tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85123861434482134602024-03-14T06:26:01.025-07:00The Simple Gift of GraceKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00310044533488593888noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512386143448213460.post-25612188760854036422012-08-24T08:41:00.000-07:002013-01-20T05:43:02.522-08:00Antidote For Weariness<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator</i></div>
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<i>of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. </i></div>
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<i>He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the </i></div>
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<i>youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that waith </i></div>
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<i>upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, </i></div>
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<i>and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. <b>Isaiah 40:28-31</b></i></div>
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There are times in our daily walk when we can go along - take in all the diverse</div>
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events that come our way - we can set goals, accomplish great deeds and </div>
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grow in our relationships. There are times, when disappointments, discouragements,</div>
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and dismaying events can weigh us down and whittle at our strength and resolve.</div>
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Sometimes, they can be like the 'little foxes' eating away slowly at the root of us</div>
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until we realize that we've become weary in well doing. </div>
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Life is not stagnant, it is like a flowing river bringing along beauty and refreshment</div>
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as well as dangerous turns and deep waters at the same time. How do you stay afloat</div>
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mentally, physically and spiritually.</div>
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We all bear a burden or more. Sometimes we also bear one another's burdens - we</div>
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become like sponges - either filled and weighed down or wrung out and hung to dry -</div>
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weary.</div>
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God never promised our life would be easy, but Jesus did promise one thing that we</div>
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can draw from - gather rays of hope from...</div>
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Himself.</div>
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<i>"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</i></div>
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<i>Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye</i></div>
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<i>shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light".</i></div>
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<i>Matthew 11:28-30</i></div>
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<i>"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnessses,</i></div>
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<i>let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us </i></div>
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<i>run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus the author and</i></div>
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<i>the finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endureth the cross, </i></div>
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<i>despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For </i></div>
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<i>consider him that endureth such contradiction of sinners against himself,</i></div>
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<i>lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." Hebrews 12:1-3</i></div>
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<i>"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle</i></div>
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<i>wall of partition between us;" Ephesians 2:14</i></div>
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<i>Isn't it wonderful that we know we don't have to go through this life and its </i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>O soul, are you weary and troubled?<br />No light in the darkness you see?<br />There’s a light for a look at the Savior,<br />And life more abundant and free!</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>Turn your eyes upon Jesus,<br />Look full in His wonderful face,<br />And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,<br />In the light of His glory and grace.</i></b></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>Through death into life everlasting<br />He passed, and we follow Him there;<br />Over us sin no more hath dominion—<br />For more than conquerors we are!</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>His Word shall not fail you—He promised;<br />Believe Him, and all will be well:<br />Then go to a world that is dying,<br />His perfect salvation to tell!</i></b></span><br />
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<li class="first" style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I must tell Jesus all of my trials,<br />I cannot bear these burdens alone;<br />In my distress He kindly will help me,<br />He ever loves and cares for His own.</span></i></b><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
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<li style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I must tell Jesus all of my troubles,<br />He is a kind, compassionate Friend;<br />If I but ask Him He will deliver,<br />Make of my troubles quickly an end.</span></i></b></li>
<li style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tempted and tried I need a great Savior,<br />One who can help my burdens to bear;<br />I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus:<br />He all my cares and sorrows will share.</span></i></b></li>
<li style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What must I do when worldliness calls me?<br />What must I do when tempted to sin?<br />I must tell Jesus, and He will help me<br />Over the world the vict’ry to win.</span></i></b></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is the antidote for weariness? Spend time with Jesus - dedicate</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a portion of each day to meditate on God's word, to reflect on the love</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">God all the more - that you might deepen your trust and faith in God.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">am I strong". II Corinthians 12:9-10</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and to all me. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">God is working in each of us His wonderful will transforming us all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Learning from Jesus to submit ourselves to our God, to trust in Him and to </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have faith that God knows what's best for us and will give His strength</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and peace to us in good and in bad days.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lay aside your burdens, seek Jesus and find rest and peace in Him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>For oft, when on
my couch I lie</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>In vacant or in
pensive mood,</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>They flash upon
that inward eye</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>Which is the
bliss of solitude;</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>And then my
heart with pleasure fills,</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>And dances with
the daffodils.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;"><i>William Wordsworth
– ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;">I find myself on
my own more often than not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;">This is the
perfect time to reflect upon all God’s goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;">I am thankful
