| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: JDG 8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah
and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns
of the wilderness and with briers.
JDG 8:8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise:
and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered
him.
JDG 8:9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come
again in peace, I will break down this tower.
JDG 8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with
them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of
the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
GEN 47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are
come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of
Goshen.
GEN 47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
GEN 47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?
And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
NEH 2:16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither
had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles,
nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
NEH 2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how
Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come,
and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a
reproach.
NEH 2:18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me;
as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let
us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good
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