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557 | A Peace that Passes Understanding – Part 2 · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  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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  Welcome back to our series on a peace that passes all understanding.
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  In this series on peace, we are taking an in-depth look at unwavering,
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  unstoppable faith in God,
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  on living with no worries or doubts, possessing a faith that motivates and moves
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  us, and a following faith that draws us closer to Him.
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  Come join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim continues
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  this study on the peace of God.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us again in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And I'm excited because we're spending time in the scriptures studying about his gift of peace.
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  And if you would, please, I'd like for you to turn back to Philippians chapter
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  4, 6 and 7, which is going to be kind of our anchor verse for this series of
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  lessons that we're doing on the peace of God.
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  It says in Philippians 4, verses 6 through 7, Be careful for nothing,
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  but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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  let your requests be made known unto God and the peace of God,
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  which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  I ask you this question. have you
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  ever met someone whose peace
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  was so odd and i say that because in any situation anyone else would have been
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  going in through this person still seems to be calm and still seems to have
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  no worries always seems to have it together.
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  And it's just an odd, peculiar type of peace.
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  If you have had the privilege of having an individual like that in your life,
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  most likely one of two things have been the reason.
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  One, they are living in denial and they have no clue about reality.
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  Or two, they have the most fantastic grip on the reality of Jesus Christ of anyone you've ever met.
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  I personally have had the privilege of having that individual in my life whose
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  grip on Jesus Christ was so solid and so strong that no matter what life threw at them,
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  no matter what horrendous thing they were dealing with, they could say, life is fabulous.
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  And they could say, it is well with my soul. and they possessed a peace that
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  passeth understanding.
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  You see, it didn't make sense to me that my mother in a hospital bed,
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  unable to get out, surely in her last days of life.
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  Gripped with pain, could tell me at the end of the day, life is fabulous.
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  Who could say to me, I love Jesus and Jesus loves me.
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  Who could sing his praises when all sometimes I could think was, what are you doing, God?
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  You see, my faith was all about wanting it done my way, which really isn't faith.
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  My mommy's faith was all about having it his way and being completely content in his plan for her life.
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  And there is no doubt in my mind and in my heart that her faith is.
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  Kept her so close to God that even though the outward circumstances of her life
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  that we would see and perceive as fearful or a problem,
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  it was that faith and that relationship with Jesus Christ that kept my mother
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  perfectly calm and blissfully happy.
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  For you see, she had a peace that
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  passed all understanding and she understood
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  the concept of be careful
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  for nothing the last several
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  years of my mother's life were filled
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  with pain and filled with sickness and
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  as far as doctors were concerned uncertainty but
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  my mother's life to her was never filled
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  with uncertainty for she knew this fact to
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  be absent from the body was to be present with the lord and
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  just days before my mother passed away she said don't worry about me kim shed
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  a few tears i'm worth it but don't stop living not even for just a moment for
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  when i say goodbye world i say hello god and it just doesn't get any better than that.
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  It was a faith that produced peace.
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  The Bible tells us in Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 through 7,
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  that we are to let our requests be made known unto God.
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  But it starts out with, be careful for nothing.
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  In other words, what he's saying is this, believe in me. Where have we heard that before?
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  Where have you heard believe in me?
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  You hear that in John chapter 14 and verse 1,
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  when he said you believe in god believe also
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  in me and in fusions 3 20 he says according to the power that worketh in us
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  and that power is jesus christ and jesus christ had the power over life death
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  and the grave and he says don't worry you believe in god believe also in me
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  he says let not your heart be troubled.
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  Neither let it be afraid, John chapter 14 and verse 27. How is it that we can do that?
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  We come to God in prayer and we let a request be known to him.
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  But we do it with thanksgiving and in praise, knowing that he is capable of
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  supplying our every need.
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  There is a difference in going to God in prayer and going to God to tell him
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  what you think about things.
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  When we go to God in prayer, we're going with a heart that has the attitude
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  of praise and thanksgiving,
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  who has committed to the fact that he is God and who has placed their faith in him.
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  We can be on our knees and be
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  blaspheming the holy god because we
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  don't like the circumstances of our
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  life that isn't faith faith is being
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  content with whatever state you're in not worrying about what's going on around
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  you but knowing that you've placed your faith in a god that cannot fail and
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  the results of that is a peace that passes understanding and it keeps our hearts
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  and minds It's our minds that start wondering,
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  when we don't get them under subjection to the heart that's been bathed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Just as we talked about in the lesson preceding this one, now is the time for
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  you to really take a look at your faith.
