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535 | Throwback - A Guaranteed Solution to a Common Problem · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's the happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of.
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  Woman at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to
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  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,
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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 your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Throughout time, people have always been seeking peace.
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  It seems that the longer this world exists, the more intensely people seek peace.
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  Much money is spent and incredible amounts of time are put towards finding peace in one's life.
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  Join us today in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes
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  a walk through the scriptures, revealing God's guarantee for a peace in our lives.
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  Peace is promised and peace is available.
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  May the peace of god rule in your
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  hearts may the peace of god rule in
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  your hearts you see that's a statement a
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  prayer that we can find in god's holy word
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  but the problem is that for most of us we
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  don't have that when colossians 3
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  15 says and let the peace of god rule in your hearts to
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  the which also you are called in one body and be ye thankful you see most of
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  us live our lives in such a way that we are stressed and we are upset and there's
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  some piece of unhappiness in our lives and we are not in touch with our joy.
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  And there are people who will claim to be able to give you quick fixes.
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  They'll sell you books. They'll talk to you for a little while.
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  They'll tell you how to spend your money and all these different things.
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  And when it's all said and done, you still feel something missing.
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  And God has ordained and anointed many people who can help us in times that we feel unrest.
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  Who can help us in times when we're not in touch with that inner joy and that
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  peace that God so desperately wants to give you.
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  But the reality of it is that none of those people, none of those books,
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  and no thing that you can do or buy is going to give you peace.
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  Peace comes from Jesus Christ.
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  And it comes from a working knowledge and a living faith.
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  It's a working knowledge in who
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  jesus christ is it's a working knowledge in what
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  jesus christ has done it is a personal relationship
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  with the god of the universe through his son
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  who loves you so much that he died to
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  give his life from the cross of calvary that you might
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  find peace as you
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  find a savior for eternity and
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  it comes down to the condition of our
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  heart we're not going to know peace
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  if we don't know god we're not
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  going to have peace in our life if we
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  don't have a personal intimate relationship
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  with jesus christ the reason being is is the bible tells us that we are all
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  sinners in need of a savior that god created us in his image and since he created
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  us in his image he wants to have a personal relationship with us and he has
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  an ultimate plan for our lives,
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  jesus loves us.
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  And for us to have peace, we have to find a reconciliation with Christ.
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  And thank God, we don't have to look far to get it.
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  And we don't have to be rich. We don't have to be highly educated.
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  We don't have to come from a certain family. We don't have to live in a certain place.
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  God created all of us in his image. And he said that whosoever shall call upon him shall be saved.
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  And he explained to us that his peace is available to all who come to him.
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  And since his salvation and his invitation is to all, it is absolutely a promise
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  that to all we have the opportunity to have his peace.
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  And it can rule in our hearts, as we're told in Colossians chapter 3.
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  But you see, the problem is, is that we have an understanding problem for some of us.
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  Some of us have not understood the love of God.
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  We've not understood the need for him in our lives.
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  And this misunderstanding has kept us in a place where the devil could kill,
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  steal, and destroy our lives and our joy.
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  So the first thing we have to do to get that peace that is guaranteed by Jesus
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  Christ and through him and by him is we must receive him.
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  We must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
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  seek him as we're told in hebrews we have to receive him as nicodemus came to jesus by night.
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  Because he didn't want anyone else to see him. Jesus said unto him,
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  Marvel not that I say unto you, you must be born again.
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  You see, that's the question that each of us must face.
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  What will we do with Jesus Christ? And regardless of what circumstance you're in right now.
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  Regardless of the problem that you are facing, the root
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  of the problem is going to come down to your heart
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  condition with regards
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  to jesus christ and if you don't know
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  him as personal savior the very bottom line of
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  your problem is that you don't know jesus
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  because from genesis to revelations he
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  has written you a love letter that has given you everything you
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  need to live life and to live it more abundantly
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  for you see he left the splendor of heaven that
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  you might have life and have it more abundantly he
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  came to give you an abundant life and
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  he has offered it to each of us but somewhere
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  through time in your life and maybe perhaps even through
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  the history accounts that you have read you have
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  been duped by the devil and the
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  devil has somehow suckered you into believing that
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  there is no god he somehow has
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  tried to make you believe that you can make it
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  on your own that you have everything you
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  need perhaps you don't even feel.
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  That you need god because you've been going through life just fine but i want
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  you to know that that journey you're taking is a blessing of god and it's his
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  grace that has enabled you to have life and to breathe but even though you may
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  look me in the face and tried to argue me that without God, you're doing just fine.
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  I have from Genesis to revelations and personal experience and a personal relationship
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  with Jesus Christ that will allow me to look you in the face and say,
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  you don't know love until you know the love of God.
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  And that you don't have peace. Because you see, you can't fool yourself.
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  You know you don't have all the answers.
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  You know that you're just one mistake away from failure.
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  But I can look you in the eyes on the authority of God's holy word and tell you that he never fails.
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  And so my happiness may be circumstantial,
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  but my joy is eternal and it is provided me by Jesus Christ.
