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351 | Throwback - Forever Loved: Embracing God’s Everlasting Love · 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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  The Lord told Jeremiah that he loved him with an everlasting love.
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  He told Jeremiah that because he loved him, he lovingly drew Jeremiah unto him.
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  The Bible clearly tells you that there is no respect of persons from God.
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  The differences in your relationship with Him can be explained by the differences
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  with which you trust and love Him.
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  You are responsible for any break in fellowship or distance between you and
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  God. He is there, loving you all of the time.
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  Join us in this program, Forever Loved, as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  takes us through Jeremiah 31.3, which says, The Lord hath appeared of old unto
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  me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.
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  Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious to Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this another
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  opportunity to come before you.
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  Lord, our hearts are so grateful for the fact that we know that you love us.
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  You love us in such a way that nothing that we can do could ever separate us from the love of God.
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  We're thankful, Lord, that you knew our needs before we even existed,
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  before we could ever understand ourselves, the amazing grace that you were giving us.
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  You provided a way that we might be able to find salvation in you.
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  Lord, I thank you that you didn't just die on the cross for our salvation,
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  but you've pursued us every moment of our life, that we would have reconciliation
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  to you and that we would have a personal relationship,
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  that would give us the joy and the peace that you intended for us to have.
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  I thank you, Lord, that you watch over us and that you care for us.
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  I thank you, Lord, that you're not just far away,
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  away from us and a remote part of our lives,
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  but you're an intimate piece of who we are and that you are intricately involved
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  in every aspect of who we are and what we do and all the things that comprise us.
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  I thank you, Lord, that you care about who we are.
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  And I ask you, dear Heavenly Father, to speak to the hearts of all of us as
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  we look at the scripture in Jeremiah that tells us exactly how you feel about us.
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  And I pray, Lord, that it sparks something in our hearts and in our minds to allow us to.
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  Understand that that verse so familiar to all of us in John chapter 3 is a manifestation
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  of of the love that you show us in Jeremiah 31.3.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would help each of us to be able to draw closer to you,
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  that we would be able to really understand the power of your love that works in us.
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  In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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  The greatest need of anyone on this earth has been said by Billy Graham,
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  and I believe many people would echo its value is the need for salvation.
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  The greatest desire on this earth of every individual is to be loved and accepted.
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  And we come into this world needing love.
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  And for many of us, we are so blessed that we have lots and lots of love around us.
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  We have family members and friends and people in our community,
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  extended family, that shower us with love and acceptance.
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  But there are many people in this world who come into this world and they're not loved in that way.
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  And it leaves a mark on them that they can't seem to shake their whole life.
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  And it's hard when you look at things and try to understand how it is that you're
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  born in a family where you're showered with love and you're adored and you're cared for.
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  And your life comes across people whose lives were not that way.
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  And you just have to thank God that you've been blessed that way.
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  But you also need to take a moment to think about how that other person must feel.
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  And knowing that they came into this world and did nothing to deserve perhaps
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  that way of life, but that's what was handed them.
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  And begin to understand how it is that they might feel a little cheated.
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  And as a Christian, we want to help others.
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  And in that situation, sometimes we just come up short.
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  We just stand there and dumbfounded and don't know what it is that we should say.
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  Or maybe talking to that person. And you're like, well, of course,
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  Kim, you think there's love in the world. You were born in a family where you were loved. I was not.
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  But as a Christian, we truly hold within us the answer to their need, and that is Jesus.
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  Jesus is no respecter of persons. And if you were born in a family that you
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  didn't feel that you got adequate love, you might feel cheated.
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  But I have good news for you. You have an everlasting love that is showered
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  upon you and available to you just like everybody else has.
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  And you have the opportunity to enter into a relationship with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  And no matter how wonderful the people around you seem to have had their lives,
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  and no matter how much it seemed to have been enveloped in love.
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  You're going to have an opportunity as soon as you accept the love of Christ.
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  To be able to have a love that is beyond any part of your imagination.
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  And it's real. And it's everlasting. lasting.
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  And the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 that nothing can separate you from it.
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  You see, I can't do anything about your past, and I can't erase the hurt that you feel right now.
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  But Christ can erase your hurt, and he can fill those voids with his love.
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  And he can right your ship right now
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  so that you can stand feeling
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  full and loved and in
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  the full assurance that you're cared for in this
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  passage in jeremiah in chapter 31 israel
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  is being restored and the
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  lord appears unto jeremiah in the
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  third verse of the 31st chapter and he
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  says i have loved thee with an everlasting love
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  therefore with loving kindness have i drawn me he loves you no matter what your
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  circumstances and he loves you no matter what you have or have not done you're loved.
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  Unconditionally for exactly who you are. Now, let that soak in for just a minute.
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  Because most of us.
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  Have never had that kind of love. None of us has ever been loved like Christ
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  will love us because humans do not have that ability.
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  But because of Christ in us, Christians can reach out and give the love of God to someone else.
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  They can go the extra mile.
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  They can stick in there a little longer through the grace of God because we
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  know what it's like to be loved unconditionally.
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  We know what it's like to not be able to lose love because nothing we can do
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  will ever keep us from being loved by God.
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  And the reality of it is even you, if you have not received Christ as Savior,
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  still have that same promise that he's never going to stop loving you.
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  You may choose to deny him, which will choose hell as your eternity,
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  but it's not going to change the fact that he still loves you,
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  that he died for you, and that you are going to hell over his love and his grace and his mercy.
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  He is still pursuing you. And if you're listening to this message,
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  he's pursuing you right now, not because I'm talking to you,
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  but because his word says, yay, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.
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  Therefore, with loving kindness, have I drawn thee.
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  He's not beating you over the head and condemning you for who he is.
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  He's standing in your presence.
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  He's pulling at your heartstrings. He's written the greatest love letter ever
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  written from Genesis to Revelations to let you know that even before you existed,
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  when you were in your mother's womb,
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  I knew you and I knew the
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  need of salvation you were going to have because of
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  the depravity of man of the fallen man out of
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  the garden of Eden and how sin has crept
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  into your life but I have come and I have overcome the world and I have loved
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  you and I have paid the sin debt that you need and you don't have to do anything
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  but believe I have created you in my image and I'm drawing you to me I want
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  to have a relationship with you.
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  What jesus says every day in every moment
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  to those who are not reconciled to him and
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  to those of us who've given our heart to them he keeps pulling us he wants a
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  close walk with you the prodigal son knew that he had made a mistake and he
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  wallowed in sin and squandered his inheritance but the father
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  always was looking and always wanted him back.
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  And when he came back, he lovingly threw his robe on him. He put his ring upon
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  his hands and he accepted him.
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  Christ loves you like that. No matter where you've been, no matter what you've done,
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  you are loved and you're loved with a love that is valuable and priceless and
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  precious that pursues you, that gives you the things you need, that watches over you.
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  You are loved, and that's a transforming kind of love, and it's one that will reconcile you to him.
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  It's time that you let the world go and just grasp on to Jesus.
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  For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  He lovingly is drawing you to him, and that invitation is free to all.
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  And you, yes, you are the one he loves. And he loves you like there was no one else in the world.
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  And he wants a relationship with you. Come to Jesus. He loves you.
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