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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
The Holy Spirit Witnesses Silently
In a comment on another post a friend had mentioned the Holy Spirit conviction to non-believers even when we say nothing.
I shared with Elaine this story of my days on the fair circuit.
"I have a little story about the Holy Spirit conviction even when we say nothing at all.
We used to own an ice cream business. We would go around to fairs and festivals selling it from a cute little booth. Often the girls who came to buy a cup would be wearing scanty clothing with very revealing tops.
I would serve them with a smile saying nothing at all. Even as they were walking up to the booth they would be pulling together their tops or putting on a sweater in front of me.
They weren't doing that when they were a ways off from the booth, but only as they approached it. I was always happy, friendly and engaging, but they would often cover themselves in front of me.
I thought that it was the Holy Spirit that they were experiencing and felt the conviction of immoral clothing.
Not all the girls did this but enough that I began to really notice it."
Is it any wonder that the Holy Spirit is called the restrainer?!
We don't realize how much the Holy Spirit is restraining others through our silent witness. Some people meet us for the first time feeling very uncomfortable around us but don't know why. They assign something to us to make sense of it all, but in reality they are merely experiencing the presence of the Holy Spirit. Its not about us at all.
Hallelujah, we are witnesses even when we do not speak. This does not mean that we can remain silent all the time, but sometimes we do not need to speak the Holy Spirit does it for us.
Acts 16:6,7.
Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go to Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them."
Acts 20:22,23.
"And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me ."
I shared with Elaine this story of my days on the fair circuit.
"I have a little story about the Holy Spirit conviction even when we say nothing at all.
We used to own an ice cream business. We would go around to fairs and festivals selling it from a cute little booth. Often the girls who came to buy a cup would be wearing scanty clothing with very revealing tops.
I would serve them with a smile saying nothing at all. Even as they were walking up to the booth they would be pulling together their tops or putting on a sweater in front of me.
They weren't doing that when they were a ways off from the booth, but only as they approached it. I was always happy, friendly and engaging, but they would often cover themselves in front of me.
I thought that it was the Holy Spirit that they were experiencing and felt the conviction of immoral clothing.
Not all the girls did this but enough that I began to really notice it."
Is it any wonder that the Holy Spirit is called the restrainer?!
We don't realize how much the Holy Spirit is restraining others through our silent witness. Some people meet us for the first time feeling very uncomfortable around us but don't know why. They assign something to us to make sense of it all, but in reality they are merely experiencing the presence of the Holy Spirit. Its not about us at all.
Hallelujah, we are witnesses even when we do not speak. This does not mean that we can remain silent all the time, but sometimes we do not need to speak the Holy Spirit does it for us.
Acts 16:6,7.
Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go to Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them."
Acts 20:22,23.
"And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me ."
Thinking with the Mind of Christ
Trust the Holy Spirit not Man
John 16:13-14
"13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
I am convinced that most Christians do not believe this promise. They look at me like I have two heads when I say we must ask the Holy Spirit for understanding.
A couple of times I heard men tell me that we should say things to people in a way that they would accept it when it came to the gospel.
I see nothing in Scripture that says this, but it does say that the Holy Spirit will speak through us. These men mocked me for saying that. Christ has many ways of dealing with people based on what HE knows they need. The apostles and Jesus Christ Himself were persecuted and killed, did they say something in a wrong way? NO, they told the truth and the people hated them for it.
If we know the Word of God the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the truth and He will speak through us as we witness and speak truth.
Those who mock the work of the Holy Spirit cannot possibly be hearing from Him. I know well what it is like to hear from the Holy Spirit. When someone tells me they have heard from the Holy Spirit I believe them but only if what they say stands up to the test of the Scriptures.
We will hear much foolishness these days because most pastors have been trained in "church growth" and "how to say things" according to man's idea of what works. When we do what humanly works, often it is only the fleshly desire to be loved by man. When we are loved by man we will dumb down the truth as well as even silence ourselves when we should speak just to be accepted by man.
Proverbs 29:25 "25 The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be set securely on high. 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD."
Proverbs 9:10
"10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
When we stop fearing man God will bless with wisdom and boldness. When we fear man we will be led into grievous error and compromise.
"13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
I am convinced that most Christians do not believe this promise. They look at me like I have two heads when I say we must ask the Holy Spirit for understanding.
