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484 | Throwback - Perfect Peace · 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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  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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  Join us in this broadcast, Perfect Peace, as Kim Miller brings us a message
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  out of Isaiah 26-3, which says, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
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  whose mind is stayed on thee,
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  because he trusteth in thee.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  and I believe if you were on the street and asking those who you came into contact
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  with with one thing they would be seeking in their life, no matter what time of year it is,
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  you would find them to probably come around to something that would lead you
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  to believe that they're looking for peace.
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  Millions of dollars are spent each year in people seeking to find peace.
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  The Lord has given us amazing doctors and incredible medicine to help us when
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  we have problems, but many times we go to that a little too early, perhaps.
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  And oftentimes we've placed our trust in a bottle or we've placed our trust
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  in man and we have forgotten to place our trust in God.
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  The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 26 and verse 3, he says that thou will keep him in perfect peace.
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  As Erica read this a little earlier in your hearing, I was thinking about how
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  amazing it is that he says if we just keep our mind stayed on thee.
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  And the point to ponder that we want to talk about in this time we have together
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  is that if you're seeking peace in your life, check your focus.
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  It echoed in my ears as I heard her read, whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee.
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  The opening of that verse says that's what's going to keep you in perfect peace.
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  And so oftentimes in our lives, we take our eyes off of Jesus.
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  There's a beautiful old hymn called Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
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  Look steadfast in his wonderful face, and the things of this world will grow strangely dim.
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  That is such a true, true, true piece of the gospel of Christ.
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  Because when we begin to keep our mind focused on Christ, then the things of
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  this world seem not to matter. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, Lord,
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  I just pray that you would just stir within the hearts of all of us that peace
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  that passeth understanding and that joy unspeakable and full of glory that comes only from you.
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  I pray, Lord, that your presence would be seen and heard in this message,
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  that we would be able, Lord, to turn our eyes upon you and that we would have
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  our focus be solely and wholly upon you,
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  not for just the few moments that we are together, but from this time forward, Lord, Lord,
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  that our lives would be steadfastly focused upon you.
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  Lord, allow us to put our trust in you in such a way that we have peace and joy in our lives.
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  Lord, we thank you for your presence in our life. We thank you,
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  Lord, that you've invited us to sup with you and to visit with you and to spend our time with you.
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  Lord, now just help our hearts to desire that and that we would stay in your
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  presence and in your perfect will.
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  In Jesus' name we pray, and amen.
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  Our point to ponder, as I said previously, is what does it mean to trust in God?
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  But our point to ponder is if you're seeking peace in your life, check your focus.
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  You see, that seems to be all the same thing. If we are focused on God,
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  then we're placing our trust in Him.
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  If we're not focused on God, then what happens is we find ourselves looking
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  around about us for many things that the world would put inside our minds or
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  put in front of us that would give us this false sense of security or perhaps
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  this false sense of what we should be doing.
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  And what it really is doing is just moving us a little further and further and
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  further away from the truth.
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  The truth is the word of God. And it's his truth that we must have in our hearts.
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  That will allow us to believe and know who he is, that we'd be able to place
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  our faith and trust in him.
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  You see, we are so reminded of how important it is to place our faith in God when we think of Peter.
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  Peter found himself in a boat, and he was there, and he was with some other
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  people, and when he looks out in the water, he begins to see all kinds of storm.
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  The waves are no doubt rolling.
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  Terror is building up in his heart and it's building up in
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  his mind and he looks out across the sea and he sees a figure one that is likened
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  to the son of god and when he looks out and he sees this figure that is likened
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  to the son of god he can't even figure out that it's god but he knows that god
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  is the answer and he looks out and he says lord if that be you bid me come.
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  Jesus bids him come and that water is still tumultuous the waves are still high the storm still raging.
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  And he steps out of the boat and he begins to look at God and he keeps his eyes
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  and his mind focused solely, wholly upon Jesus.
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  And in doing so, he's able to walk on the water in free safety.
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  The storm has no effect on him. But suddenly, his mind begins to waver and his
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  eyes began to look away from God to the storm, to the sea.
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  Logic begins to creep in, and he realizes he's a man that cannot walk on water,
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  and he has stopped looking at God completely, and he plunges.
