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430 | Throwback - Talk on the Basis of Your Walk · 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, 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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  We have a promise. that if we keep God's commandments and have our ways to be
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  pleasing in His sight, God will deliver us when we pray. What a deal!
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  These requirements are not difficult for a child of God because Christ is walking
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  with you and the Holy Spirit is dwelling in you.
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  Both God and the Holy Spirit are instructing you in the way that you should go.
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  It is simple to see that if you are keeping His commandments,
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  then your requests are going to be within His will.
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  Join us in this broadcast talk on the basis of your walk, as Kim Miller of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries takes us through 1 John 3, 22, which says,
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  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and
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  do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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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, we are so thankful that
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  you are a God that watches over us. that you're a God that cares about us and
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  that you're a God that leads the way and protects us and supplies our every need.
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  Lord, we're so thankful that you live to absolutely take care of us and that
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  you have proven that to us over and over again.
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  Lord, we are so grateful that you are alive and that we are serving a risen
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  Savior, one that is interested in who we are, one who is capable and one who loves us.
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  Lord, we're thankful that you tell us that we can ask you and that we will receive
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  that which we ask if it's in your will.
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  And Lord, we're even more thankful that you know what is best for us.
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  And so that when we ask things of you and they're out of your will,
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  you don't give them to us.
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  We're thankful, Lord, that you can look beyond our feeble selves and give to
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  us the things that we ask when they are pleasing to what would be you would have us to have.
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  Lord, we're thankful that you don't have short-sightedness, but that you know
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  all things and that you give to us those things which would allow us to have
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  the abundant life for which you came that we might have.
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  Lord, we love you and we praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name.
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  And all of God's people said, Amen.
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  The Bible says in the scripture that we ask and we receive if we keep his commandments
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  and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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  And upon first look of this scripture you may feel that there's a lot of conditions.
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  That make asking the Lord for something happen you might also want to argue
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  me which I will never argue the scriptures the Bible says that that is not what
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  we're to do and there really is no argument God said it and that settles it
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  doesn't matter whether I believe it or you believe it either.
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  The truth is when God speaks, that is truth.
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  But you might want to say, well, you know, I've asked this and I've asked that
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  and it really never happened.
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  And I would encourage you to dig a little deeper into the scriptures,
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  to dig a little deeper into your prayer life, and to allow God to show you where
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  what you ask, either one, was not in His will and not what was best for you.
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  Because the Bible says that He doesn't withhold any good thing from them that love Him.
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  And I would also ask you to take a look and perhaps allow God to show you where
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  what He did give you did answer your prayer.
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  It just wasn't answered the way perhaps you had
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  asked because his word is true and
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  he tells us very clearly in the scripture that if
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  we ask we'll receive it of him infer in
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  second thessalonians in chapter 2 as you
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  begin to look at verse 16 he also says this
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  now our lord jesus christ himself and
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  god even our father which have loved us and
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  hath given us everlasting consolation and
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  good hope through grace comfort your
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  hearts and establish you in every good word and work i want you to listen to
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  that verse in the context of what we're talking about in this message that whatsoever
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  you ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments.
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  I want you to look at this verse that I just read and you're hearing these two
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  verses out of 2 Thessalonians and see how the Lord asks us to keep his commandments,
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  which would allow us then to ask of those things which would be best for us
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  because we wouldn't be asking for things outside of the will of God if we're close and walking.
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  But I want you to see that he says right here, The Father which hath loved us
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  establishes us in every good work and word.
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  And then he says in chapter 3 of 2 Thessalonians in verse 3,
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  But the Lord is faithful who will establish you and keep you from evil.
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  This Christian life that we serve is one in which the Lord sets us up for complete success.
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  He allows us to know what he expects of us. He allows us to know what is required
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  of us, and then he establishes us, and he gives us what it takes to be able to live that life.
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  And the end of that life is a life of blessing and reward.
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  So by doing what we're supposed to do, which leads to blessing and reward,
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  we also find that we are living the best life possible because all he wants
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  for us is us to have the abundant life that he came that we might have.
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  So those of you who are listening and are scoffing at God requires this and
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  God requires that, and he doesn't really love us or he wouldn't have so many rules,
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  I want you to know that he has rules that allow us to stay within the bounds
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  that we need to stay in to live the most abundant life that we could possibly live.
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  These rules are not to punish us or to constrict us or to constrain us.
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  They're to keep us in the place where we can receive the blessings of God and
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  we can live the life that he has preordained that all of us should have and
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  that's a life of blessings in him.
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  And when we are following after his commandments, then we are living the life.
