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Episode 36-What is Perfect Peace? · Women At The Well: REJOICE

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SPEAKER_00: Grand Riser.
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SPEAKER_00: Grand rising, sisters.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we are in a brand new month.
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SPEAKER_00: The ninth month of 2026.
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SPEAKER_00: God has brought us thus far, and we are grateful.
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SPEAKER_00: I am Rose, your host, here at the well.
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SPEAKER_00: It is my pleasure to sit with you for a few minutes as we give God glory and praise and draw encouragement from his word.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, in our world of chaos, trials, storms, financial difficulties, and political divisions, people are searching for peace.
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SPEAKER_00: But what is peace?
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SPEAKER_00: Does peace mean that we have a perfect life with no problems, pain, or difficult emotions?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, today we are going to discover what perfect peace is and how we can experience it even when life is not so perfect.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, get your Bibles.
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SPEAKER_00: Coffee, tea, juice, a lemon water, and let's receive some peace in the middle of our chaos.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, we come to you, thanking you for one more day.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanking you that you are always with us.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanking you that you never leave us.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanking you that you are our best friend.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you because you are the creator of this whole world and you hold everything and everyone in your hand.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, without you, we are nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: So, Father God, as we sit here at the well, ask you to open our hearts and our minds and come in and suck with us.
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SPEAKER_00: Teach us what it means to live in your perfect peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Quiet in our thoughts.
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SPEAKER_00: And Lord, please prepare our hearts to hear from you.
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SPEAKER_00: Help us release our fears.
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SPEAKER_00: Help us to place our trust in you and remember that you are always in control.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, we just can't thank you enough.
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SPEAKER_00: I praise you, I lift you up.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, I just thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, ladies, let's get into the word.
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SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 26.3 is what we're gonna begin with.
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SPEAKER_00: This month, by the way, September's theme is perfect peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Trusting God in every season.
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SPEAKER_00: Today we're gonna answer the question: what is perfect peace?
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SPEAKER_00: So looking at Isaiah 26.3, and I'm reading from the King James Version, it says, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusted in thee.
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SPEAKER_00: So the words translated as perfect peace come from the repeated Hebrew expression, shalom.
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SPEAKER_00: It describes complete, deep, continuing peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace that brings wholeness to the heart and mind.
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SPEAKER_00: This verse teaches us three important truths.
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SPEAKER_00: First, God is the keeper of our peace.
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SPEAKER_00: The verse begins with, Thou wilt keep him.
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SPEAKER_00: Thou, talking about God, that lets us know that perfect peace does not come from our own strength, doesn't come from another person, it doesn't come from your money, it doesn't come from your favorable circumstances.
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SPEAKER_00: God is the one who keeps us, and he is the one who will keep us in perfect peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Second, that scripture says our minds must stay on God.
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SPEAKER_00: Our thoughts need a safe and secure place to rest, and that place is in God.
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SPEAKER_00: When our thoughts wander towards fear, worry, or confusion, we must intentionally turn them back towards God, his character, and his promises.
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SPEAKER_00: Third, peace grows through trust.
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SPEAKER_00: The last part of that verse says, Because he trusted in thee.
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SPEAKER_00: We may not understand what God is doing, but we can trust who God is.
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SPEAKER_00: We may not know how everything will work out, but we know the one who holds everything in his hand.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus also said in John 14, 27, let's take a look.
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SPEAKER_00: John 14, 27.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, Peace I leave with you.
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SPEAKER_00: My peace I give unto you.
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SPEAKER_00: Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
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SPEAKER_00: Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, perfect peace does not mean that everything around us is peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Peaceful.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes it means that everything around us is falling apart.
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SPEAKER_00: It means that we know who is holding us when life becomes uncertain, when life is falling apart.
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SPEAKER_00: See, the world's peace depends on favorable circumstances.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it depends on who you know or who likes you.
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SPEAKER_00: But Jesus gives us a peace that remains even when our circumstances have not changed, even when nobody likes you.
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SPEAKER_00: The world says, I will have peace when the problem is solved.
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SPEAKER_00: Faith says, I can have peace while God is working on the problem.
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SPEAKER_00: See, understand this.
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SPEAKER_00: When our mind remains fixed on the diagnosis, the disagreement, the bills, the workload, or tomorrow's uncertainty, anxiety can overwhelm us.
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SPEAKER_00: But when we redirect our thoughts towards God's character, his promises, and his faithfulness, our hearts become steadier.
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SPEAKER_00: Perfect peace is not pretending that nothing hurts.
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SPEAKER_00: Perfect peace is trusting that nothing we face is greater than the God who keeps us.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: We can have that perfect peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to do a little rejoicing.
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SPEAKER_00: I like this moment.
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SPEAKER_00: It always um, I just like to rejoice.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I like to be thankful.
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SPEAKER_00: I like um just rejoicing.
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SPEAKER_00: God is always doing something new.
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SPEAKER_00: Even if it's just waking you up, God is doing something new.
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SPEAKER_00: He woke you up to a new day.
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SPEAKER_00: He kept you through the night.
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SPEAKER_00: So let us rejoice.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, today we can rejoice because our circumstances do not control our peace.
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SPEAKER_00: God is our keeper.
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SPEAKER_00: When our thoughts begin to wander towards fear, we can turn back towards him.
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SPEAKER_00: When anxiety tries to come in our heart, we can pray in the end.
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SPEAKER_00: When we do not know what to move about, we can trust the one who is already there.
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SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus has given us peace, that the world cannot manifest.
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SPEAKER_00: Trouble cannot destroy.
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SPEAKER_00: And people cannot take away.
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SPEAKER_00: God will keep us in perfect peace as we keep Mamas stay on him.
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SPEAKER_00: Let us pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being the God of the peace.
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SPEAKER_00: When the mass become trouble, father help us determine our trust you.
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SPEAKER_00: Even when we do not understand our circumstances.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, the motherfuckers, mind our feelings, and keep us, and you're a perfect people.
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SPEAKER_00: Help us to remember that although our situation may not be perfect, but we have a perfect life.
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SPEAKER_00: You are faithful.
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SPEAKER_00: You are perfect and you are always in control.
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SPEAKER_00: And Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, through Christ, you can still walk in perfect peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Keep your mind stayed on God.
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SPEAKER_00: Keep trusting him in every season.
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SPEAKER_00: And remember, this water is living, and this well will never run dry.
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SPEAKER_00: Keep drawing from the living water and keep rejoicing in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Until next time, be blessed.
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SPEAKER_00: And sisters, go walk in peace.