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313 | Throwback - He Knows Your Heart · 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
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  well in John chapter four.
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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 in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her 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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  When faced with a problem for which they knew no answer, Jesus' disciples prayed.
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  You too should pray when you are
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  faced with difficult decisions that need answered. But why should we pray?
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  The answer is because God knows the hearts of everyone.
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  Everyone he knows your needs your desires and
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  your motives join us in this program he
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  knows your heart as kim miller of woman at
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  the well ministries takes us through acts 124a which says and they prayed and
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  said thou lord which knowest the hearts of all men show hello and welcome to
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  this broadcast of woman at the well ministries let us pray our kind and most
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  gracious to heavenly Heavenly Father,
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  Lord, we thank you for the privilege it is to come before you.
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  We thank you, dear Heavenly Father, that because of who you are and the love
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  you have for us, you've written in your word those things that we would need to know.
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  And in your scriptures, you've told us, Lord, that if we would just pray in
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  believing that you would answer those prayers.
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  Lord, that you've told us in your word that you would supply our every need,
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  and you told us in your word, Lord, that you would give us all that you would require of us.
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  And Lord, I pray that you would be with us as we listen to your word.
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  And Lord, as you speak through me, that we might understand the privilege of
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  prayer, that we might understand the power of prayer.
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  Lord, that we might understand the need for prayer.
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  And Lord, I pray that you would speak to every heart, that you would move in.
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  Every mind, and that you would change every life, Lord.
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  That as we begin to pray from this point forward, we would pray very effectually,
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  Lord, and very effectively.
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  And Lord, that we would pray in belief, knowing that you will perform that which we ask.
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  Lord, I pray that you would teach us to keep our heart clean and our life in
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  the center of your will, that our prayers would be heard by you.
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  Increase our faith. In Jesus' name we pray, and amen.
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  I think so often as Christians, we read the Word of God,
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  and we look at the Word of God, and we try to apply the Word of God to our lives,
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  but I think sometimes we forget that we are just like the disciples.
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  Disciples we forget that they lived a life very similar to the ones that we
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  live and that they lived during their day and time they went out and they had
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  to make a living they had families they had desires they had to fight the flesh
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  like we do and i believe we forget.
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  That they didn't have the holy spirit
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  to indwell them that was with them constantly constantly, but we do.
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  Jesus lives in the heart of every believer in the form of the Holy Spirit who
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  comforts us, teaches us, leads us, and guides us if we but listen to that voice.
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  And I believe we forget when we begin to read the word and we see what others
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  have done that God has written those very words that you and I might know what
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  we need to do when we find ourselves selves in similar situations.
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  The disciples in this particular passage of scripture are faced with trying
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  to figure out how they're going to replace Judas, who has just betrayed the master.
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  And so they know this is a very important task.
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  They understand that the repercussions of getting the wrong person could cause them great trouble.
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  They've just seen what one of their very own could To do to the master.
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  And they need to get it right.
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  They understand. What is weighing. On this decision.
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  And what they decide to do. Is pray.
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  The scripture says. And they prayed. And then it goes a little further. To say thou.
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  Lord which knowest. The hearts of all.
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  Show. You see they were asking the Lord. To tell them.
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  Who it was they needed to choose to be the next disciple.
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  And they knew that the Lord could give them that information because he knew the hearts of all men.
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  They say that with such conviction.
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  Oh, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men. Show.
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  When we look at these disciples and how they prayed, what we see is,
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  first of all, when faced with the decision, they went to God for the answer.
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  What we see is that they had a full confidence that Jesus, their Lord,
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  had the answer they needed.
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  And so when they began to pray, they prayed with confidence.
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  And they prayed we'll see the
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  third thing expecting a result
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  and before we go any further
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  in this lesson i would like for you
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  to stop for a second and take a reflection upon your life and your practices
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  and what it is that you do when you're faced with a decision do you begin to
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  look Look within yourself and your own strength and your own might to find the answer.
