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346 | Throwback - God is the Supreme Authority: Pleasing God in a World of Doubt · 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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  You need to remember that god is the person we need to please you must live
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  your life according to his principles and follow his commandments the world
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  may not understand and may even chastise or ridicule you but that doesn't really
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  matter it is god you must strive to please god not man,
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  Join us in this program, God is the Supreme Authority, as Kim Miller of Women
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  at the Well Ministries takes us through Acts 529, which says.
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  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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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, I just pray that you would
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  open our hearts and our minds right now, Lord, that we would understand exactly who you are.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would strengthen our faith.
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  I pray that you would allow us to place more trust in you, that you would just
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  encourage us, dear Heavenly Father, to understand that it really is you who we need to please.
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  Lord, give us that understanding, that working understanding of knowing that
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  man can't harm our soul and that our life is but a vapor.
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  People and regardless of that ridicule regardless
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  of of what it is that would cause us not to stand strong for you lord that you
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  would help us to be able to push those fears aside and to stand strong in a
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  dark world that our light would shine and you would be glorified.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would use each of us in such a way that
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  we would have no thoughts to stray because of what somebody might influence
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  us with or something somebody might say.
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  But at this moment, Lord, open our hearts and open our minds that we would have
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  a very clear view of who you are,
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  the authority that you are, and our need to follow your commandments.
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  In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of an angry God.
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  And the Bible tells us that there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun,
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  and that there's a day of judgment.
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  And for those of us who have given our heart to the Lord, there'll
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  be now no more condemnation for us and our
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  works will be judged and those things that we have done for
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  the lord will come out like silver and gold and be refined and
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  pure but the things that we've done for ourselves or the work that we've done
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  here that has glorified the devil will certainly burn as hay and stubble but
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  our salvation is sure this life that we live is really not a life that we live just to ourselves.
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  The people around us are affected by our decisions, our behaviors,
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  the things we do, the things we don't do.
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  And our life is a reflection of what our true belief in God is.
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  And you can talk about how much you love the Lord till the cows come home or
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  you turn blue in the face.
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  But if you have nothing in your life to show that you love the Lord and no one
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  can tell you apart from a sinner who is proclaiming their sins, then there's a problem.
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  And for many of us, the thing that keeps us from having a bright light,
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  the shade we put over our light and our lamp is our fear of what the people
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  around us are going to say or do if we should glorify God.
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  It's a crazy thing that all of us fall into. to.
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  Many of us have opportunity week after week after week to stand up and just
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  say something for the Lord in our church.
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  And you can find a million reasons why you're not going to do that.
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  For me, I use the same one every week.
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  Well, I have the opportunity to be on the radio and I have the opportunity to
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  work in the assisted living home.
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  And really, it should be somebody else who says something, I don't want to take up time from them.
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  When the reality of it is, if the Lord has put something on my heart,
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  that means somebody there, believe it or not, must need to hear it.
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  And when I don't do that, I haven't hurt anyone but myself.
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  I've let the Lord down and somebody walked away not getting the blessing that
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  perhaps they could have gotten if I'd have just spoken what God put on my heart.
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  Now, we don't need to get up and just speak to be speaking.
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  But if the Lord gives us something to say, we need to get up,
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  say it, and then sit back down. But we don't.
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  Because we're afraid what somebody might say, well, goodness gracious,
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  there she goes. She thinks she's all that in a bag of chips,
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  and I guess she's got something to say again.
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  Or you have somebody who testifies often, and you just start thinking, you stop listening.
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  That's all the devil. Because there should never be a time that our lips don't sing his praises.
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  There should never be a time that our lips don't testify to the wonders of God
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  and his miracles and the way that he takes care of each of us.
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  And then there's the things we do, perhaps in our everyday life.
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  Like maybe you meet somebody in the store and you go to church with them,
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  but you haven't seen them for a little while and you have a conversation with them.
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  And they tell us that they've been sick and they say to you will you pray for me,
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  and there's this little thing comes across your mind and
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  heart that says well we should probably just pray right now and you
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  look around and there's 4,500 people around you it seems like there may only
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  be four or five and you're like well this is a business establishment you know.
