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Going into 2020... step by step...

God is with us..all the way...

"There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed."

"Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."

"Be ye therefore perfect. - Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity."

"I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment."

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit."
 

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And that @Nancy is something that few people grasp.
Hearing is so important. Like Manna... daily .
"Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God." Forever proceeding to those of take time to listen. :)
 

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Cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you” 1Peter 5: 7 .

From time to time we all have anxious moments. We might feel worried when faced with a problem at work, or when our child is sick, or when we are awaiting the result of an exam. But there are those who suffer from long-term anxiety disorders that leave them emotionally, socially, and even spiritually paralyzed. Their apprehension begins by worrying over circumstances over which they have no control.

That is why God’s Word urges us,-
Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” Philippians 4: 6

...... and again, “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” Matthew 6:26.


“THE ROBIN AND THE SPARROW"

“Said the robin to the sparrow,
“I should really like to know,
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry so.”

Said the sparrow to the robin,
“Friend I think that it must be,
That they have no Heavenly Father,
Such as cares for you and me.”

~Elizabeth Cheney~
 
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Cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you” 1Peter 5: 7 .

From time to time we all have anxious moments. We might feel worried when faced with a problem at work, or when our child is sick, or when we are awaiting the result of an exam. But there are those who suffer from long-term anxiety disorders that leave them emotionally, socially, and even spiritually paralyzed. Their apprehension begins by worrying over circumstances over which they have no control.

That is why God’s Word urges us,-
Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” Philippians 4: 6

...... and again, “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” Matthew 6:26.


“THE ROBIN AND THE SPARROW"

“Said the robin to the sparrow,
“I should really like to know,
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry so.”

Said the sparrow to the robin,
“Friend I think that it must be,
That they have no Heavenly Father,
Such as cares for you and me.”

~Elizabeth Cheney~

Love the poem! And how very TRUE!!!!
 
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~ WORRY ~

< Death was walking toward a city one morning and a man asked, "What are you going to do?"

''I'm going to take 100 people." Death replied.

"That's horrible!" the man said.

"That's the way it is." Death said.

''Well, we'll see about that," said the man as he hurried to warn everyone he could about Death's plan.

As evening fell, he met Death again.

"You told me you were going to take 100 people," the man said. "Why did 1,000 die?"

"I kept my word," Death responded. "I only took 100 people. Worry took the others."
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"When it gets dark enough, we can all see the stars. "
 
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God isn't always going to give us the answers to why things happen. But we are a child of God—and, because of Whose we are, we live by faith and not by sight.
So, even when the answers don’t come, we can be confident that His promises are true.
We have nothing to fear. He will never leave us ...never.
We put our faith in Him, and He will give us peace and lead us through to the other side.
✝️
 

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" Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music in them, if we only knew how. Those men that ponder, and meditate, and weigh the affairs of life, and study the mysterious developments of God's providence, and wonder why they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered--how different and how much more joyful would be their lives, if, instead of forever indulging in self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their experiences, day by day, and lift them up, and praise God for them.

We can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away. Sing in the morning. The birds are the earliest to sing, and birds are more without care than anything else that I know of. Sing at evening. Singing is the last thing that robins do. When they have done their daily work; when they have flown their last flight, and picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing one song of praise.

Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all the way through.
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" Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music in them, if we only knew how. Those men that ponder, and meditate, and weigh the affairs of life, and study the mysterious developments of God's providence, and wonder why they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered--how different and how much more joyful would be their lives, if, instead of forever indulging in self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their experiences, day by day, and lift them up, and praise God for them.

We can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away. Sing in the morning. The birds are the earliest to sing, and birds are more without care than anything else that I know of. Sing at evening. Singing is the last thing that robins do. When they have done their daily work; when they have flown their last flight, and picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing one song of praise.

Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all the way through.
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Beautiful Helen. And, when you brought up the robin singing praises...it reminds me of when I take my dogs to the park, how they so love His creation and I LOVE when they look up...my one does it all the time...even if on the back porch just standing there. It seems they are naturally giving thanks and praise to their creator
 
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Blessed is he whose faith is not offended, When all around his way
The power of God is working out deliverance For others day by day;
Though in some prison drear his own soul languish,
Till life itself be spent,
Yet still can trust his Father's love and purpose,
And rest therein content.
Blessed is he, who through long years of suffering,
Cut off from active toil,
Still shares by prayer and praise the work of others,
And thus "divides the spoil."
Blessed are thou, O child of God, who sufferest, And canst not understand
The reason for thy pain, yet gladly leavest
Thy life in His blest Hand.
Yea, blessed art thou whose faith is "not offended"
By trials unexplained,
By mysteries unsolved, past understanding,
Until the goal is gained.

~ Freda Hanbury Allen ~
 
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< I call to remembrance my song in the night
Psalm 77:6

I have read somewhere of a little bird that will never sing the melody his master wishes while his cage is full of light. He learns a snatch of this, a bar of that, but never an entire song of its own until the cage is covered and the morning beams shut out.

A good many people never learn to sing until the darkling shadows fall. The fabled nightingale carols with his breast against a thorn. It was in the night that the song of the angels was heard. It was at midnight that the cry came, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him."

Indeed it is extremely doubtful if a soul can really know the love of God in its richness and in its comforting, satisfying completeness until the skies are black and lowering. Light comes out of darkness, morning out of the womb of the night. >
 

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Quote:-

When Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it! (Num 21:17)

This was a strange song and a strange well. They had been travelling over the desert’s barren sands, no water was in sight and they were famishing with thirst. Then God spake to Moses and said:



“Gather the people together, and I will give them water,” and this is how it came.


They gathered in circles on the sands. They took their staves and dug deep down into the burning earth and as they dug, they sang,


Spring up, O well, sing ye unto it,” and lo, there came a gurgling sound, a rush of water and a flowing stream which filled the well and ran along the ground.


When they dug this well in the desert, they touched the stream that was running beneath, and reached the flowing tides that had long been out of sight.


How beautiful the picture given, telling us of the river of blessing that flows all through our lives, and we have only to reach by faith and praise to find our wants supplied in the most barren desert.


How did they reach the waters of this well? It was by praise.
They sang upon the sand their song of faith, while with their 'staff of promise ' they dug the well.
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Quote:-

When Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it! (Num 21:17)

This was a strange song and a strange well. They had been travelling over the desert’s barren sands, no water was in sight and they were famishing with thirst. Then God spake to Moses and said:



“Gather the people together, and I will give them water,” and this is how it came.


They gathered in circles on the sands. They took their staves and dug deep down into the burning earth and as they dug, they sang,


Spring up, O well, sing ye unto it,” and lo, there came a gurgling sound, a rush of water and a flowing stream which filled the well and ran along the ground.


When they dug this well in the desert, they touched the stream that was running beneath, and reached the flowing tides that had long been out of sight.


How beautiful the picture given, telling us of the river of blessing that flows all through our lives, and we have only to reach by faith and praise to find our wants supplied in the most barren desert.


How did they reach the waters of this well? It was by praise.
They sang upon the sand their song of faith, while with their 'staff of promise ' they dug the well.
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That's awesome @Helen
I have never studied anything in Numbers. How awesome, praises seem to move our God! And, He is so worthy.
xo
 
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