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457 | Throwback - Resting in Him · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  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 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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  She's a happy girl Praise God's holy name. God promises us rest.
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  Yes, you must work sometimes, and sometimes you must work hard.
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  But remember that at the end, in His time, He offers you rest.
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  His rest is fabulous and complete.
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  When you are tired and weary, you can go to Him, crawl up in His lap,
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  and He will hold you and restore your strength.
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  There is perfect rest and peace found at the throne of God.
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  Rest is always near. It is only a prayer away.
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  Join us in this program, Resting in Him, as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well
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  Ministries takes us through Matthew 11, 28,
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  which says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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  Hello and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of woman at the well ministries
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  and i love how simple christ speaks he says come unto me all ye that labor and
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  are heavy laden and i will give you rest.
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  So often we make things very, very complicated,
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  especially things of the Bible, and you can get some Bible scholars and theologians
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  together, and they will wear you out on complicated matters.
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  When Christ clearly says, a little bit further up in this chapter,
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  that, I thank thee, O Father.
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  Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and
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  prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. What is he saying there?
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  He speaks so that even the youngest and the least knowledgeable among us can understand.
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  And what he's doing is he's saying, you need to focus and concentrate on me and my words.
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  It's not about what man will construe me to have said.
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  It's not about all the complications that people will put in and try to begin
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  to make something so hard that the average person can't understand because they're
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  trying to put themselves in it.
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  They're trying to contribute their effort, to contribute their knowledge,
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  to contribute what it is, their energy.
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  And they're trying to have some part of what God has said when the reality of
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  it is God said it and I believe it.
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  And he spoke it simply.
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  And in this particular passage, he goes on to say that all things were delivered to him by the Father.
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  And no man knoweth the Son but the Father.
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  And then he says, But the Father neither knoweth any man the Father,
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  save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
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  The father and the son know each other.
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  And when we are grafted into the family of God through the blood of Jesus Christ,
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  when we accept him and become his children, we are part of the family of God.
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  And he reveals himself to each and every one of us.
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  And it has nothing, absolutely, positively nothing to do with us or our skills
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  or our abilities or our knowledge or our efforts or our work.
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  It is a free gift that God gives to everyone who believes.
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  And it's his grace that enables us to be part of the family of God.
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  And when he speaks to us he speaks as a father who speaks to his child and I
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  don't care how old you are.
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  When you are a child speaking to your parent, they're always speaking to you
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  in love, respect, and in some way to teach you something.
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  And they want you to understand their words.
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  And a parent will speak to a child in a way they can understand.
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  And Jesus speaks to his children in a way that they can understand regardless
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  of their stature in life, regardless of their education, regardless of their intellect,
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  regardless of their wealth, regardless of their socioeconomic state
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  he speaks to them in a way they can
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  understand and he speaks to each and every one of us through that personal relationship
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  that we have with him and he simply says what we need to hear and he gives us
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  all the information that we need to live a successful effective,
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  and abundant life in him.
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  And many of us are plagued by the stress of everyday life.
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  Many of us take burdens upon ourselves that really aren't ours to bear.
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  And though we do need to bear one another's burden, sometimes we create a burden out of nothing.
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  But he says, regardless of
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  your burden whether it's real whether it's
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  one you've created whether it's a mistake that you've
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  made that's resulted in something that is bearing heavily on
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  you he says to bring
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  it to him and he
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  will give you rest he says to
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  take his yoke upon you and to
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  learn of him when you yoke up with something
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  you you have this harness and part of it is on in those days it would have been.
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  The oxen and then on his partner in labor would have been the other part of
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  it and when they pulled they pulled together so that no one was bearing the load,
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  When we yoke up with Jesus,
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  he doesn't do it that way.
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  He says that you take his yoke and he'll take yours.
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  And his yoke is easy for he is omnipotent and all powerful.
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  And he'll come alongside you regardless of where you've been or what you've done.
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  I submit to you, the woman at the well in John chapter 4 comes to the Lord.
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  He knows exactly what she's done. In fact, he tells her that he knows and he
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  tells her not to condemn her, but to let her know, hey, I know all about you
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  and I love you anyway. And he delivers to her her every need.
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  And he says, go back and tell everybody.
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  She had lived in adultery and was currently living in adultery.
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  She was a natural enemy of a Jew.
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  But Jesus loved her as much as he loved anyone else.
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  And so he'll come alongside you. But look at what he says. He says,
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  you got to take his yokes.
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  You got to take him at his word. You've got to believe in him.
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  And he says to learn of him, you need to understand who he is through the precious word of God.
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  The Bible says that the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
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  He is the living word. and he's
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  given us Genesis to revelations that we may
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  know him and that we may know that we
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  have eternal life and we're able to know the person of Jesus by reading his
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  words and the accounts of his life as we come to pray and we pray with him and
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  we pray to him and we listen to what he has to say we have a real,
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  honest, distinct, personal relationship with the King of kings and the Lord of lords and our Savior.
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  Not because of us, but because of him.
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  And he says, when you learn of me, you'll understand the promises.
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  You'll understand that he said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
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  You'll understand that nothing can separate you from the love of God.
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  You'll understand that he'll supply your every need.
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  You'll understand that he will strengthen you to do that which he's called you to do.
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  You'll understand that he will provide where he leads. You understand that he
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  will guide where he leads.
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  You understand that he has a plan for you to prosper you and to give you a hope and an expected end.
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  You'll see that he'll go through the valley of the shadow of
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  death with you you'll see that he'll put his
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  arm of protection around you you'll see that he'll allow you to build your house
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  upon the solid rock of jesus so that you won't slip or slide as you begin to
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  learn of him your faith will grow as you begin to learn of him you'll find it
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  easy to accept his yoke and he says.
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  That he's meek and he's lowly in heart, and you'll find rest.
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  I wonder when he was speaking in that scripture, why he would choose to say, I am meek and I am lowly.
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  Because he's approachable.
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  Though he's all-powerful, though he's all-knowing, he really reaches out and
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  just wants you to feel comfortable with him.
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  It's so hard for me to understand that in the presence of such greatness, I can feel comfortable.
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  And I'm never more comfortable than I am when I am praying.
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  And when I begin to pray and I begin to understand that I am standing in front
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  of an almighty God who loves me,
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  when I realize that Jesus shed his blood for me and that he met my every need
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  before I even knew of him, and my greatest need he took care of while I still wasn't even born.
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  And then when I became born, he still loved me until I could even come to knowledge
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  of loving him and that nothing would separate me.
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  When I understand that I am praying in such presence of greatness.
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  It nearly overwhelms me.
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  But instantaneously, I am flooded with the joy of knowing I can be comfortable
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  there because he bids me come.
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  In Hebrews chapter 4, he clearly says, come boldly to the throne of grace that
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  you may obtain help and mercy in time of need.
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  I can come boldly, not because of who I am, but because of whose I am.
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  And I can take his yoke because he's never going to give me more than I can bear.
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  And he's going to bear the rest of it.
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  And he says, cast your care upon him for he careth for you. Let go of it, my friend.
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  Crawl up in his arms. Read his word.
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  Let the peace that passeth all understanding fill your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  Experience that joy unspeakable and full of glory as you learn of him and you
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  draw close to him and you just hand him your life, its goodness and its badness,
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  and you watch him wipe away your burdens,
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  wipe your tears and set you on solid ground, leading and guiding you to that
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  expected end where there are blessings of abundance.
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  Trust him today. He loves you.
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  This I know for the Bible tells me so. Thank you.
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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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