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Ep. 24: Overlooked By People, But God Sees You · Women At The Well: REJOICE

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SPEAKER_00: Grand rising this morning to all my sisters.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Women at the World.
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SPEAKER_00: Rejoice.
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SPEAKER_00: I am Rose, and I am honored you chose to take the time out of your day to sit at the well with me.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, this morning, we're gonna walk through trials.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna walk through how we feel about ourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: So no matter what season you are walking through right now, I want you to remember that God loves you, God has chosen you, and God has equipped you.
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever felt like you are fighting a quiet, invisible war inside your own heart and nobody notices?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever felt like you were doing all the hard work behind the scenes and nobody notices?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever felt invisible?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, sisters, no matter how hidden your life feels right now, your Heavenly Father sees every tear and every sacrifice.
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SPEAKER_00: Today our theme is overlooked by people, God sees you.
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SPEAKER_00: We are looking at the story of Rebecca, who felt a literal war inside her womb while pregnant.
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SPEAKER_00: No one around her understood her pain.
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SPEAKER_00: But when she cried out, God met her, saw her, and gave her an answer.
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SPEAKER_00: So get your coffee, the tea, our lemon water, and let's dive into this truth together.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, we come before you this morning and we thank you for another day.
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SPEAKER_00: We thank you for waking us up this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: We thank you for being the Almighty Creator, putting it all together, and we thank you that you see each and every one of us in this big world.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, today, as we sit at the well, give us understanding.
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SPEAKER_00: Let us know that you do see us in the midst of tears, in the midst of strife, in the midst of disappointments.
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SPEAKER_00: God, you still see us, you still hear us, and you still love us.
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SPEAKER_00: So, Father God, come on in and sup with us, and we thank you for your presence.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' almighty name, we pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, sisters.
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SPEAKER_00: Today we will look closely at three truths.
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SPEAKER_00: If you feel invisible, I want you to remember God sees your hidden babbles, he listens to your private crimes, and he is working a purpose out of the very things people overlook.
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SPEAKER_00: First, we're gonna look into Genesis 25 and see what the God who sees us has for us today.
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SPEAKER_00: Get your Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: So she went to inquire of the Lord, and the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your womb, two people from within you shall be divided, the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to go back up and look at this.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, So she went to inquire of the Lord, and the Lord said to her, Rebecca felt so much distress and confusion that she questioned her very existence, asking, Why is this happening to me?
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the hidden words we fight in our minds, marriages, or health make us feel completely broken.
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SPEAKER_00: We put on our makeup and we fix our hair.
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SPEAKER_00: We look completely fine to the outside world.
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SPEAKER_00: And we smile in church, but on the inside, we are crying out just like Rebecca.
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SPEAKER_00: Occasionally, we talk about it.
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SPEAKER_00: So, see, people might look at your life and think you are blessed and highly favored, and you are, but they are entirely overlooking the crushing weight you are carrying secret.
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SPEAKER_00: But God sees the depth of your despair and he does not turn away from your darkest questions.
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SPEAKER_00: I want you to notice that remember, keep this in mind.
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SPEAKER_00: She inquired of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: She went to the Lord with her problems.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, sisters, there is a specific intimate name for God that covers this exact moment.
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SPEAKER_00: If you look back earlier in Genesis in chapter 16, we meet Hagar.
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SPEAKER_00: She was a woman who was cast out, broken, and sitting entirely alone in a dark wilderness.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody cared about her, and nobody was looking for her.
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SPEAKER_00: But God met her by a spring of water.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go to Genesis 16, 13.
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SPEAKER_00: Hagar gives God a name.
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SPEAKER_00: She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her.
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SPEAKER_00: You are the God who sees me.
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SPEAKER_00: For she said, I have now seen the one who sees me.
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SPEAKER_00: In Hebrew, she called him Elrod, the God who sees me.
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SPEAKER_00: Hagar didn't meet Elrod in a crowded sanctuary or a place of honor or in a circle of friends.
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SPEAKER_00: She met him in her absolute isolation.
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SPEAKER_00: Rebecca did not get her answer in a bustling marketplace.
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SPEAKER_00: She didn't get it from Isaac.
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SPEAKER_00: She got it when she went alone to inquire of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: That's good.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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SPEAKER_00: When she went alone to inquire of the Lord, Hagar was isolated.
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SPEAKER_00: I need someone to hear this deep in their spirit today.
