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416 | The Best is Yet to Come · 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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  Scripture tells us that eye hasn't seen and ear hasn't heard,
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  neither has the heart of man imagined what lies in store for them that love the Lord.
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  Heaven is too amazing to imagine and too great to miss. The best is yet to come.
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  So this momentary affliction you may be feeling isn't forever.
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  In fact, life is but a vapor, and our time here is short.
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  Yet, the Master sees fit to make a way for us to escape even the biggest of
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  issues in our lives here.
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  Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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  journey through the Scriptures, revealing the glory of our future and the grace of our present.
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  So we are going to come out
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  of first corinthians chapter 2 and verse
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  9 and we're going to talk about something that's hopeful and something that
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  brings us joy first corinthians chapter 2 and verse 9 reads like this that as it is written that.
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  I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the
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  things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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  And if you think about it for just a moment, we are told in James 4.14 that life is but a vapor.
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  It appears, and then in a little while,
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  it vanishes away and when
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  you think about all that you've gone through today
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  this week this month some of us have had a few hard months and my family that's
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  on this facebook will certainly attest that we have but even with a long duration
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  or what we think is long of pain and suffering suffering.
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  Heartache, that is but a vapor.
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  See, we think that waiting for what we want a week is a long time.
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  If you're hungry, you think waiting an hour for dinner to be finished and completed
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  so that you can eat seems like forever.
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  But in the scheme of eternity, our entire life is but a vapor.
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  And so when we begin to think about the stressors of this world.
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  My sister used to say, this too shall pass.
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  And the reality of it is, is it does.
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  Somehow, someway, it passes. And the Bible says, don't worry about anything.
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  Don't be anxious for anything.
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  But with prayer and supplication and with thanksgiving, let your requests be
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  made known unto God, and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  Isaiah 26.3 says, Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed
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  on thee, because he trusteth in thee.
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  As we begin to watch the scriptures unfold with the lens of life is but a vapor.
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  It appears and then it vanishes.
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  We can begin to see how incredibly important it is to trust in the Lord.
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  See, things look very different from the shepherd's point of view.
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  We see things in the here and now, and time has no constraint for him.
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  So as Christ is watching over us and looking out for us and protecting us and
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  leading us and guiding us and supplying our every need, he sees what his plan is for us.
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  And we're told in Jeremiah 29, 11 that it's a good plan.
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  But somewhere between eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard what lies in
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  store for them that love him.
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  And now we somehow can lose hope.
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  But tonight I want you to get your eyes on things above.
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  Colossians 3.2 says, set your affection on things above and not on things of the earth.
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  When we set our affection on things of the earth, when we set our love,
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  when we place our value, when we measure our life by what's going on in the
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  here and now, we are totally missing the point.
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  See, the best truly is yet to come.
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  That's what he said when he said, but as it is written, I have not seen nor
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  ear heard what lies in store for the things that God hath prepared for them
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  that love him. Do you love him?
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  If you love him, you got to know him.
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  And to know him is to love him. And to love him is to understand the ways of his character.
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  He says, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments and they won't be grievous
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  to you. You won't find it a hardship. You won't find it difficult.
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  And so he gives us a glimpse right here of saying, look, it may be tough right now. It may be hard.
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  But let me tell you something. I've got good news.
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  I'm with you. I'm never going to leave you.
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  And this temporary trouble that you have, I'm going to see you through it.
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  We talked last week about building our foundation on the rock and not on sand.
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  I want you to focus tonight on understanding
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  who the rock is i want you
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  to understand what he has prepared for
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  you in john chapter 14 beginning in verse 1 he says in my father's house are
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  many mansions and if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a
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  place for you that where i am you may be also and if i go to prepare a place
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  for you i will surely come again and receive you unto myself.
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  God is watching you, and he's enabling you to do what he's called you to do.
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  In fact, what he said is he'll supply all of your needs according to his riches.
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  So it gets us back to the stressors in our life.
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  If our focus is upon our obstacles, then we will fail to be grateful for our Redeemer.
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  If our focus is upon our troubles, then we will forsake our peace.
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  See, worry is just interest due. You're paying interest on a problem before
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  it's even due. Many of the things that we worry about on a daily basis,
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  they never even come to fruition.
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  Things that cause our heart to tremble. Things that stop us in our track because
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  we're looking with an earthly vision.
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  Friends, this is not the prize.
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  Our heavenly home is what we're to strive for the prize of the high calling to get there.
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  See, we get so skewed in our view that we forget that eye hasn't seen and ear
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  hasn't heard what lies in store or has entered into the heart of man.
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  You can't even dream it up.
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  What God has for you.
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  But what happens is we're short sighted.
