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566 | Philippians 4:13 - Strength for Every Step · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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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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  With us as we look to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen
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  your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.
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  Philippians 4.13, such a small verse tucked inside such a huge volume of treasury
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  in those 66 books of the Word of God, yet so strong in its meaning,
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  so powerful in its application,
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  so liberating in its actuality in our lives.
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  My friends, each of us have endeavored our whole lives to live a life that was
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  successful, to live a life that was beneficial, to be effective, to leave an impact,
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  to leave a mark on those around us that would let people know that we have arrived and we are there.
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  We've set out to do noble things, yet I would say that most of us have also
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  set out and done those things.
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  And many of us have set out to do those things just to find ourselves in the
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  bottom of the heap, failed in the attempt, and walking in despair.
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  Perhaps the difference in our success and our failure is in how we choose to do it.
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  If we choose to go out on our own strength and we're making our own plans and
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  we're doing the things that we want to do,
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  totally ignoring the plans that God said he has for us in Jeremiah 29,
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  11, totally ignoring the place that God wants us to be, we can end up in a big mess.
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  Let your minds go back to Jonah.
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  God sent him in one direction and he ran to the exact opposite direction because
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  he didn't want to do what God said for him to do because he was playing judge
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  and jury, and he didn't want those people to hear the word of God. So he didn't do it.
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  And he found himself in the whale belly.
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  Now, my friends, we see Elijah, the exact opposite in 1 Kings 17.
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  When he is following the commandments of God,
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  everybody else has a drought and he is moved to a place that God tells him to
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  go and he drinks freely from the brook and he gets all the food he needs from
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  the ravens that God sends every day to give him food,
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  Then as that particular situation becomes a place that God says,
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  Okay, he's too comfortable here.
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  I don't need him here anymore. He moves him away.
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  And he tells him to go and that there's a widow lady there.
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  And this widow lady is going to prepare for him food. And guess what Elijah does?
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  He picks up everything he has and he goes.
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  And he's successful because he went in the strength of Jesus Christ.
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  He went in the power of
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  god my friends god isn't going
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  to call you to do something he doesn't equip
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  you to do but he may not show you all the details perhaps he may not tell you
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  exactly how it's going to happen what he said was i will never leave you nor
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  forsake you and you can do all things through christ which strengtheneth me.
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  Now, those words are powerful, but how can we as individuals take those words
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  and apply them to our lives?
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  My friends, the secret to this is believing them. That requires faith.
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  The Bible tells us that without faith, it is impossible to please him.
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  And we must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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  My friends, at this moment in time, as we look at this verse that says,
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  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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  We need to take a close look at how we're living our lives.
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  You see, it says I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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  The first thing is you can do all things. Those all things mean everything God has asked you to do.
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  It means every task he has laid before you.
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  It means every work of the gospel he has called you to.
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  It means every daily activity that he has orchestrated for you to have.
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  It even means every trial that is placed before you that's been sifted through
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  his nail-scarred hands that he says you can do.
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  And then it says, through Christ which strengthens me.
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  That means, my friends, you can't go out on your own notions.
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  You can't go out all running ahead of God.
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  You can't go out and determine what you think is best.
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  Through Christ means getting on
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  your knees and speaking to an Almighty God that has invited you to come to him
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  all you that labor and a heavy laden and I will give you rest who's invited
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  you to come boldly to the throne of God that you could find help in time of
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  trouble through Christ means giving up your will and saying not my will but yours be done Lord.
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  Through Christ means believing his way is best.
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  Through Christ means understanding that he has a plan for you,
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  to prosper you, to give you a hope and a future.
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  Through Christ means submitting yourself under the mighty hand of God that he
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  may exalt you in due time.
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  And where is he going to exalt you? On the last part of the verse that says, who strengthens you.
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  My friend, he will give you exactly what you need to get it done.
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  He has planned 24 hours in a day. He has built your body exactly the way he wanted it to be.
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  And barring any abuse we may have done to it, barring any neglect we may have
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  on it, that body is built to work for the task that he has called you to do.
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  And my friend, if you're running out of time to do the work of the Lord,
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  you're not managing your time well.
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  My friend if you don't have time to
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  read his word to pray with him to spend
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  time with him my friend you're going
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  to be weak and you're going to be inefficient and
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  ineffective as a christian and your
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  life isn't going to be all that
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  he would have it to be but my friend even
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  when you think you can't take one more step if the
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  god of the universe has called you to take that step he
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  will equip you and if you will just yield to him and
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  allow him to flow through you won't only step into
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  that step you'll run through it because you
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  see my friends they that wait upon the lord shall soar as eagles
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  but when you go out on your own you'll surely fail
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  you see the lord knows what lies
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  ahead and he knows exactly what you need
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  but he requires you to believe in him
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  he requires you to love him he requires
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  you to have faith the through christ part in
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  philippians 4 13 is really huge because it's the peace that links them together
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  and that's the part that depends upon us my friends if you're honest with me
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  and you're honest with yourself you must tell me that you know God is capable.
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  All things are under his feet. There is nothing mightier than him.
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  Nothing is too big. Nothing is too small.
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  Nothing goes unnoticed.
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  He never sleeps. He never sombers. He's watching to and fro.
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  You have to admit that you know that god is sovereign he's omniscient he's omnipotent,
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  the bible tells me the greater is he that is in me than he
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  that is in the world and it also tells me in ephesians
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  3 20 that i can do exceedingly abundantly above
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  all that i ever ask or think my friend
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  jesus and god is more than
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  enough jesus and god is
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  all you need but it says that we
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  have to have faith and he says if we
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  have but faith of a mustard seed we can move mountains that
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  through jesus christ is the application of
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  our faith the manifestation of our
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  belief the action placed upon
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  our love through christ means we
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  have said okay lord not my will
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  but yours i'm frail and i'm undone
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  my intelligence won't get it my
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  finances won't make it my plans
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  have flaws but lord i don't even understand what you've got me in right now
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  and lord i don't even understand how i'm going to get out and your heavenly
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  father it makes no sense to me how things are going to work out but i know your
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  word says that in all things.
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  I can go through this because i
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  can do all things through christ which
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  strengthens me some of you right now
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  need to just give up on making
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  it on your own you need to give up on
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  living in your own strength because my friends
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  i don't care if you're the world's best bodybuilder i don't care if you just
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  won the strong man contest you don't have what it takes on your own to make
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  it one moment in this world.
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  Because Ephesians 6 says that we wrestle not against things in this world,
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  but against the darkness and the evil of this world, against principalities and spiritual places.
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  My friends, it's not about our strengths because remember Paul said,
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  I am strong when I am weak.
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  Because you said he is strong when I am weak.
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  And the strongest person isn't the one who stands in the face of opposition
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  and gets in someone's face and begins to just fight it out.
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  You want to find a strong woman? You want to find a strong man?
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  You need to just put your trust in God and watch them as they kneel.
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  Oh, my friends, this is an awesome God we serve, and he's not going to call
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  you to what he doesn't equip you to do.
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  And my friends, don't ever forget, you can do all things through Christ,
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  which strengtheneth you.
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