for the very many blessings He has bestowed upon me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;">There is a sense
of poetry in solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back and look and life and situations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outright with the LORD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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important at times to take a moment to just<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 15pt;">Be Still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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listening to soothing music, as I often do – I set for myself a flower-filled
placesetting. I feel that when you are on your own it is important to make
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I was listening to one of my favorite garden radio shows based in
Atlanta. Callers present their problems and the host helps identify the issue
and propose a course of action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">One of the callers was concerned about a 20+ year-old
Dogwood tree that was suffering. Its bark was peeling, its leaves were few and
so were the blooms. According to the gardening expert – Dogwoods have a short
life expectancy. He told the caller that the tree held on to all the stresses
that occurred in its lifetime and after a while it had taken its toll. The tree
was now old and dying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This made me wonder – if we as humans hold on to our
stresses, does that make us age faster – does that cause some illnesses maybe
even death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As Christians we are told to trust and to wait upon the
LORD. But do we. Do we ‘carry our stresses’? Do we let those things that have
occurred in our past affect our present and our future. Bad things happen to
all people. What we do with those bad things, I think has direct impact on our
health – spiritually, mentally and physically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">People say the phrase, ‘let go and let God’ so much that I
wonder if they really understand and take to heart the truth of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There are numerous Bible verses that addresses trust and
waiting on the LORD as well as instructing us not to worry. Isn’t it a
wonderful thing, that we have a God who cares about our whole self and who
promises He will carry us through. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When we are stressed it shows in our countenance, in our
spirit and affects us physically. We have great examples in God’s word of those
facing very stressful, strenuous situations. We can completely understand what
that person was feeling – these expressions are without reservation – revealing
the heart of the individual. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>As the hart panted after the water brooks, so panteth my
soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when
shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night,
while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these
things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went
with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise, with a
multitude that kept holyday. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why are
thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the
help of his countenance. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore
will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites, from the
hill Mizar. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves
and billows are gone over me. Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in
the daytime and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the
God of my life. I will say unto God my rock, Why has thou forgotten me? Why go
I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword in my bones,
mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? Why
art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou
in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my
God. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This Psalmist was in deep distress and under constant
persecution. This person remembered when things were good – when he was
surrounded by those who also trusted and praised God, then he found himself
surrounded, persecuted by those who did not have a relationship with God – who
constantly badgered him saying, “Where is your God”? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We may face similar circumstances and people, whether they
be those who have no faith or whether you face physical illness, the death of a
loved one or financial troubles. People may say to you, ‘Where is your God”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When things in our life are going well – it is easy to
praise God – it is easy to sing songs of joy. When things are not going well in
our life – if we don’t have the foundation of trusting and a relationship with
God – it is difficult because those people and or events that are causing our
‘disquiet’ can overcome our minds and hearts. Two words can change everything
“But God…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I think it is important to completely grasp and to
understand that we are not bound by our circumstances. The most important thing
in our life is to understand the depth of the love of God and his desire to
have a relationship with him. When things happen in our life, we are not alone
– God is there – It is through God and our relationship with Jesus Christ that
can carry us through the events in our life. In everything – had it not been
for God loving us and wishing to have a relationship with us – where would we
be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We cannot control what events we may have to face in
our lifetime – we can control how we respond to those things. Living our faith
is an act of will -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Consider, meditate and put to memory some of these verses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My
presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. (Exodus 33:14)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be
with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
(Deuteronomy 31:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are
the everlasting arms. (Deuteronomy 33:27)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect
those who know my name. When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be
with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor them. With long life I will
satisfy them, and show them my salvation. (Psalm 91:14-16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i><u>Trust</u> in the Lord and<u> do</u> good; so
you will <u>live</u> in the land, and <u>enjoy </u>security. <u>Take delight</u>
in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.<u> Commit</u> your
way to the Lord;<u> trust</u> in him, and he will act. <u>Be still</u> before
the Lord, and wait patiently for him. (Psalm 37:3-5, 7a)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a
stronghold in times of trouble. (Psalm 9:9-10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I have set the Lord always before me. Because he
is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall
I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up
against me, yet I will be confident. (Psalm 27: 1, 3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You are my hiding place; you will protect me from
trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. (Psalm 32:7-8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and
delivered me from all my fears. (Psalm 34:4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. (Psalm
34:10b)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears,
and rescues them from all their troubles. (Psalm 34:17)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Trust in the Lord and do good; so you will live in
the land, and enjoy security. Take delight in the Lord and he will give you the
desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will
act. Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him. (Psalm 37:3-5, 7a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you
disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my
God. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his son is with
me, a prayer to the God of my life. (Psalm 42: 5,8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present
help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the
mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and
