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Episode 39 – Letting Peace Govern Our Lives · Women At The Well: REJOICE

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  SPEAKER_00: Grand Rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grand Rising, sisters.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the day which the Lord had made.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will rejoice and be glad in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalms 118.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, I'm Rose, your host.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is Women at the Well Rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am so glad you joined me this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being here at the Well.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have been learning about perfect peace and trusting God in every season this month.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, excuse me, we are going to discuss letting peace govern our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: When something governs, it has authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: It guides our choices, directs our responses, and influences our actions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what is governing your heart today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it fear, anger, worry, or confusion?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are you allowing the peace of Christ to rule?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, sisters, get your Bibles, your coffee, your tea, your juice, your lemon water, or whatever your morning drink may be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And come sit at the well with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's learn how to allow God's peace to govern our hearts, our minds, words, and our decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's have prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, we come before you this morning and we thank you for your loving kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for always being with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: For being our joy, our peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just for being our salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: For being the one that loves us, the one that sees us, the one that keeps us.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you for your compassion and for your mercy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, this morning as we come to you, we're asking that you help us to learn to take over our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to let your peace take over our hearts and minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to let our decisions be based on your peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And thank you for joining us here at the well this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name we pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is governing your heart?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now only you can answer the question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever is governing you at this moment, I want you to think about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it producing peace within you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or is it producing fear, anger, confusion, and unrest?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is governing your heart?
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  SPEAKER_00: In Colossians 3.15, it instructs us and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this verse gives us two important instructions.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, let the peace of God rule in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So notice the word let.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we must allow that peace to govern our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must choose not to let fear make our decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anger control our words, our confusion direct our peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, the peace of God should serve us as the deciding voice within us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what does it look like to follow the peace of God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Romans 14, 19 in the King James Version says, Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
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  SPEAKER_00: So following the peace requires, again, a deliberate action.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have the word let and the deliberate action.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must intentionally pursue the things that create peace and build up other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: To edify someone means to encourage, to strengthen, and help that person grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Thessalonians 5.11 gives us similar instructions.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another, even as also ye do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, when God's peace governs our life, it will affect how we treat other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our words should not tear others down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our attitudes should not create unnecessary confusion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, we should become women who encourage, comfort, strengthen, and build up one another.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second instruction in Colossians 3, 15 is, be ye thankful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thankfulness helps redirect our attention from everything we lack towards the ways God has already blessed us.
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  SPEAKER_00: This does not mean that we pretend our disappointments do not hurt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that disappointment will not have the final word in our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's look at disappointment and let's revisit the story of Leah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her story can be found in Genesis 29:30.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leah was Jacob's first wife, but Jacob loved Rachel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leah knew what it felt like to be unwanted and overlooked.
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  SPEAKER_00: As she gave birth to her first three sons, her words revealed her longing for Jacob's affection.
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  SPEAKER_00: She hoped that having children would finally cause Jacob to love her and become attached to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there was a change.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Leah gave birth to her fourth son, something changed in her words.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Genesis 29, 35, it says, and she conceived again and bare a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, Now will I praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore she called his name Judah and left bearing.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, previously, Leah's words focused on what she wanted from Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_00: But with Judah, her words turned towards God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I will praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scripture does not tell us whether Leah's pain immediately disappeared, but it does show us an important shift in her focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her circumstances had not necessarily changed because Jacob really still loved Rachel.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Leah chose to be thankful.
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  SPEAKER_00: She chose to praise God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, just like Leah, sometimes we search for peace in all the wrong places.
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  SPEAKER_00: We look for another person to validate us, choose us, recognize us, or make us feel complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: But see, no human being can permanently provide what only God can give.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like Leah, we can shift our attention from the person who has disappointed us to the God who has never abandoned us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise may not immediately change our situation, but it can change what governs our hearts while we are walking through it.
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  SPEAKER_00: James 3.18 says, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace is compared to the environment in which righteous fruit is planted and cultivated.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, just as seeds need suitable soil in order to grow, spiritual fruit thrives when we create an atmosphere of peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: If our lives are continually filled with envy, malice, destructive speech, bitterness, and unnecessary conflict, peace will struggle to thrive.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when we pursue holiness, practice forgiveness, encourage others, and live in a way that pleases God, we create room for peaceful and righteous fruit to grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, Matthew 5.9 says, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus did not say blessed are the peace wishers.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Blessed are the peacemakers.
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  SPEAKER_00: A peacemaker again takes action.
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  SPEAKER_00: She watches her words, refuses to feed unnecessary conflict, seeks reconciliation when possible, and carries the character of God into difficult situations.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, sister, my prayer is that God's peace will govern your thoughts, guide your decisions, control your responses, and rule within your heart today.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is my want for you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, let's take a moment to rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, we praise him because he gives us peace in the middle of the storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gives us peace when chaos surrounds us and confusion tries to enter our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can rejoice because our peace does not depend on perfect circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our peace comes from a perfect God.
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  SPEAKER_00: He stands our hearts, watch our feelings, and reminds us that we belong to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you for the peace that only you can give.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for going to our hearts and governing our hearts and stand beside us for every season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you for your word and for the peace that only you can give.
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  SPEAKER_00: God thank our hearts and reveal anything that is governing us and place in your peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remove fear, anger, jealousy, bitterness, worry, unforgiveness, unforputation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to bring the every trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: And difficult nature was continuous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, let your peace, growing up, government, God's speech in the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: And control and spot, we can put some like feedback.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to watch you, your thank you for all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for God in the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And stand with us in everything today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We surrender our lives to you and choose to let your peace govern us today and always.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the mighty name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, remember, this water is living, and this well will never run dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: May God's peace be with you all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be blessed and keep rejoicing.