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393 | Throwback - Faith Through the Fire · 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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  There is no greater feeling for a teacher, a friend, or mentor than to see someone
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  they have influenced take their teachings and incorporate them into their own life.
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  Join us in this program, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, as Kim Miller of
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  Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through Philemon 1.5, which says,
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  Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, I pray that you would
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  open our hearts and our minds over the next few minutes to hear what you would have us to hear.
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  I pray to Heavenly Father that you would give us the courage and the strength
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  to be the lights in this world that you've called us to be.
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  I pray to Heavenly Father that you would give us eyes to see those that you've
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  placed in our life around about us that have shown us the way.
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  That's shown us who you were. That we've been able to feel your touch and to
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  hear your words in amazing ways that come to life because they have taken the
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  time to tell us who you are and to show us how it is to know you in a personal way.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would help each of us to take your word to heart,
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  to put it in our hearts, to put it in our minds, to let it transform our lives
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  in such a way that when others see us, they see you.
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  Teach us to study, to understand what it is the word would have us to know,
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  to incorporate it in our lives and in our daily routines.
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  And Lord, help our lives to be a testimony of your grace and your mercy and your love.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that when people see us, they see your scriptures
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  unfolded in such a way that it would lead them to you.
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  I thank you, Lord, for those you've given me who show me you,
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  for those who poured their hearts into my life,
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  for those who could see a vision of a life lived for you and could translate
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  that vision in something I could see,
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  something I could follow, that I might be a child of the Most High God and reap
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  the blessings and the benefits of living a life filled with your presence.
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  In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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  It says, hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus
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  and toward all the saints.
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  When someone hears your name, what comes to their mind?
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  When you walk into a room, what happens to the mood?
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  Are you the person who can walk into a room and every eye turned back around,
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  because they want to hear what you have to say?
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  Because they remember the last time that you were there, you had something encouraging to say.
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  They remembered the last time that you were there and they were having a problem,
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  and they were struggling and they were in trouble, that you didn't have any
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  words of your own to say, but you could open up your little Bible that you kept
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  with you and you could read some word out of the Holy Scriptures,
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  that would lighten their hearts and lift their burden.
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  And then you could just kneel down beside them and tell them that you don't
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  have any idea what you could possibly
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  say or do to lighten the situation they're in. But you know who can.
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  And you know him so well that you'd
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  like to take this opportunity to go
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  to his throne as his child
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  and request his presence in the situation to ask him to speak his heart to us
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  that we might know that he is there and we might understand the decisions that we are to make.
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  Are you that person who walking through Walmart Start, see somebody that you
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  know you need to pray with, and you'll just stop.
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  Not to be seen, not like a Pharisee, but quietly get in a corner and begin to
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  intercede on behalf of that person.
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  We all know people who have shown us Jesus.
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  I pray that you go to a good Bible-believing church and that you have an opportunity
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  to be fed by the Word of God,
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  by your pastor and that they are able
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  to rightly divide the word of
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  truth in a way that just keeps you fed all week as you
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  study on your own but you hear the
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  word of God at church and that
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  person's pouring out their week of study into you and I pray that when you see
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  that person you're grateful for the time in service that they spend that they
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  might be able to stand in front of you on Sundays and Wednesdays to tell you
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  something that the Lord has told them.
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  But I also hope you have some memories like I have, where you can walk in a room.
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  And you can hear a faint little voice calling out to the Lord.
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  It's faint because her voice was kind of soft anyway.
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  But she had been praying for God only knows how long. So her voice was tired.
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  But her faith wasn't.
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  And call out the names and need of those around her.
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  When I see this verse hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the
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  Lord Jesus and toward all saints,
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  I am reminded of one of the most precious memories I have in one of the most
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  difficult times of my life we had taken my mom to the hospital and it was clear
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  that we were in the very last stages.
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  It was also pretty clear that she wasn't going to be talking to us much more,
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  She was in the emergency room and people were scurrying around and they were
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  trying desperately to figure out how to relieve some of her pain and she was hurting.
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  You know, in the hospital emergency rooms, they have those curtains that separate
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  the beds, the little rooms.
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  I was there with my mom and Erica was there and some family and they brought
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  in a person in the little section beside of us on the other side of that curtain.
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  And that woman began to cry out an enormous amount of pain. And she was clearly hurting.
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  The last words I heard my mother say was a prayer for a woman's face she never
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  saw, a name she never knew, but a need she heard.
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  And she prayed with great earnest that God would touch that woman.
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  I never heard my mother pray that day for herself.
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  I only heard her pray for her family and that woman.
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  When I see the words, hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward
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  the Lord Jesus and toward all saints, that's the picture I see.
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  That's what we need to be. We need to be the person that when they hear our
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  name, it brings peace to their hearts.
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  Not because we are great, but because we know the one who is.
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  It's never about what you know. It's about who you know when it's Jesus.
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  I have been able to do things that I had no earthly knowledge of how to do.
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  But in the time that he called and in the moment that he required,
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  I was given exactly what I needed to do the job he called me to do.
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  But it requires a loving faith.
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  And you better not wait till the moment he calls you to decide to get that faith.
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  And to get that knowledge of the scriptures.
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  And to have that relationship.
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  You need to walk and talk with him. Just as the songwriter says,
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  I come to the garden alone.
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  It's great to pray with your friends. It's great to pray with your family,
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  and I encourage all of you to pray in front of your children.
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  Let them have that memory I have of a praying mother and father.
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  Let them have that memory that when something is not right, it's the first place
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  you go, the second place you go, and the last place you go.
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  Let them have that memory of hearing you pray so that they know exactly what
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  to do in those circumstances, and they know exactly how to get a hold of the Lord Jesus.
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  I implore you to have a relationship with him that is so real that he really is your best friend.
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  He says there's not a friend that will stick closer than him.
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  And he says he stands at your door and he knocks.
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  And he says that you can come boldly to his throne. And he asks you to pray without ceasing.
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  You get it? From Genesis, the revelations, he's begging you to let him be everything
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  for you and in you and with you.
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  That's what he wants that's what
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  he's asking for and that's what he provides.
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  You've got to get understanding that
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  his relationship with you is real and it doesn't happen just on sundays and
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  wednesdays or in the house of god those are great places but it happens wherever
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  you are in your car in your bedroom in your home in your kitchen in your yard
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  at the pool anywhere that you might be on the tennis courts,
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  at the football field, at the gas station, at the bank.
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  He is there with you, and he's talking to you if you'll just listen.
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  It is my prayer that when you hear the scripture,
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  hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and toward all saints,
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  that somebody in this world sees your face because you have made a difference
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  in what they understand to be a true relationship with Jesus Christ.
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  Music.
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