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316 | Throwback - A Walking Witness · 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 in 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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  There is a lot of truth to the saying, seeing is believing. You believe the
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  things your eyes behold.
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  You will believe it even if it seems impossible just as long as you have seen it.
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  It is natural for people to be looking around, especially at others.
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  This is why it is so important that you guard your witness at all times.
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  Somebody is watching. Join us in this program, A Walking Witness,
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  as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through Acts 3.9,
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  which says, and all the people saw him walking and praising God.
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  Hello, and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries.
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  Many of us are very much a creature of habit.
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  And so we have very similar routines and we see similar people all the time.
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  And we see the same people many times.
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  And our lives are filled with with opportunities for people to gaze upon us
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  and have no idea that we have no idea that they're doing that.
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  And so we become a walking witness every day because somewhere along the line,
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  somebody is watching you.
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  Somebody who's looking to see how you respond, how you behave,
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  and what's really important to you.
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  And when I think of that, it sometimes gives me chill bumps to realize that
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  I might be the only Bible that some people ever read and how I live my life
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  proclaiming Christ as my Savior.
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  My actions are going to be stronger witness of what I really believe in Christ
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  than my words will ever be.
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  And when I begin to think about my life as a whole, my words and my walk,
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  I want to know that I am pointing others to Christ.
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  I want them to see that he's a loving, caring God, that he forgives,
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  that he forgets our sins.
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  I want them to see that he is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  But I also want them to know that heaven is real and so is hell.
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  I want them to understand that a walk with Christ is beyond wonderful.
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  Words cannot explain the peace that passes all understanding and the joy unspeakable
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  that every child of God has when they have a close fellowship with Jesus.
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  Us but the truth of the matter is
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  for many of us our walk
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  get a little sketchy and the bible says
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  in first john 1 9 that if we confess our sins
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  he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
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  we know that we are in this world and that we have flesh but the lord has saved
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  us and he is dwelling inside of us and he has victory over the flesh And we
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  as Christians need to pray.
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  We need to live close to God.
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  We need to understand his promises and his words. We need to walk in his commandments
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  and we need to ask him to help us to defeat the flesh daily.
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  And greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
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  But as I began to think about this, and as we begin to talk about it now.
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  And we see that in Acts chapter 3, 9, it says that all the people saw him walking and praising God.
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  And as I begin to look at what is happening in this passage of scripture,
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  it brings to my remembrance how it is that we live our lives.
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  Why aren't we walking and praising God? Why isn't it that we aren't jubilantly
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  explaining who God is to everyone who we see?
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  Anyone who will listen. This individual had been lame since he was born.
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  And every day somebody would bring him to the gate beautiful.
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  And he would sit there and people would pass by.
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  And that's how he would get money with somebody to would just give him a little
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  here, a little there. He was a beggar from birth.
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  And one day, Peter and John came by.
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  And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, look on us.
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  And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
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  He expected them to do what everybody else had done.
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  But instead, Peter says, silver and gold have I none. But such as I give I thee
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  in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
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  Peter and John had within him the power of God.
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  And they were going to give this individual the one thing that would change his life forever.
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  And when he gets up and walks, what we see is he begins to praise God.
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  And everybody around him would see the change in him.
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  And he was thankful for what God had done for him.
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  Now, most likely, the largest percentage of the people listening to this message are just like me.
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  And they've not been lame from birth with a physical problem, not allowing us to walk.
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  But we have been crippled by sin. And we have lived a life that has caused us pain and misery.
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  And we were headed to a devil's hell.
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  We had no hope within us. There was nothing that we could possibly do to escape hell.
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  But then God sent his
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  only begotten son to die upon the cross of Calvary that through our belief in
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  him we would be able to escape hell and we would be able to inherit the riches.
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  Of God and we would have a life that would walk in companionship and fellowship
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  with the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  That's something to praise him about. out why
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  isn't it that we aren't telling everybody that
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  once i was lost but now i'm found once i
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  was going to a devil's hell but now i have a home not made with hands eternal
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  into the heavens and in my father's house are many mansions and if it were not
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  so i would have told you but i go to prepare a place for you that where i am
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  you may be also why aren't we telling the world about that
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  because unlike that man, we don't have a constant understanding of the depravity that we were in.
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  And some of us, it's been so long that we've been on this road.
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  To heaven. And we have. Sucked all of the blessings.
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  Every day that God gives us. And we've lived in the luxury of the love of Christ.
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  And the forgiveness of our sins.
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  We have laid on the bed of mercy.
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  For so long. That we've forgotten where we would be if it wasn't for Jesus.
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  That man in this scripture. Knew where he had been. All of his life.
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  Until a man named Jesus, through two disciples, came and touched him in such
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  a way that he was changed forever.
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  And he no longer had to depend on someone else to get him to a place where he
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  had to beg for his sustenance.
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  But no, he was transformed into
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  a man who could now live a life without being an outcast in the world.
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  And you and I, because of the blood of Jesus, we live as heirs to the King of Kings.
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  We're part of the family of God. God, we're no longer outcasts,
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  but we are engrafted by the blood of Jesus Christ into the holy of holies, into the family of God.
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  And our sins are remembered against us no more.
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  There's therefore now no more condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
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  We've got something to praise him about.
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  Our lips should sing his praises if our hearts would only humble themselves
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  to understand the gift of God that he's given us.
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  If we would just let ourselves understand the cost of our salvation and the depravity of our souls.
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  But then there was Jesus.
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  You see, I believe that every tongue shall confess. And every knee shall bow
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  that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  And I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you must be born again.
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  And I know that when you understand what God has done for you,
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  when you believe that you're going to want to praise him, but then the world
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  comes lapping in around your feet.
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  And then the trials of this life and the busyness, which I think is Satan's
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  greatest tool, will pull you away from that time of prayer.
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  The things that happen in your life will start to cloud your mind a little and
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  you've stopped praying as much as you did and you're not reading the word like
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  you should and you're not listening to the word of God being spoken to you and
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  the next thing you know, you're in some kind of worldly funk.
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  And you've forgotten who God is. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  For unto you was born this day in the city of David a Savior,
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  which is Christ the Lord.
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  He's the one who breathes life into you. He's the one who walks beside you.
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  He's the one who calms the storm.
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  He's the one who lays a table before you spread in the midst of your enemies.
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  He's the one who walks you by the
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  still waters he's the shepherd of your
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  life he's the one who will go
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  into the lion's den and make a little place for
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  you to rest where the rest of the world watches and you can say he is my god
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  you see the king that threw daniel into the lion's den he wasn't even worried
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  about daniel because daniel's life was such a living testimony of who god was
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  and the power of who God is,
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  that when he saw Daniel in the lion's den,
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  he said, that God whom thou servest, he will deliver you.
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  And sure enough, that God whom Daniel served, he delivered him.
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  And that God in whom you serve, he'll deliver you. And he's worth your praise.
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  He's worth your love. He's worth your attention.
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  And my goodness, he's worth your focus. Focus so that those that are living
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  beside you and around you in a lost and dying world can see that there's a difference
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  in you because Jesus lives in you and he has changed you.
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  You're no longer a vile sinner, but you're a saint working for Jesus and you've
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  got a home not made with hands.
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  You're looking for a city whose builder and maker is God and you want everybody
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  around you to come because Jesus is Lord.
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  That's the way to praise him.
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  Music.
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  Thank you for joining us in today's podcast. You can visit the show notes for
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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,
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  Happy Girl. We greatly appreciate your prayers.
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  We are praying daily for our listeners. Remember that God loves you.
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  Music.