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Episode 20 -Grace and Faith: A Divine Connection · Women At The Well: REJOICE

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good morning.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to women at the Well Rejoice.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I'm Rose, and I'm your host.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: It is such a pleasure to have you here with me this morning.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: I am so thankful for you being here.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I know that you're thankful to be here too.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's good for us to see another day.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful morning, and we're grateful because God has allowed us to see this day.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: He has placed it in our hearts to give him thanks.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: He has allowed us to have just one more day with him.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is his love.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: This is how he shows his love and his kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, sisters, I want to talk to you about the joy of grace and faith, the divine connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, grace and faith go hand in hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to look at the way God gives us grace and the way we keep our faith in God.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's almost like a revolving door.
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  SPEAKER_00: The difference is that grace is given to us without us needing to do anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to do one thing for that grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have nothing to do with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grace is given to us simply because of God's love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is the joy in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fact that God loves us enough to do all the things He does, even though we haven't done anything to earn it or accomplish it, is the beauty of receiving that grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, faith tells us that God will and that God can and that he's the God of all possibilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is something to rejoice about.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what faith does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes you see the light at the end of the tunnel, even when the tunnel is very, very dark.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know that there is a light.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith lets you know that when you walk into the valley of dry bones, those bones can come alive at any moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: But all of that is possible because of God's grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today, sisters, we're going to focus on the joy of grace and faith, that divine connection.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: It is so good to have you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get your violence, get you some water, lemon water, perhaps, or a good cup of coffee with cream, because I got mine, or a cup of tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's settle in and let God talk to us about his grace and about us keeping our faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, we thank you for one more day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for your divine provision.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for all the things that you do for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for your grace and your mercy.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of which we deserve, but because you love us so much, Heavenly Father, you poured down upon us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, as we are here at the well, we ask that you come in and join us this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come in and pierce our hearts so that we can understand that your grace is freely given.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can increase our faith, Heavenly Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, keep us in your loving arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take us through today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be our guide, be our instructor, be our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's read scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians, please.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look up Ephesians chapter 2, verse 8 through 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the gift of God, not of works, least any man should boast.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the King James Version.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we can see, grace is the ultimate gift because it isn't a wage we earn, it's a favor that we receive.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is God's riches given to us at Christ's expense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not at our own expense, but at Jesus Christ's expense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grace, unmerited favor.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't do anything to earn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God just loves you that well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's look at Lamentations 3, 22 and 23.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are new every morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great is thy faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is grace and action.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the love of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: His mercies that allow us not to be consumed, his compassion, it never fails, and it's new every morning because he is faithful to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The joy that we should see is that the pressure is off of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, we can rejoice because our standing with God is based on his infinite goodness, not our finite performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2 Corinthians 12 and 9, yeah, 2 Corinthians 12 and 9, we are told, and he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me, even, even in our weakness.
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  SPEAKER_00: God supplies this grace in His in our infirmities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pardon, in our infirmities.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when we're not feeling well, when we can't do what may be need to be done, grace is supplied.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's grace woke us up this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't wake yourself up.
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  SPEAKER_00: This grace set into motion the power of faith, which is how we reach back and respond to his grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: He woke us up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we have faith that we're gonna walk through this day, and that God is gonna carry us through this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The power of faith, which is our response to his grace, if grace is the hand of God reaching down to us, then faith is our hand reaching up to grasp his.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith, it is the evidence of things not seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can turn to Hebrews 11 and 1, it says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The joy is that faith is what allows us to look at dry bones and visualize that living army.
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  SPEAKER_00: It allows us to be in the dark, yet know that there is light at the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, it changes our perspective from our problems to God's possibilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we see through the eyes of faith, we begin to realize how grace and faith act as a revolving door, constantly bringing God's power into our daily life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier I related grace and faith to being like a revolving door.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, grace provides the foundation and faith provides the movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are saved by grace, but we do walk by faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith does not make God love us more.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's his grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: But faith allows us to experience the fullness of that love.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Hebrews 11 and 6, it informs us that, but without faith, it is impossible to please him.
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  SPEAKER_00: For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the receiver of grace, and your faith makes it possible to bring things to life because you know that God is a God of possibilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we have a reason to always rejoice and be grateful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because God is constantly pouring out his grace and showing us mercy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is with us in our arms as we navigate the business highways.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is with us on our job as we deal with difficult personalities.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is with the children on the school flood, in the classroom, and the college class.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone will do our deal and look at the money we don't have.
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  SPEAKER_00: In every one of those daily life moments, God continues to provide his hand, his grace, and his mercy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must never stop praising.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is worthy of every bit of the praise that we have to give.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must keep praising.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must always tell him thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must always be grateful.
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  SPEAKER_00: More praising and less complaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grace is God's unmerited favor.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we don't have to earn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't perform for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to achieve, we don't have to make no quotas.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is just the gift of pure love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith is our yes to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is our knowledge that God can.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will, and he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the light at the end of the tunnel and the breath that brings dry bones back to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That revolve endure is the beautiful cycle of a Christian life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, God reaches down with grace, and we reach back with faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: One fuels the other in a constant moving circle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, grace isn't just for the mountaintop, it's for the highway traffic, the difficult bars, the school bus, the classrooms, and the unpaid bills.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our constant response, because God's provisions are continuous, so should our praise be.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: We rejoice not because our circumstances are perfect, but because his grace is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, rejoice more, complain less.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most gracious and heavenly Father, we come before you now with hearts full of gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the refreshing water of your word and for the reminder that your grace is a gift that we don't have to earn.
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  SPEAKER_00: We really can't earn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we thank you for waking us up today and for being the light at the end of every dark tunnel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not only are you the light, but you also walk through those tunnels with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, we lift up every woman listening right now as she goes about her day, whether she be behind the wheel, perhaps sitting at a desk, or looking over her family needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let her feel the movement of that revolving door of grace and faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, when she feels weak, let your grace be her supply.
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  SPEAKER_00: When she feels uncertain, let her faith rise up and see the possibilities and stand of the problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for watching over our children on the bus and our students on the campuses.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for providing for every bill and every need.
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  SPEAKER_00: We choose to rejoice today, Father, not because our walk is easy, but God, you are so faithful to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep us, guide us, and let our peace belong to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give us the peace that passes all understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guard our hearts and minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, we give you all the praise, the honor, and the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: We release our deity, increase our faith, Heavenly Father.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: In the mighty Master's name of Jesus, we pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, ladies, our time at the world is coming to a close today.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the grace of God goes with you as you put your Bibles away and finish that last difficulty.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to remember, we don't have to carry the weight of the world today.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has already presented the weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can bring your thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put me a hand in place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining me for episode 20 of Women at the Will.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been a joy to spend this time with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go out there and walk in his favor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep your eyes on the light at the end of the tunnel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, he is worthy of it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rose, your host.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God stands so, I'll see you next Wednesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercy, love, and peace to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep rejoicing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a beautiful day in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, this water is living and the well is deep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.