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452 | Meeting Your Needs · 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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  Your Heavenly Father is so in tune with your day-to-day activities,
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  wants, and needs that He knows exactly what you need before you even ask Him.
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  This is comforting and so reassuring.
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  He is ready, willing, and able to help you before you even ask.
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  God does not need you to tell Him anything. He wants you to tell Him things.
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  He wants you to put your trust in Him.
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  He wants you to communicate with Him and to have a relationship based on trust,
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  respect, and mutual affection.
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  Join us in this program, Meeting Your Needs, as Kim Miller of Women at the Well
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  Ministries takes us through Matthew 6-8, which says, Be not therefore like unto
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  them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And it's an interesting thing when we look at Matthew chapter 6.
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  And he gives this warning that we're not to pray as the heathen do with these
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  vain repetitions because they think that the more they speak,
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  that the better they'll be heard.
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  And what it kind of gives us this impression is that you need to have confidence in the Lord.
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  The Lord knows what you need.
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  He knows all about you. And for the child of God, that should be incredibly comforting.
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  But he wants you to come to him, showing that you have faith that he will provide your need.
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  He wants you to ask him because he's a gentleman. He's not going to impose himself on you.
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  That's why there's people who go to hell. Because God doesn't want any to perish,
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  but he wishes that all should come to repentance.
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  And so he doesn't impose himself on anyone. He shows himself to everyone.
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  He reveals who he is to every single soul on the earth, and he reaches out to them.
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  Yet many choose to reject him. He still blesses them with sunshine and rain.
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  He still provides for them in many ways. But when it comes to salvation,
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  he requires we choose him.
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  He requires that we love him.
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  And in this passage of Scripture, he's saying it's not about you.
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  It's not about the person praying.
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  It's about to whom we pray to. Now, it is true that the psalmist David tells
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  us that God will not hear any prayers that we pray with iniquity in our heart.
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  And that in itself is about us.
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  It's about our standing with him. He will hear all prayers of repentance.
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  But as a child of God we need to live a life that is in right standing you know it's kind of like,
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  when you were a child and you just disobeyed your parents you didn't ask them
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  for the newest gift you wanted not at that moment you kind of went up to them
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  usually hugged them especially if you're a girl and it was your dad and you'd
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  crawl on his lap and you would tell him how wonderful he was and how much you
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  loved him and you'd bat your little eyes.
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  And the next thing you knew, you had him wrapped around your fingers and you
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  would get what you wanted.
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  Well, we can't deceive the Lord, but we also can't be asking for his blessings,
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  when we're not living in a place where we can receive the blessings.
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  You see, the Lord has blessings for each and every one of us,
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  but we've got to be where they are.
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  And that means we need to live the life he's asking us to live that he can bless us.
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  Another way of looking at it is when the woman at the well came to the well,
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  she came with an empty water pot because she wanted it filled.
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  When we come to Jesus, we need to come with a clean heart that is empty of the
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  evil, sinful, vile things of the world, that he might fill it with his glory and his grace,
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  his mercy and his love.
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  We need to have something to receive the blessings.
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  And those simple illustrations help us to understand a little bit more about
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  what these heathenistic publicans, probably, were doing when they prayed.
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  They weren't praising the Lord and coming to the Lord for his guidance and coming
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  to the Lord for his blessings and coming to the Lord for him to help them.
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  They were standing there praying so that people would think they were holy and they were good.
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  The center of their prayer was not Jesus Christ, but the center of their prayer was themselves.
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  It's not about you. it's about
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  him none of us can come to him
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  deserving the blessings that he gives but
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  every single child of god is bid to come to the throne of grace that we might
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  obtain help and mercy in time of need that we can ask him and we'll receive.
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  Seek and we shall find knock and it'll be opened unto us.
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  But it's because we come seeking a holy God. And he said, be holy for I am holy.
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  And we look at this scripture. He says that he knows the things we have need of before we ask.
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  He's waiting to bless us with the things we have need of.
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  The Bible says he supplies our every need.
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  The Bible says we can do all things through Christ which strengthens us.
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  The Bible says that every good and perfect gift cometh down from the father
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  of lights the bible says that he wants to bless us he's just waiting for the
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  invitation and he's waiting for us to submit to his mighty hand.
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  And he will exalt us in due time.
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  Every need that you have, he's not searching for.
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  He's waiting to give to you.
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  Sometimes we wait because he needs to teach us something.
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  We need to grow in some area that would make us more of what he wants us to
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  be, which in turn makes us more of what we can be.
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  Sometimes we wait because somebody else needs to grow.
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  And somehow, someway, by watching you glorify him going through this trial,
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  going through this issue, being in this state of needing his help,
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  that is going to strengthen them.
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  Sometimes we wait so
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  that we can be the blessing remember lazarus
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  died and his sisters were devastated in fact his one sister says had jesus when
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  jesus comes had you been here he would not have died.
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  The absolute audacity to look at Jesus and pretty much admonish him for being
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  what she thought was a little late.
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  Oh, but before you judge, think of the times that you too have done that.
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  Lord, if you'd just show up. Lord, if you'd just be here, I know you could do this.
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  We trust in his ability, but we're not trusting his timing. We're not trusting in his sovereignty.
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  That, my dear friend, is a big mistake.
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  But Jesus, just in time, he speaks to Lazarus, and Lazarus raises from the dead.
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  And at that moment, Mary and Martha and all around received the greater blessing,
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  for plenty of people had been healed, but no one had been raised from the dead.
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  But the greater blessing often awaits those who are willing to wait upon the
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  Lord, and he renews their strength, and they will rise up as eagles.
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  They'll fly over the problem.
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  But it requires trusting his sovereignty. I've so often was guilty as a child,
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  and I think sometimes still am, of saying, I know the Lord can do this. My mom was very sick.
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  And I used to say all the time, I have no doubt.
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  That the Lord can heal her. I just don't know if he will.
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  And what a statement that truly was of my faith. I believed he was an almighty God.
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  I believed he was all powerful.
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  Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I don't think there's a thing God can do,
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  can't do, except I know he can't fail.
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  But what I was lacking in my face was trusting his wisdom to do the right thing.
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  You see, I wanted her healed.
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  And many times he came through with that very thing. And her witness would light
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  up the hall of hospital after hospital.
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  But one day, her healing wasn't here. It was with him.
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  And he was just as right that day as he had been any other day.
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  I was old enough to understand that true faith in God is believing not only
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  that he can, but that he does.
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  You see, he can make the situation right, and he does make the situation and right.
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  It doesn't matter whether I think it's right or is what I would have chosen or not.
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  But true faith in understanding that he meets your every need is realizing who
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  God is and believing that he's right in all of his ways.
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  That requires true faith in Jesus Christ and relieving yourself of any contribution to the outcome.
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  You see, the publicans prayed out loud so that people would think they were holy.
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  They were placing something about themselves.
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  But the true child of God who wants to see action, who wants to see the power
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  of God unveiled, seeks his face to find his will to praise his actions.
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  Jesus loves me, and he meets my every need.
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  quotes from today's podcast and scripture references.
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  Thank you to the Gospel Group Fudge Creek for letting us use their hit song, Happy Girl.
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