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609 | Overloaded, But Not Overwhelmed · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast.
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With Kimberly Miller, where we believe that every man, woman,
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boy, and girl must come to Jesus just like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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Our highest priority is helping you experience the reality of God in your everyday life.
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We invite you to sit down with us as we open the scriptures to learn more about
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who God is and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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So often in our lives, we find ourselves overloaded with tasks and concerns
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to the point that we are overwhelmed.
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Join us in this podcast of Women at the Well Ministries, which was recorded
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live at a Women's Luncheon on May 16, 2026, as Kim takes us on a journey through the Scriptures,
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revealing that in spite of the load we are carrying, we have a living God who
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sees us, hears us, and wants to give us the hope in our situation,
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the comfort for our concerns, and the victory in our lives.
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Today, I'm going to spend a few minutes with you just as a person who loves
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Jesus, who's walked this path a while.
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I was saved when I was five, and I was brought up in a home where Jesus was lived.
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He wasn't just full. And we had a Bible memory system, and by the time I was
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in first grade, I was memorizing five verses a week.
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And when I was in college, my parents were still sending me five verses a week,
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and I was still memorizing.
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So it was cataloged in my brain that works like no one else's,
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and they're talking about that.
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I have a ton of verses, and they fly out. And my goal in life is to be like my parents.
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My mom and dad did what we referred to as God speak.
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Half their words were words that we would say, and the other half were part
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of King James' verses that they got in their heart and in their mind.
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And so I hope one day that the people in my life are speaking somewhere,
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and they said, I knew a girl that she God spoke.
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Half her words were hers and
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half of her words were his because that's
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what we're here for today we have been blessed to be born women and we are different
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than men i know this for lots of reasons the one i've worked for 31 years in
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a man's world as a research scientist for the federal government.
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And I will oftentimes be the only woman in a room of 100, 200, 300 people.
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And we are different. But God makes us different because what he has called
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us to do requires us to be different.
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I want you to, in your minds for the next few moments, I want you to cherish who you are.
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But I want you to be incredibly aware of who you are.
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Jesus Christ was born of a woman, born of a virgin.
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He could have done it any way that he wanted to do it.
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But God sent his son for me and you through a woman.
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And that was going to require that that woman
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had skill set that though they are
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incredible and though they are amazing they're the same things
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that the devil uses as tools against
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us so today we're going to talk for a little while about being overloaded but
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not overwhelmed because as women we take on things that are not ours to take
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on as women we want to see things done and done right.
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As women, we have an order.
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We have a semblance of organization, and we cannot leave things undone.
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But think about why that is an important trait that God has given every one
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of us in this room. It's because if God had not sent his son Jesus to be born
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of a woman who could complete the test, we would all be without God.
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But today we stand in the room of people who are just like Mary,
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called of God to complete a task.
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And I submit to you that that task that he's asking you to complete is not the ones on your to-do list.
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It's not the organization of your closet.
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It's not taking care of all the sitting in your neighborhood,
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though you may be assigned some of them. It's not about the things that you
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do that God has assigned you.
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It's about your position in him.
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And the position that God has assigned each of us is his child and his ambassador.
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And he requires that we be holy as he is holy.
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So when you come to this conversation today about being women and all the things
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that are on our plate, I want you for the next 20 minutes or so to enter your plate.
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I want you to just stop thinking about your to-do list.
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I want you to stop thinking about what Monday is going to bring for those that
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you were still working or those who have had plans.
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I want you to stop thinking about getting the kitchen clean or the Sunday school
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class taught tomorrow or the laundry done today.
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I want you to think about what God has to say to you today through a very special woman in Scripture.
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Today, we're going to talk about Hagar. And you're thinking, well, Hagar?
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Hagar didn't have anything to look for her. She was a maid. She got hacked off at Sarah.
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She elevated herself above Sarah. She was an Egyptian who got upset and started
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to go back in the wrong direction.
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What can we learn from Hagel? And life's best.
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Because God has given me some things to tell you. But to empty that place,
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please join me right now in prayer.
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Our countenance gracious to heavenly Father Lord, you have assembled this room today.
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And you have given me the privilege of being the person who gets to speak to
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them the words that you have.
