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661 | Introduce Your Issues to the Lord · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast.
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  With Kimberly Miller, where we believe that every man, woman,
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  boy, and girl must come to Jesus just like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is helping you experience the reality of God in your everyday life.
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  are on our website at watwm.org.
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  We invite you to sit down with us as we open the scriptures to learn more about
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  who God is and to strengthen your daily walk.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kim Miller and Erica Close in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we're chatting about what life looks like when we choose
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  to introduce our issues to the Lord.
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  Well, thank you all so much for listening to us. My name is Erica Close,
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  and I am here with Kim Miller.
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  Hello, and thank you so much. I'm excited to talk about this very familiar account in Mark 5.
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  So if you are a regular listener to our podcast, you likely listened to Monday's
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  podcast, which was episode 660.
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  It was called Don't Lose Hope, Trust and Believe.
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  And in that podcast, Kim walked us through the account of the woman with the
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  issue of blood out of Mark chapter 5.
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  And in that account, Kim, you made such a clear distinction about what we're
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  supposed to do with the issues that we have.
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  We always call this woman, the woman with the issue of blood,
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  and we all have issues in our lives.
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  And you made such a clear distinction that it's not introducing the Lord to
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  your issues, as in saying, hey, God, look at this problem I have,
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  and this problem I have and this problem I have and this problem I had and telling
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  the Lord all about your problems.
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  But it's taking your issues to the Lord.
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  It's introducing the issues to the Lord. I loved one of the things that you
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  said on Monday's podcast, because you said someone introduced you to Jesus.
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  And then you asked, what issue in your life do you need to introduce to Jesus.
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  And it made me think of issues that I've had in my life.
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  And when you said that, I could just see myself looking at that problem and
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  just saying, let me tell you about my Jesus.
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  And that's exactly what this woman does.
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  With the issue of blood that we see in Mark 5, verses 25 through 34.
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  It's again in Matthew 9, 20 and 22, and it's in Luke 8, I think 43 through 48.
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  She comes, pushes her way through the crowd, because she knows that her issue is no match for Jesus.
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  And so she comes in full faith. She's telling this issue, in my mind's eye,
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  all about who Jesus is, and your time is up. Right.
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  Your time has come because you haven't met your match. You've met the defeated.
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  You're the defeated one. You have met defeat. And she hasn't even made it there yet.
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  And that's what I mean by she has such faith that she has declared,
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  to the issue that when I get you to Jesus and I introduce you to Jesus,
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  you're done.
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  And we pray about things and we ask God to help us, but we need to confront
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  the issue and tell the issue who God is.
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  You hear me say it from time to time, stop telling the Lord how big the storm
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  is and start telling the storm how big God is.
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  It's not that I'm telling you not to pray, but there's a difference in how you
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  pray when you're bringing Jesus on the scene to take care of the situation.
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  Let's talk about what that really looks like Because to me, that's almost,
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  you know, we're talking about issues, right? We're talking about lots of issues
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  here. We're talking about heartache.
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  We could be talking about illness. Betrayal.
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  We could be talking about financial problems. It's whatever is a stumbling block
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  in your heart to your faith. Right.
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  Whatever has your attention other than the goodness of God.
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  Because when we give those things the attention, we allow the devil to use them
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  to pull us from him. They become the mountain between you and him.
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  Right. And Scripture has told us that if you have enough faith,
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  you can say to this mountain, be you moved, and it is moved. Amen.
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  Amen. And instead, we let the mountain cause us to retreat. Right.
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  She did not. She did not. So when she took her issue and explained to the issue
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  who God is, in my mind, what I see is her,
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  you know, obviously she got to walk towards him. Praise the Lord.
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  Right. He was right there, physically right there. But it's like she,
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  in my mind, she is declaring over the issue every single thing she knows about who God is.
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  And she is demonstrating her faith and her belief that that issue can't stand against her God.
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  And I wonder how many of us pray like that. I don't think we do because let's
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  pause for a second and talk about how we do usually pray, right?
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  Our prayers are, oh Lord, I need help with this and this and this and this and
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  this and even when we don't approach it,
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  like a laundry list like that or a shopping list right it's still.
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  Hey lord these are my problems and you say it in a way like,
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  how about you do something about it right not like okay it's done you've done
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  this and and I feel strongly that I will pray differently,
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  and I have a strong prayer life but I I'm I'm ready to to claim those promises
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  say to that mountain bee you moved and it'll be moved I'm ready to bulldoze some mountains because,
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  I have the power of Jesus living in me absolutely and you,
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  know who God is and you.
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  You know, we have this conversation often on our podcast about how important it is to,
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  our own faith to remember what the Lord has done and to declare what we know
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  about who he is in such a way that,
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  it strengthens our faith.
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  Like if I repeat, I mean, you hearken back in your message, you hearken back
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  to Jesus loves me, right? You say Jesus loves me, this I know,
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  but the Bible tells me so.
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  Often yep right but you don't just say that because you like it or because you
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  like the song it's it's truth,
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  and when we declare truth in our lives and over our lives we're we're spreading
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  the power of god over the things,
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  that cause us issues right,
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  i think that this woman spoken spoke boldly when she said,
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  if I can just touch his garment,
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  I'll be made whole.
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  But she didn't just say it.
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  She put legs on those prayers, and she moved forward claiming what she knew to be true about God.
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  And she didn't even have the verse that says, I am persuaded that he is able
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  to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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  She didn't have that opportunity to read that and have it, you know,
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  in her heart that she wouldn't sin against God.
