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412 | Throwback - Living with Grace · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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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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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  God gives grace, more grace, and even more grace. He just keeps giving you grace.
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  No matter how many times you fall, He picks you up and shakes you off and puts you right back on track.
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  All you have to do is ask. Join us in this program, Living with Grace,
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  As Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries takes us through James 4,
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  6, which says, But he giveth more grace.
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  Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this
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  and other opportunity to come before you. We thank you, Lord,
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  for your love and your mercy.
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  And Lord, we're so grateful for your grace.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would open up our hearts and our minds
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  as we think about this term grace.
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  That we would understand the gift that it is that you give us.
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  That we would understand how it is that you deal with each one of us and how
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  it is that we stand before you.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would just instill in us the knowledge
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  to know how much you love us and how much you care for us.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that that knowledge would help us to come to you
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  in times of trouble, to come to you, Lord, in times of good,
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  and that we would find ourselves focused upon you every day and every moment.
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  I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would help us to have the courage to trust and obey.
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  And I pray, dear Heavenly Father, that you would keep us in your word,
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  that we may ever be found doing what you'd have us to do.
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  Thank you, Lord, for giving us grace and not dealing with us according to what our merit is.
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  And I thank you, Lord, for your grace that covers my multitude of sins with your love.
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  And I thank you, Lord, that you treat me through your eyes of mercy and grace, and that's how you...
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  Deal with me every moment of every day and not what I deserve.
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  Lord, thank you so much for loving me. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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  Grace has been termed unmerited favor.
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  And when the Lord deals with each one of us, he deals with us in a way that
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  is completely covered in grace.
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  Because none of us on our own merit have the right to stand before an almighty
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  God who is sinless and perfect.
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  None of us have within us anything that would make us worth the blood of God's
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  only begotten son and the life that Jesus himself gave that we might have life.
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  That is a type of love that
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  is nearly incomprehensible by
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  mortal man knowing that the love
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  that god has for us is unconditional i didn't
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  do anything to earn it and i can't
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  do anything to lose it in fact the scripture
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  tells us that nothing will separate us from the love of god
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  and the scripture also tells us that it's
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  by grace we're saved and when we begin to
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  look at the grace that god gave
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  us it's completely limitless it's immeasurable against anything that we have
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  on this earth to measure the greatest gift that you've been given on earth cannot
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  compare to the gifts that God has given us in his son, Jesus Christ.
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  The most amazing amounts of love that you may have been shown,
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  pale in comparison to the love that Christ has for each and every one of us.
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  And he loves us despite the fact that many times, some of us,
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  if not most of us, are unlovable.
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  In that we continually make the same sins, the same mistakes,
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  the same errors, day in and day out.
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  And the Lord knows what is in our hearts and he knows what is our intent and
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  he knows what our capabilities are and he reaches out and gives us grace.
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  And just when you think that you've gone as far as you can go and you've exhausted
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  the amount of grace he has for you, he gives it to you again, even more.
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  You see the verse that we're talking about
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  today in james chapter 4 and verse 6 says he
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  gives more grace but it says
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  that he resisted the proud but he gives
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  grace to the humble see a proud person
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  will remove themselves from the
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  will of god either intentionally or unintentionally
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  but the actions of a proud person will
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  be actions that demonstrate that they
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  believe that they themselves have the
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  ability to take care of what's going on in their life
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  it'll be actions that demonstrate
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  that they trust in their own abilities they
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  trust in their own thoughts they trust in their own
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  wisdom and for someone who isn't
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  proud or isn't demonstrating self-reliance
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  and they realize that every
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  good and perfect gift cometh down from the father of lights
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  and they realize that without christ
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  we are nothing and we realize that everything that we are and everything that
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  we have and everything we're ever going to be and all that we have done and
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  all that we will ever do we've done because of the grace and the mercy and the.
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  Love and the goodness of Jesus.
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  When that person comes to Christ asking for favor, he gives more.
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  Even perhaps if that person has made some decision or did some action to place
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  themselves in the place where they need more of grace.
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  They need more of God's help. They need more of God's understanding.
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  They need more of God's counsel. They need more of God's wisdom.
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  Even if that humble person has honestly made a mistake.
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  The lord will mete
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  out his grace to that individual
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  again and again and again
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  and as that individual needs
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  more of jesus jesus will pour more of himself into him because jesus resists
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  the proud because in all honesty the proud is resisting him they're not willing
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  to submit under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt them in due time.
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  They're not willing to follow the plans that God has for them,
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  which will prosper them and give them a hope and an expected end.
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  They're not willing to submit their will to God.
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  And I believe that each and every believer right now at this moment needs to
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  check themselves against the scriptures.
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  They need to check themselves and
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  realize that they need to come under subjection to the holy word of god.
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  I've seen a very interesting phenomenon in my lifetime.
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  I've seen individuals who have somehow become proud in their walk with Christ.
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  And so they try to hold it over or exalt it up above someone else,
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  that there's some big Christian and that, you know, God has done this for them
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  and God has done that for them and that God shows them favor.
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  And that in itself is a pride. And God doesn't like pride.
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  God doesn't want us to use his blessings to hoard over someone else.
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  God doesn't want us to use his word to beat someone down.
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  God doesn't want us to think that we're more than we are.
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  He wants us to understand that we can do all things through him, which strengthens us.
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  That we will have all of our needs supplied by him to do those things that he's asked us to do.
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  To be able to live the abundant life because he said
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  that he came that we might have life and
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  have it more abundantly as christians we
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  need to love the lord and when we love the lord we're
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  going to quickly see in his word that we are
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  to love one another and it's impossible
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  to love someone completely if
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  you feel that they are beneath you and i
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  think it's time that we really realize that
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  but for the grace of God there go I and
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  you can just slip yourself into any category that you want if it wasn't for
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  your understanding of who Christ is and your willingness to allow Christ to
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  live in you you too could be in the gutter somewhere completely dependent upon some substance.
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  You too could be living a life of crime. If you have not allowed Jesus to be
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  the one and all in your life to lead you, to guide you, to counsel you, to love you,
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  to lead you in the direction that he has for you, it is only by his grace that
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  you haven't found yourself following in horrible places that the devil is trying
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  to lead you. Because be not deceived.
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  God is not monk whatsoever, man, so if that shall he also reap.
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  Be not deceived. The devil wants nothing good for you. And he may make whatever's
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  going on around you look very enticing. But his main purpose is to draw you away from God.
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  His main purpose is to get something between you and God that you place there.
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  Because God hasn't moved.
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  And God isn't putting anything in front of you. He says that if you'll resist, draw nigh unto him.
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  He'll draw nigh unto you. And he says, to cleanse your hands,
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  ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
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  He tells us in the verse in front of that, to submit yourselves, therefore, to God.
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  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. And both of those verses follow
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  when he says, but he giveth more grace.
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  We live in a world where the devil wants to control you, but greater is he that
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  is in you than he that is in the world. You are victorious in Jesus,
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  and he said that you're more unconquerors through Christ Jesus.
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  In every situation, if you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,
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  he will continue to pour his grace upon you, offering you the way of escape.
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  Showering you with his blessings, enveloping you with his love,
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  and always leading you in the ways to righteousness and the ways that he has
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  planned for you, which will lead you, as I said before,
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  to prosper and have a hope.
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  Jesus loves you with his very life, and he continually gives you his grace,
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  unmerited favor, and all he asks in return is that you love him and follow him.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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