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436 | Throwback - He Calls Me By Name · 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 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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  Living a 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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  Your relationship with God is personal. It is very personal.
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  He knew you before you were even born.
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  Plans for you while you were in your mother's womb. You are not one in a crowd
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  or a stranger to your Creator.
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  The Savior of the world knows you by name. Join us in this program,
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  He Calls Me by Name, as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us
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  through Isaiah 49, verses 1 and 3, which say,
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  Listen, O Isles, unto me, and hearken ye people from afar.
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  The Lord hath called me from the womb.
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  From the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name,
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  and said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I'm not sure there is any more comforting thought than to know that your Savior
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  knows you by name, that you're not just another person in the crowd,
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  that you're not just somebody who is just a speck in the world,
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  but you are truly someone that the Savior of the world has a personal relationship
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  with you if you are a child of the Most High God.
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  For those of you who do not believe and have not given your heart over to Him.
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  Once you do so, you too have a personal relationship with God.
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  It's not a generality to where he just loves mankind.
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  He loves each and every one of us for exactly who we are and who we can be in him.
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  He's the one person in the world who can see your potential and enable you to
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  reach that potential if only you believe.
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  The Bible says that all things are possible to him that believeth.
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  And yes, he is a person in the world. He's as real as anyone that you know.
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  He has come that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  And though he sits by the right hand of the Father, he lives and dwells in every
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  heart of the believer in the form of the Holy Spirit.
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  And so we have this relationship with a powerful, almighty God.
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  And if that isn't enough to stop you in your tracks and to realize that you
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  are valuable, that you do have a purpose in life,
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  and that you are worthwhile, I don't know what ever could be said to you that
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  would allow you to understand that.
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  Regardless of what you've done, regardless of where you've been,
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  regardless of what you haven't done, The God of the universe,
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  the King of kings, the Lord of lords, has looked upon you favorably and has
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  a personal longing to have a personal relationship with you.
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  And it started before you were even born.
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  The Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 1 and verse 5 that he says,
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  Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee.
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  You may think that whatever it is that you're doing, that no one cares,
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  no one is watching, no one understands, and it has no effect on anyone.
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  But if you go no further than this part of this verse, you know that he knows you.
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  And he knows you in such a way that his eyes are ever on you.
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  And he does know the things that are happening in your life,
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  and he does care about that, and he cares about you.
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  And in doing so he has provided a way of escape for
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  everything that is in your life that is causing you some
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  sort of trouble and he has gone through that with
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  you because he said he'd never leave you nor forsake you when you
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  believe in him he says before i knew formed thee in the belly i knew thee and
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  before thou camest forth out of the womb i sanctified thee and i ordained thee
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  a prophet unto the nations that's what he said to jeremiah and since he's no
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  respecter of persons we know that he formed Jeremiah and,
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  and he knew him before he was ever born. And then we see this verse in Isaiah
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  where he says that the Lord hath called me from my womb.
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  And then further down in that verse, he says, he made mention of my name.
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  You know, it's very common for us
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  as people to speak to those we know and love and are very close to very informally
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  by their first name or even sometimes by a nickname or perhaps even an endearment
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  like honey or baby or as my family always said love cups.
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  But when we have a distant relationship with somebody then we usually will call
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  them by mr and mrs so-and-so or miss so-and-so we use that last name that surname
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  and that shows a certain amount of proximity in our relationship.
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  And we often show that as respect, especially younger people to older people.
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  But as soon as you get a relationship with somebody, you have a personal connection.
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  And that personal connection affords you usually some sort of name that you
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  use for them that is not formal.
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  And it's very interesting to me that the Bible makes it very clear all through
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  the scriptures that we have a personal relationship with Jesus.
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  And then it says that he calls us by name.
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  You see, when we know somebody, we can call them by name.
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  When you're in a crowd of people and you look across the crowd and you may for
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  some reason want to bring attention to someone in that crowd and let someone
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  you know that you're with see that person,
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  then you usually have to describe and look at that tall lady in the pink shirt.
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  But if you knew that person, you would say, look at and call her name.
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  Jesus isn't looking down from heaven and saying, look at that short lady in the green shirt.