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  Faith is what you have when things are bad.
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  Faith is what you have when you're scared.
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  For you see, faith is what is going to show when the pressure's on.
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  And it'll either show that you don't have much, or it'll show that your tip's
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  so far on the other side that this world can hardly see.
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  Believing in God means accepting his will for your life.
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  Believing in God means accepting his grace and his mercy to see you through,
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  even if he doesn't remove it from you.
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  Believing in God is accepting his healing when his healing doesn't come in the
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  form that you prefer. However, believing in God is faith in action,
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  and the results are peace.
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  In the midst of the horrendous storm in my life that each of you are now getting
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  to hear all about, because God teaches many lessons in the storms,
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  because you can't help but learn when he's your umbrella and you're watching
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  the rain drip all around you, yet you're not wet.
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  In the midst of your storm when God was pouring his grace upon me and I struggled with receiving it.
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  He never stopped being God. And I am so thankful that he does what is right all the time.
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  And though I was praying for earthly healing, I prayed for healing and the answer came.
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  Healing beyond my comprehension.
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  But the dissonance wasn't in his ability to do what he needed to do.
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  The dissonance between me and god wasn't in
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  my thinking that he could do it the
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  dissonance is i couldn't get him to do it my way and you can judge me if you
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  wish but i submit to you that the struggles that you're having are struggles
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  because you haven't given in to the will of god because in the will of god you
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  don't struggle you have struggles but you don't struggle.
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  You are just sheltered in the arms of God, following incomplete obedience.
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  When there's dissonance and a struggle, it's because you're fighting the will of God.
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  But I'd like for you, if you would please, to turn to 1 Samuel chapter 17 and verse 37.
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  There is peace in knowing who god is and there is peace and being in the center
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  of his will and first samuel chapter 17.
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  And beginning in verse 37, it reads as this.
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  David said, moreover, the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion
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  and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
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  And Saul said unto David, go and the Lord be with thee.
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  You see, David is showing you right now the attitude of his heart.
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  The giant is before him
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  and he hasn't asked god to remove
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  the giant what he has done is
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  he's spoken to saul and he's told saul
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  exactly who god is and saul
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  armed david with his armor and he put a helmet of brass upon his head and also
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  he armed him with a coat of mail and david girded his sword upon his armor and
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  he assayed to go for he had not proved it and david said unto saul i cannot
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  go with these for I have not proved them. And David put them off.
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  David had no confidence in this manly armor, but continue with me.
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  And he took off his staff in his hand and he chose him five smooth stones out of the brook.
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  And he put them in a shepherd's bag, which he had even in a script.
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  And his sling was in his hand and he drew near to
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  the philistine david knew what
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  to place his confidence in and he's
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  not placing his confidence in himself at all and
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  he certainly wasn't going to place his confidence in the things
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  that the world did it had not proved to him to be right but he's constantly
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  showing you his heart when he says the lord will deliver me just like he did
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  before what he's done before he'll do again and he doesn't resist the path that god has placed him on.
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  When the philistine looked about and saw david he disdained him
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  for he was but a youth and ruddy and of
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  a fair countenance and the philistine said unto david am i a dog that thou comest
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  to me with staves and the philistines cursed david by his gods and the philistine
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  said to david come to me and i will give thy flesh into the fowls of the air
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  and the beast of the field then said david to the Philistine,
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  thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield.
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  But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of
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  Israel, whom thou hast defied.
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  You see, David is showing us that when the giants of our life come our way,
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  our heart needs to believe in God.
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  He showed us to put our confidence in God. He showed us how we could look back
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  in our lives and see how God had brought us through.
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  And then he says, you're coming at me with the world, but I come to you in the name of the Lord.
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  See how that works in our lives. The world has put you in the midst of a horrible storm, maybe.
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  Or maybe the problems of your life are yucky.
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  And if you come at them with the armor of the world, it's no match for it. It'll take you down.
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  But if you come in confidence of God and even allows you to look back and see
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  so that you can regain that strength, refresh that spirit,
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  fall all over again in love with Jesus Christ and see where he's brought you
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  from and begin to just let that godly pride swell inside of you so that you really believe in God.
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  Remember, believe in God. Believe also in me.
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  Produces, let not your heart be troubled. Be careful for nothing,
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  but with everything in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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  let your request be made known unto God, produces peace.
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  David says, I'm not coming on my own. I'm coming in the name of God.