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  But in his heart, he knows where the answer is. And so he lifts his hands up
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  and he says, Lord, save me.
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  The scripture says immediately the Lord reaches down and he saves him and he.
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  Brings him safely to the boat.
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  The point of this message is for us to ponder that if we're seeking peace in
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  our life, we need to focus on Christ.
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  And it's so clearly represented in Peter, because as soon as he took his eyes
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  off of God, The storms of life literally engulfed him.
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  So often in our lives, when we take our eyes off of Jesus, the storms of life will engulf us.
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  When we begin to depend upon our own intellect and our own abilities,
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  we quickly find that we don't have the answer and we cannot do it.
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  And suddenly we find ourselves plunging to the depths of despair with no peace to be found.
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  And we will wallow in that and we
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  will spiral continually downward until suddenly something within us will turn
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  their eyes upon jesus and then we remember what it means to trust in god the
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  bible says in romans chapter 14 and verse 23 and he that doubteth is damned.
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  Because he eateth not a face for whatsoever
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  is not a face is sin and when
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  we're careful and the bible says be careful for nothing but in everything by
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  prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
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  god and the peace of god which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts
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  and minds through christ jesus that passage in philippians chapter 4 verses
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  6 through 7 tells us we don't need to worry.
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  And when we're not worrying, and when we are praising God at all times,
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  through the good times, through the bad times, through the scary times, then we have peace.
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  It's hard to be scared when you're sure. Do you hear me?
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  It's hard to be scared when you're sure.
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  And when we are sure of who we serve, and we are sure of his ability,
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  and we are completely confident of who
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  he is and we are completely confident that
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  he has our best interest at heart and that he ever liveth to take care of us
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  and to hold us and to comfort us and that all he asks is that we follow and
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  that he knows the way because he is the way when we are fully confident of that
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  it's hard pressed for you to worry and incredibly difficult.
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  To not have peace you see that peace isn't something someone else is going to understand,
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  it's between you and god and if you're worrying and you're fretting and you're
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  wringing your hands and you just don't know how you're going to make it you
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  gotta check your focus but perhaps more importantly you need to check your relationship with christ.
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  For when you are able to say, it is well with my soul, it's hard-pressed to not have peace.
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  The wonderful songwriter who wrote that was going through horrible turmoil. He had lost his family.
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  He had lost all. And instead of wallowing in self-pity, he wrote the song, it is well with my soul.
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  When sea billows roll, when troubles roll like sea billows and there's trouble
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  all around, it is well with my soul.
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  It is my heart's desire that I would have that kind of faith.
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  Because you see, what could make a man write a song like that when he had lost
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  it all was his faith in a God that could not fail.
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  He didn't understand why it had to be his family. I'm sure he didn't understand
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  why he lost his children.
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  But he understood that a God that could not fail, who loved him immensely,
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  who had a plan to prosper him and to give him a hope, who understood all things,
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  who wanted him to have the best that's possible for him,
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  had let all of that happen, and he had not left him, and he could come to him
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  and attain help in that time of trouble, and he could place his faith in God,
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  and he'd be fully confident that God was in control,
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  and that Jesus loved him, and that all would be well.
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  He was able to write a song in peace, though the world could never have understood it.
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  Nothing changed as far as his family. They didn't come back.
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  But he had a peace that passeth understanding and a joy unspeakable and full
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  of glory because he has totally relied upon God and fully placed his confidence in him.
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  Now, I pray that no one in the sound of this message ever goes through anything
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  like that songwriter went through.
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  But I pray you have his faith. I pray you have his confidence in God.
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  I pray that when you pillow your head at night, that you can say, it is well with my soul.
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  I pray that when you get up in the morning, that you can say,
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  my God and I are one, and he loves me and I love him. Lord, where shall I go today?
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  I pray that as you go through your day, you're able to say, Hey,
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  Lord, thanks for being with me.
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  Thanks for supplying my every need. Thanks for giving me the strength to get through the day.
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  Lord, I'm not so happy about what I see going on, but thanks be to God. I'm not alone.
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  I pray that your confidence is placed in him in such a way that you realize
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  what the writer wrote in Philippians chapter four,
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  when he said, but my God shall supply all of your need according to his riches
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  in glory I pray that you'll ponder this point if you're seeking peace in your
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  life check your focus he's already there.
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