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  He's looking and saying to the Father, look at Kim.
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  He knows my name. You know, it shows that there's a certain amount of caring
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  when you go the effort to learn somebody else's name.
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  Sometimes in many of our work interactions or perhaps even at the grocery store or the post office,
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  places that we frequent, you can tell the person who is really friendly and
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  really interested in people and their well-being because they'll begin to call
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  the cashier or begin to call the person at the post office or wherever it is
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  that you're frequenting by their first name.
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  But then there are those people very standoffish. And though they see that same
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  person six times a week and they've seen him for 10 years, they still don't
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  refer to them as a name because they just make it a general acquaintance.
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  God, in all of his glory, has no real need for me or you.
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  But he has chosen to have a personal relationship with us.
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  And he's chosen to allow us to
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  have part of his glory in his kingdom by introducing other people to him.
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  And he does that through that personal relationship he has with us as he walks
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  with us and he talks with us.
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  It's so amazing to me, the love of God.
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  And I think this verse in Isaiah and these verses in Jeremiah tell us very clearly
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  how interested he is in us.
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  In fact, in Jeremiah 29, 11, he says, for I know the thoughts that I think toward you.
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  Do you know how important you have to be to somebody to cross their mind for them to think of you?
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  And he just doesn't say, I know the thought I had of you.
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  He says i know the faults that i
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  think toward you that i
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  think is an active verb the lord
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  thinks about you as a person and you personally he knows your name and in isaiah
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  he says he calls you by name he has a plan and a purpose and he says that clearly
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  in jeremiah 29 11 where he says for For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord,
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  thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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  The Bible goes on to say, Then shall you call upon me, and ye shall go and pray
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  unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
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  The Lord is waiting for us to talk to him.
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  And he hovers around us, supplying us daily with his benefits,
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  never leaving us nor forsaking us, supplying us with all that we need and giving
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  us the strength to do the things that he's called us to do you are important
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  to Jesus Christ which makes you
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  important to God and in John chapter 17 we're told that he prays for us.
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  He shares his time with the Father, with you on his mind.
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  And perhaps most importantly, especially for those of you who have not come
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  to the saving knowledge of who Christ is, to realize that when he was on the
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  cross, you were on his mind.
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  You personally, you as an individual, not all of mankind, not all of the human race,
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  but you personally, me, Kimberly Francine Miller,
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  was on his mind as he shed his blood on.
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  The cross of calvary i believe that because the
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  scriptures tell us so and the bible says
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  that for god so loved the world that he
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  gave his only begotten son that whosoever the
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  world gives us the understanding that it's available to
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  absolutely every one of us and the whosoever tells
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  us that it is a personal commitment that it
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  belongs to you personally it belongs to me
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  personally i can stake my claim through
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  the blood of jesus christ on my inheritance in heaven
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  that i could live in a place not made with hands eternal into
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  heavens where god is the light and no sin enters where death has no place there's
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  no misunderstandings but it is joy unspeakable and full of glory and a peace
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  that passes understanding and it belongs to me as a person.
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  It belongs to me individually.
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  It belongs to you as a person, and it belongs to you individually.
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  He says that we're his servant, and he makes mention of your name, that he calls you.
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  There is a purpose for you to be on this earth, and that purpose is to glorify the Lord.
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  And he has given each one of us a set of talents and skills that he has intended
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  for us to use for his glory.
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  And when we come to him in prayer, asking for his guidance and allowing him to lead us and direct us,
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  He will surely give us the strength we need in order to accomplish that he's called us to do.
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  If you're looking for your purpose, if you're feeling lost and like you're just
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  kind of waifing in the wind,
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  it's time that you got on your knees and you talked to a mighty God who knows
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  you by name, who calls you by name and says to call unto him and he will answer
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  you and show you great and mighty things which you know not.
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  That same God beckons you as he knocks on your heart's door to sup with him
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  and to spend time with him in prayer and in his word to develop that relationship
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  that he came that you might have.
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  It's personal and he knows you and he's calling you by your name.
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  Call the Lord this moment with a prayer from your heart that you may walk and
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  talk with him continually.
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