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  But she had it in her heart because she was persuaded. She was absolutely persuaded.
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  She was living 2 Timothy 1.12.
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  Because he says, he knows in who I'm believed in and persuaded that he is able
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  to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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  And she was committed and persuaded that God was going to make her whole.
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  I think, you know, when I think about her actions contrasted with what we so often do.
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  So many of our prayers, even when we're taking things to the Lord, it's a hope so contract.
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  Or like an, oh, woe is me. Like it's an Eeyore type of prayer.
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  I hope so contract. That's really good. I hope you'll take care of this.
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  You said you would, but maybe it's not your will.
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  I hope so. This woman did not have a hope so faith.
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  She would have taken, if he'd have struck her dead, she'd have been perfectly
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  fine because she would have believed she was whole.
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  See, we don't get it our way.
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  You think he didn't do his job. That's what I'm talking about.
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  I hope you'll do this. I hope you'll get me out of this jam.
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  What we're really saying is, is I hope you get me out of this jam the way I've
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  just told you to do it. The way I want it done.
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  That's not faith. That's stupidity. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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  What it is, is not walking with an understanding of what we have because we have Christ, right?
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  We are invited, because of his death on the cross and the relationship we have
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  with him, we are invited to walk into the throne room of God.
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  We're supposed to stay there. Absolutely. Forget this walk-in business.
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  He says to pray without ceasing. So we are invited and we are.
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  Expected to stay in the throne room of God, to stay in his presence,
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  to approach every aspect of our life in such a way that he is in control, right?
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  That the Holy Spirit is over our problems, that God himself is hovering and is sovereign. it.
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  And I think we just walk beneath our privileges, but she did not.
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  No, no, no, she's not. She stopped.
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  She took advantage of the situation that was there. She knew it was going to
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  be there. And she took her issue directly to him and told her issue what was going to happen.
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  She wasn't trying to fix it on our own, which so many of us do,
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  she told the issue who God was.
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  She claimed the healing, and she took it to him.
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  And the scriptures say she heard of him. And the way that.
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  The interaction unfolds. This man she left with more than just hearing of him.
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  She was brought in. He called her daughter, which is even more important than
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  if he had called her by name because clearly he knew who it was and all those people.
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  But she came as one who had not met him, and she left as one who was part of him.
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  That's unbelievable. It really is. And we all can do that.
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  We can. And we all of us, most of us listening to this podcast has come to know him as Savior.
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  But, hey, send me an email if you are living like that woman and help me out. But I'm working on it.
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  I want to go back, you know, in Monday's message, and we talked about this just
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  a few moments ago, So we asked the question, what issue in your life do you
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  need to introduce to Jesus?
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  And I would just like to invite everybody to just think for a moment,
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  you know, what is the issue in your life that you need to stop talking about,
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  to Jesus, to other people?
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  And send Jesus to it.
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  Right. I just tell that issue, I'm not fighting this anymore.
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  Right. The battle's not mine, it belongs to it. And let me tell you who's coming to kick your rear.
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  And that's the thing is, let me tell you about who's coming.
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  And that's when every promise that we know of who God is, every name that we
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  have for Jesus, every truth that we know about him, we throw at the issue.
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  And in doing so, number one, the issue is defeated.
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  But number two, you can't declare all of that truth over your issue and not
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  have a change in your heart and not have a growth in your faith. It's impossible.
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  I know I won't be the same for having been given that message. And...
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  If you don't have what it takes to declare that over your issue,
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  to tell your issue, we invite you to find somebody who does.
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  What a way to be a partner to someone than to declare the truth over someone's problems.
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  You've got to have prayer partners. Absolutely. They're more than accountability
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  buddies. they can also sustain you when your face is a little weak.
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  I think after listening to Monday's podcast, if there was.
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  If I ever needed a reason, and I don't because I know, but if I ever needed
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  a reason to study and to know God's word, it's because I want to have all of that,
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  I'm going to use the word ammunition for lack of a better word,
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  that I can use to fire at the issues that come up in my life. Amen.
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  Amen. In that message, you... Don't you love him? I do love him.
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  I really do. I so love him.
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  In that message, as you closed, you talked about the mountain.
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  And you said, when you do this,
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  and you introduce the issues in your life to the truth of who God is,
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  you said that the mountain no longer holds the space between you and Him. Amen.
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  And that's how the mountain is moved.
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  When we declare that that mountain needs to be moved.
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  They go right through it in the name of Jesus. We go through it in the name of Jesus.
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  And when it no longer occupies that space between you and him, it's moved.
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  I want to invite you all to listen to Monday's podcast.
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  We just talked about a snippet of what we heard in that podcast.
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  But I think this is a powerful thought.
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  What issue in your life do you need to introduce to Jesus?
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  What does that look like? What does it look like for you to declare what you
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  know to be true over the problems in your life, over the hurt,
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  betrayal, the illness, the.
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  Discontent, anxiety, whatever it might be, you know who God is.
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  Tell the problem who he is. Tell the problem who he is. Declare that over the problem.
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  And if you need someone to pray with you, email us. We would love to pray with you.
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  I'm Kim at WATWM.org. And Erica is Erica, E-R-I-K-A at W-A-T-W-M.org.
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  And we would love to pray with you as you defeat the giants in your life by
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  letting God fight your battle and you bulldoze the mountains because they don't exist,
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  because you simply told them to move.
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  Amen. I think everybody should join us in Jesus loves me. Sounds like a plan.
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  It's always the right thing.
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  So.
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  Friends, remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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