| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
EZR 6:21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of
captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the
filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel,
did eat,
EZR 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy:
for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of
Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of
God, the God of Israel.
EZR 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of
Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
PHI 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of
your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
PHI 2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
PHI 2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto
you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
PHI 2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your
state.
PHI 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus
Christ's.
PHI 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: and the LORD would not destroy thee.
DEU 10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give unto them.
DEU 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee,
but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
DEU 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which
I command thee this day for thy good?
DEU 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's
thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
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