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  Tells us in Ephesians 6 that when you've done all to just stand,
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  and he tells us about the armor of God that we're to put on.
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  You need to come with that battle in the name of God.
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  Because remember, he said in John chapter 14 and verse 27,
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  peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you not as
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  the world give us give i unto you let not
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  your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid the
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  world didn't give it to you we can't take it away you come in
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  my name you walk in my way because i'll never leave you nor forsake you i know
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  the way because i am the way the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the
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  father but by me you can do all things through christ which strengthens me i'll
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  supply all of your needs according to my riches and glory listen i come in the name of the Lord.
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  And he says, you tell Satan, get behind me and he has to flee.
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  Because he said, resist the devil and he will flee from thee.
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  David says, this day will the Lord deliver thee unto my hand. You see, he knew his God.
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  He knew he was where God wanted him to be. And he knew what the results would be.
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  And he didn't even have all the 66 books to read it.
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  But you don't just have to read how God has come through your life.
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  And you don't just have to look at your journals or look back in your life.
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  You can look from Genesis to Revelations.
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  What he's done for others, he'll do for you. He's no respecter of persons.
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  And David says, this day will the Lord deliver me.
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  That's a faith that cannot fail.
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  Thou will smite thee and take that head from thee. And I will give the carcass
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  of the host of the Philistines this day into the fowls of the air and to the
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  wild beast of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
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  David is doing everything he's doing to give glory to God. He doesn't plan on
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  taking credit for defeating this giant.
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  He's doing it all for the glory of God.
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  He's in the will of God. He's so in love with God.
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  He's so in tune with God that he realizes that all he is and all he'll ever
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  be is by the glory and grace of God.
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  And to God be the glory for the great things he's done.
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  It's all about God and not about him.
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  Maybe in this midst of the storm that you're in, you need to get your eyes off yourself.
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  Get your eyes on Jesus Christ. Look at the greater good and see who can you
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  show the grace and glory of God through, through this mess you're in.
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  Who can you lead to Jesus Christ because of the storm and the valley you walk
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  through, because the umbrella of his grace and his mercy has protected you all the way.
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  Somebody needs to see it. Somebody needs to hear it.
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  Some soul needs to come to Jesus Christ, and you can bring him there,
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  because the Lord will deliver you.
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  David says and all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not by sword or spear.
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  The battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
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  The Lord doesn't need the world to deliver you.
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  So you don't need to seek your deliverance in the world or worldly things,
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  because the Bible is plain.
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  Deliverance comes from God, and God will not even hear the prayers of those
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  who have iniquity in their hearts.
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  God doesn't go where sin is.
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  God doesn't need the world so why are you seeking the world for your help psalmist
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  david said come to god from whence cometh my help.
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  Hebrews chapter 4, verses 14 through 16. Let's just read that.
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  As we begin to close this lesson down, I want you to remember that he said,
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  Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication,
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  with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.
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  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
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  and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  There's a peace that passeth all understanding.
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  And this peace is a peace that you need
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  and it's a peace that we can have
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  because he said thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on
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  thee as we go to hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 through 16 this is what he says
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  seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God.
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  Let us hold fast our profession, for we have not a high priest which cannot
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  be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted
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  like as we are, yet without sin.
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  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
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  and find grace to help in time of need.
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  David knew where to go for his help, and he didn't go to the world.
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  He said, the battle's not mine, it belongs to the Lord. We as individuals and
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  children of Christ have that same opportunity to come to him.
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  I implore you, look to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith,
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  and you'll have a peace that passeth all understanding and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear heavenly Father, Lord, we just ask that you
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  would touch each of our hearts.
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  Lord, we ask that you would just speak to us in ways like you've never spoken before.
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  Lord, we pray that you would increase our faith and you would help us to look
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  at where you've carried us.
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  Beautiful poem of the footprints in the sand has spoken to our hearts.
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  Let us see that in those times when there's one set of footprints, it's you carrying us.
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  Let us see where you brought us from, where you brought us through.
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  Help us to increase our faith as we believe to know who you are.
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  Help us to get our head and our heart in the word of God that it could just envelop us.
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  But most of all, dear Heavenly Father, may each of us, if we spent this time
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  studying your word together, have grown in faith as we've seen who you are and what you'll do.
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  Cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Deliver us from all of the sin which does easily beset us.
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  And Lord, may we walk in the glory and grace that you've prepared for us to walk in.
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  And all these things we ask in In thy most precious and holy name we pray.
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  And all of God's people said, Amen.
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