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  That's going to give us the least amount of sorrow and the most amount of peace.
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  Because when he says that you're not to go out and do riotous living, that's for our benefit.
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  Do you realize that that's what leads to destruction?
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  That the drinking, the carrying on, the partying, the late nights,
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  the missing work, the doing this, doing that, perhaps even tangered,
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  Those things are slowly but surely killing your body, but they're destroying
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  the important relationships and the important things in your life.
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  So aside from God, when you take when you partake in these kind of activities,
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  you're destroying your life.
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  And so when God says, don't do it, he's simply keeping you in a place that allows
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  you to have the best life possible.
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  And these scriptures in 2 Thessalonians explain to us that he will give you
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  what it takes to be able to resist the devil.
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  He says, draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh unto you. The Lord says, follow me.
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  And I promise you he's not going to be found in any of those places.
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  The Bible tells us that we're to be anxious for nothing, but in everything with
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  prayer and thanksgiving, that we should let our requests be made known unto
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  God and the peace of God shall fill our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  Those are not words to give us punishment. Those are words to tell us that we have a hope.
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  And the scriptures in 2 Thessalonians, in correlation with this scripture in 1 John 3,
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  22, very clearly tell us that we
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  can comfort our hearts because God is comforting
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  us and he's going to establish us and
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  then he says in 2nd Thessalonians chapter
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  3 and verse 13 but ye brethren be
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  not weary in well-doing you see
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  the world was going to come down on you and they're going to start talking to
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  you about how well you asked for this and you asked for that one of the most
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  popular things I'm ever told that they asked for that didn't happen is especially
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  a non-believer says to me that they asked for to win the lottery and they didn't win it.
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  Well, first of all, if you're a non-believer, that's like me going up to your
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  father and asking for a thousand bucks.
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  He's not going to give it to me. He doesn't know me, has no obligation.
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  Also, the Bible says that God will not hear a prayer when you have iniquity
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  in your heart, except the prayer of repentance.
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  And that's not what's happening. So you're totally disqualified from trying to ask for that.
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  So your argument has no bearing at all.
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  But then there's the Christians who want to come to me and say,
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  Oh, you know, I really want to believe what the word says.
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  And I believe he saved me. And I believe when I die, I'm going to go to heaven.
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  But, you know, some of this stuff is a little sketchy here. I've asked and I haven't received.
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  And the Bible says, Ask and you shall receive. you seek and you shall find knock
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  and it shall be opened unto you.
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  And I always kind of chuckle in my heart because I've been in that same trap.
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  That verse in Matthew 7, 7 has all three. I promise you that if you ask and
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  you seek at the same time, you'll seek to ask what God wants you to ask.
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  And then I promise you, you will receive.
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  But we like to just ask. And we like to just go around claiming these promises
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  without any kind of faith to back them up.
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  You see, we have to talk on the basis of our walk. And that means we need to
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  talk to God on the basis of our walk.
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  I need to talk to the Lord standing in the position that I am in faith.
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  If I believe in him with all of my heart, if I am choosing to live by his principles,
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  then I can stand in his presence and by his grace and because of his love and
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  his mercy upon me and the imputed righteousness he has given to me,
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  I can answer the call that he said that I could call unto him and he would answer
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  me and show me great and mighty things.
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  I can call upon him in a time of trouble and I can obtain help and I can come
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  boldly to the throne of God.
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  But if I have been one who has tasted of the goodness of God and I have turned
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  my back on him and I have walked away and God has no place in my day,
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  no place in my life, I don't pay attention to his word.
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  I don't pay attention to his scriptures, I feel no tugging of my heart from
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  the Holy Spirit, then I've got two things I need to worry about.
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  One, I need to really go back and see, have I ever, ever given my heart to him?
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  Secondly, I need to know I'm not where I'm supposed to be. So I don't need to
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  be asking for things because my mind is in the wrong place.
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  And I surely will ask for the wrong things because who I'm listening to is not God.
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  But as soon as I repent and turn from my sinful ways and allow the Lord to forgive
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  me, then I can be in a place where my mind is focused on him.
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  And when you're focused on him and he is running through your heart and you
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  are listening to what he has to say, your words...
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  Will be the ones he wants to hear, and they'll be the ones best for your life,
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  and they'll follow after his commandments.
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  And then when you ask, he'll give it to you. It'll be like asking for your mommy
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  for food when you're starving.
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  It'll come flowing in abundance too much to eat.
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  That's the love he has for you, and that's the love he has for me.
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  But when you talk, especially to God, you got to talk on the basis of your walk,
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  and they need to line up because they do.
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  My prayer is that you are standing in the center of his will.
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