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  Oh, I believe we should walk through this world with blinders so that we're
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  not seeing sin and being tempted.
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  That we don't have worldly lusts and desires that fill our hearts and our souls,
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  but that we have submitted ourselves under the mighty hand of God,
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  that he could exalt us in due time.
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  But I believe we should be looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of
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  our faith, realizing that the best is yet to come,
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  realizing that we can't even imagine what
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  heaven is like old john on the isle of
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  patmos he got a quick view he's written
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  many things the most precious element we have
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  on earth is gold and with his pavement in heaven there are walls of jasper and
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  pearl the sun never sets and jesus is the light we have there's no sorrow no
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  pain no sickness no death we have of a vague understanding.
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  But we're told in 1 Corinthians 2.9, it's too good to imagine and certainly too good to miss.
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  But those of us who are listening to this, I have to believe already know him.
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  So you're not going to miss heaven, but you know what you're missing?
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  When we are borrowing trouble from tomorrow, he said the evil of the day is sufficient thereof.
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  We don't need to go borrowing about what tomorrow is. We are to live in the presence of God.
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  Now, we plan for our futures. I'm the happy little planner.
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  We are prudent with our finances, our energy, our efforts, our time,
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  our tithing of both time, physical body, and money.
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  But we need to live in the present.
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  Not worrying about what might happen. I have friends who are crippled and almost
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  functionalists because they're just not certain of the economy.
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  They're not certain of our future.
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  My future is no less certain today than it was five years ago,
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  10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, because my future has always been
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  and always will be in the hands of an almighty God who loved me so much that
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  he paid the sin debt that I in no way could pay and he paved a way for heaven
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  for me before I even knew I had a need.
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  And I promise you, I will never face a need where the consequences are as grave
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  as that or the effort necessary as much.
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  And he met it completely paid in
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  full i don't owe that debt when he said trust in the lord with all thine heart
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  and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and
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  he shall direct thy paths be not wise in thine own eyes depart from evil.
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  And follow the Lord. We're to follow the Lord.
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  We don't get ahead of him. He says, be still and know that I am God.
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  In 1 Corinthians 10 and verse 13, it reads like this, There hath no temptation
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  taken you, but such is common to man.
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  But God is faithful. Let's say that.
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  But god is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are
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  able but will with the temptation also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it,
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  god is supplying your every need he's supplying the need that you have for the.
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  Issue that's troubling your heart tonight he's making a way where there seems
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  to be no way and his ways are higher than our ways.
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  Our finite mind cannot understand the infinite wisdom, glory and greatness and goodness of God.
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  But what we can do is heed what he says.
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  And he said that the problems of tomorrow, we don't need to touch because we got enough for today.
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  But he said to trust in him and he would make a way and to lay our burdens at
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  his feet and he would exchange them for peace that passes all understanding
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  and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  He explains that if it matters to us, it matters to the master.
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  And he said, hey, get your eyes off of today and your world right now.
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  Live in my presence and look upward for your redemption draws nigh.
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  God has given us everything we need pertaining to godliness and holiness.
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  But it requires us to choose where we're going to put our vision.
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  Joshua said, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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  Deuteronomy poses this question to us. Choose you this day who you will serve.
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  I believe this passage in 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 9 is placed perfectly to
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  remind us that this world is not our home.
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  We are just pilgrims and sojourners passing through. and the best is yet to come.
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  And nothing that comes your way will be beyond your ability to withstand because
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  the battle's not yours. It belongs to the Lord. That's what David tells us.
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  So friends, don't lose hope.
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  Don't be dismayed and don't have despair. there.
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  Jesus said, I was tempted like as you are yet without sin.
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  Come boldly to my throne and obtain mercy in your time of need.
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  Friends, the best is yet to come. If your hope is in this world,
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  he said you'd be most miserable.
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  But my hope is in Jesus Christ, the author and the finisher of my faith,
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  the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the creator of all,
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  my Savior, yet my friend, my constant companion,
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  my architect who's building a home not made with hands eternal into the heavens.
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  And you know what? He's a perfect designer.
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  It will be perfect for me. and eye hasn't seen and ear hasn't heard and nothing
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  has entered into my heart or yours that can compare to what God has for each of us.
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  He says, trust in me.
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  He also said in Mark 9.23, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believes.
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  Oh, be still and know that he is God.
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  Delight yourself in him, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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  Oh, tonight, don't lose hope.
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  Don't walk around defeated because we're more than conquerors.
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  Thanks be to God who gives us the victory.
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  We are champions when we fight with the sword of the Spirit in the name of the Lord.
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  And His power, and His might. So put on the whole armor of God and go forth,
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  shoulders reared back and head held on, because you're just marching through,
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  and the best is yet to come.
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