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556 | A Peace that Passes Understanding - Part 1 - Finding Calm in Christ · 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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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Today is the first message in our series on a peace that passes understanding.
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  During this series on peace, we will take an in-depth look at the unwavering,
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  unstoppable faith in God, on living with no worries or doubts,
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  possessing a faith that motivates and moves us, and a following faith that draws us closer to Him.
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  Come join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  as Kim begins this study on the peace of God.
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  Hello and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of
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  woman at the well ministries and i believe that
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  the greatest gift that christ gives us is salvation and he says to us in luke
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  chapter 2 and verse 11 for unto you is born this day in the city of david a
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  savior which is christ the lord and he tells us in romans 10 13 that whosoever
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  should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  But I believe beyond that gift of salvation that Christ gives us,
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  and because of his sinless perfect life and his sacrificial death on the cross
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  of Calvary, that we're able to go to heaven and live eternity in a place not made with hands,
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  in a place where Jesus reigns supreme, where he is the light,
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  and where our mind just can't comprehend what it looks like.
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  Beyond that amazing gift.
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  I believe the next greatest gift he gives is the gift of peace.
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  And we have that peace because of all the things that we just described that make Jesus who he is.
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  We have the gift of peace because we don't have to rely upon ourselves because
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  it is he who knows the way because he is the way in John chapter 14 and verse 6.
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  We can have that peace because he
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  commanded in john chapter 14 and verse 1 let
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  not your heart be troubled you believe
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  in god believe also in me
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  he tells us in john chapter 14 and verse 27 that he and he alone gives us our
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  peace he says peace i leave with
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  you my peace i give unto you not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
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  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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  Because we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, we can have peace.
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  The prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 26, 3, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
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  whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.
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  What a beautiful verse.
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  And as we speak later on in this lessons of peace, we'll spend some time in that verse.
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  But I want you as we begin to study the peace of God, I want you to get the
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  full picture of what we're talking about.
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  You see, we're talking about something that is bigger than us that you can know personally.
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  Does it make the troubles of the world go away in your life?
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  No but it makes them powerless against
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  you for you see christ said that
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  you can do all things through jesus which strengthens
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  him he tells us that in philippians 4 13 as
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  the writer paul writes what the holy spirit inspires
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  him to write on that page you see
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  he tells us in hebrews chapter 11
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  and verse 6 this very truth
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  but without faith it is impossible to
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  please him for he that cometh to god must believe
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  that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him the key
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  to faith in god is what is given to us in order to open up peace you see god
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  says he gives peace to those who trust in him.
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  And the Bible says that God gives faith liberally to all men.
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  And if we come and ask him for faith, he will increase our faith.
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  And without faith, it's impossible to please him. So as we begin to look at
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  the peace of God that passes all understanding,
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  it is incredibly important that you make your calling and election sure in Jesus Christ.
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  For you see, the world can't give this peace.
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  And thank God he can't give it, so therefore it can't take it away.
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  But we can give it away. but the world
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  can't give us this peace so we must have
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  a relationship with something beyond the world we must
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  have a faith that goes beyond ourselves for you see regardless of what you've
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  tried to make other people think down deep in your heart of hearts you know
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  that you are just dust and that you are frail,
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  that you don't have all the answers,
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  that you don't know the way by yourself, and that there are some things you just can't do.
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  But I submit to you, there is nothing impossible to him that believeth.
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  For Mark 9.23 says, to him that believeth, all things are possible.
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  You see, when we begin to talk about peace, we
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  can't separate faith and there's
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  some amazing things that take place with peace hundreds
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  of thousands upon millions of dollars are spent in the world yearly perhaps
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  even more frequently than that on seeking peace on trying to help ourselves
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  get rid of some anguish and some pain.
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  My friend, there is certainly a place for medicine and doctors,
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  but that place is not your soul.
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  For you see, they are man, and they will fail.
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  But God, who looks into your heart.
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  Who created you in his image, who made the blueprint and who has a plan for you,
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  sits knocking on your door waiting for you to invoke him into your life.
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  And he comes not empty-handed. He comes with peace.
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  He comes with provision.
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  He comes with unconditional love. He comes with acceptance.
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  He comes, and he's already there.
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  You don't have to make an appointment, but you have one.
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  For you see, the book of Hebrews, I believe it's 9.23, says,
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  It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this, the judgment.
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  But right now, you have the opportunity to spend time with the God of the universe.
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  You have opportunity to have a personal relationship with you, with him.
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  You have the opportunity to call him father. For he says, what manner of love
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  hath the father bestowed upon us that we might be called the sons of God?