the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalm 46:1-3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the
ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the
rock that is higher than I. For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against
the foe. I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of
your wings. (Psalm 61:1-4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation
comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will
never be shaken. (Psalm 62:1-2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who
abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, "My refuge and
my fortress; my God in whom I trust." (Psalm 91:1-2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all
his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who
redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who
satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the
eagle's. (Psalm 103:2-5)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the
Lord. They are not afraid of evil tidings; their hearts are firm, secure in the
Lord. Their hearts are steady, they will not be afraid. (Psalm 112: 1a, 7-8a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build
it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in
vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the
bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved. (Psalm 127:1-2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>When I called, you answered me; you made me bold
and stouthearted. (Psalm 138:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee
from your presence? If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far
side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold
me fast. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious
thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting. (Psalm 139: 7, 9-10, 23-24)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all
who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he
hears their cry and saves them. (Psalm 145: 18-19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make
your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the
righteous run into it and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Fear of others will prove to be a snare, but
whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. (Proverbs 29:25)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not
be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my
salvation. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. (Isaiah
12:2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace—because
they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an
everlasting rock. (Isaiah 26: 3-4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>In repentance and rest is your salvation, in
quietness and trust is your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is
the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow
tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to
the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their
strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow
weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be
dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold
you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have
called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be
with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk
through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For
I am the Lord you God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. (Isaiah 43:1b-3a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in
time of distress. (Jeremiah 16:19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You will seek me and find me when you seek me with
all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have
drawn you with loving-kindness. (Jeremiah 31:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and
the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard
for you. (Jeremiah 32:17)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is
anything too hard for me? (Jeremiah 32:27)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Your father knows what you need before you ask
him. So do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we wear?' For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these
things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Today's trouble is enough for today. (Matthew
6:8b, 31-34)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am
gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke
is easy and my burden is light. (Matthew 11: 28-31)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet
not one of them is forgotten in God's sight. But even the hairs of your head
are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
(Luke 12:6-7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to
your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why
do you worry about the rest. (Luke 12:25-26)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do
not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do
not be afraid. (John 14:27)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch
cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you
unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in
me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. If
you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it
will be done for you. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love,
just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. (John
15:4-5,7,10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>And we know that in all things God works for the
good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
(Romans 8:28)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death
nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor
any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will
be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8: 31b, 35, 37-39)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not worry about anything, but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to
God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, beloved, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there
is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these
things. (Philippians 4:6-8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I know what it is to be in need, and I know what
it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and
every situation . . . . I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
(Philippians 4: 12-13)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen
and protect you from the evil one. (2 Thessalonians 3:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but
a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been
tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of
grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time
of need. (Hebrews 4:16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Keep your lives free from the love of money, and
be content with what you have; for he has said, 'I will never leave you or
forsake you.' So we can say with confidence, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not
be afraid. What can anyone do to me?' (Hebrews 13: 5-6)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who
gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. But ask in
faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven
and tossed by the wind. (James 1:5-6)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for
you. Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the
devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in
your faith . . . . And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of
all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself
restore, support, strengthen, and establish you. (1 Peter 5: 7-10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives
out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made
perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4: 18-19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the
deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Lord will fight for you; you
need only to be still. (Exodus 14:13a,14)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My presence will go with you, and I will give you
rest. (Exodus 33:14)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them,
because it is the Lord your God who goes before you. He will be with you; he
will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. (Deuteronomy
31:6,8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are
the everlasting arms. (Deuteronomy 33:27)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or
dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your
strength. (Nehemiah 8:10b)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You will forget your misery; you will remember it
as waters that have passed away. (Job 11:16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>By his light I walked through darkness. (Job 29:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone,
O Lord, make me dwell in safety. (Psalm 4:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a
stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know your name will trust in you, for
you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you. (Psalm 9:9-10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I have set the Lord always before me. Because he
is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You show me the path of life. In your presence there
is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (Psalm 16:11)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God,
lights up my darkness. (Psalm 18:28)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord is my light and my salvation -- whom
shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life -- of whom shall I be
afraid? Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out
against me, even then will I be confident. One thing I ask of the Lord, this is
what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. For in the
day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the
shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. (Psalm 27:1,3-5)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart
take courage; wait for the Lord! (Psalm 27:14)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You are my hiding place; you will protect me from
trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. (Psalm 32:7-8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and
delivered me from all my fears. (Psalm 34:4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The angel of the Lord encamps around those who
fear him, and delivers them. (Psalm 34:7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. (Psalm
34:10b)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears,
and rescues them from all their troubles. The Lord is near to the
brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all. (Psalm 34:17-19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Trust in the Lord and do good; so you will live in
the land, and enjoy security. Take delight in the Lord and he will give you the
desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will
do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of
your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently
for him. (Psalm 37:3-7a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you
disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my
God. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with
me, a prayer to the God of my life. (Psalm 42:5,8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present
help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the
mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and
the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalm 46:1-3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Be still, and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new
and right spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy
Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and grant me a willing
spirit, to sustain me. (Psalm 51:10-12)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the
ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the
rock that is higher than I. For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against
the foe. I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of
your wings. (Psalm 61:1-4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation
comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will
never be shaken. (Psalm 62:1-2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may
continually resort: thou has given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock
and my fortress. (Psalm 71:3; KJV)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Though you have made me see troubles, many and
bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will
again bring me up. (Psalm 71:20)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the
strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:26)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who
have set their hearts on pilgrimage. They go from strength to strength, till
each appears before God in Zion. (Psalm 84:5,7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who
abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, "My refuge and
my fortress; my God in whom I trust." You will not fear the terror of the
night, or the arrow that flies by day, or the pestilence that stalks in
darkness, or the destruction that wastes at noonday. Because you have made the
Lord your refuge, the Most High your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you,
no scourge come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, so that
you will not dash your foot against a stone. (Psalm 91:1-2,5-6,9-12)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect
those who know my name. When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be
with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor them. With long life I will
satisfy them, and show them my salvation. (Psalm 91:14-16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>When I said, "My foot is slipping," your
love, O Lord, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation
brought joy to my soul. (Psalm 94:18-19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all
his benefits --who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who
redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who
satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the
eagle's. (Psalm 103:2-5)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the
Lord. They are not afraid of evil tidings; their hearts are firm, secure in the
Lord. Their hearts are steady, they will not be afraid. (Psalm 112:1a,7-8a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has
been good to you. For you, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes
from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land
of the living. (Psalm 116:7-9)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I will not die but live, and will proclaim what
the Lord has done. The Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me
over to death. (Psalm 118:17-18)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me
according to your word. (Psalm 119:28)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise
preserves my life. (Psalm 119:50)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build
it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in
vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the
bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved. (Psalm 127:1-2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>When I called, you answered me; you made me bold
and stouthearted. (Psalm 138:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you
preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes, with
your right hand you save me. (Psalm 138:7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee
from your presence? If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far
side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold
me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become
night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night
will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. Search me, O God, and
know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any
offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm
139:7,9-12,23-24)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign Lord; in you
I take refuge--do not give me over to death. (Psalm 141:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all
who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he
hears their cry and saves them. (Psalm 145:18-19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their
wounds. (Psalm 147:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make
your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when
you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. (Proverbs 3:24)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the
righteous run into it and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Fear of others will prove to be a snare, but
whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. (Proverbs 29:25)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not
be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my