A couple of times I heard men tell me that we should say things to people in a way that they would accept it when it came to the gospel.
I see nothing in Scripture that says this, but it does say that the Holy Spirit will speak through us. These men mocked me for saying that. Christ has many ways of dealing with people based on what HE knows they need. The apostles and Jesus Christ Himself were persecuted and killed, did they say something in a wrong way? NO, they told the truth and the people hated them for it.
If we know the Word of God the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the truth and He will speak through us as we witness and speak truth.
Those who mock the work of the Holy Spirit cannot possibly be hearing from Him. I know well what it is like to hear from the Holy Spirit. When someone tells me they have heard from the Holy Spirit I believe them but only if what they say stands up to the test of the Scriptures.
We will hear much foolishness these days because most pastors have been trained in "church growth" and "how to say things" according to man's idea of what works. When we do what humanly works, often it is only the fleshly desire to be loved by man. When we are loved by man we will dumb down the truth as well as even silence ourselves when we should speak just to be accepted by man.
Proverbs 29:25 "25 The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be set securely on high. 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD."
Proverbs 9:10
"10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
When we stop fearing man God will bless with wisdom and boldness. When we fear man we will be led into grievous error and compromise.
Our Thought Life Determines our Heart
How many times were you tempted to think something and had to fight off the thought. Many years ago when I was still in sin I had thoughts that I did not fight off. Those thoughts were justified in my mind, because of things that were happening to me. Those thoughts led to sin because I had no defenses against the lies of the devil. It wasn't until I became born again that I had the Holy Spirit to appeal to in prayer that led to power against the thoughts of the devil. When I realized that sinning was not an excuse just because someone else was sinning against me.
Anyone who thinks this has never happened to them, might want to go back and analyze the thoughts and the actions that resulted from the thoughts. Sometimes the thoughts are as simple as concocting in the mind things one wishes to believe about someone without evidence or that is based on gossip.
There are those who are jealous of others, because of this jealousy they justify believing things about others that are not only not true, but that are the way they wish to think about someone.
No one can claim they have not sinned because of their thought life. The sin does not have to be large and clear, it can be as covert as holding an idea of sin against someone without any evidence of it. That is sin, it destroys relationships often triangulating with others in gossip.
Triangulation is when we think we see a sin in someone without evidence but pass the gossip on as though the perceived sin is true. Sometimes its as subtle as generic character flaws without evidence.
I once heard someone say, "that woman is controlling and a usurper." I knew that woman and she was neither. She was assertive when it came to her beliefs and the way of life she chose based on God's Word. The triangulation came about to cause others to disapprove of a woman who had not sinned in her assertiveness and formulation of boundaries. She had merely made it clear what she believed and what she would allow in her life. The narcissist hates boundaries and assertiveness in others, their goal is to control their target. When they find they cannot control them because of their assertiveness and boundaries, they become angry and take their deceptions about that person to the streets, to anyone who will listen.
Notice that their accusations are always generic without detail. They say things like: "she is rude", "she is mean", "she does not have love", when she is not all these things but the gossiper wishes to place thoughts in the minds of those around them. The flying monkeys believe the gossiper because the gossiper is favored by the flying monkeys.
These tactics that are manipulations by the devil through the thought life work very well on those who will not fight the thoughts through the power of the Holy Spirit.
If you have been a narcissist or flying monkey then I would challenge you to evaluate your thought life in prayer to see if the devil is influencing your thoughts to cause division and rage. Jealousy is at the root of many gossipers thought lives. It causes the jealous one to be determined to ruin the one of whom they are jealous, often causing feelings of rage that hide inside until a moment when it can no longer be held inside.
Keep in mind that no one rages instantaneously without a thought life first. Rage only happens when there has been a full and angry thought life before the rage emerges. Those who are not angry or bitter never rage.
Proverbs 22:24
"Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,"
Ecclesiastes 7:9
"Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools."
Proverbs 14:29
"Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly."
As born again believers our goal ought to always be truth. When we seek truth we will take into captivity every thought according to God's Word rather than based on momentary "feelings."
2 Corinthians 10:5
"5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,"
The video below is excellent, speaking of the thought life it brings great insight into the human soul and the tactics of the devil.