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  And when my heart is in the condition that it is supposed to be in perfect alignment
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  in his will, trusting in him and believing in him, then I have perfect peace
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  regardless of what is happening in my life.
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  Because I realize that it's not up to me.
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  When the Bible says that we're to lean on into our own understanding,
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  I understand what it means.
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  But does it mean that I always do it?
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  No. sometimes I get messed up just like you you see the Bible tells me that
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  if I keep he will keep me in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him.
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  He tells me that in Isaiah chapter 26 and verse 3.
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  If I just keep my mind on him. And then he tells me in Psalms 37 verses 4 through 5.
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  That if I delight thyself also in the Lord.
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  He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
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  And so if I'm living in a place in my heart. Where I am looking at my circumstances.
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  When doubt begins to creep in. even
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  for those of us who believe in God when we
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  take our eyes off of him and begin to watch
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  the storm we have a problem
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  remember Peter he was
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  in the boat and I want to remind you something very
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  important of that story the storm is
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  raging all around Peter while he's in the boat and he
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  looks out in the midst of the storm and he
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  sees a figure he can't make out what i
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  want to remind you is that in the midst of the storm jesus
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  was already there and because peter's
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  relationship with jesus was sometimes one that
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  was filled with doubt and questions much not unlike
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  mine and yours when he saw the figure of
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  jesus on the water he couldn't
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  make it out perhaps it was because peter was too far from jesus you see jesus
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  never moves he's the same yesterday today and forevermore he is the alpha the
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  omega the beginning and the end he is the great i am.
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  He will stick closer to you than a brother, and he will never leave you nor forsake you.
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  So in our world, as we begin to look at that picture of Peter being in the water,
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  and Jesus looking like he's so far away that he cannot recognize him,
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  in our own lives, that same picture means we have walked away from the presence of God.
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  God is there, and he's still shining brightly, and
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  his nail-scarred hands are still outreached with
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  wonderful invitation for us to come and
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  repent and to give ourselves to him and to
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  humbly bow before his presence and allow him
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  to have the rule of our life in our hearts but we have walked away from the
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  path that we know we should be and so when the storm is in the middle of our
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  lives and we're looking through the storm when we see him but he's so far away
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  because we are not where we should be but in that same story.
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  Peter he looks down he says lord if it
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  be you bid me come and i
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  have good news in hebrews chapter
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  14 4 verses 14 through
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  16 there's a picture of jesus bidding
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  us to come boldly through the throne of God that we may obtain help and mercy
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  in time of need and he explains that he was tempted like as we are yet without
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  sin and he gets what we're going through and he says come just as Peter stood in the boat.
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  Looking across at what he thought was Jesus, but so far from him in his life
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  at that moment that he couldn't recognize him.
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  He called unto Jesus, and Jesus said, Come.
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  In 1 John 1, 9, we are told that if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just
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  to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  And in Hebrews chapter 4, he said, Come.
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  Peter steps out of the boat, and he begins to walk on water.
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  His eyes are fixated fixated on
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  jesus he sees nothing of the storm around him
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  and it's under his feet bible tells
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  us in the book of psalms that all things are
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  under jesus's feet but like you and me peter begins to look around at his storms
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  he begins to see the things around him he begins to realize it doesn't make
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  sense he can't walk on water he is a mere man,
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  and he begins to take his eyes off of jesus and begins to look around and he falls immediately,
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  and is consumed by his storm perhaps that's
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  where you are right now you know of jesus at
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  one time you even had a relationship with him but it's
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  just been a while since you've been on your knees and prayed it's been
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  a while since you've let him have rule in your
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  heart and you miss that relationship and there's
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  a gnawing in your soul and there's a peace that's missing
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  and the world has sort of gotten
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  a little tough for you right now you have problems and
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  you have issues you have things that are causing you stress and keeping you
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  up at night maybe you're having trouble paying your bills maybe there's a relationship
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  in your life that is driving you crazy or absolutely causing you stress and
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  that's all you can think about and you're consumed.
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  But in that account in the scriptures, Peter, as he's let the whole storm overcome
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  him, he reaches up and he says, Lord, save me.
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  The Bible says that immediately Jesus reached down.
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  He not only lifted him up, he carried him safely to the boat.
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  My friend, the peace you're seeking is in Jesus Christ.
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  The steps you need to take perhaps is
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  repentance or perhaps it's a faith
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  but either way you've got to have a conversation with
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  jesus christ and you've got to come to him in
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  faith believing you've got to know who
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  jesus is and you've got to trust him
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  with your life when we read that we should
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  delight in him we mean we need
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  to love him he needs to be the joy do
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  you know how absolutely joyous Peter must
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  have felt as Jesus grabbed him up and held him in his arms and carried him safely
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  to the boat can you imagine how well you would feel how incredibly happy you
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  would be if you just would let Jesus lift you up out of the place you're at
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  right now and carry you safely to the shore.
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  Can you imagine that feeling of letting go of all those responsibilities that you think is you?
