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361 | Throwback - Oh, My Stars and Mars · 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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  Think about the splendor of the heavens. Think of all the light that stars give off.
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  Think of the distance they span. Think of all of the galaxies, planets, and moons.
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  The very hand that holds yours created all of these. With the entire splendor
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  and the honor each of these gives him, it is so hard to imagine why he visits with man.
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  The God who created the universe and who spoke life into existence visits with you.
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  Join us in this program, O My Stars and Mars,
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  as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through Psalm 8-4,
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  which says, When I consider thy heavens and the work of thy fingers,
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  the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
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  what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And perhaps one of my very favorite verses in all of the scriptures is Psalms
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  8, 4, that says, What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man?
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  That thou visitest him. I like the title of this message, Oh,
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  my stars and Mars, because I think that every time I step out the door and I
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  see the lights of heaven, the stars,
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  the moon, all of those things that are in the heavens, it reminds me that one
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  day I'm going to a place whose builder and maker is God.
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  I'm going to a place where there's never any darkness and where he is the light.
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  I'm going to a place that has promised me to a home that he is building me.
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  I'm going to a home that is built especially for me.
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  He says, in my father's house are many mansions, and if it were not so, I would have told you.
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  I go to prepare a place for you. I love that.
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  He has provided so much for me, and I am blessed beyond my deserving for sure.
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  And words would fail me to articulate how much he's blessed me.
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  But I know that the best is still yet to come. And when I step out every night
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  and see the stars and see the moon, I believe in my heart that he created that for me.
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  And I know he created that for all of us, but I believe he's that person.
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  I believe that I have light at night so that I can see the maneuver,
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  so that I can go about what it is he wants me to do.
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  I believe that I have light out there so that I can be reminded that that's
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  my father's and that he's still there.
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  You see, we have earthly minds and we're frail people and easily deceived.
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  And every time I see the stars and I see the moon,
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  which is a reflection of the sun, I know he's still there so even on a day that
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  I might have a little doubt in my heart or I might just not be all that I should be,
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  I'm reminded he is I love the consistency of God I love knowing that I can trust
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  in him when I see the stars.
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  I know of all the galaxies and the planets that
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  he's made and I'm reminded of all
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  that he's keeping under control and my heart leaps with joy and I pray there's
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  never a time that I look out and see the stars that my heart doesn't leap with
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  joy I want to be mindful of the fact.
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  Of who he is. I want to be mindful of the fact of how big he is,
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  yet how he chooses to live in me.
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  I want to be mindful of the fact of the privilege it is to call him father.
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  I want to be mindful of the fact that I am so important to him that he visits with me.
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  When I bow my head in prayer and I render my heart to him in full assurance that he is there,
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  I am entertaining royalty.
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  I can't even articulate the greatness of that experience.
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  I wish I was a songwriter. I could try to put into words the feelings in my
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  heart but God has given a few great songwriters that ability.
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  When we read this verse in Psalm chapter 8 you can't help but think of how great
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  thou art when I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the
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  stars which thou hast ordained,
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  all of that created for our enjoyment to provide what we need by a God who loved
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  us so much that he gave his only begotten son,
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  who chooses to talk to me,
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  who knocks on my heart's door wanting to spend time with me,
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  who loves me beyond measure for whose I am and for the very person I can be in him,
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  not for anything else.
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  He loved me before i even knew him it's
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  interesting we can get i don't
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  know in this day and time there are twitters and there
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  are instagrams and there's facebook and people that you'll never see face to.
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  Face can can somehow communicate with you a little bit and we get so excited
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  if someone follows us on our little twitter account or if somebody will retweet
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  something that we write and they're a celebrity or something.
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  And that gives us great joy, myself included. I mean, we'll just wait around
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  for somebody to do that, maybe.
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  And yet, we often let go
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  out of our heart and mind without any significant gratefulness at all the fact
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  that the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords will speak to us anytime we're willing to speak to Him.
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  We don't get a busy signal. He doesn't ignore us.
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  Nothing but keeping us the apple of his eye, of answering our prayers if we
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  don't have iniquity in our heart,
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  of leading us and guiding us on a journey that he has preplanned and that he
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  knows is best to give us a life of abundance in him, of joy and peace.
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  He will supply our every need. when you
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  think about what it means to
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  pray what you are
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  tapping into when you
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  open your heart to the lord and ask
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  him to help you when you realize that all
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  of heaven is at your disposal when
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  you crawl up into the arms of the lord and
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  you surrender your life to him and you
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  allow him to lead you and guide you when you get that
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  full understanding you'll be like
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  the psalmist david and say who am i that you would do that and jesus will gently
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  pull you to him because the bible says if you draw an eye unto him he'll draw
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  an eye unto you and he will hold you tightly and he'll begin to tell you who you are.
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  You're the apple of his eye.
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  You're the one he died for. You're who he created in his image.
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  You're who he pursues with an everlasting love.
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  You're who he's building a mansion for if you've given your heart to him.
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  You are the one he's supplying your every need.
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  You're the one, he says, come unto me. You're the one, he says, call unto me.
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  And I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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  Every day we have the opportunity to buckle our lives up with the Holy Spirit,
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  to walk in the footsteps of Christ.
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  To take the journey he has planned for us, to prosper us and give us a hope and an expected end.
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  And to witness him and all he does every day.
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  And to travel this journey of life with the guide who knows the way.
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  But not as one who is far away from him or one that is just a generic follower.
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  But one who can stand beside of him, asking our questions along the way,
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  loving on him as he loves on us, having a true relationship with the king of
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  kings, with the savior of the universe, with the one who loves us.
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  That's an amazing blessing.
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  Who am I? I am a child of the Most High God, and I don't know why he would choose to visit with me.
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  I don't know why he's so patient with me other than he is God.
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  But he chose a long time ago to devote his life for me and you.
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  And he didn't quit when he rose from the dead.
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  He placed the Holy Spirit in every believer that we would be forever connected to him.
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  Oh, my stars and Mars, how much I love him.
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  But I will never even be able to love him a drop in the bucket like he loves me and you.
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  But today, I can stand in full assurance that Jesus loves me,
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  this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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  And I can stand in full assurance that he walks with me and he talks with me
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  and he leads me along the way.
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  He's a friend that sticketh closer than a brother and he loves you and oh how
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  he loves me and oh how he loves you and me.
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