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  And you see, he said in John chapter 14, I go to prepare a place that where I am, you may be also.
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  And he's done his job. He's prepared the place and he's knocking on your heart's door.
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  Have you done your job you see
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  it requires you to be born again in john
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  chapter 3 when nicodemus comes to jesus by night jesus
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  himself says to him marvel not that i say unto you you must be born again he
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  tells him that unless you're born again you cannot see the kingdom of god in
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  the book of acts he says today is the day of salvation and now is the accepted
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  time he's done his part March.
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  And he's doing his part right now as he's drawing you to him. Have you done yours?
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  For you see, one day you will be like the rich man.
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  And Jesus will say, tonight, thy soul will be required of thee.
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  And if you haven't made your calling and election sure, then you'll miss heaven
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  and spend eternity in hell.
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  All because of what you do today with Jesus Christ.
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  And he said choose you this day whom you
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  will serve before the blood-bought washed banded
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  people who have committed their lives to
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  jesus christ who have turned their hearts over to him who have felt the cleansing
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  power of his blood who's washed away their sins that were once black are now
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  white as snow to them awaits for them what i have not seen an ear hath not heard
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  for those that are prepared to meet the Lord.
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  The Lord has prepared for you what I can't even imagine, let alone be able.
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  Show in any picture word what heaven is like.
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  John, the revelator, was over on the Isle of Patmos, and he got to see a glimpse into heaven.
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  And just the things that John was able to write down are beyond my mind's comprehension.
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  But I know some things about that place called heaven.
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  I know it's a place where sin can't enter in. Therefore, I know that the struggles
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  and strife is no longer there.
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  I also know that death has no place in heaven, and I know that night never comes,
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  for Jesus Christ is the Son.
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  I know that there's a crystal river that runs, and that there are streets of
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  gold, and there are walls of jasper.
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  And I know that I have a mansion not made with hands eternal into the heavens,
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  prepared especially for me, because he said, in my father's house are many mansions
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  and if it were not so I would have told you and I go to prepare a place for
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  you that where I am you may be also.
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  And I know that there's a place where there are happy reunions on streets of gold,
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  and I know there's a place where I can go and I'll be known as I was known and
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  those that have gone on before me who have run the race with patience who have
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  run the race and they've come to the place in their life where Jesus is face to face.
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  I know that I'll see them again and I'll know them and they'll know me.
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  And I know that there is a place of eternal peace.
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  And I know that place is heaven. But I know that I can have a bit of that peace
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  in my heart because Jesus Christ lives in me.
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  And he has said, he has said that he would keep me in perfect peace if my mind would stay on him.
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  If you would, please turn to Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7.
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  Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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  let your requests be made known unto God and the peace of God.
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  Did you hear me? And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
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  Shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Shall we pray?
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  Our kind and most gracious dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we just come to you with thankful hearts.
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  We come, dear Heavenly Father, so grateful that you have invited us,
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  that we might come to you, that we might know you, that we might be able to
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  speak to you, that we could have a personal relationship with you.
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  And you have said, let our requests be made known unto you and that you would
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  give us peace because we could trust you with our cares and our burdens.
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  You've spoken to our hearts and you've said to us in your holy word that we
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  could just take your burden and you would take ours, that your yoke was easy
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  and your burden was light.
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  Lord, as we begin to just touch upon this subject of peace, that wonderful gift
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  which you've bestowed upon those that placed their faith in you,
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  Lord, we just ask that you would open our hearts, that you would open our minds,
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  that you would change our lives, that we would live a life that is filled with
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  faith and confidence in a God that cannot fail.
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  Lord, we pray that you would help us to just put our mind under subjection to
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  the holy blood of Jesus Christ, to your will and your word, and that we would
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  be able to walk in the ways that you have prepared for us to walk.
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  Lord, we pray that you would just touch every hurting heart within the sound
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  of my voice, Lord, that they would just turn their hearts to you,
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  that they might feel that balm of Gilead that comes only from you.
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  Lord, that you could calm their fears as they place their faith in you.
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  And Lord, that the things of
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  this world would grow strangely dim in the light of your glory and grace.
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  Lord, I pray that you would speak through these lips of clay,
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  that your words would come forth in a mighty authoritative way,
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  that Satan's hold on anyone listening to what you have to say today would be
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  completely loosed in the power and name of Jesus Christ.
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  And, Lord, that depression and fear would rule no more in the lives of those
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  who place their faith in you,
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  who are listening as we speak on this beautiful gift you've given us.
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  Lord, give them the courage and the strength to grab the peace that your grace
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  so bountifully supplies.
