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397 | Throwback - It’s Not What You See · 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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  There is more to God than what appears on the surface.
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  Man is always trying to figure out God.
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  God spoke of the futility of these efforts. He said that he had a source and
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  a strength that people did not know.
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  You too have substance that is not easily understood or quickly recognized by the casual observer.
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  You have the unseen power of the Almighty God.
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  Join us in this program, It's Not What You See, as Kim Miller of Woman at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through John 4.32, which says, But he said unto them,
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  I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I love this concept and this thought.
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  Of it's not what you see my dad used
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  to sing a song about treasures unseen it's not
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  what you see that makes me a king I have treasures unseen was a line out of
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  that song and I was always fascinated by the fact that people will look at you
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  and conclude all these things about you many of which may not even be remotely true.
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  And oftentimes, if we have meager affair here on earth, and we're not like running
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  with high society, somehow people will think we have less treasure than what we really do.
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  Because as a Christian, and especially as we mature in Christ.
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  We learn that the true treasures in life have very little to do with material possessions.
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  In fact, what you begin to learn is that the more material possessions that you have,
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  the more they take your time, the more they cause you to worry,
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  and the more they remove you oftentimes from God.
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  Because you're always busy caring for those things and maintaining those things
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  and making sure that you have the next best thing that you often don't have
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  time to serve and to worship and to pray.
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  Then there's also the aspect that once
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  we start somehow surrounding ourselves with
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  all these material things that we often don't
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  rely on the Lord anymore and that is a false hope
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  and a sure recipe for disaster
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  that many of us find ourselves in but
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  this particular verse is about Jesus talking to his disciples and he's talking
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  about that he has meat that they don't know anything of and when we think of
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  meat what we think of is something that has life-sustaining.
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  Properties that it is something that will nourish us
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  something that is high in protein high in the
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  things that we need and that will give us strength and energy
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  and so what he's telling the disciples in this
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  passage of scripture is that he
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  has meat to eat that they don't know of he has
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  a strength that they have no concept of he has
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  a resource that they can't see he
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  has what he needs regardless of what
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  it looks like around him and as christians we have
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  that same promise and we live in that
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  same certainty that we have what
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  we need most of us even have our
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  wants but we have what we need and
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  we have all these amazing blessings even if
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  you the casual observer can't see
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  it and in this passage of scripture his disciples ask him master eat you know
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  they think he needs the stuff of the world the stuff that they need to to sustain
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  him and he says no i have meat that you don't know of.
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  And that's when we start to realize that what really sustains us,
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  what really gives us what we need is the spiritual gifts that God gives us in peace,
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  in tranquility, in the blessings and power and strength found in walking in his will.
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  Have you ever noticed that there are just some people that never get rattled
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  with the circumstances around them?
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  And you kind of try to figure out what is it about them that is different?
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  You know, what magic potion do they have that allows them to ride above the
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  stress and to always be victorious?
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  And as christians what we
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  understand is is it's not a magic potion it is
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  the grace and goodness of god that they're living
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  in it's that total dependence on
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  who christ is it's that ability to
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  understand who he is and
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  who he is in your life and what
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  that means for you on a day-to-day basis many of
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  the christians today find themselves
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  thinking about christ as fire
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  insurance and what i mean is they think of it when i die i'm
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  going to go to heaven i won't go to hell and that is very true if
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  we have christ as our savior he has redeemed us
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  but christ is so much more as
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  a savior for us than just fire insurance
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  from hell he saves us from the
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  day-to-day trials and troubles that
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  we have we might go through them but they
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  don't affect us in a negative way in fact
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  if we are walking in the will of God and he's allowed
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  something to be in our lives then that is something that is going to draw us.
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  Closer to him that or is going to bring glory to him or somehow Al's going to
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  do both of those things because he has our best interests at heart and his plan is perfect.
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  And that individual that you know or see that is always riding on the top of
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  the waves is someone who fully understands and grasps what it means to know
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  Christ in a personal way.
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  And they truly have these blessings and this resource, this peace and this tranquility
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  that the world has no idea what you're talking about.
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  That's that meat that you have as a Christian that you don't that others don't know about.
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  And that comes from a a true dedicated heart to love the Lord.
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  A heart that is completely consumed.
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  By the love that they have for christ and as
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  christians we can find ourselves in that
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  situation of loving christ with our whole
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  heart our whole soul our whole mind and our whole being
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  as he commands us to do if we just
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  spend time with him spend time
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  in prayer letting him talk to us letting
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  him steal us letting him calm our hearts
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  reading his words so we can see
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  his power and his glory and realize that
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  no good thing does he withhold to them that love the lord to
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  see his power and glory so that in this topsy-turvy
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  world that we live in we fully understand that
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  god is in control we can have
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  peace and we can pillow our head at night and realize
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  that everything's going to be okay because somebody
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  greater than us the person with whom we
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  trust our life the person that we know is
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  capable and willing to protect us who
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  lives to make intercession for
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  us who gives us his entire being not
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  just once on the cross of calvary that every.
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  Single day that we might have the life that he
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  has planned for us we understand who
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  he is in such a way that we have complete trust
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  in him following willingly
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  after his ways that's what it
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  means to have meat that the
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  world just doesn't know anything about that's the
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  difference between a person who is
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  walking in the will of god and someone outside
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  the will of god because they'll feel that conviction
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  to get right that's the difference between
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  somebody who's walking in the will of god and someone
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  who has not repented of their sins and received the free gift of salvation they're
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  living on their own merit and they're trying to sustain themselves and they're
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  trying to satisfy that void inside of themselves that only Christ can fulfill.
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  And they're eating just the meat that you can see. Everything about them is on the surface.
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  But when you see a child of God who has a dedicated walk.
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  Who has complete faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
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  You see a strength inside of them that's hard to understand.
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  But if you delve into that strength, you'll see that it's not their strength.
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  It's not about what they can do for themselves.
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  It's not about what they have accomplished. But it is solely and wholly about
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  what God has accomplished in them.
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  What God can do through them, what God empowers them with and how he strengthens
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  them and how he supplies their every need and how he walks with them and how he talks with them.
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  This is like this amazing resource that absolutely never fails and absolutely never runs out.
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  That's what it means when you say it's not what you see.
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  It's who lives in me and our
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  life should be one such lived in such a
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  way that that the light of god shines
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  about us in such a way that people
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  are inquisitive as to what makes us happy
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  in trouble as to what gives us peace in
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  turmoil as to how it is that even
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  if it doesn't look like things you're going to work out it always does
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  because god's promise that all things work together
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  for the good to them that love the lord to them that are
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  called according to his purpose will always prevail
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  because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world and so when
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  you look at me you may see a frail fallible person and you may think i have little to no talent and.
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  But it's not what you see that makes me a king, that makes me an heir to the
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  throne of God, that makes me part of the family of God.
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  It's what God has done in me, the cleansing of my heart, the purification of my heart,
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  the washing away of my sins, the empowering of me with the Holy Spirit inside of me,
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  the forgiveness that he bestows upon me daily, the love that he envelops me
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  with, the joy that he brings in my heart.
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  It's not the things you see that makes me wealthy.
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  It's Jesus living in me that makes me rich.
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