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  Yes, we have to be responsible. And the things you have to do will most likely
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  not change even when you give them to Jesus.
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  But one thing will change. You won't be doing them on your own.
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  You won't be doing them in your own strength.
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  You won't be making the plans. It won't be left up to you with a finite mind
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  to determine what an infinite reason or answer is.
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  But instead, you can come boldly to the throne of God and you can lay your troubles at his feet.
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  He says, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.
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  You see, I think it's incredible that he wrote that like that.
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  He didn't say because he cared for you.
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  It's easy to see. John 3.16 says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but
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  have everlasting life that work on calvary that bought me in eternity in heaven
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  and a fellowship with jesus christ and inducted me into the family of god is
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  an amazing thing that my eyes cannot see my mind can't understand but my heart knows and it feels.
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  He did that some 2,000 years ago for me. But just so we don't think that his
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  love stopped at Calvary and that his love is completely contained within the
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  flow from here to eternity,
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  he writes for us, for he careth for you.
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  That's the present. That's now. That's forever and continuous.
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  You can bank on it that this day, right now,
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  you are hearing the words that he careth
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  for you and he says casting you get
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  to do it more than once it's not that
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  today i feel worried about this and so i've
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  got one little card that says i can hand
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  it to jesus today no my friend
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  this is casting constant continuous
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  you don't let any of it stick to you because
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  your heart delights in him he's who you want to
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  know he's who you want to be around he's the
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  person you want to talk to he's the person you want
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  to be with and he's that real he says trust in the lord with all thine heart
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  in proverbs 3 5 and 7 and lean not into thine own understanding in all thy ways
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  acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths be not wise in thine own eyes
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  my goodness remember he said he would keep him in perfect peace.
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  Whose mind was stayed on thee.
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  If your mind is stayed on Christ, if your mind is fixated on him,
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  if your focus is on Jesus, you're going to remember his promises.
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  You know, like the one that said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
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  The promises that I'll supply all your needs according to my riches in glory.
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  The one that says you can do all things through me because I will strengthen you.
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  The one that says I have gone to prepare a place for you that where I am,
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  you may be also. And if I've gone to prepare a place for you,
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  I'll come again, and I will call you unto myself.
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  And in my father's house are many mansions.
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  And he's got one just for you.
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  Can you imagine? Jesus loves you.
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  This I know. For the Bible tells me so.
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  Peace, it's not elusive. Peace isn't for only those who have great wealth.
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  Peace is for those who have Jesus, and in him there is great wealth.
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  There are riches untold.
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  There's a resource that the world doesn't understand.
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  He said, I am the I am.
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  But you got to believe in mark chapter 9 and verse 23 he says if thou canst
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  believe all things did you hear me if thou canst believe all things.
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  Possible to him that believes you see peace comes with those who have hope and
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  i have a hope that the world can't take away because the world didn't give it
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  to me my hope is in jesus christ.
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  In romans chapter 5 and verse 1 he says therefore
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  being justified by faith you see my faith in jesus christ isn't about me it's
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  about his finished work on calvary it's about his ability to never fail it's
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  about his ability to provide it's about his perfectness it's about his love for me,
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  and that faith i've placed in him makes it as if i've never sinned and that's
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  what justification means i'm not perfect and every day i use first john 1 9
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  and i go to him and i repent.
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  But you see i have a peace that is
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  wrapped up in that jesus and he says we have peace with god through our lord
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  jesus christ you see he's my lord he's the one in whom i'm placing my faith
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  and he's the one in whom i trust and he says that now the god of hope fill you with joy and peace,
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  in believing that you may abound in hope
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  through the power of the holy ghost i have hope because my hope
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  is in jesus christ and his righteousness and
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  i have jesus in me because remember
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  in romans 10 13 he said whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall
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  be saved in psalms 18 verse 2 he says the lord is my rock and my fortress and
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  my deliverer my god my strength in whom i will trust my buckler,
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  and this life that we travel so fast.
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  We travel with such uncertainty I have
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  the seat belt of the Holy Spirit and God buckles me
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  in on the rock of his salvation and
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  the steadfastness stead fastness of his son
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  and I have joy unspeakable and
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  full of glory because I believe him
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  when he said in Philippians 4 6 through 8 be careful
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  for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with
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  Thanksgiving let your requests be made known
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  unto god you see thank him as you're praying
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  believe him so much in him that you
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  know that that prayer you're praying is falling on
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  a god that cares and answers and is able
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  and loves you and knows the way that he
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  has for you you see he says with thanksgiving
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  let your requests be made known unto god and the peace of
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  god which passeth all understanding shall
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  keep your hearts and minds through christ jesus
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  there's a guaranteed peace in jesus because
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  he is peace he's the
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  prince of peace and regardless of
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  what you're feeling he is the answer for
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  your every need and he loves you my friend
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  today right now you have the opportunity to find the peace of god that passes
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  all understanding by trusting and believing in a God that cannot fail and receiving His Son.
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  Jesus Christ, as your Savior.
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  May the peace of God rule in your hearts.
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