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368 | Throwback - Shielded by God · 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,
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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 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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  Every word of God is pure. Therefore, they must be true.
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  You can bank upon every promise he has made.
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  His promises never fade, and he has never broken a promise.
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  They are everlasting and true.
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  Join us in this program, Shielded by God, as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well
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  Ministries takes us through Proverbs 35, which says, Every word of God is pure.
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  He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious to Heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for all that
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  you've shown us in your scriptures.
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  I thank you, Lord, for every word that you've put in your holy word that we
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  could read that would increase our faith.
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  That would increase our knowledge of who you are, Lord. That would allow us
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  to place our trust in you.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would illuminate your truths to us over these next few moments.
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  That it would increase our faith to such a point that our trust would be complete in you.
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  And I pray, Lord, that we wouldn't waver or falter. I pray, Lord,
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  that you would give us heavenly eyes to see all that you have for us.
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  That you would help us to draw close to you and claim that promise that we know
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  to be true that if we draw nigh unto you that you'll draw nigh unto us.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would allow us that opportunity to feel your presence wrap around us.
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  That we would know that you are in our midst.
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  That we would understand that you have everything under control and that nothing
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  in this world can compare to your power and your might and your glory.
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  And that you're not withholding any good thing from those of us who love you
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  and that you have us in the palm of your hand and that nothing in this world startles you,
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  scares you, surprises you, or matches you.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would within ourselves allow us a glimpse
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  into your glory in such a way that we would be forever transformed confirmed.
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  To understand that the things of this world, they don't matter at all.
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  And that life is but a vapor.
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  But that we have an eternity with you. And that you're not just waiting for
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  us to get to heaven or waiting to come and get us.
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  But that every day and every moment you are walking with us and talking with
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  us, leading us and guiding us.
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  And that in you we have perfect peace and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  That there's rest to be had in you and that you'll take our burdens and make
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  them light and that if we can just trust in you,
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  that we can live our lives under the shadow of the almighty where there is coolness.
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  Where there is rest where there is shade,
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  and Lord help us to know that the attacks of the devil are fruitless,
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  Lord that those that are in our lives that try to
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  cause us pain and trouble who are gunning
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  for us lord or who are trying their best to
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  cause us misery can't be successful
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  against us because you have put your angels charged round about us lord that
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  not even we would dash our foot against a stone and you've wrapped us with your
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  love and your mercy and you've placed inside of us the holy spirit to comfort
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  us to lead us and to guide us, and that you're our shield,
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  Lord, and that you fight our battles.
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  I pray that you would increase our faith in such a way that we would wrap our arms around you,
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  that we would fill our heart with your love and grace, and that with every fiber
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  of our body, from the tops of our heads to the bottom of our feet,
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  we would place our trust in thee.
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  Lord, we love you, and we praise We thank you in Jesus name and all of God's people said, amen.
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  Every word of God is pure. You look at the beginning of Proverbs 30,
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  verse 5, that Erica read in our hearing, and you wonder sometimes why the Lord
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  would have things written the way he did.
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  And when you think of purity, you think of something that is rare.
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  You think of something that doesn't have anything in it that doesn't belong.
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  In other words, there's no impurities.
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  And so it's strong and it's real and you can count on it because no piece of
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  it is anything other than what it says it is.
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  And he opens up this line in Proverbs chapter 30, verse five,
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  saying that every word of God is what it says it is.
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  Every word of God is pure.
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  Every word of God you can count on because not any piece of it is ever going to fail.
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  Not any piece of it is not going to be as strong as another piece.
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  Not any piece of it is in there that you don't need. But it's pure.
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  I love that about the word of God.
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  See, I believe that it's the inspired, infallible word of God that we have in
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  our presence to read in the Holy Word.
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  And the Bible says that the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
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  So I believe that the word of God in the form of Jesus was with us.
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  And so when I sit down to read the holy word of God, I believe that every word,
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  though it says here, just like it says here, is pure.
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  I believe every word was instructed by the Holy Spirit for the men of God to write.