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SPEAKER_00: God is still airroy right now in your living room, in your kitchen, in your car, in your closet, in your bathroom, or in that quiet space where you cry, your private tears.
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SPEAKER_00: See, people may look right past your efforts, your pain, and your sacrifice, but Elroy looks at you.
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SPEAKER_00: He looks into you and he says, Daughter, daughter, I see you and you are not alone.
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SPEAKER_00: Notice that Rebecca didn't go to her neighbors.
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SPEAKER_00: She didn't just complain to Isaac.
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SPEAKER_00: She went to inquire of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: This is so important.
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SPEAKER_00: And God did not dismiss her.
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SPEAKER_00: He didn't dismiss her feelings.
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SPEAKER_00: He heard her.
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SPEAKER_00: He didn't tell her that she was being too dramatic.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead, he met her right there in her isolation and answered her directly.
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SPEAKER_00: He didn't send somebody to say, Tell my daughter Rebecca.
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SPEAKER_00: He answered, Rebecca.
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SPEAKER_00: And sisters, we see this exact same beautiful, compassionate character of God when we look at Jesus in the New Testament.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus never ignored the invisible.
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SPEAKER_00: She touched his garment.
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SPEAKER_00: He felt that.
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SPEAKER_00: Only God can see.
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SPEAKER_00: Only God can see us with that kind of deep restorative intimacy.
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SPEAKER_00: And only God can restore you to fullness.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, our God is not a distant God.
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SPEAKER_00: He is Elroy, the God who sees us.
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SPEAKER_00: If he did it for Rebecca in the quiet distress of her tent, and if he did it for Hagar when she was completely abandoned in the wilderness, if he did it for the woman that touched his role, he will surely do it for you today.
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SPEAKER_00: Let this sail into your heart as we close our study this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: You are noticed.
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SPEAKER_00: You are known.
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SPEAKER_00: And no matter how dark or how quiet the battle gets, you are never walking through this war alone.
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SPEAKER_00: Give God praise for being the God who sees you.
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SPEAKER_00: He sees you, He loves you, He's chosen you, He's equipped you.
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SPEAKER_00: Whew, it's a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on, sister.
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SPEAKER_00: Let us just take a moment right now to lift our hand and God.
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SPEAKER_00: We're fighting over.
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SPEAKER_00: And you are smiling on a invisible world.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, for seeing us and taking care of us.
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SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, everyone.
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SPEAKER_00: We thank you that you are you are the God who sees us.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, that we never have to walk through this life feeling invisible or hidden.
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SPEAKER_00: Because your eyes are always upon us and your heart is always turned towards a cry.
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SPEAKER_00: You hear us.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, I lift up every sister listening today who has been fighting a quiet, lonely war inside her own heart.
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SPEAKER_00: For the sister who feels unappreciated, overlooked, or that is completely exhausted by the weight she is secretly carrying.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray that right now your Holy Spirit would wrap her in comfort.
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SPEAKER_00: Let her feel your divine assurance that she is fully known and deeply loved by the Creator of the universe.
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SPEAKER_00: Wash away every feeling of isolation.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, speak peace into her distress, just like you did for Rebecca.
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SPEAKER_00: Meet her in her dry wilderness, just like you did for Hagar.
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SPEAKER_00: Restore her strength, fix what is broken, and remind her that she is your chosen, your daughter, an equipped daughter.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: As we go about the rest of our week, help us to see others the way you see us.
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SPEAKER_00: Help us to extend love to the overlooked, to the isolated, to the abandoned.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, we rest in your presence, knowing we are never walking alone.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, we just thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: In the mighty, matchless, and beautiful name of Jesus, we pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen and amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, it's time for us to leave the world.
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SPEAKER_00: But I ask that you go forth in confidence today.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, the world might look right at you, but the most high God in the world.
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SPEAKER_00: You are a dumb.
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SPEAKER_00: You are loved.
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SPEAKER_00: You are chosen.
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SPEAKER_00: You are a queen.
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SPEAKER_00: And no matter what you're going through, he's right there with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Until next time, stay blessed.
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SPEAKER_00: And stay rejoicing.
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SPEAKER_00: And keep coming to the whale.
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SPEAKER_00: And remember, this well, this well, it is living.
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SPEAKER_00: And it runs real deep.
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SPEAKER_00: Be blessed my sisters.