling us to do as we're the light of of the
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  world, as we are effectively communicating our faith of the Jesus Christ that lives in us.
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  He dwells in each of us, and that dwelling of the Holy Spirit inside of us as
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  Christians should enable us to shine brighter.
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  Than those who don't know him. Not that we achieve worldly success.
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  But we achieve God's greatness inside of us. And he shines through us.
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  Lighting a path so that others can see who he is. That is a faith that speaks.
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  It's not hammering someone with the Bible. It's not condemning anyone.
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  What it is is allowing our life to shine a light to him.
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  That he may be lifted up and draw all men unto him. It is my prayer that you
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  have a faith that speaks.
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