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  Okay I will pray for you well a couple things just happens right there one if
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  the Lord puts a prayer on your heart, you need to pray.
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  He wants to talk to you, and you need to talk to him.
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  Two, you could have been an amazing blessing to that person as they saw you
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  be that concerned about them to spend your time with the Father about them.
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  And you might have been an amazing encouragement or blessing,
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  but that's down the tubes now because you're afraid somebody might say something to you.
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  And then, yes, all those people that you thought were looking,
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  the four or five or 4,500 or whatever you think it is,
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  all missed an opportunity to see what somebody does who God has been so real
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  to them that they just want to have a talk with Jesus.
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  Because you see, in that same instance, you weren't at all worried about what
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  anyone would say for you to stop and talk to that friend of yours you hadn't
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  seen in a while. We do it all the time.
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  But to stop in the store and talk to Jesus, the greatest friend you'll ever
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  have, that'd kick some of our socks off.
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  We just wouldn't do it. Then there's
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  the other problem. You just told that person you would pray for them.
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  Time has gone by. You forgot to write it down.
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  You forget about seeing them. him, and chances are you forget about praying for him.
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  And that whole opportunity that you could have had to call upon all of heaven
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  for that friend's need is gone until you meet him again, and perhaps the same circle happens.
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  You see, man can't harm your soul.
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  Man has no eternal consequences on you, but God does.
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  God didn't put you in that store at the very same time that person was in that
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  store and tug on your heart's strings to pray for them,
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  for you just to say, no, Lord, you died for me, and you supply my every need, and you strengthen me,
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  and you watch over me, and you're not even ashamed of me when I do the same
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  dumb stuff all the time, and you still answer my prayers, but I'm not praying in public.
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  Or what about being seen, you know, in church or going to church?
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  You know, maybe you have friends or co-workers who don't go to church,
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  so you just simply don't talk about it.
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  But you'll talk about the ball game you saw last night or the sports event you
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  went to a couple days ago, and I have nothing against sports.
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  If you knew me, you would know that that would just be blasphemy for me to say that.
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  I love sports. I think that's an amazing thing God allows us to enjoy.
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  But it's entertainment. It can be idle time, but we have no problems talking about that.
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  But you go to a great church service and you sit at the lunch table and how
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  many of you would dare say, you know, last night I really got a real blessing going to church.
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  I just felt so much better after I left.
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  And you're right. You have to be a little careful maybe in how you say it because
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  you don't want to turn them off and you don't want to freak them out,
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  but you want them and want to come where you are, that they might hear the word
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  of God, that they too might have a personal relationship with him.
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  But if you never talk about how wonderful it is to know the Lord,
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  how great it is to have him as a personal friend,
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  how amazing it is to be with fellow believers and hear all that God has done
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  with him and the amazing concerts that you hear with the songs uplift you and
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  the grace and the mercy that just flows at church.
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  If you never talk about that, Why would a non-church going person really ever
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  want to go? Why would they?
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  You see, what we have is too precious to keep to ourselves.
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  What God has given us is too amazing to let those people that we love not have
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  it. This is a real deal, people.
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  They either going to go to heaven or they're going to go to hell.
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  There are no other stops on this journey.
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  What are the other? and if you understand who
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  God is and the way he takes care of you
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  he's more than fire insurance he's more than me just getting out of hell he's
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  the way I get through every day he's my best friend he's my confidant he's my
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  guide he's my comforter he's my wisdom and he's my knowledge.
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  That's all stuff I need every day and I guarantee
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  you that everybody that you know needs it too and we
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  can't let what we're afraid of of somebody saying
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  to us keep us from letting those we love
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  those we know know that there is a risen savior that cares about them that loves
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  them and that there's a hell to shun and a heaven to gain and unless they love
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  the lord they're never going to find heaven as their home but he's calling to
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  all of them it's time we just got over ourselves,
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  and in love with jesus.
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