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  And then you go off and you act.
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  Or are you like the disciples and the first hint of a decision,
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  the first start of an issue? You pray.
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  And you pray with such conviction because you know that the one to whom you
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  are praying, the one and only Jesus Christ, the son of the only living God,
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  is going to hear your prayer.
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  And not only that, that he and he alone is fully aware of what he needs to do
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  to provide you the results that he knows you need.
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  If you notice, they didn't say to him in this, Lord, is it this guy or is it that guy?
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  They say to them, the Lord, which knows the hearts of all men,
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  show whether of these two thou hast chosen.
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  Because they're looking for two individuals, but when they pray,
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  they're asking, is it these two people?
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  They need the Lord to tell them they have narrowed it down to two.
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  But it says, show whether of these two thou has chosen.
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  In my interpretation of this is they have probably prayed and they feel that
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  the Lord has given them the answer that it's one of these two people.
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  But when they go on in the scripture, they say, whether of these two.
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  Now, some people will interpret that as saying one or the other.
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  I interpret that as saying, is it one of these two people or is it someone else?
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  They are there seeking an honest answer from the one they know who can give it to them.
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  They have full confidence and they realize the repercussions and they say, Lord, show.
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  They're expecting the Lord to give them an information that will help them. They believe.
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  And the Lord shows them that it's Matthias. And he was numbered with the 11.
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  In this passage of scripture, I believe that they would have taken the Lord's word in their heart.
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  If it had not been one of the two. But I believe they'd done everything they
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  were supposed to do to get to that point.
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  And when the final decision was to be made, they understood when they cast the
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  lots, That's where it was going to fall was going to be who God had chosen.
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  And it was going to be one of the two.
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  My question to you is this.
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  Do you realize that you have the same privileges of those that you've read about in today's scripture?
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  You can come to the Lord every single time there is a decision and you can begin to let him lead you.
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  So that when the decision gets to the final part of the decision,
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  everything is lined up and he can tell you either or.
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  But yet you're still waiting in the back of your heart. If he would change the
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  plan completely, then you would go with that.
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  For you have a full assurance that Jesus is Lord and that he is capable,
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  not only of answering your prayer, but managing your life.
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  And creating for you that which he has planned.
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  It's a absolute faith. Because the Lord knows your heart.
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  And he knows the hearts of all those around you.
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  And he knows the intent of your heart. There may be tons of misunderstandings in your family.
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  There may be misunderstandings in your community.
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  There may be misunderstandings in your work. But.
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  But there won't be a misunderstanding between you and the Lord when you fully
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  surrender to him because he fully knows the intent of your heart.
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  You're not faking it with him. You're not hiding anything from him.
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  Come clean and ask him to forgive you.
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  Let him lead you every step of the way. He said, I know the plans that I have
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  for you to prosper you and to give you a hope.
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  He said that he would answer your prayers if you don't hide iniquity in your heart.
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  It's time that we come to the Lord in full surrender and we allow him to have reign of our life.
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  But it requires us to spend time in prayer.
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  And many of us are very guilty of not praying to the King of Kings or the Lord of Lords.
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  And when we just go through life trying to make decisions on our own,
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  and then we wonder why we end up in such a mess. Yes, but let me tell you,
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  I heard something that your mess is your message as God cleans it up.
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  And the test that you're going through is your testimony as God uses it.
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  But you've got to be in constant communication with the one who understands,
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  the one who knows, and the one who will deliver you just as you delivered the
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  three Hebrew children out of the fiery furnace.
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  He specializes in taking care of those who allow him to love on them and to
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  lead them and to guide them.
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  That problem you have that is buckling your knees isn't phasing him.
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  In fact, he's so excited that it's buckled your knees that his ears are full
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  open and his attention is wide. and he is standing with stretched arms to let
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  you come to him that he might lead you in the way that you should go.
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  He knows your hearts, but he's asking you to pray, expecting the results.
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