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325 | Throwback - Witnessing to the People · 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 and 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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  Today you are following the footsteps of some great people of God.
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  You are walking in faith and spreading the message of Jesus to all who will listen.
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  You are telling of the things you have heard and seen God do for you.
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  You have a powerful message to give, and with each word you speak,
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  lives are being changed.
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  When you get tired today and perhaps even a little frustrated,
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  think of those who have gone before you doing the same things.
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  Join us in this program, Witnessing to the People, as Kim Miller of Women at
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  the Well Ministries takes us through Acts 22.15,
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  which says, For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And what an absolute pleasure it is to talk about how we're his witnesses.
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  It's interesting to me to hear people's stories. I love stories.
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  I love to tell stories. I love to hear stories.
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  I'm fascinated by a great storyteller.
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  And I love it when people stand up in my church and just start talking about
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  how God has touched their lives.
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  Lives because it doesn't take long until
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  I can see what he's done for others he's done
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  for me too and the scripture says that what
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  he's done for others he'll do for you too and he tells
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  us that he's the same yesterday today and forevermore and
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  so you may come into a situation where you're feeling kind of down and glum
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  and somebody begins to tell you about how God has come into their life just
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  at the nick of time and transformed them and changed the situation and made
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  everything the way it needed to be.
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  And you're thinking to yourself, wow, God is at work in their life.
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  But if you take Take just a second.
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  And start to reflect upon your own life, what you begin to see that God is at work in your life too.
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  And you can see similar situations, or maybe it's not a similar situation,
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  but the fact that God had his hand of protection on them, you know,
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  in times past where God has had his hand of protection on you.
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  And so many people are changed from skeptics to believers verse simply by hearing
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  what God has done in someone else's life.
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  You see, sometimes it's hard for individuals to read the scripture and be able
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  to apply it to their own life if they don't know the Lord,
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  because it's the Holy Spirit within us that teaches us and guides us and comforts us.
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  And it's the Holy Spirit within us who helps us to understand what God would
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  have us to understand. And if you're without Christ, you don't have the Holy
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  Spirit in you to teach you that.
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  But the Holy Spirit will still draw you and woo you.
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  And when people of God begin to speak about what God is doing in their lives
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  and how God has changed who they are into who they should be,
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  and they begin to speak about the miracles of God now and present,
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  isn't not just what they thought happened thousands of years ago or what happened
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  in grandpa and great-grandma's lifetime,
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  but what's happening right now.
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  Those are the stories, and I call them stories, but they're really just accounts
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  of life events that are powerful to all who hear.
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  It stirs something within us, and for believers, it helps us remember Remember
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  what God has done for us and for unbelievers.
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  It helps them to see how God has become real.
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  And he's not just this being that you read about. He's not just another character in a great book.
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  But he's a real life, hands-on, watch out for you now, supply your every need,
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  keep you comforted, take care of you, listen to you, God, right now.
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  You see, that's the difference between the God we serve and the God's little
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  G-O-D-S that others serve.
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  Our God is alive and he's well and he springs within our hearts and he springs within our souls.
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  And he is not dead
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  and he's not death to our
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  prayers he hears us and
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  he answers us and jesus ever lives to make intercession for us you can go to
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  the graves of muhammad and buddha you can find bones there but you're not going
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  to find bones at the tomb where jesus lay.
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  For Jesus was crucified, buried, but he rose again.
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  And he went to prepare a place for us that where he is, we might be awesome.
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  But he left behind the Holy Spirit to lead us and to guide us and to comfort us and to show us.
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  And he left us with the job here on earth to be witnesses of him.
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  Have you ever thought about the company that you're in?
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  I'm not talking about where you work or even the band of friends or circle of friends you have.
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  I'm talking about Peter, who, though he denied Christ in his heart of hearts, he really loved him.
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  And so he was eager to run into the tomb to see the place where Jesus lay.
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  But he wasn't there because he had risen again. Have you thought about you'll
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  be there with Lazarus, whose testimony was, I was dead, but now I'm alive.
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  You don't think that didn't turn some heads?
