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449 | Peace is Yours · 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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  God has equipped you to defeat Satan and all his tricks. God has given you a
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  spirit of love that gives you peace and security.
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  He has given you a spirit of power so you could defeat the enemy on every occasion.
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  He has also given you the spirit of a sound mind. If you focus on Jesus,
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  you will not be overwhelmed or frantic.
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  Instead, you will be peaceful and settled. Join us in this program, Peace is Yours,
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  as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through 2 Timothy 1.7,
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  which says, For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power,
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  and of love, and of a sound mind.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  and I love the scripture.
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  It is a truth and it is a fact it
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  says for god hath not given us the spirit of fear and when you think about all
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  that god has given us and he turns in this is scripture and he says but of power
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  that's power to defeat the devil that's power to defeat the fear which comes
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  from the devil that's power to defeat the enemy.
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  And of love. That power of love and that spirit of love is what enables us to
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  walk day to day with people who don't treat us fairly,
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  to be able to look beyond someone's faults and see their needs.
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  It's that spirit of love that God puts in us that allows us to be his witness
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  in a crowd of people that perhaps, given our own way of thinking.
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  We wouldn't even give the time of day.
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  But when we think about all that God has done for us and the way that we sin
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  against him and the way that we don't heed his promises and the way that we
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  don't heed his commandments and the way that we let ourselves get in the way
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  when God is almighty and all-powerful,
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  yet we somehow think that what we think is best and what we think is the right
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  way, when we think about how God constantly deals with us with love and mercy and grace,
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  then that's easy for us to call upon that Spirit of God in us,
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  that Holy Spirit that dwells in each and every believer, to be able to love those around us.
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  And so when we look at this verse, we're reminded that we are given that spirit of love.
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  And so the way we interact and the way we deal with others and the way we respond
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  to how others treat us should be the way the Spirit of God within us would have us to do.
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  And if we learn to listen to the Holy Spirit who leads us and guides us,
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  as well as comforts us, if we learn to listen to the Holy Spirit.
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  Then we will be able to walk in his ways because clearly he has given us power
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  and a spirit of love, and he's given us a spirit of a sound mind.
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  And I love that because when we look at this scripture, what it tells us is this.
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  We have a way to be peaceful in the midst of the storm.
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  We have a way to think clearly, though chaos surrounds us.
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  We have a way to be able
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  to do what is right in the
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  midst of everyone else doing what is wrong because we
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  have the ability to have a sound mind a mind that thinks clearly a mind that
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  thinks correctly a mind that is peaceful a mind that can rationalize and be
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  able to sift through all that's going around us,
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  but it takes us being yielding to the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit that is within us.
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  You see, we have all that we need.
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  To live successfully in this world.
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  And to allow God to work through us is the key to being a successful Christian
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  and a successful person in this world.
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  It's the key to being able to be peaceful in the midst of the storm.
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  It's interesting to me when you think about all those anxious feelings,
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  the nervous stomachs, and the stress that we have is coming from the devil.
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  Yet the Bible says greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
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  Yet many of us frequently suffer from those things.
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  We say we love the Lord, and I'm as guilty as the next person,
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  because if things don't happen in the timetable that I think they should or I want them to happen,
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  and I have to hold on for any length of time to that faith that God has everything
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  under control when it doesn't seem to me like anything is getting better,
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  then just like you, I find myself fretting and I find myself anxious and perhaps
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  even losing a little sleep or feeling a little nauseous.
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  And none of those feelings matches with the statement that I believe God is in control.
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  None of those feelings has anything to do with what God has given me.
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  And God has given me the power to defeat the devil.
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  God offers me faith if I but take it.
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  God will give me wisdom to know how to hold on while I wait for his hand at work.
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  And I think so often, myself included, we as Christians suffer so much more than we need to.
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  There are sufferings in this world.
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  There are certainly things that happen that are going to be egregious to our hearts.