Anyone who thinks this has never happened to them, might want to go back and analyze the thoughts and the actions that resulted from the thoughts. Sometimes the thoughts are as simple as concocting in the mind things one wishes to believe about someone without evidence or that is based on gossip.
There are those who are jealous of others, because of this jealousy they justify believing things about others that are not only not true, but that are the way they wish to think about someone.
No one can claim they have not sinned because of their thought life. The sin does not have to be large and clear, it can be as covert as holding an idea of sin against someone without any evidence of it. That is sin, it destroys relationships often triangulating with others in gossip.
Triangulation is when we think we see a sin in someone without evidence but pass the gossip on as though the perceived sin is true. Sometimes its as subtle as generic character flaws without evidence.
I once heard someone say, "that woman is controlling and a usurper." I knew that woman and she was neither. She was assertive when it came to her beliefs and the way of life she chose based on God's Word. The triangulation came about to cause others to disapprove of a woman who had not sinned in her assertiveness and formulation of boundaries. She had merely made it clear what she believed and what she would allow in her life. The narcissist hates boundaries and assertiveness in others, their goal is to control their target. When they find they cannot control them because of their assertiveness and boundaries, they become angry and take their deceptions about that person to the streets, to anyone who will listen.
Notice that their accusations are always generic without detail. They say things like: "she is rude", "she is mean", "she does not have love", when she is not all these things but the gossiper wishes to place thoughts in the minds of those around them. The flying monkeys believe the gossiper because the gossiper is favored by the flying monkeys.
These tactics that are manipulations by the devil through the thought life work very well on those who will not fight the thoughts through the power of the Holy Spirit.
If you have been a narcissist or flying monkey then I would challenge you to evaluate your thought life in prayer to see if the devil is influencing your thoughts to cause division and rage. Jealousy is at the root of many gossipers thought lives. It causes the jealous one to be determined to ruin the one of whom they are jealous, often causing feelings of rage that hide inside until a moment when it can no longer be held inside.
Keep in mind that no one rages instantaneously without a thought life first. Rage only happens when there has been a full and angry thought life before the rage emerges. Those who are not angry or bitter never rage.
Proverbs 22:24
"Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,"
Ecclesiastes 7:9
"Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools."
Proverbs 14:29
"Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly."
As born again believers our goal ought to always be truth. When we seek truth we will take into captivity every thought according to God's Word rather than based on momentary "feelings."
2 Corinthians 10:5
"5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,"
The video below is excellent, speaking of the thought life it brings great insight into the human soul and the tactics of the devil.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Trust Christ Alone
Trusting anyone or anything more than Christ is idolatry!
"13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…" John 16:13-14
How to Destroy a Relationship and How to Restore it Again
Feelings are automatic, they do not think they just happen. Yes they are irrelevant. We do not deny the feelings but we must analyze them in light of truth. We have feelings but we cannot live by them. Those who live by feelings often act badly because their feelings are inaccurate.
A jealous person will act as thought you are a bad person if you make more money than they do. They interpret us as being bad for having something more than they do.
Have you ever felt (feelings) bad because someone accused you of something you didn't do? All of us have had this happen. But the bad feelings didn't mean we did anything wrong, they only arise because we have been accused.
How about when we did something good for someone and they were jealous and act mean toward us. Our feelings are telling us we have a reason to feel bad. But we do not, we are sorry someone was ungrateful and did not receive our gift, but the feelings tell us things are bad when we did a good thing.
We must ignore the feelings and go with truth.
There have been many times in my life when I made a good choice, even to honor God but those around me acted as though I did something stupid, foolish or mean. The feelings come with a sense of shame for doing what was good. But the shame is not accurate, there should never be shame for doing what is our personal convictions. The shame is inaccurate and should be ignored.
Over time as we grow stronger the feelings are more accurate because we ignore those who attempt to place shame on us for doing what we believe in.
I was once told by someone that they didn't respect me. The reason this person didn't respect me was because I took a strong stand against divorce and remarriage. The accusation that I was not worthy of respect was not because I did something wrong, but because I did something that was pleasing to God.
Those who are rebellious often attempt to intimidate us into feeling shame for standing for truth. There are those "disapproving grunts" I call them. When a person does not want to come right out and say you are wrong but does want you to feel bad about your assertions. A sort of grunting sound as though you said something terrible when all you did was tell the truth.
