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395 | Throwback - He Knows All · 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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  God knows all things. Nothing is hid from Him, nor is anything too difficult for His understanding.
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  He has no new thoughts because He knows everything.
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  There are no mysteries or surprises with God.
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  There are no coincidences. He isn't confused by anything, and He isn't at the
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  mercy of chance, anyone, or anything.
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  He is God, and He is in control. Join us in this program, He Knows All,
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  as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through Daniel 2.22,
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  which says, He revealeth the deep and secret things.
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  He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with Him.
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  Hello, and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And for many, this verse can be very frightening because somehow or another,
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  you think that you're keeping that hidden sin from God.
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  Your closest family member doesn't know about it.
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  Your co-workers have no idea about it. Your friends don't know it.
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  And you think you've done a good job of keeping whatever that secret sin is
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  away from God. But that is just a lie of the devil.
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  Because I imagine that if you are that person who is harboring what you think
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  is that secret sin, that you live with a fear that at some point it's going to come out.
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  You're concerned that when your friends do find out about it,
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  that they're going to forsake you.
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  And that if your family members would ever know about it, you'd be ashamed and
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  you would be frightened.
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  You see, basically what you have done is you've deceived yourself and you've
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  allowed the devil now to have a very huge weapon against you.
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  Because he constantly is bringing it to your mind.
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  He's constantly beating you up with it.
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  He's not telling you that if we confess our sins, that God is faithful and just
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  to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  He's not saying that with every temptation, God has given us a way of escape.
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  He's not saying that in the midst of the absolute darkness around you,
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  that if you call upon the name of the Lord, he will save you.
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  He's not telling you that God doesn't expect you to be perfect,
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  but God expects you to love him, to follow him, and to depend on him.
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  And I promise you that the power of God and the love of God is greater than
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  any sin you may be harboring.
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  And so if you're listening to this message right now and you feel that you're
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  hiding something, I want you to know that your worst nightmare has just come true.
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  Really, you're not hiding it.
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  God already knows. If you'll just let your mind go to John chapter four,
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  where Jesus is sitting on the well and the woman comes to him and she comes
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  in a time when she doesn't think there'll be anybody there because she's got
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  a secret she doesn't want anyone to know about.
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  And she's living a life that she feels others are judging her. I no doubt they are.
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  And so when she comes to the well, she has a conversation with Jesus.
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  And Jesus tells her about the man she's living with and how he is not her husband.
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  And he doesn't tell her that to condemn her.
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  But he speaks that to her to let her know, I know who you are.
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  And I love you anyway.
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  I know who you are. And I still have come to where you are.
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  That you may have the opportunity to come to where I am. Did you hear me?
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  If you're listening to this message right now.
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  And you're harboring something within your heart and mind.
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  That you feel would just end all things if the world found out about it.
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  Or if those around you, I want you to know they probably know,
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  but Jesus knows and he's meeting you right where you are right now that you may come to where he is.
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  And all he asks is that you confess and to take up your cross and follow him.
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  There are some who are reading this verse and they're in the midst of a trial
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  or storm and you're trying to find the comfort that your heart so longingly wants.
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  And as we read that he says he revealeth the deep and secret things,
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  he know what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth in him.
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  We see right there that you might be in the midst of the storm,
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  but he knows all about it.
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  And you may not be able to see your way about, but he not only can see your
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  way about and out, he is the way.
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  In John chapter 14, he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  And no man cometh unto the Father but by me. He is the way.
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  He knows the way. That darkness that you're sitting in right now because of
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  some event or something that has happened in your life. Maybe you're having a financial crisis.
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  Maybe you're having a relationship crisis.
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  Maybe you're just having a crisis of faith.
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  Whatever it is in that dark moment right there, he is the light and he is shining
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  on you if you but reach out and ask.
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  How do I know that? When Peter was in the boat and he looked out across the
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  sea, he looked and he saw a figure out there.
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  And he said lord if that be you bid me
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  come and jesus said come so
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  in the midst of that dark storm in the midst of that trouble.
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  In the midst of that problem jesus was already there
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  and peter couldn't recognize him though he had walked and
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  talked with him and so when he says come
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  peter walks as he keeps his eye on jesus and
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  then suddenly there is some sort of realization to look around and get his eyes
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  off of jesus and he falls into the deep now i would like to look at this verse
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  for a moment and i would like you to realize he says he revealeth the deep and secret things,
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  and he knoweth what's in the darkness now in the midst of a storm in the nights.
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  As Peter falls into a deep sea, I would have to submit to you that there was
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  nothing but darkness there.
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  And I highly doubt that Peter could see anything. And I guess he was topsy-turvy in those waves.
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  He didn't know up from down, left from right, and he couldn't probably see his
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  fingers in front of his face.
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  But when he goes down he reaches
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  his arms up and he says lord save me
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  as he bobs up on the way in the midst of the dark but jesus was there and he
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  was the light and he could see jesus for who jesus was and the scripture says
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  that immediately he reached down and he picked him up and he safely brought him to the boat.
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  I don't know what your darkness is right now, but I know where your light is.
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  And your light is in Jesus.
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  And your light is standing in front of you, showing you the way to him,
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  that you might grasp onto his truth.
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  And you might have a relationship with him that
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  will give you that peace and that joy that
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  your heart is longing for and then
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  as i read this verse in daniel it
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  says he revealeth the deep and secret things it reminds me of what the holy
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  spirit does in me as i begin to study the word in second timothy 2 15 it says
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  to study to show thyself approved a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly
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  dividing the word of truth,
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  the scripture tells me that I am to study and
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  just like you as I begin to read sometimes I
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  seem to be confused sometimes it's hard to get it all together but I stop instantaneously
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  and I begin to pray to the Lord to help me understand what I've just read and
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  there's a clarity that comes to my mind.
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  And the Lord begins to reveal to me what we would have me to know in that passage.
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  And then there are those moments when I've read the same passage literally hundreds of times in my life.
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  But at that very moment, something from that passage jumps off the page and
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  grasps my heart and changes my life.
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  Because at that moment and at that time, that's what I needed to hear to be
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  able to understand who God is.
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  To be able to know who he is and to
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  be able to believe in him just as he implores
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  me to do in Isaiah 43.10 when
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  he calls me his witness and he tells me that I'm
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  his servant who is chosen that I may know and believe and to understand that
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  I am he before me there was no God formed neither shall there be after me he
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  knows it all and he's willing to let me know it that I might live the abundant
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  life that he came that I might have.
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  And when I see this in Daniel chapter 2, verse 22,
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  my heart leaps with joy because I know and I am persuaded that I trust in the
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  God that he will never fail.
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  And I am persuaded that that which I have committed unto him,
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  he'll keep until that day.
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  And if I go through the darkness, he's my best friend. He'll never leave me
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  nor forsake me and he will reveal the light and he will put me back on the right path.
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  And when I don't understand his ways, he'll speak to me because he says,
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  call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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  And when I'm lonely, he covers me with his love because greater love hath no
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  man than this than a man would lay down his life for his friends.
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  He knows it all and he knows me.
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  He knows it all and he allows me to know him.
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  He knows my good parts, my bad parts, and all the parts in between. And he still died for me.
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  He knows my failings, and he knows my shortcomings, and he knows the things that I can do.
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  And he did it all for me.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. It's a promise that I can stand on.
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  And he reveals to me those things that I need to know.
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  The things that I don't understand when I look through eyes of faith, it's all okay.
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  For all things work together for the good to them that love the Lord and are
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  called according to its purpose.
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