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451 | Throwback - He Fights Your Battles and Wins · 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, 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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  Those who are not children of God have only flesh and their own strength on which to rely.
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  As a child of God, you have Almighty God to help you and also to fight your battles.
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  Regardless of what you are facing, you are not alone.
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  God is right there to help you and to fight all of your battles.
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  You just need to listen and obey.
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  Join us in this program, He Fights Your Battles and Wins, as Kim Miller of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries takes us through 2 Chronicles 32.8,
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  which says, With Him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God,
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  to help us and to fight our battles.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you.
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  We thank you for who you are, and Lord, we thank you for whose we are.
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  We're so thankful, Lord, that you sent your Son to die on the cross,
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  that you have given us life eternal, and that you watch over us and protect us each and every day.
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  We're thankful, dear Heavenly Father, that you have imputed your righteousness
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  in us and that you've made us part of your family.
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  And Lord, we're grateful to know that you supply our every need.
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  You will equip us to do all that you call us to do.
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  And that you are great and mighty.
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  Lord, that you've never lost a battle. And that we are always on your mind.
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  And Lord, I just ask that you would be with each one of us.
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  That we would learn to submit to your will in such a way that we desire it.
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  Lord that it doesn't seem hard and it doesn't seem
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  difficult for us to follow and Lord
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  that we would desire to do what you would have us to
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  do and that we would gain great pleasure in knowing that you walk with us and
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  talk with us and that you lead the way Lord I ask that you would help us to
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  learn to give to you those things that cause us stress Lord that we would lay
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  them at your feet realizing that the battle's not ours, but it belongs to you.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would each give us the heart of little David.
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  Lord, who knew that all that took and all that happened was because of who you are.
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  Lord, I pray that you would help us to be the person that you would have us to be.
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  And I pray that you would help us to realize that each and every battle belongs
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  to you, and that you and you alone are victorious.
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  In Jesus' name we pray.
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  Amen. I love this passage of scripture as you begin to look at it,
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  because what you see is Hezekiah, a great man of God, is showing you his faith.
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  And what he's showing you is that when the king of Assyria had come and entered
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  into judah he had camped around the cities and he was going to win them for
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  himself and so when hezekiah saw that he had come he was purposed to fight and,
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  And what he did then was he gathered much of the people together and he stopped
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  up all the fountains in the brook that ran through the midst of the land.
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  And he also strengthened himself and built up all the wall that was broken and
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  raised it up to the towers.
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  And he repaired all of it in the city of David and made darts and shields in abundance.
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  So he used the intelligence that God had given him to secure the things that he was to take care of.
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  And I believe today that God gives us each a sense of knowledge to know right from wrong.
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  And so we know things we should be doing and we know things we shouldn't be doing.
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  And we should be taking care of those things that we know that we should take care of.
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  And a lot of times that in itself will
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  take care of problems that come our way but sometimes
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  it takes more and what he said was
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  he said captains of war over the people and he
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  gathered them together in the street of the gate of the city and he
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  spoke comfortably to them and in
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  my mind what that means is hezekiah spoke from
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  experience he spoke from authority and
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  he spoke with true confidence and listen to
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  what he said he said be strong
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  and courageous be not
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  afraid nor dismayed and then he tells them why he says for this king of assyria
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  nor all that the multitude that is with him because there's going to be more
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  with us than with him because he says with him is an arm of flesh,
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  but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.
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  And the verse continues to say, and the people rested themselves upon the words
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  of Hezekiah, king of Judah.
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  Now I want you to think about what he said. He said, be courageous and not dismayed.
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  He said, be not afraid. And basically, he said, because they're going to come
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  at you with only the flesh.
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  But I am telling you that we have greater with us than all that they have put together.
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  For we will fight with the Lord with us.
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  You see, our battles are not just ours.
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  If we are following after the king of kings and the lord of lords and the great.
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  I am the things which we fight.
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  Are the things that he has gone before us and laid out the battle plan.
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  And they're not our battles, but they're his.
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  With just a few little pebbles and a slingshot, little David went out to face the big giant.
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  And he did so with pure confidence because he said, the battle's not mine, it belongs to the Lord.
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  And he only used one
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  stone you see when god
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  is with you you don't need anything else
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  he will supply your every need and
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  he will strengthen you and you'll be able to do all that
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  he asks you to do because he will make sure that
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  you do it in his strength but the moment you
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  step out and try to do it on
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  your own you're surely going to face defeat
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  but greater is he that is in you than
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  he that is in the world and you need to be the conduit through
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  which Christ flows and not
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  only will you find that you have victory in Jesus
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  but the world will see Jesus
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  in a new and real way they
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  may or may not come to know him as savior but
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  they will see that there is something different about you
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  because most people know your frailties and
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  your faults better than they will ever know the skills and talents that you
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  have and so when they see you doing great things they'll see the hand of god
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  upon you and it may be difficult for them to name it They may not claim it.
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  But they'll know there's something different about you than them if they don't know the Lord.
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  But so often we face our battles the very same way as those who don't know the Lord.
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  Hezekiah came to the people assuring them they needed to be courageous and not
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  dismayed because the power of the Lord would fight their battle.
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  Maybe you need reminded of that today. I know many times I must be reminded
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  that the battle's not mine. It belongs to the Lord.
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  And I must be reminded that my job is to follow after his will and his way.
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  My job is to be the godly example in the battle that I'm fighting.
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  My job is to clothe myself in his righteousness and in his way.
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  And I need to walk in his footsteps.
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  And I need to polish my lamp within me so that his light shines brightly.
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  And let come what may. with the confidence of these individuals who followed the words of Hezekiah.
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  It says the people rested themselves on it. They believed in it.
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  There was a peace that came over them.
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  They were no longer fretting. They were not afraid.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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  Do you rest upon that promise that God loves you?
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  That God never sleeps nor slumbers?
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  That he wants only those things for you that are good? That he has a plan for
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  you to prosper you, to give you a hope and an expected end?
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  Do you rest upon his promise that he will see you through? Do you claim his
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  promises and take him at his word that he'll take your burden and make yours light?
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  Are you living the life of the victorious soldier of Christ who isn't weary
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  in well-doing but draws a little closer?
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  The Bible says draw nigh unto him and he will draw nigh unto you.
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  Rest upon his promises. Rest in his loving arms.
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  Don't try to figure it out on your own. Just pray and open up your heart and
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  your mind and let him speak to you through his scripture and through what he lays on your heart.
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  Don't spend all of your prayer time spouting out words, giving out demands, laying out requests.
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  But there needs to be some time
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  in your prayer time where
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  you are quiet but you're still fixated
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  on the throne of God and on Jesus the king of kings and you allow him to speak
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  to your heart and your mind to whisper sweet peace to you Jesus loves us this we know God will help us.
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  And he'll fight our battles. You're not alone, regardless of what you're facing.
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  Don't try to take the lead and step out in front, but confidently follow where he leads.
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  Be a true follower of Christ who embraces his word, who seeks his face,
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  who longs for his voice, who follows his ways.
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  That battle you're facing, he's already won it.
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  Just follow behind to get the victory.
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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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