The disapproving grunt has also been used when there is jealousy. Perhaps you expressed excitement about a good thing that is happening to you and the jealous one expresses their "grunt" to make you feel as though what is happening to you is foolish when in actuality the thing was a blessing.
One of the signs of a good friendship is when our friend is joyful for the good things that happen to us.
As a child growing up I could do nothing right in the eyes of my family members. When I had an idea that was not sinful or wrong, just different from how they think, I was mocked as though the idea was horrid or wicked. One of those times was when I told my mother that I wanted to be a homemaker. She mocked it, attempted to discourage me since my father became injured and couldn't work, she believed all women should get a job in case their husband couldn't work anymore.
I have been married 48 years now next month. My husband was able to hold down a job until he retired and even continues in a new business of his own to this day. I did what I believed in, after I became born again I pursued it even more vigorously because I loved it.
When we see someone demeaning our choices that are not sinful, just different from theirs, then we know this is not good friend material. Often those of our families of origin are not friend material. In my case I was mocked and demeaned continually for the choices I made that I knew was direction from God.
Galatians 6:2 "2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the Law of Christ. 3 Galatians 5:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Philippians 2:3-4 "3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
Of course I had sin in my life especially before I was born again. But I have no doubt that Christ put in my heart even before I became born again, the desire to be a homemaker. I have lived in that role all my life, enjoying the tasks before me as well as the blessings that came from obeying Him.
For many years I have had "Christians" who would devalue me and what I did simply because it wasn't what they would have done. Some of them even were jealous of my happiness in my choice and worked to destroy that joy. Their tactics never worked but one thing that did happen was a destruction of what could have been great relationships.
Jealousy is senseless, it destroys relationships, often irreparably damaging any chance of reconciliation. Since the only way there can be a relationship repair is to confess that jealousy and go on to be different. The narcissist sees their jealousy as power against their target, the more important matter to them than a clean and joyful melding of two souls in friendship.
James 3:16
"For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice."
The feeling of jealousy is never accurate. It demonstrates a heart that is ungrateful for their own blessings while desiring the blessings of others. Often this feeling of jealousy lies and says that the person they are jealous of does not deserve what has been given to them. There is an entire lie that the person who is the target of jealousy is a person unworthy of love and affirmation.
Exodus 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”
The truth is that all of us have had sin in our lives. None of us deserve anything. Our blessings are gifts from God because He loves us. What right has anyone else to judge a person as too imperfect for a blessing from God.
Jealousy is a relationship destroyer, if there is any hint of jealousy in our feelings we need to confess that jealousy. Kill it by ignoring it while analyzing our own hearts to see why there is a continual emerging of it, to seek out and destroy what is in the heart that enjoys the feeling of jealousy.
What a wonderful blessing it is when we are free from jealousy, lies and deceit. Christ can do this within us. We will not have to battle it every day if we are seeking Christ and praying for deliverance. God will deliver anyone who wants to be delivered. As long as someone refuses to admit their sin they will not be delivered.
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
When our focus is Christ we will have no need to feel superior to anyone, in fact we will bow low to be a servant to others, that we may be free from jealousy or anger over silly things. Nor will anyone who loves us desire to keep fresh in our minds the sins of our past. Those who love Christ and love us know they have their own sins of the past and that Christ took them all away. There is no need to punish someone over past forgiven sins, except and unless there is passionate jealousy dwelling in that heart of destruction.
Psalm 25:5-7
"5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O Lord, Your compassion and Your lovingkindnesses,
For they have been from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord."
Hallelujah we are forgiven, we are blessed, each a little differently but gloriously.
A jealous person will act as thought you are a bad person if you make more money than they do. They interpret us as being bad for having something more than they do.
Have you ever felt (feelings) bad because someone accused you of something you didn't do? All of us have had this happen. But the bad feelings didn't mean we did anything wrong, they only arise because we have been accused.
How about when we did something good for someone and they were jealous and act mean toward us. Our feelings are telling us we have a reason to feel bad. But we do not, we are sorry someone was ungrateful and did not receive our gift, but the feelings tell us things are bad when we did a good thing.
We must ignore the feelings and go with truth.
There have been many times in my life when I made a good choice, even to honor God but those around me acted as though I did something stupid, foolish or mean. The feelings come with a sense of shame for doing what was good. But the shame is not accurate, there should never be shame for doing what is our personal convictions. The shame is inaccurate and should be ignored.