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  I know many a people here on this earth who can have a conversation with somebody
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  and tell them they were dead, but now they're alive.
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  And I don't mean that they were physically dead. I'm talking about spiritually dead.
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  For many people they don't come to know the lord
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  until later on in life and there's
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  a lot of years that happen between birth and salvation and they realize that
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  the wages of sin is death and they'll tell you stories about how they live to
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  the flesh and how they live to themselves and how it destroyed relationships
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  and friendships and that their life was meaningless and without purpose and void,
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  until that day that they received the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  They'll tell you they were dead and now they're alive because Jesus quickens
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  us when he comes to live in our hearts.
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  There's plenty of stories that each of you have, and some of you are sitting on those stories.
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  And you might tell a select few, but you're not telling a collective body of people.
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  You know, the Bible says that if we are ashamed of him, he'll be ashamed of us.
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  Yes it's interesting to me the church that
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  i go to often will ask does anybody
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  have a word for the lord and many times hardly
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  anyone or if anyone at all will stand and say anything myself included but there's
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  a couple of people who will stand up and they will say every opportunity they
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  have they just want to thank the lord for saving their soul and what's interesting
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  to me is how people receive that.
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  Some people think, well, they're just wasting time. They haven't said anything. That's not true.
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  Anytime that you can give God the glory, you've done something wonderful for him.
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  And I wonder to myself, why is it that I don't stand up?
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  Well, I can rationalize in my mind. Well, I have an opportunity to talk to lots
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  of people and the work that I do for the Lord allows me to be on the radio and
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  people like you listen to me and I just don't want to take up the time in the
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  church that other people don't have that opportunity.
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  Well, we all know that that's probably just a lame excuse.
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  There is no one in the world that God has done more for than he's done for me.
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  And each one of us can say that very same thing.
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  For the impact that God has in our life is so dramatic that we can't even imagine
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  how someone else's life could have been more impacted.
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  Because all of us were lost, but now we're found. Those of us who put our trust in Christ.
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  And he's given us the charge to be
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  the witness to the people to let them see
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  him in us we're supposed
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  to be a witness unto all men of what we've seen and heard i'm telling you there
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  is nothing more precious than sitting with a group of saints it's got a little
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  bit of age on them than going to church for quite some time and to listen to
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  them talk about how the scriptures come to life for them.
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  Just the other day, I was driving to church and my mind was on something completely different.
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  And I really believe that the devil truly goes about seeking whom he may devour,
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  just like a roaring lion, like the Bible says.
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  And I think that we can let the world get ourselves a little bit downhearted
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  and maybe focused on something other than that.
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  And I was actually driving to church and I'm not sure exactly what happened.
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  I just know that in a split second, Second, I looked up and I was driving through
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  the middle of a curve and there was this huge mungus SUV with what seemed like
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  to be just inches from the front of my car.
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  And it was like the Lord just lifted my car and moved it.
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  I don't know how I got in the middle of the curve and I don't know how I got
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  out of the curve, but I do know I wasn't hit.
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  And I know it was because the Lord spared me because a head-on collision anything
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  over 30 40 miles an hour I surely would have probably died or been incredibly hurt.
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  But the Lord spared me of that, and he spared that other individual of that.
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  That is because I know that in my heart, and I need to tell that so that others
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  know that the Lord is that interested in your life. He's that interested in what you're doing.
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  He's that interested in the things that affect you.
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  You have to believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
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  seek him and all the things that he does in your life.
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  You need to be looking for them. We call them God sightings,
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  and you need to be telling other people about them,
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  and you need to talk to them about the things you've heard and the things you've
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  seen and how God has just swept through your life and allowed you to witness
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  him firsthand doing his job in your life and the life of others.
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  It's important that we give God the glory. It's important that we recognize
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  his presence in our life.
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  It's important that we speak to others
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  about his presence in our life it's incredibly
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  important that we allow god to
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  shine through us and that we seek him in all things and in all ways and then
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  when god comes through and delivers as he always does that we give him the glory
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  and we tell others so that they too can understand that god is real and he is
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  ever at work in the life of his children.
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