salvation. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. (Isaiah
12:2)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace--because
they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an
everlasting rock. (Isaiah 26:3-4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have
accomplished you have done for us. (Isaiah 26:12)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>In repentance and rest is your salvation, in
quietness and trust is your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your
ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in
it." (Isaiah 30:21)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong,
do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine
retribution he will come to save you." (Isaiah 35:4-5)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is
the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow
tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to
the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and
weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will
renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and
not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be
dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold
you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have
called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be
with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk
through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For
I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. (Isaiah 43:1b-3a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort
you. (Isaiah 66:13a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in
time of distress. (Jeremiah 16:19a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>"For I know the plans I have for you,"
declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me,
and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with
all your heart. I will be found by you," delares the Lord, "and will
bring you back from captivity." (Jeremiah 29:11-14a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have
drawn you with loving-kindness. (Jeremiah 31:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes
from tears, for your work will be rewarded. (Jeremiah 31:16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and
the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard
for you. (Jeremiah 32:17)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is
anything too hard for me? (Jeremiah 32:27)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Because of the Lord's great love we are not
consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is
your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I
will wait for him." The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the
one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
(Lamentations 3:22-26)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For the Lord will not reject forever. Although he
causes grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his
steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve anyone.
(Lamentations 3:31-32)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I
shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. (Micah 7:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to
save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he
will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Your father knows what you need before you ask
him. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or
what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothing? So do not worry, saying, "What
shall we eat?" or "What shall we wear?" For the pagans run after
all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek
first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to
you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself. Today's trouble is enough for today. (Matthew 6:8b,25,31-34)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am
gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke
is easy and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-31)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you
will say to this mountain, "move from here to there," and it will
move; and nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17:20)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet
not one of them is forgotten in God's sight. But even the hairs of your head
are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
(Luke 12:6-7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to
your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why
do you worry about the rest? (Luke 12:25-26)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do
not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do
not be afraid. (John 14:27)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch
cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you
unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in
me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. If
you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it
will be done for you. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love,
just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. (John
15:4-5,7,10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your
mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you. (Romans 8:11)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I consider that the sufferings of this present
time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. (Romans
8:18)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>And we know that in all things God works for the
good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
(Romans 8:28)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death
nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor
any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will
be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8:31b,35,37-39)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your
feet. (Romans 16:20)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>No testing has overtaken you that is not common to
everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your
strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may
be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we
despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of
death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He
who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us; on him we
have set our hope that he will rescue us again. (2 Corinthians 1:8b-10a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it
may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not
come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but
not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not
destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of
Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. (2 Corinthians 4:7-10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer
nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this
slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory
beyond all measure, because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot
be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
(2 Corinthians 4:16-18)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new
creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! (2
Corinthians 5:17)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>And God is able to make all grace abound to you,
so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound
in every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer
live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the
proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places. (Ephesians 1:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Do not worry about anything, but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to
God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, beloved, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there
is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these
things. (Philippians 4:6-8)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>I know what it is to be in need, and I know what
it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and
every situation. I can do everything through him who gives me strength. (Philippians
4:12a,13)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Set your minds on things that are above, not on
things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with
Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be
revealed with him in glory. (Colossians 3:2-4)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.
