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349 | Throwback - The Power of Christ · 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
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  well in John chapter four.
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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 and your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her 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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  Intelligent men and women today still marvel at the awe and splendor of your
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  almighty God, yet they question him just as you sometimes question him.
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  Why is this so? The answer, my friend, lies strictly in the strength of your faith.
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  Your doubt has nothing to do with him or his power and majesty.
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  For even the winds and the waves obey his voice.
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  Join us in this program, The Power of Christ, as Kim Miller of Women at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through Matthew 8, 27,
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  which says, But the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this,
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  that even the winds and the sea obey him?
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries.
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  And what an amazing topic we're going to discuss over the next few minutes,
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  and that is the power of Christ.
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  If I had every moment that was left on this earth before Christ came back and
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  it would choose him to wait another 100, 200,
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  300 years, I would never be able to exhaust or articulate fully what the power of Christ is.
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  But over the next few moments, it is my prayer that I'm able to say something
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  through the working of the Holy Spirit in me that would stir your mind and your
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  heart to realize the awesome power that is in us through Jesus Christ,
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  our Lord, and the amazing power that Christ has in our life today and in our world today.
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  For many of us within the sound of my voice are so concerned about what's happening in the world today.
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  Let me assure you that nothing is happening in the world today that is surprising
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  the Lord, that is confounding the Lord, or that isn't happening without it being
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  sifted first through his nail-scarred hand.
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  When you think about his nail-scarred hands, you begin to see the power of Christ.
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  He has the power to love when we're unlovable.
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  He had the power over hell, death, and the grave, and he held within himself
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  the only means to buy our salvation.
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  He held an amazing power and holds an amazing power to forgive.
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  All things that you think, well, that doesn't seem powerful to me.
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  Have you tried to forgive somebody lately of something that would even pale
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  in comparison to what the Lord forgives us of daily, let alone our salvation that he gave us?
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  It's amazing to me, the love of Christ.
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  And it's amazing to me when I think of all he does every day.
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  When I think about the fact that he tells the sun when to rise and he sets it
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  in the west safely to return again when he tells it to rise the next day.
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  It amazes me when I think about the power of a wave and when I know within my
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  own heart and mind the amazing things that water can do.
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  When you can see the energy that can be produced by water and it's converted to electricity.
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  When you can see water in just small amounts, be able to move vehicles that
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  weigh incredible amounts of weight.
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  When you can watch a river swell out of its banks and destroy whole communities and towns.
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  Yet, when the Lord says stop to that wave at the beach, it stops,
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  and it moves gently back,
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  and then it comes again, and just at the point that he says stop, it stops again.
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  You can't stop the wave, even if you put your hands there.
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  If you stand in front of it, it'll just go around you and deflect off your body.
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  But when the Lord tells that wave to stop, it stops.
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  And man has not figured out any way to stop a wave, though we have put men on the moon.
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  We have found ways through God's grace in us to be able to cure many diseases, we can't stop nature.
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  Nature we can't stop a tornado in its path we can only watch and see its aftermath but god can,
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  he spoke the world into existence and
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  all things were created by him and through him and all things are under his
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  feet he has the ability to shut the lion when daniel was put in the lion's den
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  He had the ability to protect the three Hebrew children when they were put in the fiery furnace.
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  He had the ability to provide the lamb for Abraham so that he did not have to
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  sacrifice his son Isaiah.
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  And he had the ability to be the sacrifice, God's only son, Jesus, to pay for our sin debt.
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  There is no power on earth that can compare to the power of God.
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  In Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 20, he says, Now unto him that is able to do
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  exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
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  And the Bible says that when we become a child of the most high God,
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  that he places the Holy Spirit within us and that he dwells with us and that
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  he teaches us and he walks with us.
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  So within us is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity.
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  The Trinity is God, the Father, God, the Son and God, the Holy Ghost are all three in one.
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  And so that Holy Spirit working in me is the same power that spoke the world
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  into existence, the same power that tells the wind and the waves to stop and to go.
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  It's the same power that breathes life into existence.
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  It's the same power that tells the sun when to shine.
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  That's amazing power. And we have access to that power through Jesus Christ, the son of God.
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  Yet many of us walk around living what I would consider a very weak Christian life.
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  So if the same Holy Spirit that is part of the Trinity is in me and I cannot.
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  Seem to live a life that that even seems to conquer the devil,
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  when the Bible clearly says that greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world,
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  then what is going wrong in my world? It isn't Jesus.
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  He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.
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  He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He's never lost a battle.
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  And Daniel, through the power of Christ, was able to win the battle against the giant.
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  He was able to slay him, just a little old boy, because he did it in the power
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  and might of the Lord. And he did not do it in the power and might of himself.
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  Part of our problem is we leave the Lord out of our activities.
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  We leave the Lord out of our decisions.
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  We don't consult him with our issues. We don't bring our burdens to him.
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  There's a reason why he says, bring your burdens to me.
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  He's all-knowing and he's all-powerful, so he knows the problem you have before you even have it.
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  And if you don't believe me, consider Peter when he's on the water.
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  He's in the boat, and they're fretting because the storm has arisen,
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  and he looks out, and he says, Lord, if that be you, bid me come.
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  The Lord was already there before Peter asked for him to help.
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  In fact, he couldn't recognize him.
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  Another problem that many of us have. The hand of God is at work in our lives
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  all the time, and we are so far from what he wants us to be in.
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  So the word of God is so foreign to us that we're unable to actually see God
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  at work. But I want to tell you something.
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  That does not negate the fact that he is working.
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  The fact that these men marveled and said, What manner of man is this that even
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  the winds and the seas obey?
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  They're marveling at him. their inability to
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  comprehend who he was their inability to understand
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  that he was god and something like controlling the
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  wind and the waves was really not a big deal to him their
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  inability to comprehend that did not change
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  the fact that he could do it and that he was doing it
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  and you see so many of us are looking
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  at what god does every day for each of
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  us the life that he supplies applies for us the
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  blessings that he showers us with and just
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  because you don't recognize it doesn't mean
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  that it isn't happening just because
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  you do not attribute god to what is happening and you do not attribute the tribute
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  the power to god that he exists and that he puts out every day for each and
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  every one of us that doesn't change anything but until you come to the saving knowledge of Christ,
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  that power that God exhibited through Jesus Christ to pay for your salvation
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  will not be something that you can partake of.
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  And you'll have no power over hell in that day, that day of judgment.
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  But because of Christ and what he's done, because the power that he has to defeat
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  the devil at every turn because all things are under his feet.
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  Because I have given my life over to
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  him on that day of judgment there'll be no more condemnation for me for he will
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  have seen the blood of Jesus supplied and the power of Christ will keep me from
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  the pits of hell and it will each one of you who've given your faith to Christ Feast.
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  You see, the devil's no match for God. In fact, the devil doesn't even cause
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  him to even remotely get excited.
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  He won that battle a long time ago. The issue is whether or not we claim that power in us,
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  whether we admit and acknowledge who
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  God is in our life and follow his commandments and allow
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  him to fight our battles and allow him to defeat
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  the devil on every turn as we follow what he
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  says and as we allow him to
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  protect us with his mighty presence and his
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  amazing grace when we lose to
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  the devil it's because we have fought in our own merit and not in the grace
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  of god it's high time that you took a look at who christ is he is the king of
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  kings and the lord of lords he is your savior if you placed your faith in him
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  he is the most powerful force on earth,
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  in heaven, and has already defeated hell.
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  Christ is powerful, and the power of Christ can be very amazing if you just
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  allow it to spring within your life.
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