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550 | Throwback - He Perfects that Which Concerns Us · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  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, 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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  In this world today, it seems that stress is everywhere we turn.
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  Many of us worry every day, sometimes even about the same things, over and over again.
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  The Bible is plain that we are not to worry. Be careful for nothing,
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  but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,
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  let your requests be made known unto God.
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  The Bible further states that, and we know that all things work together for
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  good, to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.
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  Written in the pages of His Holy Word, between Genesis and Revelation,
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  are many promises of His providential care and love.
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  These truths are meant to give us peace and to calm our hearts.
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  He really does have everything under control.
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  He hath put all things under His feet. Join us in this broadcast of Woman at
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  the Well Ministries as Kim discusses the sin of worry.
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  Hello and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of woman at the well ministries
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  and our lesson today is going to come from psalm 138 verse 8.
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  And it really doesn't matter what phase you're in, in your walk with Christ.
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  And I mean that by saying whether you were saved yesterday or whether you've been saved for 30 years.
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  It seems that one of the tools that the devil has to deceive us and to cause
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  us great pain, and it's a snare that all of us fall into, whether we're new
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  Christians or whether we're old Christians,
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  and that is that sin of worry.
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  And worry is so common among people, even among Christians, that many people
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  do not even look at it as a sin.
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  But the Bible is plain that it is a sin.
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  And we're going to spend a little
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  bit of time looking at the verses that explain to us that worry is a sin.
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  But we hope to spend far more time on looking at the scriptures that will equip
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  us to overcome that obstacle in our lives.
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  You see the bible tells us in john chapter 10
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  and verse 10 that the lord came to give
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  us life that we might have it more abundantly
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  and when we are worrying we are not living the abundant life and when we are
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  worrying we are not placing our faith fully in a god that cannot fail we're
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  not looking at our life through the eyes of his providential care,
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  what we're doing when we worry is very similar to what peter did when he took
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  his eyes off of christ began to see the circumstances around him and then he sunk.
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  But in that very same lesson, we are taught that if we come to God and we say,
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  Lord, save me, that he will reach down and immediately pick us up.
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  Now, if you're saved, I believe wholeheartedly that the scriptures say that
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  old things have passed away and all things have become new and that you are a new creature.
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  In doing so, I don't feel that I can be lost today and saved tomorrow and lost
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  again and saved and lost.
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  I believe that when I place my faith in Jesus Christ, that I have turned over
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  a new leaf by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that dwells inside of me.
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  And as a result of that, my salvation is not a license to sin,
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  but a motivation to do the works of the God which has saved me.
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  To worship and adore my Savior and to allow my life to be a living sacrifice for Him.
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  And i say that because when peter said lord
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  save me he wasn't asking him
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  to save him all over again as far as
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  salvation he was asking him to save him from the perils that he was facing at
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  that moment for the tragic stress and obstacles that he was in as he failed
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  to be able to walk on water by of trusting Jesus and following,
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  and instead fell to the circumstances that were around him.
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  And what I'm saying is that regardless of where you are right now in your Christian
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  walk, through faith, you can say, Lord, save me.
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  And he will pick you up, placing you in the center of his will,
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  if you're willing to cut off the things which so easily beset you,
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  and put your eye on the prize of Jesus Christ and allow his righteousness to
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  cleanse you from all evil.
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  Then you can sit in the center of his will, and you can begin to live a life of abundance.
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  And I'm not talking about material abundance. There's no doubt about it that
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  he blesses us, and most of those blessings come through material things, or many of them do.
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  But he also blesses us through health. He blesses us through peace of mind and
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  through many other ways.
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  And the thing that we want to talk about in this lesson is that blessing of peace of mind.
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  He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind has stayed on thee through Christ Jesus.
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  We're talking about perfect peace in the midst of the storm.
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  We're talking about perfect peace when all around us is chaos and falling apart.
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  We spoke briefly about Peter, who in the midst of the storm realized that Christ
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  was already there and Christ bid him come.
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  What truth there is in that because christ
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  is already in the storm and he's bidding you to come to him and
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  stand in the center of his will that all that
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  he would have for you to fight that battle would be at your disposal you see
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  his hand picked that battle and they've gone through nail scarred hands and
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  filtered away into your path because nothing is going to happen to you that he does not allow.
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  For you see, all things are under his feet.
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  If you look at 1 Corinthians 15, 27, it says that he hath put all things under his feet.
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  That means that he walks over crushing even the greatest problem that you have.
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  It doesn't even require him to exert his full body to get you through it.
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  It doesn't even require him to place his mind to it. For you see,
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  whatever you're going through right now is already under his feet.
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  And he has defeated it. The victory is already won, and the Bible says that
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  we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus.
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  Yet, many of you within the sound of my voice at this very moment are nearly
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  worried to death, at least worried sick about something.
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  Perhaps you're worried about your finances.
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  And no doubt we need to be disciplined with our finances we are god's banker
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  and he places inside of our accounts and our lives a certain amount of financial
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  wealth that we are to distribute.
