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March 14 - Luke 8 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. So good to have you join me as
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  today. We are going to read another
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  chapter of Luke's gospel together.
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  Boy it has got it all today, Luke chapter 8.
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  This has got well, some I'm healing of demon possessed,
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  people Miracles over nature. This has got Parables, this has
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  got rejection, this has got its got everything.
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  This is right in the thick of Jesus ministry.
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  And Luke certainly does not mince words, but he tells the
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  story blow-by-blow of everything that Jesus got up to in his
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  ministry and if we thought he was busy then.
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  Imagine how busy is today? Being aware of all of us in all
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  of our spaces, do Doing what we do.
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  And through his Spirit blessing us holding us guiding Us boy.
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  That's, that's that's exhausting lucky.
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  He's God and we're not so friends.
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  Join me. As we put down our days.
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  Open. Our hearts, come before God
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  together. Reading together, Luke chapter
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  8. Soon afterward Jesus began a
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  tour of the nearby towns and Villages preaching and
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  announcing. The good news about the kingdom
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  of God. He took his disciples with him,
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  along with some women who had been cured of evil spirits and
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  diseases among them were Mary Magdalene from whom.
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  He had cast out seven demons Joanna.
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  The wife of chuza herod's business manager Susanna, and
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  many others who were contributing from their own.
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  Sources to support Jesus and his disciples.
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  One day Jesus told the story in the form of a parable, to a
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  large crowd, that had gathered from many towns to hear him.
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  A farmer went out to plant his seed as he scattered it across
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  his field. Some seed fell on a footpath
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  where it was stepped on and the birds ate it.
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  Other seed fell among rocks, it began to grow but the plants
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  soon wilted and died for lack of moisture.
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  Other seed fell among Thorns that grew up with it and choked
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  out the tender plants. Still other seed fell on fertile
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  soil. This seed grew and produced a
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  crop that was A hundred times as much as have been planted.
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  When he had said this, he called out anyone with ears to hear
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  should listen and understand. His disciples asked him what
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  this Parable meant he replied. You are permitted to understand
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  the secrets of the kingdom of God, but I used Parables to
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  teach the others. So that the scriptures might be
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  fulfilled when they look, they won't really see when they hear
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  they won't understand. This is the meaning of the
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  parable. The seed is God's word.
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  The seeds that fell on the footpath.
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  Represent those who hear the message Only to have the devil
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  come and take it away from their hearts and prevent them from
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  believing. And being saved.
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  The seeds on the rocky soil, represent those who hear the
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  message and receive it with joy. But since they don't have Deep
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  Roots, they believed for a while.
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  Then they fall away when they faced Temptation the seeds, that
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  fell among the Thorns, represent, those who hear the
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  message, but all too quickly. The message is crowded out by
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  the cares and riches and pleasures of this life.
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  And so they never grow into maturity and the seeds that fell
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  on the good soil. Represent honest, good-hearted,
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  people, who hear God's word cling to it and patiently
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  produce a huge Harvest. No one lights a lamp and then
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  covers it with a bowl or hides it under a bed.
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  A lamp is placed on a stand where it's light can be seen by
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  all who entered the house for all that, his secret will
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  eventually be brought into the open.
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  And everything that is concealed will be brought to light and
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  made known to all. So, pay attention to how you
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  hear those, who listen to my teaching, more understanding
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  will be given, but for those who are not listening, even what
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  they think they understand will be taken away from them.
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  Then Jesus mother and brothers came to see him but they
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  couldn't get to him because of the crowd.
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  Someone told Jesus your mother and your brothers are standing
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  outside and they want to see you, Jesus replied.
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  My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God's word
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  and Obey, it One day, Jesus said to his disciples, Let's cross to
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  the other side of the lake. So they got into a boat and
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  started out as they sailed across Jesus settle down for a
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  nap. But soon, a fierce storm came
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  down on the lake. The boat was filling with water
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  and they were in real danger. The disciples went and woke him
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  up shouting master master. We're going to drown when Jesus
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  woke up, he rebuked the wind and the Raging Waves suddenly the
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  storm stopped. And always calm, then he asked
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  them. Where is your faith?
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  The disciples were terrified and amazed.
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  Who is this man? They asked each other when he
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  gives a command, even the wind and waves obey him.