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So Lord, I ask that you would clear our minds and that you would open our hearts
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and that you would speak to each of us individually as only the Holy Spirit
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can as he comes and speaks in our heart and our mind,
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convicting us and inspiring us and motivating us.
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But Lord, I ask on my behalf that you remove me from this message as far as
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the East is from the West and that you speak through these lips of clay and
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Lord, that I would be the instrument,
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you intended me to be to bring the word you have given for all us and in Jesus
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name we pray amen overloaded but not a woman tell me if you have more than three things.
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To the public rights. Most of us have more things to do today than we even know we can get done.
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Like we're looking at the list and we're going, we can't get it done.
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It's a, it's a kind of a joke in my house. I always say, put it on the list.
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Somebody's done. So put it on the list.
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But really what I want you to hear from me today, if you don't hear anything else, is this.
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You have one decision to make today.
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One job to do, and everything else will fall into place.
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That decision is, I have decided to follow Jesus.
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That task is I will be his child, and I will bring him on.
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That's your job. Everything else is answering.
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I'm not telling you that. From Genesis to Revelations, the greatest love letter
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ever written spells it out.
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On every page, regardless of your translation.
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Today, empty your life of the distractions God has placed in it.
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Some of us in this room have had bitter disappointments in the last few weeks or months.
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Some of us have lost loved ones years, maybe just a few months,
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maybe just a few days ago.
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My family had suffered a loss just a few days ago.
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But God is bigger than your problem. He's bigger than your obstacle.
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And he's bigger than you.
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And so today we unfold the things God puts in our hearts and organize them in
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a way that they'll be useful for us as women to do what he called us to do,
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which is to be his ambassador, to be his light.
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Remember Matthew 5, 14 to 16?
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We don't put a light in the bush, but we put it out on a candy stick for all the world to see.
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And Matthew 5, 16 says, So let your light so shine before men that they may
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see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
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So when we think of the word overwhelmed, it's my least favorite word in the English dictionary.
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I never use the word overwhelmed. Because when you use the word overwhelmed,
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are saying you've got a problem bigger than god can handle so get it out of there which i did.
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Overwhelmed says this feeling completely buried
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or unable to cope with an excessive amount of tasks responsibilities or emotions
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what gets the the christian in this is it says an excessive amount And God isn't
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going to put more on you than you can't bear through his grace and his glory.
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What gets the Christian is that he is overwhelmed, says, more than we can bear
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because we have an excessive amount of responsibilities or emotions that we can't cope with.
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But greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
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And so when the world is finding themselves completely in despair,
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when they are unable to function because of the weight that's been put upon
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them, we have a God bigger than that.
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We have a God who's greater than that. And in 1 Psalm 4, 4, he says that.
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He also tells us that we are to cast our care upon him, for he cares for you.
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He also explains to us in no uncertain terms that we're never alone and the
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battle's hot hours. It belongs to the world.
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So when I succumb to the idea that the burden I'm bearing is bigger than I can bear,
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Or I'm either admitting that I am not trusting in the king of kings and the lord of lords who said,
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my yoke is easy, but my wording is right. Remember that?
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I'm either not succumbing to him or I'm saying, this is too big for him.
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And none of us would ever do that.
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Hagar gets really, really close because life got really, really tough for her.
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In 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, I like to kind of use a filter for everything
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I talk about from here on out.
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When I get into a message, I want you to have something percolating in your
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mind, circling in your heart to allow you to attach everything else I'm going
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to say to, that God is able then to tease out things that don't belong.
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And the passage of scripture I want you to keep in your mind as we continue
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for the next few moments is this.
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2 Corinthians 4, Precision 4 says this. But if our gospel be hid,
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it's hid to them that are lost. Have you thought about that?
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You're not just hiding it from your family. You're not just taking a little break.
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You're not just dealing with the things of life. And when things get better,
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I'll be a little more like God asked you to do. You're hiding your gospel.
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And you're hiding it from those that need it most. The people in your life are
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not in your life by accident.
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The person at the grocery store in front of you, I promise you, God bless.
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Either give them the bracelet that their lady makes, but at least embrace her
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knowledge and awareness that those that are put around you are someone God has
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given you to either show the light to them or get some light from them.
