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367 | Throwback - Hold On: Help is on the Way · 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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  God says, fear not. There is no greater authority, so fear not.
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  God will not only protect you and save you from your troubles,
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  but he will come with a vengeance and with recompense.
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  He means business and he is going to clean house on our troubles.
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  Join us in this program, Hold On, help is on the way.
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  As Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through Isaiah 35 4,
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  which says, Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not.
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  Behold, your God will come with a vengeance, even God with a recompense.
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  He will come and save you.
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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, we just pray that your
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  Holy Spirit would descend upon us.
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  We pray to Heavenly Father that you would open up our hearts and our minds,
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  that we would hear what you would have to say in the scripture to us.
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  Pray to Heavenly Father that the time we spend in the scripture would strengthen us.
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  Lord, we pray that we would understand that you are God that hears and answers
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  our prayers, that you are here
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  ever living to take care of us and watching over us and protecting us.
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  Lord, that you have the answers to our every need.
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  I pray that you would instill in us a desire and a belief that would cause us
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  to come to you in every turn and twist in our life and that we would have a
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  desire to stay in your presence,
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  that we might live the life that you would have us to live.
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  Lord we love you and we praise you and we thank you in Jesus name and all of God's people said amen.
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  The Bible tells us that we are to say to them that are of a fearful heart,
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  that they are to be strong and to fear not.
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  Those words are powerful words that when we use them in full assurance and belief, we,
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  can change the way we feel about things.
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  When we look at this scripture and realize that he's telling us that our God
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  has everything under control,
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  there is no battle that you will ever fight that will give you the victory that God can give you.
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  But as individuals, we often just react instead of reflect and pray.
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  When we are faced with situations that cause us great distress,
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  we often just blow up, explode and react.
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  But if we would just reflect a moment and allow our heart and our mind to remember
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  all that God has shown us,
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  all that God has promised us in his scripture and all that God has given us from day to day.
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  Then we would be able to have the confidence to
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  stand strong in the power
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  and might of the lord and the fear that
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  we feel would be dissipated and
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  replaced by the confidence we have
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  in the face we place in jesus christ the
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  scriptures are written that we might know him and the scriptures are
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  written that we might be able to see the things that
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  have happened in days of old and watched God appear on the scene when it seemed
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  like he was nowhere around and to provide the need and the help that was necessary
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  to defend and protect the children of God.
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  You see, God is the same yesterday today and forevermore and what he's done
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  for others he'll do for you too.
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  And when you're in the midst of your crisis you really
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  just have a front row seat to see
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  the miracle of god unfold in your presence to be able to see the evidence of
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  god's love and mercy and grace showered upon you as he comes in and he takes
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  charge of the situation and he brings the answer that you need.
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  And he provides the help that you're longing for.
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  You see, there's nothing in your life that he can't feel.
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  He will satisfy your greatest longings. He will fulfill your greatest need.
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  And he will provide all that you could ever need in your life.
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  And he will do this continuously and faithfully because of his love and his promises to you and me.
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  The Bible says that he'll never leave us nor forsake us. So when you're in the
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  midst of your problem, he's in the midst with you.
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  And if you doubt that, let's take our minds back to Peter when he's on the water.
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  The storms are crashing around about him in the boat and he looks out and he
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  sees this figure on the water that he can't make out And he says,
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  Lord, if that be you, bid me come. And the Lord says, come.
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  Peter did not have to pray for the Lord to come.
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  The Lord was already there. And in the midst of your problem right now, he's already there.
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  He already knows the answer. He is the answer.
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  He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is your escape.
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  He is your victor. And greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
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  And though the devil may throw everything he can at you, he cannot defeat you
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  when you go about it in the strength and the power and the might of the Lord.
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  The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 20 that we can do exceedingly
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  abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us.
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  We can employ the power of God, that same power that causes the sun to rise
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  and set. That same power that breathes the world into, spoke the world into.