(Colossians 3:15a)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen
and protect you from the evil one. (2 Thessalonians 3:3)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace
at all times and in every way. (2 Thessalonians 3:16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but
a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and
will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and
ever. (2 Timothy 4:18)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been
tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of
grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in
time of need. (Hebrews 4:15-16)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>God is not unjust; he will not forget your work
and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to
help them. (Hebrews 6:10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Keep your lives free from the love of money, and
be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never leave you or
forsake you." So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper;
I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?" (Hebrews 13:5-6)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who
gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. But ask in
faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven
and tossed by the wind. (James 1:5-6)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Let those suffering in accordance with God's will
entrust themselves to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good. (1 Peter
4:19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for
you. Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the
devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in
your faith. And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all
grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore,
support, strengthen, and establish you. (1 Peter 5:7-9a,10)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives
out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made
perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:18-19)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "didot"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the
victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes
the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:4-5)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And <i>forgive </i>us our trespasses, As we <i>forgive</i> them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The power, and the glory,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">For ever and ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Without forgiveness, we would all be hopeless.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">God’s forgiveness through our LORD Jesus Christ is complete – it is perfect. Because of Jesus Christ, God forgives can forgive all mankind of all sins – it is a free gift offered to those who willingly receive Christ as their Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> The scope of God’s gracious forgiveness is amazing. It is something worth taking time to think on and to meditate on God's grace and mercy. Recognizing this changed my life a few years back. God in his grace fully forgave me unconditionally. God’s forgiveness is based upon Christ’s sacrifice alone and upon God’s own character – He keeps his promises.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">How then shall I live now? I believe that I should recognize God’s hand in everything in my life – to be thankful for everything – ‘in all things – give thanks’. I should govern myself to do the right thing – to the best of my ability. One of those things is to be forgiving. If God in His grace and mercy forgave me, how could I not be forgiving of others.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This was recently tested and brought to my mind and heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">On January 20, 2009 my younger brother Tim was murdered by his close friend and roommate. The news was a devastating blow to my heart. I knew of Tim’s friend, knew of their close friendship for many years. Tim had even brought his friend to my sister’s home that previous Thanksgiving. It was and is still inconceivable to me that someone such as that would – could commit such a heinous, brutal crime. Not only did he murder my brother but he also cruelly murdered on the next day another friend of theirs. Anger and hatred toward someone I’d never met were two emotions I fought constantly. My siblings and I had to plan our brother’s funeral, we had to endure the slow legal process of learning of the events leading to his death and had to endure the legal process of being in his murderer’s presence on two occasions in court. The anguish caused to myself and to my siblings was very deep. Fortunately, for us all this man pled guilty and we were spared the ordeal of a trial with the evidence that would bring to our hearts and minds afresh the pain of the knowledge of the act of murder against our brother. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A few weeks after the court hearing sentencing our brother’s murderer I read Ezekiel 3:18,19 <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #09131f; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>“When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turns not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #09131f; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And I knew. I had to forgive this man and I had to share with him what I knew, that God for Christ’s sake is willing to forgive anyone. I had recognized my sin and had asked for forgiveness and received it – how could I keep that to myself – even from one such as this man. In the end, all sin no matter how great or how small in our eyes separates us from God – we all needed forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>“Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:18-19). <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">So, I wrote this man a letter expressing my forgiveness and explaining that God has offered him the opportunity to be forgiven. I plan to send to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 21px;">him this letter and a Bible.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It took me a while to approach my siblings about my plans – I knew their deep hurt and wasn’t sure whether they’d understand. I didn’t want to hurt them further. But, praise the LORD they did – and have given me their blessing. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It is liberating to release one from such a burden – I miss my brother deeply, but know based upon his own testimony that many years back he too accepted Christ as his Savior, so I know - trusting God’s word – I will see Tim again someday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 16.0pt;">If God forgave us for Christ’s sake, how could we do any less.</span></div><!--EndFragment-->Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00310044533488593888noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512386143448213460.post-64980491926760964502011-09-22T12:53:00.000-07:002013-01-20T05:20:41.705-08:00Trust<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 36pt;">Confidence in God<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTNKccHY1M4Jtg6y51Nl7hhFZqypYW0V72uSNcWbq9OH5yGZqtNBD_dBOii2EbUuCp8hAp9KCd0Irmlt8iTTtXoWWY4jyIP8TyBwp0vcytN8A2RYwqlV465f0zh2d0eKGreWCd8WqjjE/s1600/100_0226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTNKccHY1M4Jtg6y51Nl7hhFZqypYW0V72uSNcWbq9OH5yGZqtNBD_dBOii2EbUuCp8hAp9KCd0Irmlt8iTTtXoWWY4jyIP8TyBwp0vcytN8A2RYwqlV465f0zh2d0eKGreWCd8WqjjE/s400/100_0226.