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  But we should never be stressed
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  about our well-being the bible
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  says that we're to be anxious for nothing but with everything with.
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  Prayer and supplication let our requests be made known
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  unto god and the peace of god the peace of god shall fill our hearts and minds
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  through christ jesus we have peace in christ and as christians we've placed
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  our faith in him But I think sometimes we forget that that counts for the day-to-day stuff,
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  that he's interested in what's happening.
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  He's interested in the conflict you may face at work. He's interested in the
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  conflict you may be having in your family.
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  He's interested in the conflict that you have with your neighbors.
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  He understands and he can see ahead. And our job is to keep the faith.
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  Our job is to be the witness that he would have us to be. Perhaps that's why
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  we're in this situation.
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  Perhaps we're sitting in a situation so that we can glorify God and he can be
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  seen through our actions, through our response, through our faith,
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  through our confidence in him.
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  And without the situation that you're facing, Perhaps he would not be seen by that individual.
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  You see, everything isn't about us, but all things are about him.
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  You see, sometimes we go through things that he might be glorified.
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  And we're so egocentric that we think everything's about us.
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  We either think it's an opportunity for a blessing, or somebody's persecuting
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  us, or something bad is happening, and we're the center of it all.
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  When Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.
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  And perhaps what we need to do is to take a look at our situations and see where
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  it is that we can lift God up.
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  And maybe the situation that you're in, the conflict at work,
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  the conflict with the neighbor, the conflict in your family,
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  Maybe it isn't even about the people who are in the conflict.
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  Maybe it's the people on the sidelines who are watching.
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  And they're looking at how you, a child of the Most High God,
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  a forgiven and redeemed individual,
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  who has received the ransom of Christ to pay the penalty for your sins, who is forgiven.
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  By the actions of Christ, who is loved beyond measure and who claims to understand that.
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  Maybe they're looking to see how you are living out your faith.
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  And you say, well, I didn't sign up for that. That's not what I want to do.
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  And I'm only human. Yep, you're only human.
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  And so am I. And the Bible says that if we confess our sins,
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  he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  But yeah, you signed up because he said, ye are the light of the world.
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  But he didn't ask you to go find your light and then shine it.
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  He put his light in you that you may shine it to others.
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  He didn't ask you to come up with the strength and the courage to live a Christian life.
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  No, he placed the Holy Spirit within you to love you and to comfort you and
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  to guide you and to lead you so that
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  you could live that life that he asks through his power and his might.
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  He didn't ask you to find the way. He said follow because he's the way, the truth, and the life.
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  You see, we have peace in the midst of the storm because we always have Jesus.
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  Jesus is no more valuable or no more powerful on the good days than he is on
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  the days that you're walking through the valley.
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  In fact, I would submit to you, I'd rather have him in the valley than I'd rather
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  have him on the mountains.
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  I need to live a life that is completely submitted to him, where I yield to his will and his way.
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  And then I'm not going to find myself overwhelmed because I'm going to understand
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  that he has all things under control.
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  The Bible says that all things are under his feet.
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  You know that he's in the big things because he created the heavens and the earth.
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  You know that he's in the small things because of
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  all the miles of blood vessels
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  you have in your body so if he's in the big things and he's in the little things
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  he's in all things that concerns me and you and we have peace in knowing that
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  he never wanted us to be fearful but he wanted us to live a life of peace.
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  There is peace in knowing the Lord, but there's true peace in living a true.
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  Walking, working relationship with him, where you talk with him and you walk
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  with him and you read his word and you pray,
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  where you have a relationship that is strong and you're no secret to the prayer
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  room, and his scripture isn't foreign to you, but you're living your life in his will and in his way.
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  And then you won't be overwhelmed, because you understand that anything that
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  isn't of love and peace is not of him, and you just turn it over to him,
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  and he will take care of it.
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  He'll make your burden light, but you have to choose the peace that comes only from him.
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