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Life has got to be lived intentionally and
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when we live intentionally at the feet of jesus we will
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find ourselves not overwhelmed sometimes
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when you're good at things people just keep piling
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things on you that's the overloaded part sometimes
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you don't hate to be good in any direction
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you want to take that sometimes being
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good at doing your job means when
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everybody else is bad at it and they can't get
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their 18 widgets done and you've got
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20 minutes left you're doing everybody else's quota it's okay when we couldn't
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pay a sin debt he paid ours see we have to get out of the mentality of what
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we deserve and be grateful we didn't get it Because we deserved help.
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We deserved to pay for our sins. But Jesus said no.
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So if our gospel is hid, it's hid to those who need it.
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In whom the God of this world have pondered the minds of them which believe
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not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,
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should shine unto them. Let's break that down.
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He's saying, if you don't share the gospel, The God of this world,
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which is the devil, is certainly going to show who he is.
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And as children of God, as women who want to take care of things,
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who want to wrap everything up with a nice bow, at the end of the day,
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when we look back, we want to know that that nurturing spirit,
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that that loving capacity that he's given us,
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the enlargement of who we are to help others,
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the one thing we did get right that day was we show others who Jesus is.
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Because we followed him.
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We intentionally chose it.
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1 Corinthians 15, 57 is a verse that I live on.
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I don't think there's a day of my life that I don't think of it,
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probably that I don't even quote it out loud.
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It's a verse in 18 though.
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He says, but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are winners, let's say that.
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We are winners. Why are we? We are winners.
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When's the last time as a woman, tired, overworked, overloaded,
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you woke up and said, I'm a winner.
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I'm telling you, it changes things.
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How do you think David would have done against Goliath if he'd have picked up
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those five snows? Listen, he was prepared.
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He knew God was going to take care of it, but he also knew his job was to be prepared.
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So he put his little pouch full of rocks.
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But how do you think he'd have felt when he walked out on that battlefield and
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said, Holy cow, I can't fight this guy. I'm out of here.
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We laugh, but we've done it today. We've been faced with something,
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at least in the last 36 or 42 hours, where we have been afraid.
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We weren't good enough. We couldn't get it done. It wasn't going to work.
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What was I supposed to do? So-and-so said I wasn't really good.
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So-and-so said I couldn't do it.
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We're not to live that way. No, David picked his five little stones,
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meaning he was prepared.
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He got his swing shut out. And you talk about trash off him.
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He looks like the John says, Today, the Lord's going to deliver your head to me.
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Now that's Victor. I don't suggest that you walk out of the super-soul grocery
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store and say something such as, Today, the Lord's going to hand your head to you.
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I don't ask you to say that to your boss.
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But I do say it to you. Duh. He's bruised under our feet.
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I need you to understand as you get to take on who God is in your life.
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See, we know who God is. We understand he's the creator of the universe.
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We get that he breathes fresh air into us every day.
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We understand that he brought the Israelites through the Red Sea on dry land.
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We understand that he led them by a pillar of day, a cloud, and a pillar of fire at night.
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But do you understand who he is to you?
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See, those are big, lofty things, and they're things to give us confidence.
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But I want you to know who He is to you.
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He whispered in your ear this morning that you were His.
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He wrote you the greatest love letter ever written to remind you that you are worthy through Him.
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He let you understand that He loves you so much that He doesn't want to be away from you.
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So the world He has gone to heaven to compare for you a place.
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Many mansions. And if it were not so, he would have told you.
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He goes to prepare a place for you that where he is, you may be also.
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He who are all, yes, my, not just when he was on the cross, that every single
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moment of every single day, because Jesus loves me. This I know.
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For the Bible tells me so. So the moral warning, before your feet hit the ground,
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the devil's been thinking about how he's an irritant.
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The coffee pots are going to be broken.
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Somebody's going to call you that you don't want to talk to.
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Something's going to happen. It's sunlit. God doesn't want you to,
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I mean, the devil doesn't want you to church.
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So tomorrow morning, something's going to happen. The same is to the fight.
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Kids are going to be late. Your car's not going to start. Your clothes will be wrinkled.