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  As he says to do so that i believe wholeheartedly he means to distribute i don't
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  think he means for you to hoard it up for yourself for you see when the rich
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  man was hoarding up all of his treasures,
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  He wanted to know what was going to happen if tonight his soul would be required of him.
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  Perhaps you're worried about your health. And that's a scary, scary thing.
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  Because when it comes down to the very crux of the matter, nothing else matters
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  if you're not there to enjoy it.
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  And so sometimes we get extremely concerned about our health.
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  And the Lord is there as our great physician.
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  But sometimes we're concerned about how he's going to take care of us or what
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  his will will be in that matter.
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  But either way however you're looking
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  at it you're worried and my
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  friend i can empathize with you
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  and i can sympathize with you but i
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  must tell you the truth that the bible says in philippians 4 6 that we are to
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  be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
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  let your request be made known unto god what a verse he says be careful for nothing,
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  being careful for nothing means we need to not place
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  our care and worry upon it and you see he didn't give us anything that we could
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  worry about he didn't say that we could worry about our finances but you know
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  i think he knew that we would so he gave us philippians 4 that said that he
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  will supply all of our needs according to his riches.
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  Through Christ Jesus according to his riches,
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  my father Jesus owns the cattle on a thousand hills and the hills thereof and
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  he tells me in the book of John that he knows the needs I have before I even
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  ask he further tells me that he prays for me in John chapter 17,
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  he tells me that he ever liveth to make intercession for me,
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  he knew that we would worry,
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  But he also said, it's needless.
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  Be careful for nothing.
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  But in everything by prayer and supplication, we need to take a request to God.
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  And we need to talk to him. Sometimes it's for understanding.
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  And sometimes it's for more faith.
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  Sometimes it's just so we can let him know, hey, I'm scared.
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  The Bible says that fear is cast out by perfect love.
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  And Jesus Christ loves you perfectly. and
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  when you begin to place your faith and trust in him and loving him
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  with your whole heart soul and mind then you'll
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  begin to love him perfectly and there's no room for fear i'll tell
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  you something else that'll cast fear out of your life if you
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  sit down and just take a close look at romans 8 28 romans
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  8 28 says and we know that all things work
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  together for the good to them that love the lord
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  to them who are called according to
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  his purpose when you placed your faith in
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  jesus christ as savior you got a job to do you were you were assigned a task
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  and that task was to go you into all the world and preach and teach the gospel
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  that task was to be a light of the world that task was to be the salt of the world.
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  That task was to be a peculiar people zealous of good works. Friends.
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  When you placed your faith in Jesus Christ, you were given a wonderful relationship.
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  And that relationship was to realize that you have an advocate, the Father.
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  You have a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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  And you have a creator who is now your Savior, who knows the plans that he has for you.
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  And you've got to place your trust in this
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  personal walk you have with him this personal
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  jesus christ it is now someone that has
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  absolute personality and being in your
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  life you have to trust that as
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  you have given up your life and placed it in
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  his hands and allowed him to have full reign that whatever takes
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  place in your life is going to work out for your good
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  because you've been called according to his
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  purpose because I just told you the things that he's called you to do when you
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  said Jesus save me when you renounced your sins and placed your faith in God
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  and allowed him to impute his righteousness in you through that commitment of
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  your heart through faith in Jesus Christ.
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  You have the promise that it's going to work out for your good.
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  So we very clearly can see that we're not to worry, but we're to pray.
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  The Bible says that we're to pray without ceasing.
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  But then the next part of that Philippians 4, 6, and I promise we are going to get to Psalms 138, 8.
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  But in that next part of Philippians 4, 6, things get just a little bit hairy
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  for the child of God because it says with thanksgiving.
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  And that's why we spoke about romans 8 28 before we carried through philippians
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  4 6 because it takes a faith that's strong to be thankful for the situation
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  you find yourself in if it's a situation that makes you uncomfortable.
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  And the Bible says, Be not deceived,
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  God is not mocked, for whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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  And sometimes because we're out in the horse weeds and we're doing those things
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  that we're not supposed to do and the Lord chastens who he loves,
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  we find ourselves in a world of hurt.
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  That's not what we're talking about right here. Because there are people who
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  walk in the center of God's will and those who are looking at their life are
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  wondering what in the world is going on to these people who love God.
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  How could so many catastrophes happen to one family or one person?
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  And we begin to judge them. Remember Job?
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  Job had a lot of friends like that. He even had a wife said, curse God and die.
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  But Job had a relationship with Jesus Christ. He was personal.
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  God had a personality to him. God was his friend and Job wasn't going to turn
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  his back on a God that he knew.
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  My friend, how well do you know God? You
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  can fully know God through fully knowing Jesus Christ
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  and Jesus Christ is completely explained from Genesis
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  to Revelations in a beautiful love letter that he's written to us that we might
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  place our faith in him but we have to have a relationship that includes enormous
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  amount of faith in order to be thankful for the things that we're in but Philippians
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  4 6 says that we need to pray.
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  And we need to be thankful which employs trust Hebrews 11 6 says but without
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  faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to god must believe that he is,
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  that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him
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  matthew 7 7 says asking you shall receive seeking you shall find knocking it
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  shall be opened unto you in hebrews 11 6 that we just read in your hearing we
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  see that you must believe and you got to believe that he is and so i go back
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  to that question that I just asked you a few moments ago, how well do you know him?
