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659 | Called By Name · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Thank you for joining us for today's podcast. You can find quotes and scripture.
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  References from this episode in the show notes.
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  In this world, we are always looking
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  for acceptance. We want people to notice us and to know who we are.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries as Kim begins our
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  program, revealing to us the most amazing and loving person in the world,
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  who not only knows us, but calls us to a personal relationship with Him.
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  Following this exposition of Scripture, the staff of Women at the Well Ministries
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  will discuss what this incredible truth means to them.
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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 we're going to speak out of a verse, Isaiah chapter 43 and verse 1.
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  It says, But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob,
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  and he that formed thee, O Israel.
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  Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name. Thou art mine.
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  It seems that the longer we live, the more we run into people who try to kind
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  of shove us down and belittle us. And it seems that even life itself can sometimes
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  cause us to be discouraged.
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  And the Bible says that we're not to be weary in well-doing.
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  And that in itself is something that we should really consider and that we should put upon our lives.
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  But it seems that sometimes that's difficult because it's just a commandment
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  that tells us. And I don't mean just a commandment.
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  I mean, it's something that tells us what we should do, but it doesn't really
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  give us something to hold on to to allow us to be inspired and motivated to feel accepted.
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  You see, the Bible says that we are to be a peculiar people.
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  So if we are living as Christians, we don't exactly fit in.
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  And this can sometimes cause us to feel like we're unimportant.
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  That peculiar person, zealous of good works, can sometimes feel just a little
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  awkward and out of place.
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  And when you sit in the congregations of the world and when you're within the
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  people and amongst them, you'll hear them talk about things and you'll begin
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  to feel maybe just a little bit inferior.
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  Because perhaps you haven't achieved the worldly successes that they have.
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  Perhaps you haven't achieved the worldly notoriety, and that plays on your mind.
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  But it won't touch your heart if it's absolutely bathed in Jesus Christ.
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  If you really realize that our purpose on earth is to glorify God and not ourselves.
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  If you really understand that we are pilgrims traveling through this journey,
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  and that our real reward is on the other side.
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  But even that in itself sometimes is not enough to keep us from being discouraged.
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  But Isaiah chapter 43 and verse 1 gives us something that we can hold on to
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  that will absolutely positively keep us from being discouraged.
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  Because the God of the universe, the God of all creation, calls us by name.
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  We know this because he says that he's no respecter of persons,
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  that he's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. And in this verse,
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  he speaks to Jacob by name.
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  But as we began to look at this verse and we began to take it apart,
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  there are so many wonderful nuggets of truth in there that we began to just explode with joy.
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  Because what we see says the lord created thee we weren't an accident,
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  you weren't a mistake you weren't an afterthought you weren't a byproduct you
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  were created by the god of the universe,
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  he thinks about you he prays for you and my dear friend he created you.
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  He had a plan for you, we're told in Jeremiah 29, 11.
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  And you are not just a happenstance, but you are a created being by the God
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  of the universe, one in which he sent his entire son, his only begotten son,
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  to lay his life down for you.
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  And the son loved you so much that he gave his life willingly that we might go free.
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  You are a created being by the God of the universe.
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  As we move a little bit further in the verse, it says that he formed thee.
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  I don't know about you, but just about every morning when I get up,
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  I see something else I don't like about how I look.
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  And somehow or another, I might get over what bugged me yesterday,
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  but when I look in the mirror today, there'll surely be something else.
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  And that gray hair that I plucked out yesterday somehow seems to spring three
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  or four more somewhere else in my hair, and I realize that this is a defeated
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  process. I can't continue to pull it out.
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  Not only does it hurt them a little bit afraid of what's going to happen in the end.
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  Sometimes we don't like our shape other times we don't like our height i spent
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  most of my life wanting to be taller when i was a child i desperately wanted to be eight foot seven,
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  now if god had ever answered those prayers wouldn't i have been a funny looking
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  thing today eight foot seven and a female walking around in the world,
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  talk about being out you know kind of odd and talk about not being the right
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  fit in person that would have been that eight foot seven first grader.
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  But you see, God knows these things, and God forms us exactly the way he wants.
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  And my dear friend, let me tell you, I am not a tall person,
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  but I am the exact height he wants me to be.
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  Now, I wish I could tell you that I'm probably the exact weight that he wants
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  me to be. What I can tell you is, is that I am the exact build that he wants
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  me to be, because he formed me that way.
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  And how I choose to take care of my body, and how I choose to eat,
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  and how I choose to exercise can possibly alter that form at times.
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  But the truth of the matter is he formed me, which meant he took time. He had an idea.
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  He had a concept. And he took it to fruition and he created me from his own mold.
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  And he formed me into the being that I am. That means he loves me.