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Something's going to happen that just throws a monkey wrench into your death.
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And you can either go with that, or you can remember 1 Corinthians 15, 57.
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Thanks to God, which gives me the good thing.
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Through our ceases. And you just put your feet on the floor.
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And you throw your hands off. And you claim victory.
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Let's do this. I mean, you're in your sports band. Woo-hoo, baby. It's a touchdown.
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That's the universal sign of a touchdown, right? Yeah.
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The entire audience watching the gang is got their hands up,
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screaming and yelling, you think he's having revival at my church this week
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as super regionals for the college softball team.
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Wow, man, I've answered up all day long. But he's real.
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So it's amazing you know about how he led the Israelites.
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It's incredible how you know that he's forced reigned in the fire and he is a son of God.
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It's amazing that you understand that he
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shut the mouths of lions so that daniel
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can sleep peacefully but do you know he
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shuts your mouths of diet lions in more lives
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do you understand that he is asleep so that he's awake so that you can sleep
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do you get that your peace is more important to him than it is to you you know
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how i know that because he died to give you peace and isaiah 26 He says,
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I will keep in the perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth
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in thee. Do you trust in today?
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Here's how I'm reading. I want you to, if you would, in your mind's eye,
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and I will read for you out of Genesis chapter 16, beginning in verse 11.
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It's a short passage. It's a short passage.
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11 through 13, and he says this, And the angel of the Lord said unto her, this is Hagar.
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Hagar is pregnant.
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She has been given to Abraham from Sarah, Abraham's wife, because God promised
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Abraham and Sarah a child.
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And it didn't happen fast enough for Sarah.
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Here's what happens when we get the cart in front of the horse.
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When we get in front of God's plan for our lives. Bad things. It doesn't work.
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God has a plan, and it's a perfect plan. He tells us that in Jeremiah 29, 11.
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It's a good plan. The prospering, if you give you a book, will the exact end.
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So Hagar is the handmaid of Sarah. And Sarah gets this harebrained idea that
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I want a child, I wanted it yesterday, it isn't coming, so I'm gonna take back.
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So I'm just going to help him out here, and I'm going to tell him how this would happen.
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So Sarah has her handmaid, Hagar, go be the wife of Abraham.
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And Abraham and Hagar have relationships that require them to husband and wife,
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and now suddenly Hagar's herself.
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But now that Hagar is a child, Sarah don't want it.
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Bad idea, she's saying, well, it's a little late. That's not going to undo.
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And now Hagar's getting a little full of herself.
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She's the woman of the house of Hermon. And she's the person that gave Abraham what Sarah couldn't.
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So now Sarah and Hagar have a horrible relationship.
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And Sarah is mean
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to Hagar and she's had enough so
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Sarah goes to Abraham and says listen this Hagar lady she's acting like she's
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a woman of the house and I am a niece so we'll do with you for whatever you
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want you are the woman of the house so she becomes even more mean to Hagar.
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Hagar says, I can't take it anymore. I've had it. I'm at the bottom of the bottom, the low of the low.
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And I like, have you ever felt that way? You're at wit's end.
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Every way you turn seems to be a dead end or somebody's hurting you.
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Every dream you have is being squashed, sometimes by the people who mean the world to you.
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Everything that you think God is saying, every point you've made in one moment in history is over.
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That significant other has passed. And now you've got to figure out a new way to live.
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And how do God think this is a good idea?
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This is where Hagar is. As we pick up our reading in Genesis chapter 16, beginning at verse 11.
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And the angel of the Lord said unto her, behold thou
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art with child and shalt bear a son and shall
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call his name ishmael because the lord
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hath heard thy affliction and he
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will be a wild man and his hand will be against every
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man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the presence of all
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his brethren and she called the name of the lord that spake unto her thou god
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seest me for she said have i also here looked after him that seeth me.
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So here's what we have. Hagar has run to the desert.
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You need to realize that I am one of the world's worst Yobbush people in the world.
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But I do know that when she ran, she ran back towards Egypt.
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She's running back to the land that she was being delivered from.
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She's being, she comes back. She's going back where things were not the way
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they were supposed to be in her life or what she was supposed to be doing.
