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617 | Throwback - Whatsoever Ye Do · 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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  Whether you're listening in our app, on your favorite podcast platform,
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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 with Jesus Christ.
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  Sometimes we think we're just spinning our wheels. Perhaps it looks as if what
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  we are doing has no meaning.
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  But God has us in a place for a purpose. We are to serve Him with all we do and all we have.
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  That seemingly menial task is really an important work for God.
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  Because all we do is a reflection of our love for Him, so we must do it willingly and heartily.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries, as Kim teaches us
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  to love God with our work.
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  Following Kim's message, the staff of Woman at the Well Ministries will discuss
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  the importance of doing all we do for the glory of God.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And I believe that one of our most innate human natures is to compare what we
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  do with what other people do.
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  And let me just tell you from the get-go, that's a dangerous game to play and the wrong way to go.
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  We need to look vertically for our approval.
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  We need to look vertically for our affirmation. And we need to look vertically for our guidance.
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  And by that, I mean we need to be looking unto God, the author and finisher of our faith.
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  We need to be calling upon Him for direction. And we need to place our trust
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  in Him, a God that cannot fail.
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  And so when we begin to look at what we do in that kind of light,
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  what we really need to see is that everything we do is for the love of God.
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  It's interesting to me how we will plan things in our life and we even will get direction from God.
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  And we know that in the future we'll be doing this or we'll be doing that.
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  And we see him looking at us and working in us and guiding us and moving us towards an end goal.
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  But when we look at our very moment step, we're thinking about the future and not about where we are.
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  And I know in my own life, that's very easy for me to do because I so with every
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  fiber of my body and all the desires of my heart want to work in full time service for the Lord.
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  But that isn't his will right now. And that's not where he's using me at this moment.
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  But I often think about what I would do if that's how it was.
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  And I often think about how it's going to be when he answers that prayer and when it all comes to be.
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  And then at the same token i'll think when i go to my job wow this is just so meaningless.
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  And when i do that i forget that everything
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  i do in the job i have right now i
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  need to do for the love of god because i'm loving him and trusting him and i
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  need to do it unto him because the people in my workplace they know that i'm
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  a child of the most high god the people in my workplace know that I'm not the
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  same person as somebody who doesn't have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.
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  And the people in my workplace, they know that I have a relationship with God. They don't have one.
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  And so when they see my work, it's a reflection of my relationship with him.
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  And when I look at it in that kind of light, it's all so much easier to get up and go to work.
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  And I can do it with joy in my heart and a peace that passeth all understanding
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  because I'm doing it for the love of God.
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  You see, this is the place he has me. This is the work he has for me to do.
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  And who am I to say that doing what I do is not going to lead someone at my
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  workplace or someone who looks at the work I do for my workplace to him.
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  He has the plan. I'm just part of it.
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  But my attitude needs to be that I'm doing it for the love of God.
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  I'm getting up and going to work for the love of God.
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  I'm doing the task he's called me to do for the love of God.
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  Now, my friends, if you have prayed, And you have sought God's will for your life.
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  And you still find yourself in a place you don't want to be.
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  I have these words for you. The Apostle Paul said, be content in what state I've got you in.
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  Be content in the state that the Lord has put you in. And that doesn't mean
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  West Virginia, Alabama, Hawaii, or Alaska.
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  That means in the place that he's put you.
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  In the phase of your life that you're in. In the context of your surroundings.
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  And in the tasks that he's asked you to do and the work he has for you,
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  you need to believe in Jesus Christ and you need to do it all for the love of God.
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  And you say, well, Kim, I work in a secular job. So do I.
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  But I can do it for the love of God. And every day I come in contact with more
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  than one person who doesn't know him as Savior.
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  And it might be easy for me to say, Lord, I can reach so many more people for
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  you with my work on the radio than I can in the two or three or four people
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  that I'm going to meet today.