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  So they arrived in the region of the gerasenes across the lake
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  From Galilee as Jesus was climbing out of the boat, a man
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  who was possessed by demons came out to meet him for a long time.
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  He had been homeless and naked living in the tombs outside the
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  town. As soon as he saw Jesus he
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  shrieked and fell down in front of him then he screamed.
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  Why are you interfering with me Jesus?
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  Son of the most high God please I beg you don't torture me.
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  For Jesus had already commanded the evil spirit to come out of
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  him. This Spirit had often taken
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  control of the man, even when he was placed under guard and put
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  in Chains and shackles, he simply broke them and rushed out
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  into the Wilderness completely under the demons power.
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  Jesus demanded, what is your name legion?
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  He replied for? He was filled with many demons.
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  The demons kept begging Jesus, not to send them into the
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  bottomless pit. It, they happened to be a large
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  herd of pigs feeding on the hillside near by and the demons
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  begged him to let them enter into the pigs.
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  So Jesus gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the
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  man and into the pigs and the entire herd plunged down the
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  Steep Hillside and into the lake and drowned when the herdsman
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  saw it, they fled to the nearby town and the surrounding
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  Countryside, Spreading the News as they ran people rushed out to
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  see. Had happened a crowd soon,
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  gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been freed
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  from the demons. He was sitting at Jesus feet
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  fully clothed and perfectly sane, and they were all afraid.
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  Then those who had seen, what had happened, told the others.
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  Had the demon-possessed man had been healed and all the people
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  in the region of the gerasenes begged, Jesus to go away and
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  leave them alone for a great wave of fear swept over them.
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  So Jesus returned to the boat and left Crossing back to the
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  other side of the lake. The man who had been freed from
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  the demons begged to go with him but Jesus sent him home saying
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  no go back to your family and tell them everything God has
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  done for you. So he went all through the town,
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  proclaiming the great things Jesus had done for him.
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  On the other side of the lake, the crowds welcomed Jesus
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  because they'd been waiting for him.
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  Then a man named Jairus. A leader of the local synagogue
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  came and fell at Jesus feet, pleading with him to come home
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  with him. His only daughter who was about
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  12 years old was dying. As Jesus went with him.
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  He was surrounded by the crowds, a woman in the crowd had
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  suffered for 12 years with constant bleeding, and she could
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  find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus.
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  She touched The Fringe of his robe immediately.
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  The bleeding stopped, who touched me.
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  Jesus asked everyone denied it and Peter said, Master this
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  whole crowd is pressing up against you, but Jesus said
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  someone deliberately touched me for, I felt healing power.
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  Go out from me when the woman realized that she could not stay
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  hidden. She began to tremble and fell to
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  her knees in front of him, the whole crowd heard her.
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  Why she had touched him and that she had been immediately healed
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  daughter. He said to her, your faith has
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  made you. Well go in peace while he was
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  still speaking to her and messenger arrived from the home
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  of gyrus, the leader of the synagogue, he told him, your
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  daughter is dead, there's no use troubling the teacher now.
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  But when Jesus heard what had happened, he said to gyrus,
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  Don't Be Afraid. Just have faith and she will be
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  healed. Old.
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  When they arrived at the house, Jesus wouldn't let anyone go in
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  with him except Peter, John James, and the little girl's
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  father and mother. The house was filled with people
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  weeping and wailing, but he said, stop the Weeping.
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  She isn't dead, she's only asleep.
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  But the crowd laughed at him, because they all knew she had
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  died. Then Jesus Took her by the hand
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  and said in a loud voice. My child get up.
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  At that moment, her life returned.
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  And she immediately stood up, then Jesus told them to give her
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  something to eat. Her parents were overwhelmed,
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  but Jesus insisted that they not tell anyone what had happened.
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  Jesus. You see us in our predicaments
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  and you bless when you heal and you follow and you respond and
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  you love and you provide You are the creator of the universe and
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  our God Almighty and still, you choose to respond to the
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  pitiful. Needs that us your servants,
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  have what a beautiful and glorious God.
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  You are to show such concern for ask your people.
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  We are so grateful that you don't Lord your sovereignty over
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  us, but you come down. Beside us.
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  Wrap your arms around us, love us.
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  Heal us, provide for us. Thank you, Jesus.
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  We are humbled and so grateful and it's in your loving name
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  that we pray. Amen.