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What is the first thing we want to do when we decide to run from God?
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When things get hot and trouble comes our way, we shut down or we move away.
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But he says, draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh unto you.
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That's when he wants us to decrease or not be running away and we need to run
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to but hagar doing it all along have you been there doing it all along hagar shows us who god is.
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Hagar is in the middle of this and the lord comes to her and he has a conversation and he says to her,
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you're going to have a kid and his name's Ishmael and then he says that means God has heard.
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So the first thing I want you to know when you are overloaded and you've even
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made the wrong decisions to get yourself there, God hears your cry.
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And he's near. He shows up and has a conversation with a woman who is really not in right scene.
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She's not doing anything right. But Jesus comes to her.
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She's confused. She's angry. She's hurt.
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She doesn't know what to do. She doesn't know where to live.
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She doesn't know where to go.
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All her plans are completely destroyed.
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And God almost tight in front of her says to her I know the situation you know I understand,
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and I hear you God is no respecter of persons so if you're running from him
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right now because you hate the situation you find yourself in or he didn't consult
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you about how things were going the guilt of your life,
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or you feel like he has deserted you,
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I want you to know they're no lower than Hagar, and you're no different than Hagar.
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He loves you enough to come in your overwhelmed state, because you are overwhelmed,
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and it's not going to, and you can't navigate this life alone.
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What he's wanting to do is he's wanting to understand how to unload what's on
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your heart, and try to unload what's in their minds and lay it at the feet of
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Jesus, casting all your care upon him.
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Call unto me and I will ask to be and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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In Jeremiah 33, Jesus, you have seen this, I know.
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The Bible tells me so and Hagar shows. And so they continue this conversation
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and we see that she refers to him as Elor, the God who sees.
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And she names him the God who sees.
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God intimately knows and cares for Hagar.
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But I want you to see what he does. If you read the rest of Genesis chapter
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16, he sends Hagar back to where she was coming from.
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Not to Egypt, but to Sarah.
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We don't get to run away from our problems.
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Jesus walks through them with us.
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I bring to your attention that the three Hebrew children, who have more faith
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than I will ever be able to muster up, said to the king, even if he doesn't
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save me, we're not bound now.
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That's believing his plan is right, no matter how it is.
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We like to believe his plan's right when it matches what we want. Ha!
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That's not faith at all. That's just giving him a little nudge because you got what you want.
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Faith is walking in the direction who takes you and not liking any steps.
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You don't have to like him. He got his voice. And something interesting happens
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along that walk, hand in hand with Jesus.
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I have to believe that she walked and made her way back to the palace.
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Or back to where he was at, where Abraham and Sarah lived, which was probably a palace in my life.
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I have to believe as he held her by the hand, because he never leaves you or
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forsakes you, that each step got a little easier.
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And that by the time she made it back to where Sarah was, enveloped in the love,
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grace, and mercy of Jesus, that Hagar was perfectly comfortable in that place.
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Sarah may not have changed. Abraham may not have changed. But she'd been in
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the presence of Jesus. She changed.
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If you're in that season in your life where you're feeling overwhelmed,
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and maybe you are, get overloaded.
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I know the dulling stitch.
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But so do you. It's the foot of the cross.
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All your sins and all your issues and all your problems were nailed to the cross
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once for all, then on that day.
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But sometimes we hold on to what we should do.
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Sometimes we forget that the God we serve sees us and hears us.
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He sees your deep pain. He sees your loneliness.
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He sees your despair.
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And he's at home. He did not leave Hagar alone in the desert.
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He walked her back. He stayed with her. He says, I'll never leave.
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You will forsake him. You're not alone in your desert.
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You're not alone in your situation.
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And he's got some good to make up. He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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And hand in hand with him, And how can you end up in the wrong place?
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You don't have to worry about how to do things or why to do them. He gave you the why.
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How many of you have either said this to you and still have ever heard it? Was I said to?
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Hated that line from my mom, but I didn't question it. Was I said to?
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He said so. He said how to live.
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And he said hey you read this i'll explain it to you through the holy spirit,
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hide it in your heart and it'll fight you against sin hang on to it with your
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whole life cling to it with everything you have and it'll bring you joy and
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peace and comfort it'll be light in the darkness.