Over time as we grow stronger the feelings are more accurate because we ignore those who attempt to place shame on us for doing what we believe in.
I was once told by someone that they didn't respect me. The reason this person didn't respect me was because I took a strong stand against divorce and remarriage. The accusation that I was not worthy of respect was not because I did something wrong, but because I did something that was pleasing to God.
Those who are rebellious often attempt to intimidate us into feeling shame for standing for truth. There are those "disapproving grunts" I call them. When a person does not want to come right out and say you are wrong but does want you to feel bad about your assertions. A sort of grunting sound as though you said something terrible when all you did was tell the truth.
The disapproving grunt has also been used when there is jealousy. Perhaps you expressed excitement about a good thing that is happening to you and the jealous one expresses their "grunt" to make you feel as though what is happening to you is foolish when in actuality the thing was a blessing.
One of the signs of a good friendship is when our friend is joyful for the good things that happen to us.
As a child growing up I could do nothing right in the eyes of my family members. When I had an idea that was not sinful or wrong, just different from how they think, I was mocked as though the idea was horrid or wicked. One of those times was when I told my mother that I wanted to be a homemaker. She mocked it, attempted to discourage me since my father became injured and couldn't work, she believed all women should get a job in case their husband couldn't work anymore.
I have been married 48 years now next month. My husband was able to hold down a job until he retired and even continues in a new business of his own to this day. I did what I believed in, after I became born again I pursued it even more vigorously because I loved it.
When we see someone demeaning our choices that are not sinful, just different from theirs, then we know this is not good friend material. Often those of our families of origin are not friend material. In my case I was mocked and demeaned continually for the choices I made that I knew was direction from God.
Galatians 6:2 "2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the Law of Christ. 3 Galatians 5:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Philippians 2:3-4 "3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
Of course I had sin in my life especially before I was born again. But I have no doubt that Christ put in my heart even before I became born again, the desire to be a homemaker. I have lived in that role all my life, enjoying the tasks before me as well as the blessings that came from obeying Him.
For many years I have had "Christians" who would devalue me and what I did simply because it wasn't what they would have done. Some of them even were jealous of my happiness in my choice and worked to destroy that joy. Their tactics never worked but one thing that did happen was a destruction of what could have been great relationships.
Jealousy is senseless, it destroys relationships, often irreparably damaging any chance of reconciliation. Since the only way there can be a relationship repair is to confess that jealousy and go on to be different. The narcissist sees their jealousy as power against their target, the more important matter to them than a clean and joyful melding of two souls in friendship.
James 3:16
"For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice."
The feeling of jealousy is never accurate. It demonstrates a heart that is ungrateful for their own blessings while desiring the blessings of others. Often this feeling of jealousy lies and says that the person they are jealous of does not deserve what has been given to them. There is an entire lie that the person who is the target of jealousy is a person unworthy of love and affirmation.
Exodus 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”
The truth is that all of us have had sin in our lives. None of us deserve anything. Our blessings are gifts from God because He loves us. What right has anyone else to judge a person as too imperfect for a blessing from God.
Jealousy is a relationship destroyer, if there is any hint of jealousy in our feelings we need to confess that jealousy. Kill it by ignoring it while analyzing our own hearts to see why there is a continual emerging of it, to seek out and destroy what is in the heart that enjoys the feeling of jealousy.
What a wonderful blessing it is when we are free from jealousy, lies and deceit. Christ can do this within us. We will not have to battle it every day if we are seeking Christ and praying for deliverance. God will deliver anyone who wants to be delivered. As long as someone refuses to admit their sin they will not be delivered.
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
When our focus is Christ we will have no need to feel superior to anyone, in fact we will bow low to be a servant to others, that we may be free from jealousy or anger over silly things. Nor will anyone who loves us desire to keep fresh in our minds the sins of our past. Those who love Christ and love us know they have their own sins of the past and that Christ took them all away. There is no need to punish someone over past forgiven sins, except and unless there is passionate jealousy dwelling in that heart of destruction.
Psalm 25:5-7
"5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O Lord, Your compassion and Your lovingkindnesses,
For they have been from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord."
Hallelujah we are forgiven, we are blessed, each a little differently but gloriously.
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