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  With all these things we ask In thy most precious and holy name we pray.
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  And all of God's people said, amen.
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  In Hebrews 11, 6, as we were speaking, it said, but without faith,
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  it is impossible to please him.
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  We need a faith that is unstoppable.
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  Is unwavering and we
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  need to place that faith in a God
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  that cannot fail for you
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  see he has bestowed upon us peace
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  and he has given us the recipe for living in peace he tells us clearly that
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  we need to keep our minds on him but he tells us in this passage of scripture
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  in Philippians chapter 4 and verse 6 that we need to be careful for nothing.
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  Worry has no place in the child of God who is in the center of his will.
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  I don't say that out of smugness or
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  arrogance for I walk in the same shoes that
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  you walk and I live in the same world that you live
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  in and you better believe it there are days that
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  I have the same problems you do
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  and there are some times that I succumb
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  to the same wiles of the devil that
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  you do when we're talking about worry been there
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  done that have the sleepless nights to
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  prove it but it was because i chose
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  to ignore the grace of
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  jesus christ who said my grace is sufficient who said i know the plans i have
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  for you who said cast your care upon me because i care it was because i chose
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  to think about things in my own mind and in my own strength instead of saying, Father,
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  I need you. And I'm scared.
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  Because he says, perfect love casts out all fear.
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  And if my faith in Christ is as it should be, then worry has no place.
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  Because I know regardless of what comes in my path, regardless of what I see,
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  regardless of the events that take place in my life, that Jesus Christ is with me.
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  Because he said, I'll never I will never leave you nor forsake you.
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  Said, you can do all things through me. And he said, I'll supply all to your needs.
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  So when I have chosen to worry and I have fretted and I have been so filled
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  with anxiety that tears of fear slide down my face, it's not because I didn't have help.
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  It's because I chose not to because I didn't like what was going on.
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  You see, it's real important that you listen to me on this because I'm going
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  to tell you something I've learned the hard way.
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  My tears of worry have never been because I didn't think God could do his job.
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  My tears of worry have always been because I didn't like the job he was doing.
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  And I am sorry to tell you that, but if you're honest with me,
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  you'll tell me the same thing.
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  When I went through the midst of the valley of the shadow of death with a dear
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  loved one who meant the world to me, And it seemed to me that when no longer
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  that person was going to be in my life, I couldn't see what tomorrow would hold.
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  You see, I didn't like life without her.
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  But I forgot I had life with him. And his way is perfect.
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  And his will is great. And I don't have to like the situation because I don't understand it.
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  But when I begin to get in the word of God and I begin to get in my knees and
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  I began to get away from myself and I began to spend time with the Holy Lamb
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  of God, then I realized that it isn't about me, but it's about his perfect will.
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  And the life of that loved one was so far better off to be somewhere else and
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  she had run the race with patience and she lost nothing and she gained it all.
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  But the sleepless nights weren't about her.
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  The sleepless nights weren't about not thinking God didn't care.
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  The truth of the matter was, was I was angry because it wasn't what I wanted.
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  Not faith. Basically, you're saying, I know better, God. Did you just forget about what I wanted?
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  You see, he's God, and he can't forget, and he never forgets.
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  And he's not pushed around by circumstance or emotion.
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  He always does what's right, when it's right and how it's right.
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  And what was best was for her to spend eternity in a place she'd lived her whole life for.
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  And if my faith was unstoppable and my faith unwaverable, that in the wee hours
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  of night when the devil would come to me and give me fear about tomorrow,
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  I would remember who holds tomorrow.
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  The same God who held my hand my whole life. The same God I've seen rise me
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  and watch me walk through the valley.
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  Who's brought me through the mountains. Who supplied my every need. Who has been there.
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  Who even in the very midst of the worst times of my life has made it bearable
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  because his grace is sufficient, who showed himself to me in ways I'd never
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  seen him before when I needed him most.
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  And even in the wee hours of the night, when the tears were flying and the body
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  was weak and emotions were out of control,
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  that same God was there and he was offering his grace and he was offering his
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  love and he was offering his mercy.
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  But my heart wasn't going to receive it.
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  It wasn't the peace of God that I wanted. I wanted my way. I wanted my mom. I wanted it done my way.
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  As we begin to talk about the peace of God, it is incredibly important that
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  you begin to really look at your relationship with God and you really begin
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  to look at how you're dealing with your situations.
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  Must examine your faith and realize that a faith in God produces peace.
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  As we begin to continue to study this topic, I want you to really look at faith
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  because it's faith in God that will produce peace.
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  Join us in our next lesson as we continue to discover the greatness of his gift. of peace.
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