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  And I believe that every word in here is something that we need.
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  And I believe every word in here was intentionally placed.
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  You can call me simple minded if you want to. But that's how much I believe God loves me.
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  I believe that he knew what I needed. So he made sure he put it in there and
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  he said it was pure. So I don't have to think that it's some man's concoction
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  of what God said. But I know that it's what God wanted and intended to be put in.
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  Therefore, I can believe it. You see, it's not enough to read it.
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  It's not even enough to know it.
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  It's not enough to be able to quote it.
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  You've got to believe it. You've got to be willing to place everything you have
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  on the validity of the word of God.
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  Because without that, you can't place your faith in him.
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  Without that, you can't believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them
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  that diligently seek him.
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  Without that, you can't believe that in your time of trouble,
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  he's a very present help.
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  Without that, you can't believe that he will supply your every need.
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  Without that, you can't believe that he will strengthen you to do that which he's called you to do.
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  Without that, you can't fully trust that you'll be victorious over everything the devil throws at you.
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  Without that, you can't understand that you will defeat the devil through the
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  power of God that is in you because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
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  You've got to believe that what he said is pure and real that's a faith that stands.
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  That's a faith that believes when maybe the rest of the world says you shouldn't,
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  that's a faith that can sit in the midst of a confusing situation and not understand
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  how things are going to add up, to not see where the escape route is,
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  to not see how all things are going to work together for their good, but still believes it.
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  That's a no-so face in a no-so God that you understand that he has your best
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  interests at heart, no matter what it looks like.
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  That is a faith and a trust that believes that he has the right answer,
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  no matter how far from what you think it is
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  it is it's the ability to trust
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  that he is an all-knowing all-powerful all-loving
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  god that isn't way out there somewhere that i can't get a hold of but who lives
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  in me who talks to me through his word through the divine inspiration of the holy Spirit in my heart.
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  Who loves me. I can trust what God has for me because I know beyond a shadow
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  of a doubt that he loves me.
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  And when you love somebody, you're going to take care of them with the best of your ability.
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  You're not going to do anything to hurt them. You're going to try to give them
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  all that they can have to have the best life possible.
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  And that's what Jesus did when he died on the cross for me.
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  That's what he did when he said that he came, that I might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  That's the love that God showed me when he sent his only begotten son to die
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  on the cross of Calvary to pay my sin debt when I didn't even understand I had it.
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  I wasn't even around, but I had a debt I couldn't pay.
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  And he loved me and he looked through time and he knew there was going to be
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  a Kimberly Francine Miller who was going to need redemption for her sins.
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  And he sent the son of God that would be worthy of the lamb of God to be able
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  to be worthy to place his blood upon the altar of the cross to pray for my sins.
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  That's how much he loved me. He shielded me from the payment that I deserved
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  to pay, but never would be able to.
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  He shielded me from hell with his very life.
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  He shields me from the fiery darts of the devil by the grace of the Holy Spirit
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  around me his hand of protection doesn't leave me and he never leaves me nor forsakes me,
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  he's my shield his promises
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  are true because his word is pure and he clearly says that if i put my trust
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  in him that he'll be my shield he was the shield to the hebrew children in the
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  fiery furnace it was so hot that the the centurion soldiers who threw him in
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  the threw them in the furnace died from the heat.
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  But when the king looked in, he said, did I not send three men into the fiery furnace?
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  And the crowd answers, yes. But he said, I see four men and the fourth is likened to the son of God.
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  He was the shield for the three Hebrew children.
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  He was the shield for Daniel and the lion's den. He was the shield for Noah
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  and his family in the ark.
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  He's the shield of our salvation. He's the shield for us in this world that we don't belong.
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  But we must place our trust in him. We must be willing to follow where he leads.
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  We've got to believe. My question to you today is, do you believe?
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  Do you really believe in who God is?
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  Enough to trust him. I dare say that if you don't, you've got big problems.
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  But I promise you, if you do, he will be your shield every day and all the time.
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