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It'll show you the way when you're confused. It'll stick by you when everyone else is pulling away.
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It'll keep you warm in your heart and prospering away. The devil wants you to be distracted.
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He doesn't want you to understand that Romans 8.28 says, and we know that all
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things work together for the good to lend a love of the Lord to tend to involve the religious.
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I don't see you ever. I can float down all day long, upside down,
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every wish wedding. is a big verse in my family.
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But I have situations currently in my life I don't even see.
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But I don't have to see. I believe it. He said. And that's all I need.
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Because I'm not smart enough to navigate the world he created.
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I don't know what tomorrow brings. I don't know what the next five minutes brings.
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I think I have an idea what it could change.
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But he does. us see we get our minds false on the things that don't happen we
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forget that his plans are the right place we forget that Hagar shows us that
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no one is ever invisible we've all said it gone,
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he's right with open arms asking me to take a step forward he'll just meet you
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there he's going to come with open arms.
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And their special ones. At the end of them, on your scarred hands, it proves the option.
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We forget that he hears us in our affliction. We forget that he hears our cry.
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We forget that David wrote an entire book about it.
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We forget that these owls were the.
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We build relationships with friends, we build relationships with co-workers,
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we build relationships with our family, and all of that is fantastic.
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We even try to build relationships with our balls, maybe that'll help us in getting our God alone.
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We don't build relationships with Jesus.
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Why is that? I don't have time to be my beloved. I don't have time to be my
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beloved. I don't have time to pray. Are you kidding me?
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Okay, you said pray without ceasing. It's an attitude. It's a way of posture as my house.
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Thus, if you who were married or in relationships with significant others would
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have been, how long would your marriage last if you never talked to each other,
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except some days when the preacher is preaching?
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Most of you, I would feel safe to say, did not order your spouse's film magazine.
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So you spent some sort of time. I've never been to him, so that's why I was
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saying these things more without apprehension.
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I imagine you spent time getting to meet them. That's what I've done with my friends.
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And I've spent time with them. I've asked them about things they like.
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I've played with them. I've cried with them. I've prayed with them.
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Jesus is real and if you're feeling overwhelmed it's because you haven't dumped
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your troubles on he who could fix him if you're overloaded it's because you
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need to talk to him about his gift.
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Jesus loves me this I know and I know he's personal because he went to Hagar pushing,
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there's been plenty of prayer to hide my pet and I know he's personal he's there,
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He told her about what that means.
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And in answer for him, in John chapter 4, the woman at the well comes to Jesus.
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And he tells her all things that she did. And that she's currently living with
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a man she's not married to.
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Not to condemn her, but to say, hey, I know you are. And I'll wait in on this well for you.
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He's a person. She meets him and she walks out.
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John chapter 4 verse 29 says, come
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see a man who told me all things ever I knew. is not this, the Christ.
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He wants to show you who he is.
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But you're so busy worrying about everybody else and everything else.
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You're so consumed by your schedules, so consumed by your to-do list that you have scheduled him out.
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But I've had the news. He's still there.
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Romans chapter 8, as I close, verses 37 to 39, he says this.
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Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors.
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Through him that loves us. What? Him that loves us.
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Come on. Him that loves us. What do you?
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Jesus asked me this, I know. And then he says, for I was labeled that neither
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death nor life nor angels nor principalities.
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No powers, no things present, no things to come, no heights,
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no deaths, no any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.
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Jesus loves me. He's a hell.
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Hey, God shows me you can't go so far and lift up so bad.
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Sarah, who got ahead of God, ends up with God giving her a son.
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The woman at the well, who the world shunned, he waited for.
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He's not interested in your mistakes. He's interested in your possibilities.
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Because he is the God of all possibilities.
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Mark 9.23 says, as thou canst believe. All things. What?
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All things are possible to him that believed us.
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So today, as I close, don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed because nothing
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in your life is beyond what you can eat.
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Don't carry a lobe that isn't yours to carry. Cast it upon him. Who cares? Free.
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Everybody's balanced and loved Jesus loves me and today he has said that a dozen
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times, so we're to sing it.
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So pardon the voice, and go with the song.
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