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424 | Throwback - Perfect in Him · 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, 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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  You are never alone. You are loved beyond measure.
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  You are never under-equipped to do the job he has for you.
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  There is no one else who can do your calling as well as you can.
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  You are never alone because God is in you. You are loved beyond measure because
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  Jesus loves you the same way God loved him.
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  Join us in this program, Perfect in Him.
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  As Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through John 17,
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  23, which says, I in
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  them and thou in me that they may be made
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  perfect in love and that the world may know
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  thou has sent me and has loved them as
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  thou hast loved me hello and welcome
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  to this broadcast of woman at the well ministries and I love the entire chapter
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  of John chapter 17 and I love so much this verse as he says I in them and thou
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  in me and that's Christ speaking and he's telling us that he dwells in us.
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  And we know that he dwells in us in the form of the Holy Spirit.
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  But I want you just to take a second to absorb the fact that he,
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  the King of kings and the Lord of lords, has chosen to dwell in you.
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  And then he says, and I in thee, or thou in me.
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  So what he's saying is, I dwell in them, and in me who is dwelling them, you are in me.
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  So in us is Jesus Christ.
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  And God, and the Holy Spirit, because he's in us.
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  God is in him, and the Holy Spirit indwells us, and he's that third part of the Holy Trinity.
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  It's so amazing to me, as I try to grasp that concept, that I truly am never
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  alone, because he dwells in me.
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  The Bible tells us in Hebrews that he will never leave us nor forsake us.
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  And what a promise that is.
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  And how easy to understand and believe that when we understand this scripture
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  right here, that he's in us. And thou's in him.
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  And the Holy Spirit dwells in us to teach us and to comfort us and to lead us and guide us.
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  We are truly never alone.
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  And the world will oftentimes try to
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  bring you down and one of the things i
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  believe the devil uses so successfully is that
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  you you get in your mind and your heart this work
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  for the lord that the lord has placed in you and you're
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  fired up about it and you've gone about
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  all the work and preparation that the lord has
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  placed on you to do and you get ready to step out and do it and
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  some person oftentimes a christian
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  will say something to you that
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  causes you to doubt whether or not
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  you're doing the right thing and you
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  don't need that from a fellow believer you don't
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  need that from a sinner because the devil spends a
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  lot of time trying to tell you that you can't do
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  what God has asked you to do but let me tell you
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  you need to understand that you will
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  never be under equipped to do the
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  job that God has called you to do because he
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  is with you he's leading you he's guiding
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  you and trust me he is leading the
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  way that you can follow it's kind of like when you're trying to go through a
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  trail and you have a god who is clearing the path so that those branches and
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  those briars and those things that could cause you trouble and snag you and
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  cause you obstacles and cause you trouble are being pushed aside and you're going through clearly.
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  Because God,
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  is making a way for you just like that
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  guide is making a way in the trail you see
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  the devil starts to make you think about
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  what you can do and just like
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  me there's not a lot we can do but with jesus in me and god in jesus and the
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  holy spirit comforting and teaching and guiding me and bringing to remembrance
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  those things that i have need of when i have need of them With that,
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  I cannot fail because he's never going to lead me where he isn't going to give me what I need.
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  And so it's not about what I can do. It's about what God can do.
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  And we know that God cannot fail.
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  We know that God cannot lie. And he said that he would supply all of our needs
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  according to his riches and glory.
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  He said that we could do all things through him which strengtheneth us.
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  He said he would never leave us.
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  He said that he is leading the way.
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  And so when we get that opportunity to do the service God has called us to do,
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  we must remember that it's not us doing it.
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  We're just a conduit through which we allow Christ to flow.
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  And Jesus will do the work. And when you think you can't do it,
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  what you're saying is, God can't do it through me.
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  And that is an
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  important thought because either one
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  you doubt the ability of god or.