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  Existence and breathed life into me and you.
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  That same power dwells in every believer. And we have the power to tap into
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  that in any time and all time.
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  But we as believers must believe. And we must come to him in confidence.
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  And we must be willing to listen to what he has to say to us through his scriptures
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  and through time in prayer and meditation as the Holy Spirit reveals to us the
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  will that God has for us in our life.
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  And we must be willing to follow him because he is the way of escape.
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  He is the answer to your problem. He is the calm to your storm.
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  He is the bomb of Gilead to your hurt. And he's already there.
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  As believers, we must learn to be disciplined in his word and disciplined in
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  our prayer life and disciplined into following what we hear him say to do.
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  Even if it's uncomfortable, doesn't fit our logic or doesn't even make reasonable sense to us.
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  Because faith has nothing to do with logic. And faith has nothing to do with reason.
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  Faith is believing even when it looks like it's not right. Faith is knowing
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  beyond a shadow of a doubt, regardless of the consequences, regardless of the
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  effects that you're going to place your faith in Jesus.
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  Because regardless of what happens, regardless of the circumstances,
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  you know that he's in control and whatever happens is right.
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  Even if you think you're going to feel harm or uncomfortable, that's faith.
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  That is what it required to
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  be like little david who faced his giant he
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  didn't take the equipment that the world had for him he didn't take the armor
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  of the army that didn't fit him just right as christians the things the world
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  offers us to fight our battles don't often fit us just right because we are
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  a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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  We walk in this world, but our home is in a place whose builder and maker is God.
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  We're pilgrims on a journey, waiting for him to come back and take us.
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  So this stuff of this world doesn't look good on us, and it doesn't fit well
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  for us, and it doesn't work for us.
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  But many of us are so stubborn and hard-headed, we still try it.
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  Finally, we realize it's not going to work.
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  Then we come to the Lord. We need to be disciplined in our lives and be like little David.
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  When they offered him that armor of the world, he said, no.
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  And he took what God gave him and was just a slingshot and a few little stones.
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  In the name of the Lord, he came and he was victorious over the giant.
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  No doubt David would have lost that battle if he'd have done it on his own or
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  he'd relied on the supplies of the world.
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  Because they wouldn't fit, they were too big. And he would have gotten tangled
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  up and no doubt lost. But he said, the battle's not mine. It belongs to the Lord.
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  And he gave it to the Lord and he gave glory and power in himself attributed
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  to God and his working in him.
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  And as a result, the giant fell before David.
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  I don't know what you're facing.
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  I have no idea what giant is in your world. I don't know who it is that is pursuing
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  you with a vengeance that is just dogging you.
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  And at every turn, they come to you and they find fault in you and they find something wrong.
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  And no matter how hard you try, it seems somebody is after you. Give it to the Lord.
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  Let him have it. It's his battle.
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  He's placed you where you are. And he's fully aware of what you need.
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  And he is supplying all of that. and he's
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  got this he's got that issue
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  he's got that sickness he's the
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  bomb of gilead he's got those troublemakers
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  in your past he's got him and
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  his victory will be far more complete than you could ever provide on your own
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  help is on the way help is already there help that you can depend on help that
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  you can trust help that will make you victorious because greater is he that
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  is in you than he that is in the world.
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  The devil walketh about as a roaring lion, but he's got nothing to defeat you with.
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  So stop letting him win the little battles because you've decided to do them on your own.
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  But you hold on to your faith. You hold on to what you know to be true in the scriptures.
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  You hold on to the love of God. You hold on to his protection.
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  You hold on to his promises you hold
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  on to the blessings that shower you and you
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  go forward as a soldier for christ to battle knowing
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  that the battle's not yours it belongs to him and you allow him to raise you
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  up and bring you glory you allow him to make you victorious and i promise you
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  your life will be abundant in jesus help is in the lord and he's on the way and he's already there.
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