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;">My husband is planning to sing the song<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;">Sunday. I am struck by the concept and the words.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;">More times than not, we cannot see the way God is leading in our lives or in the lives of those we love. Nevertheless, we need to completely trust Him. I have loved and grown to trust God more and more through the good and the bad situations in our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;">Now, thinking – that God has the best plan for me and for them – I need to trust His heart – His love for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;">To me, there is no better source of peace and comfort than to know that I can trust God – no matter what.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;">Here are the lyrics. I hope you find peace and comfort yourself in them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">All things work for our good <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Though sometimes we don't see how they could<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Struggles that break our hearts in two <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Sometimes blind us to the truth<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Our Father knows what best for us<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">His ways are not our own<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">So when your pathway grows dim <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">And you just don't see Him <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Remember you're never alone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">God is too wise to be mistaken <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">God is too good to be unkind <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">So when you don't understand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you don't see His plan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you can't trace His hand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">He sees the master plan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">And He holds our future in His hand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">So don't live as those who have no hope <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">All our hope is found in Him <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">We see the present clearly <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">But He sees the first and the last <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">And like a tapestry <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">He's weaving you and me <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">To someday be just like Him <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">God is too wise to be mistaken <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">God is too good to be unkind <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">So when you don't understand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you don't see His plan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you can't trace His hand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">He alone is faithful and true <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">He alone knows what is best for you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">God is too wise to be mistaken <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">God is too good to be unkind <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">So when you don't understand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you don't see His plan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you can't trace His hand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you don't understand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you don't see His plan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">When you can't trace His hand <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">Trust His heart</span><span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">“And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">II Corinthians 12:9</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">I think we all struggle with something. Whether it is a physical infirmity, as was probably the case with Paul, or with events in our past, or with feelings of incompleteness. The list can go on and on. </span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">Grace in Christ tells us we’re already complete in Him. </span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being </span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">in Christ Jesus”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">Romans 3:23-24</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">We are complete in Him.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">Reading Psalm 139 completely just fills my heart. To know that</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">from the very beginning, God knew us and thought of us.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">What incredible love. God knew in and of ourselves we </span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">could never do enough to merit Heaven, so Jesus freely paid</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">the price for us – He did it all – we are complete in Him.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">I find comfort and deep joy knowing that God loves me so completely.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">There is liberty in realizing and understanding that there’s nothing</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">I can do to earn Salvation – Christ paid it all. But, to live, to love</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">Him – that’s what I can do – to make my life a reflection of His</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">Love so that others may know – that is what I can do.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calisto MT"; font-size: 16pt;">Psalm 139</span></i></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">5</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">6</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">7</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">8</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">9</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">10</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">11</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">12</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">13</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">14</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">15</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">16</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">17</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">18</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">19</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">20</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">21</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">22</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">23</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">24</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I started this blog with the intention of giving myself something to be more accountable to in my walk with the LORD. And, to share my faith and journey in getting to know God more. I came to know Jesus as my Savior when I was a teenager. My dad was in the Navy and I grew up in various places – but for the most part in <place w:st="on">Southern California</place>.