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  It makes all the difference in the world.
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  Because if you have a close walk with Jesus Christ and that he walks with you
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  and talks with you, and you hear him when he whispers,
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  when the waves roll over you, you just pop your head back up.
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  Because you realize they rolled over you. Because you can't stay under.
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  Because Jesus Christ says that if you will umber yourselves under the mighty
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  hand of God, that in due time he will exalt you. He'll lift you up.
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  And he said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
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  And so what comes your way? Talk to me about it.
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  Thank me for it. but above all
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  believe because you've got to believe
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  who i am that's what he says and
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  you got to believe that he will reward those that seek him and
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  rewards them with answers to their prayers do you
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  realize that you have absolute access to god almighty through jesus christ his
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  son and that you can speak to him anytime you want so long as there's not sin
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  in your heart because psalmist david said if you regard iniquity in your heart
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  he won't hear you So you live your life with nothing between you and God.
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  And when you do that, you can talk to him and he'll reward you with an answer.
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  You say, Kimball, I get what I want. Not if it's not best for you.
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  But you'll get an answer every single time. But sometimes it's no.
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  Sometimes it's wait. Remember, the Bible tells us in Isaiah that they that wait
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  upon the Lord, he shall renew their strength.
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  They shall mount up as eagles.
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  But see, it all requires faith. in psalms chapter 138 and verse 8 i believe
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  it's one of the most precious scriptures that i've read in recent times the
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  bible says the lord will perfect,
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  that which concerneth me who did you hear me the bible says the lord will perfect.
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  That which concern of me. Maybe
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  you don't understand at all how you're going to get through this one.
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  And maybe you have spent hours in the middle of the night trying to figure out
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  how you're going to work it out and just how anything good could ever come of this.
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  But you've heard Romans 8, 28. Tonight we've heard it clearly.
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  And you're just trying to figure how is it all going to work?
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  So you give him some suggestions. Instead of praying with request and supplication
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  with thanksgiving, you begin to tell him how to fix the situation.
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  And I believe wholeheartedly that you can tell him things that you want.
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  And I believe that you can speak to him about the things that you think might
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  work, but you can't tell him this is how it's going to work.
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  And you have to be open to listen to him when he says, Now, Kimmy,
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  that's not my plan and that's not my way.
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  Wait on me, Kimmy. Hear me, Kimmy. Kimmy, hush.
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  Remember in Ephesians 6, he says, when you've done all, you just stand.
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  When you're standing, guess what? He's got full control of you.
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  You're just standing, just listening, just hearing.
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  The Bible says that he'll perfect that which concerns you. That's a promise.
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  The things that you're worrying about right now, that we're not supposed to
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  be worrying about because we're supposed to have faith and the Bible tells us
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  that anything that is not done in faith is sin in Romans 14, 23.
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  Well, you're still worried. You're not employing your faith and you're not listening to his promise.
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  The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. And in that very same verse,
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  he says, thy mercy, O Lord, endureth forever.
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  You know what I love about that? i make mistakes
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  i i fully get peter
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  looking at god and walking on the water as he looked
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  at jesus christ and suddenly the wind started
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  howling and suddenly this intellectual part flips
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  up in his head and says you know i'm a man i don't walk on water and
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  he begins to look around as soon as he takes his eyes off jesus he falls in
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  the water i get it i get about thinking through the problem too much so that
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  i cover up my faith i get looking at the circumstances instead of letting that
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  joy unspeakable and full of glory swell up within me understand it.
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  But just like Peter, I sink. Guess what? So do you.
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  And I mess things up, making them far worse than they need to be.
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  But just like Peter, I say, Lord, save me. I'm listening, God.
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  And I can pour my heart out to him and I can explain to him what's bothering me.
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  And if I'll just believe that he's listening and I'll remove the sins from my
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  life that don't need to be there.
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  And i began to concentrate on how much i love jesus
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  and i began to see his promises about how
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  much he loves me and i realized that he's
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  the same god yesterday today and forevermore and that his mercy endures forever
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  i know that he'll forgive me because he said if i confess my sins he's faithful
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  and just to forgive me of my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness
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  in first john 1 9 and then he reminds me in this very verse don't forsake the work of thine own hands.
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  And you know what he tells me he tells me i created you and in miami i created
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  you and i've got plans for you i wouldn't have built you if i didn't have a
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  plan and then he tells me that in jeremiah 29 11 so as you're looking at whatever
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  that is in your life right now that's causing you to stumble and causing your faith to wane?
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  Give it up that whole idea.
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  And claim to the faith that he said, because he said, be careful for nothing.
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  And he said he would perfect that which concerns you.
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  So right now, this very moment, go to him in prayer,
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  and let your requests be made known unto God and thank him for this that has
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  brought you to your knees, that you might renew that covenant you have with
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  Christ and walk in his will.
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  Because guess what? He loves you so much that he died for you.
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  He will perfect that which concerns you.
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