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  And you say, well, how do you get that out of that?
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  Because he took time to consider he could have made me any way he wanted,
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  he didn't just speak to a bunch of dirt and just throw it out there and see
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  how it all came together and say wow that's kim miller he didn't do that,
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  because he told me in jeremiah 1 5 before i formed thee in the belly i knew thee,
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  he formed me the way he wanted it.
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  And perhaps the most beautiful part of Isaiah 43.1 is further in to the verse.
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  He says, fear not, I have redeemed thee.
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  You see, he created me and he formed me. And he absolutely positively knew that
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  he was going to have to redeem me.
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  Because he knew that I would have a sin debt I could not pay.
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  And Romans 3.23 says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  But he says listen fear not i've redeemed thee i take you back to luke chapter
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  2 and verse 11 when he says for unto you is born this day in the city of david a savior,
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  which is christ the lord so back on that day on february the 2nd in 1965 when
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  i came into this world i was a created being that he had formed and he already had redeemed,
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  me if i would but just accept,
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  his gift of salvation the price for my sins had already been paid but i had
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  to receive that gift of salvation and the bible says in romans 10 13 that whosoever
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  shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved.
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  I am a somebody because I am a created being formed by God who already took
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  care of redeeming me. All I had to do was receive the free gift,
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  and I have nothing to fear.
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  But perhaps some of the sweetest words written in the scriptures to my ears,
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  that penetrates my heart is found in the verse that he says,
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  I have called thee by thy name.
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  You see, my redemption is sure, and it wasn't a corporate salvation,
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  he didn't say okay i'm going to call all of the short people in the world and
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  they're going to be saved no he said i've called everybody,
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  and he sends the holy spirit to knock on your heart's door and you have the
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  opportunity to open that door and let him sup with you as he tells us in revelations
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  and allow him to come and be the savior the redeemer of your soul,
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  but it's personal.
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  He came to Kim Miller.
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  A young girl at the age of five and he spoke to her and he made that relationship
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  real and he made that relationship personal.
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  And he called me by name and he said after he redeemed me when I received his
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  salvation, thou art mine.
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  For you I died.
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  He calls you by name.
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  You see, sometimes we get lumped in as Christians. And that's a wonderful group
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  of people to be associated with.
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  Sometimes we are lumped at the church we go to.
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  And we'll be members of that congregation. And for most of us,
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  that's a wonderful thing to be.
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  But you know what? On that day, when I am standing face to face with Jesus Christ.
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  It's not going to be come forward all you Christians.
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  It's not going to be come forward all you members of my church.
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  It's not going to be come forward all the people that sit on the third row.
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  Do you know what it's going to be?
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  He's going to open up the Lamb's book of life. And he's going to look down that page.
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  And he's going to see my name written there.
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  And he's going to say, well done, I hope. But he's going to say,
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  enter in into the joy of your salvation.
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  For you once were lost, but now you're found.
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  And I wrote your name down here when you received the free gift.
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  I created you for such a time as this.
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  You see, the Lord created me with heaven on his mind. Did you hear me?
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  The Lord formed me with heaven on his mind.
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  The Lord redeemed me with me on his mind when he went to the cross of Calvary.
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  And that redemptive seal was stamped on my heart when I received the precious
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  blood of Jesus Christ flowing through my heart, covering the multitude of sins,
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  those that I would commit, those that I had committed, and those that I was committing right then.
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  For the Lord God died once for all that we all might know the pleasant joy of being a child of God.
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  So my friend, the next time the world may want to knock you down and the next
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  time that the world may make you try to think that you're unimportant,
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  I want you to know something.
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  He's going to call you by name if you know him as Savior. And I want you to
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  know something if you don't know him as Savior.
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  He's tugging on your heart's door right now and the holy spirit is dealing with you personally,
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  because he created you he formed you and he didn't spend all that time for you
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  to go to hell so he spanned the gap that you would go to heaven,
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  but he said you must believe in me for the bible says without faith it is impossible,
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  to please him and you must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them
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  that diligently seek him.
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  My friend, he calls us by name, and he says thou art mine.
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  Thank you for joining us for today's podcast. You can find quotes and scripture
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  references from this episode in the show notes.
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  We pray today's message has been a blessing. If it has, please consider leaving
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  a rating or review on your podcast platform.
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  Your feedback helps others discover the truth of God's Word.
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  You can connect with Women at the Well Ministries through our app at watwm.org
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  and on Facebook and Instagram.
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  While you're there, learn more about Bible Bits, Kim's daily devotional delivered
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  Monday through Friday by text message, and the Bible Bit Podcast.
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  Thank you for your prayers and support. Remember, Jesus loves you.
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  You are loved. She's a happy girl.