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  Two you're doubting your relationship with
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  him because if all is well between you
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  and the lord and you are willing to trust and obey
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  and you're willing to do what he says
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  then you have to know that the work he
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  does in you will be right and successful and great
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  you can't fail when you're following christ
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  because he cannot lead you where
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  he doesn't equip you and he cannot lead you to failure so failure is not an
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  option when you let christ lead the way now the situation could be that you
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  fall you know into a category where you've just decided something you want to do.
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  And you haven't consulted with the lord and it isn't what the lord wants for
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  you to do in that case it's not god leading so it's not god equipping it's you
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  out on your own and again when we're on our own we have very little to work with.
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  But when we're walking with Christ, following after his will for our life,
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  we have everything we need.
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  And we have a clear assurance that he will see us through the end.
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  In fact, that which I have committed unto him, he will keep against that day.
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  I know in whom I am believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which
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  I have committed unto him against that day.
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  I know that. and the scriptures prove it.
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  And so when you begin to step out and you begin to do the work of the Lord and
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  you begin to walk in his ways, you need to realize you are perfect in him.
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  You're perfectly qualified to do what he asked you to do because the King of
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  Kings and the Lord of Lords has chosen you specifically for that task.
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  And not one individual in this entire world could do the task he's called you
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  to do better than you can do it because it's been picked out by nail-scarred
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  hands specifically as your assignment.
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  And so we need to have the faith that allows us to trust in an almighty God
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  that will not fail and to realize that it's not about us.
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  That's what you have to get through your head.
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  The work He's asking you to do, the help He's asking you to do,
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  the talk He's asking you to give, the walk He's laid out before you isn't about
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  you, it's about what He can do through you.
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  So we as Christians need to spend much more time just getting ourselves ready
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  to listen to the Lord, building that relationship by reading His scriptures, by praying with Him,
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  by meditating on His word, and by understanding that God loves us and that God
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  has a plan for us and that God isn't this great big mysterious thing that lives way up there,
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  but he is real and he's a person who
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  indwells in our hearts and he has a plan for us and he seeks a relationship
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  with us and he knocks at our heart's door asking us to answer and to let him
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  in and to sup with him that he may be able to give us the knowledge and the
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  wisdom that comes straight from God and that could only come from him,
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  that we might be shining lights to a dark world.
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  Giving the world a glimpse of who Christ is and what he can do through us.
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  Because our life is dedicated to following him.
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  The Bible says that it's I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect
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  in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and has loved them as thou hast loved me.
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  He loves us the way that God loved him. And he says that we have an opportunity.
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  As Christians, following after an almighty God, availing ourselves to allow
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  him to use us in his service as he sees fit.
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  It may have nothing to do with your plans, but just trust the Lord when he tells
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  you to go and go, and trust the Lord when he says stop and stop,
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  and trust the Lord when you open your mouth to speak, to give you the words that you need to say.
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  Trust him to equip you, because in
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  him you are perfect and he loves you the
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  way that god loved him and he wants us
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  to show the world that he is real
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  so that the world would understand that god
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  sent him his only begotten son into this world that whosoever should believe
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  in him should not perish but have everlasting life we are here to be a light
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  to a dark world we are here that others might see Christ in us.
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  We are here with the sole purpose of letting others know that God loves them.
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  Jesus loved them. Jesus died for them and that God loves them and he loves you
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  the way that God loved him and that he's come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  That's all we are to do. And if we give ourselves over to him to work in his
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  world, the way he says to work and allow him to infiltrate our minds and to fill our hearts,
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  and we pray and his word is on our hearts and our lips all the time,
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  then we will be an instrument that he uses that others may see Christ for who he is.
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  You weren't here to be great and successful in this world, and you weren't here to be rich.
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  But you are here that others would see Jesus in your walk and in your talk In
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  all that you do, Jesus loves you.
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  Does the world know Jesus through you?
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  Music.
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  quotes from today's podcast and scripture references.
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  Thank you to the Gospel Group Fudge Creek for letting us use their hit song, Happy Girl.
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  We greatly appreciate your prayers. We are praying daily for our listeners.
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  Remember that God loves you.
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  Music.