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">While we lived there, folks did not take us to church, but they did allow us to attend neighborhood Vacation Bible Schools and attend a <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Baptist</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Church</placetype></place> through their bus ministry.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">When my dad retired we moved to <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">South Carolina</place></state>, where my extended family lived. It was a joy to be near my Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Frank – they were two who kept contact with us so far away – they loomed large in my young life.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Uncle Frank was a Deacon at <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Florence</placename> <placename w:st="on">Baptist</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Temple</placetype></place> and greatly influenced my parents to send us five children to their Christian school.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">That summer we moved to SC. I attended a camp in the mountains of <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">North Carolina</place></state>, The WILDS. It was there, on a rainy Thursday night that I realized that God loved me so much to send His only son Jesus to die on the cross to pay for my sins. I saw myself, His love and </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">was overcome with tears of joy! I fell in love with Jesus that night</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and have grown to love and to trust Him more and more over the years.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Over time I came to know and to appreciate the music ministry of Steve Green.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">He has stayed true and honest in his music –in his worship and praise of our God.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love it when artists can take your heart’s longing and yearning and put it into</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">words and into music.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">This song seems to be the theme of my heart’s desire. I hope you're encouraged today and if you don't know the LORD yourself, I'd be glad to share with you how you can. Blessings to you!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Oh, I Want To Know You More</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Just the time I feel<br />
that I've been caught<br />
in the mire of self.<br />
Just the time I feel<br />
my mind's been bought<br />
by worldly wealth.<br />
That's when the breeze begins<br />
to blow I know,<br />
the Spirit's Call.<br />
And all my worldly wanderings<br />
just melt into His Love.<br />
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Oh, I want to know You more!<br />
Deep within my soul I want to know You,<br />
Oh, I want to know You.<br />
To feel Your Heart and know Your Mind,<br />
looking in Your eyes stirs up within me,<br />
cries that says I want to know You<br />
Oh, I want to know You more.<br />
Oh, I want to know You more.<br />
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When my daily deeds<br />
ordinarily lose life and song,<br />
my heart begins to bleed,<br />
sensitivity to Him is gone.<br />
But the Gentle Arms of Jesus<br />
warm my hungering to be whole.<br />
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Oh, I want to know You more!<br />
Deep within my soul I want to know You,<br />
Oh, I want to know You.<br />
And I would give my final breathe<br />
to know You in Your Death and Ressurrection,<br />
Oh, I want to know You more.<br />
Oh, I want to know You more.<br />
Oh, I want to know You more...</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you're encouraged today and if you don't know the LORD yourself, I'd be glad to share with you how you can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blessings to you!</span><br />
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Thou has turned for my my mourning into dancing: thou has put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;</div>
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To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.</div>
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Psalm 30: 11,13</div>
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<span style="color: #1e1aa2;">Empathy</span>. I have learned through the trials in my life a deeper empathy for those suffering. But, more importantly, I have learned to love God all the more. Two words come to my mind, "But God..." Had it not been for God's love for us, we would have no hope. What keeps some people from harming others, from committing crimes against another - is it their upbringing - or is it something more? </div>
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What keeps me from doing things I know to be wrong - consequences - not what you might think - it is the knowledge that Jesus Christ died for my sins - why would I ask him for forgiveness and then deliberately place another spot on my account. There is none perfect, but we do have choices each day. And when we do wrong - He is faithful and just to forgive. </div>
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<span style="color: #1921a2;">Forgiveness.</span> That is another word that has been on my mind. To know and to accept God has forgiven us for our sins is one thing - but to harbor anger and malice towards another - how can we? How can we who have been forgiven much - hold something against another - especially, if God himself has and is willing to forgive that person.</div>
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<span style="color: #3027a2;">Understanding</span> - How does God look at situations? From His perspective - I wonder about that - the phrase, 'What would Jesus do?' truly is a powerful phrase. From Heaven's point of view what is the most important thing in a situation? I believe if we acted with that thought in mind, we might govern ourselves differently from day to day. </div>
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<span style="color: #2d26a2;">Love. </span>Can I love the unloveable? God can - who am I to say that through Jesus I can't? If I believe God's word to be true - I believe that I am forgiven of my sins and that through Jesus Christ - I will one day see God. Therefore, while here on earth, I must govern my mind and my actions to reflect Him -</div>
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<span style="color: #a2872d;">and it is through Him I can </span>Empathize, forgive, understand and love.</div>
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The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusteth in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart trusteth in him, therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.</div>
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