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460 | He Hears Your Cry and Grants the Desires of Your Heart · 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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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Transcription by CastingWords God will hear your petitions to Him,
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  and He will provide for you.
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  He will determine where, when, and how you should go.
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  No one else has the right to establish your goings.
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  Submit yourself to the will of God that He may bless you.
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  Join us in this program, He Hears Your Cry and Grants the Desires of Your Heart.
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  As Kim Miller of Women at the Well Ministries takes us through Psalm 40,
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  1-2 and 37, 4-5, which say, I waited patiently for the Lord,
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  and He inclined unto me and heard my cry.
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  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
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  and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
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  Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
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  Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  and oh how I love this passage in Psalms chapter 37.
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  Oh how I love that when I delight myself in the Lord and I commit my ways into him,
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  i trust him he brings it
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  to pass you see the key to
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  happiness is understanding
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  that it is something that is
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  around you but joy comes from within and my happiness is dependent really upon
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  my joy because i can begin to see what god has done in me and i can begin to
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  see the amazing peace in the amazing,
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  wonderful way he takes care of me, and that delights me.
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  Then I began to find happiness, even in the things around me.
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  You see, true peace and true joy with the Lord isn't dependent on anyone or anything.
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  And maybe for a moment, we should park there for a second.
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  Because I think many of us today believe we can orchestrate our lives.
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  We can do what we need to do.
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  And if we just get everything right and everything perfect, then we'll have happiness and joy.
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  The reality of it is, if you just get your heart in line with Jesus,
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  you'll find that joy and happiness and peace that you so long for.
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  And the more you try to control your life, and the more you try to control the
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  things that are in your life, the less likely you are to find that joy,
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  that peace, and that happiness.
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  For true joy and true peace and true happiness is found in giving yourself over
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  to the Lord and following Him.
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  The interesting thing is, is that we as humans fight that with every fiber of our body.
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  And some of us more so even than others, because we have this predisposition to be a control freak.
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  And somehow we think if we control this and we control that,
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  and we are able to orchestrate things, that then we'll be able to have the life of abundance.
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  Well, you can have a life of abundance of that way. Abundant stress,
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  abundant chaos, abundant fatigue, abundant misery, abundant depression.
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  But that's not the life of abundance we want.
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  The Bible said it came to seek and to save those that were lost.
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  And that it came that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  And he's talking about abundance in peace, in joy, in happiness, in growth.
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  And you say, well, Kim, that's what I want. And that's what you can have.
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  Now, it's important that you do not equate abundance from God with abundance of earthly wealth.
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  For with earthly wealth comes a lot of stress, comes a lot of fatigue,
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  comes a lot of things, because you begin to rely upon that and you begin to
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  rely upon your own strength and not upon the Lord.
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  But abundance of peace joy
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  and happiness comes truly from
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  delighting yourself in him you
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  see some of you that i am talking to right now can extremely relate to psalm
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  chapter 40 you can relate to being in a horrible pit you can relate to crying out,
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  and some of you just like the psalmist david can relate that you've cried out
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  to the lord he's heard your cry and he's delivered you but some of you are not out of the pit.
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  And in fact you're wallowing and and kind of miserable in it and you say but
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  kim i didn't do anything to get in here things just happened and perhaps that's
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  true but you can't control,
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  how you deal with it by giving up control and you're like that makes zero sense
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  kim i can control something by giving up control.
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  You see, God called us to follow. Never thought about that?
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  God did not call you to be the one who dictates, controls, determines, and plans your life.
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  He called you to follow. In fact, all over the scriptures, he tells us that.
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  And he says to pick up your cross daily and follow me.
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  Well, it's impossible to be a controlling individual of all things and follow.
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  You see, but it's careful here, especially if you're in this pit.
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  Be careful who you follow. He said to delight yourself also in the Lord.
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  Delight yourself in his ways. Delight yourself in the things he does.
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  Delight yourself in his word delight yourself
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  in his grace delight yourself in his mercy
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  delight yourself in his promises delight yourself
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  in time with him you ever
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  been in the presence of somebody that you loved immensely and just sitting with
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  them maybe not even saying hardly anything at all somehow your heart smiled
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  when you delight yourself in the lord those moments of prayer even the quick
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  ones as you're driving or you're walking by,
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  those will bring a smile to your heart.
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  And then those times when you really spend time with him, pouring out your heart
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  and taking the time to just be still and know that he is God so he can fill
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  you with his presence, with his essence, with who he is.
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  It's in those times that you understand what it means to delight yourself in him.
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  It's not just about liking him. It's about losing yourself in God.
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  Understanding that he knows all is all is all powerful loves you beyond decree
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  wants only best for you says he has a plan for you to prosper you to give you
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  a hope and an expected end,
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  he says no good thing does he withhold from them that love him he says he has
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  a plan for you he says in my father's house are many mansions and if it were
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  not so i would have told you I go to prepare a place for you that where I am you may be also.
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  And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will surely come again and receive you unto myself.
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  He says, Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty.
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  Things which thou knowest not.
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  He says, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. And he says, Behold,
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  I stand at your door and knock. And if you'll just open up, I'll come in and sup with you.
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  He says, Ask, and you shall receive.
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  Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened. unto you.
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  He is there with arms wide open, waiting to spend time with you and to love on you.
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  And when you really delight yourself in him, you just get all about being with
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  him in his word and prayer.
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  And he begins to talk to you and you talk with him and he rubs off on you. People can see it in you.
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  And beyond the reward of having that kind of relationship with Jesus,
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  where you hear him when he whispers, even when he whispers about things you'd
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  rather not do, but you can hear him in some still small voice in your heart.
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  When you have that relationship with him that you know it's okay to ask him questions,
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  not questioning his ability, not questioning his power,
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  not questioning his authority or his love for you, but trying
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  to get straight what he is telling you and you
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  can have those conversations with him
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  it's then you realize that
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  his ways are not your ways but they're the best ways and it takes a lot out
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  of the stress of living if you follow instead of trying to plan and so i say
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  this to you if If you're in the miry play, wait patiently, but go to him.
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  You see, it says, and he inclined unto me and he heard my cry.
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  He was crying to the Lord. He wasn't crying to his neighbors.
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  He wasn't crying to his therapist.
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  He wasn't crying to his pastor. He wasn't crying to his friends.
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  He wasn't crying to anyone but to the Lord.
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  And we need to go to the Lord first and then use all these wonderful resources
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  around us to help us and encourage us.
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  But it's the Lord we need to get our information from.
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  And when you delight yourself with him and you commit your way to him, you'll do so.
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  And it is perhaps not instantaneous that we get out of the pit, but it's pretty close.
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  But you have to patiently wait for the Lord to mold you and make you in what you need to be.
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  You see, the Lord loves you and he hears your cry and he'll give you the desires of your heart.
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  But you need to keep your heart in check with Him by delighting in Him so that
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  your desires match with His plans.
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  And then and only then will you have the abundant life God has promised you.
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