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  But you know what i'm one-on-one
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  with these people i'm in the same trenches
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  that they are i'm experiencing the very
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  same stress that they are i've got the
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  same objectives as far as work goes
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  as they do and i can handle it
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  through the grace of jesus christ and by
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  and through his love and his mercy and so it's different for me than them and
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  eventually they have to ask me or wonder why it's different and then the doors
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  of opportunity are flung wide open and i can walk through them and say it's because of jesus in me.
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  It's not about me. It's about him. Let's just think for a moment about Jesus' example.
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  He was in the Garden of Gethsemane. And I believe that the scriptures are written
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  that we might know that he fully understood what he was sacrificing when he went to the cross.
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  And in the Garden of Gethsemane, he says, Father, if it be thy will and there's
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  any other way, let this cup pass from me.
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  And it wasn't that he wasn't willing to die
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  for you and me it was that he wasn't going to do that if there was another way
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  and god said son you are the only way and he willingly took that responsibility
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  because of his love for you and his love for me but let me tell you he was fully aware,
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  of what it would cost him that the
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  task he was asked to do would not
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  be easy and that what he was going to have
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  to go through was not what he thought would
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  bring glory perhaps and it wasn't his plan but jesus christ the son of god was
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  willing and he knew and he did it all for the love of god for jesus loved the
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  father and he said i have come to do the will of my father,
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  and in colossians chapter 3 in verse 23 it says and whatsoever ye do do it heartily
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  as to the Lord and not unto men.
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  Let me tell you what, that walk up Golgotha, he was doing it because he loved
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  me and you, but he was doing it because he loved God.
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  And he wanted to bring glory to the Father.
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  And each step he took was because of his love for me and you and his obedience to God the Father.
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  And I submit before you that none of you, and myself included,
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  will ever be asked to do any task as costly as laying down our lives.
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  But my dear friends, we still murmur and complain.
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  And it's because we look at what we do, and we forgot that little is much when God is in it.
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  We look at what we do, and we can't see how God could be glorified. But you know what?
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  We could bring into the attitude to God be the glory for the great things he's done.
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  Lord, this morning when I walk out this door, and I get into my car,
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  and I head to work, let me be a blessing.
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  Lord, teach me today how I can bless others through your grace and your mercy.
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  Lord, teach me today how I can look different than the sinner man.
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  Lord, put on me holiness.
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  Anoint me with your power. Let me have your clothes of righteousness which you
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  placed in my heart be seen to others. Not that I would be holier than thou,
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  but that thou would be lifted up.
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  We have an opportunity, but instead we go to work. We complain worse than the
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  person who doesn't know God. we do less productive work than the person that
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  doesn't know God. We sit in the same places and somebody walking in can't see any difference.
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  We need to do it as if it's under God. And if our job is to make widgets,
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  we need to make the best widgets we can possibly make.
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  If our job is to punch holes all day long every day, we need to punch holes
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  with the glory of God in mind, doing the best job we can being proud for the
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  blessing that god has given us that job,
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  if we are the person who is the
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  greeter at our church we need to do it with such reverence and we need to do
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  it with such power and we need to do it with such joy that we would look just
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  as if we were the one going to bring the message because in god's eyes there's
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  no difference because we are to do our job that he is entrusted to us.
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  To the very best of our ability. And it's not about what we think.
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  And about what we place on it as value. It's about God said do it and we obey.
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  And the Bible says that obedience is better than sacrifice.
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  And if you are the best usher. And you are the best greeter that you can be.
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  And that's the place that God has put you in.
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  And you're doing it to the best of your ability. My friend.
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  You will bring glory to God. And he will use you to show other people who he is.
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  And you've got to do it heartily. with everything you have, believing and trusting
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  in God, because he's the one who calls, and his calls without repentance,
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  and whom he calls, he qualifies, and he has chosen that for you,
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  and there's a work he's going to do through you if you but let him.
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  But it's time that we realize everything we do, we do for the love of God.
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  Thank you for joining us for today's podcast. You can find quotes and scripture
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  references from this episode in the show notes.
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