The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZR 10:44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives
by whom they had children. NEH 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of
Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth
year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
NEH 1:2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of
Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were
left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
NEH 1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the
captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach:
the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are
burned with fire.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your
voice to be heard on high.
ISA 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to the LORD?
ISA 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke?
ISA 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring
the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: boweth down upon his knees to drink.
JDG 7:6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their
mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down
upon their knees to drink water.
JDG 7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that
lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and
let all the other people go every man unto his place.
JDG 7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets:
and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained
those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the
valley.
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