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331 | Throwback - No Fear: Embracing God's Promise in Troubling Times · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ, she's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Comforting words and a calming presence are the things we seek in time of trouble.
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  Isn't it marvelous that we don't have to seek either of these things?
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  They will find us if our heart is right with God.
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  Join us in this program, No Fear, as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  takes us through Lamentations 3.57, which says,
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  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee, thou saidest, fear not.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this
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  and other opportunity come before you.
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  We thank you, Lord, that we know that you love us, that you care for us,
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  Lord, and that you supply our every need.
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  Dear Heavenly Father, we're thankful for these words that you've written all
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  throughout your scriptures to us that tell us that we're not to fear and that
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  fear is not of you and that perfect love casts us out all fear.
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  Lord, we ask that you would open our hearts and our minds as we go through these scriptures,
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  Lord, that we might be able to paint upon our hearts the promises that you've
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  given us, that as we walk through this world, Lord, and the devil begins to
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  seek us as a roaring lion,
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  that we would know that greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world,
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  and that the victory is ours because of you that lives in us.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would just calm our hearts, Lord, that you would put
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  aside our fears, and that you would allow us to increase our trust and our faith in you.
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  Lord, be with us as we continue through these verses.
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  Watch over us, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Fear not.
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  What an amazing, amazing two words, especially when they come from the Lord.
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  Because they come with authority, they come with a commandment,
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  and they come with a promise.
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  I can tell you to fear not, and it would be something that might make you feel
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  a little better for a moment.
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  But quickly you would realize that in many situations, I could do nothing to
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  to back those words up for you.
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  I couldn't do anything to shield you in many situations of whatever it is that
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  is causing your heart to tremble.
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  But when Jesus says, fear not, you have the full assurance that all of the kingdom
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  of heaven is backing those statements.
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  You have the full assurance that the power that raised him from the dead is
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  the same power that is working in you.
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  In fact, in Ephesians chapter 3, we're told that we can do exceedingly abundantly
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  above all that we ask or think according to the power that is in us.
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  And so often we don't tap that power, and mostly it's because we are afraid.
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  We either are afraid of the circumstances that are around us,
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  we're afraid of the frailties that are in us, but always we forget about the
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  power of God that is working in us and around us.
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  And so those words, fear not, when spoken by the mighty God or spoken by his son, Jesus Christ.
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  Are words that should offer us comfort and a promise because he'll back those very words.
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  The scripture is filled with fear nots, but let's think about what he says in
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  Isaiah 41.10 and Isaiah 43.5 when he says, fear not, for I am with thee.
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  What he says in Isaiah 43, 1, when he says, fear not, I have redeemed thee.
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  I want you to think about that.
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  Jesus Christ supplied our every need, the need that none of us could have ever
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  possibly been able to fulfill.
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  He wiped out on a cross called Calvary. and he paid the price with his own blood.
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  And he's the one who's saying, fear not. You see,
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  you're not going to face another challenge in your life or face another problem
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  in your world that is greater than the problem you came into this world with
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  because we are sinners in need of a Savior.
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  If money is your problem, somewhere along the line, you might be able to figure
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  out how to get a little bit more of it.
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  If health is your problem, some doctor might be able, through the wisdom of
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  God, to figure out something to help you.
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  But when it comes to paying your sin debt, there is no way anybody or anything
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  on this earth can help you.
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  It is only through and by the blood of Jesus Christ, applied to your heart through
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  belief in him, that will pay that sin debt.
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  And so when you look at all the other problems and all the other issues within
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  your world through the filter of what he's already done for you,
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  then it should comfort you and bring you peace.
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  And then let's talk about the fact that he tells us, fear not, I'm with thee.
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  No doubt we sink in troubles just as Peter sunk in the water,
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  but Jesus said immediately immediately, that he would save him. And he did.
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  No doubt, there are many things that happen in our life, and we feel like we're alone.
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  But he says, I'll never leave you, nor forsake you. No doubt,
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  troubles swirl all around us.
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  And again, back to the same account of Peter in the water.
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  He looks out in the midst of the storm, and he sees a figure on the water.
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  And the water says, Because and Peter says, if that be you, Lord, bid me come.
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  And Jesus says, come. He was already there.
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  He's already in the midst of whatever it is that you're going through.
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  And he already has the answer. And he's already working for your good,
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  because that's what the scriptures tell us.
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  And faith allows us to believe that in such a way that we're able to incorporate.
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  It into our life, that we are able to live a life that is walking in the presence of God,
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  filled with his promises, filled with the confidence that we don't have to fear.
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  In fact, in John chapter 14, he says, let not your heart be troubled.
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  You believe in God, believe also
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  in me. Let not your heart be troubled is very, very much like fear not.
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  There's so many things in this world on a global scale that will scare you if
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  you find yourself dwelling upon it.
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  We can fear things like ISIS. We can fear things like terrorists.
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  We can fear things like safety. Our communities seem to be going downhill in
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  a hurry and drugs seem to be rampant across the country.
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  And if you listen to the media, what you begin to see is just despair,
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  destitution, evilness, negativity.
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  And you can get yourself so filled with that and you think to yourself,
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  oh, we live in a horrible world.
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  Let me tell you, we live in a world where God is still supreme.
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  We live in a world where God is still in control. troll.
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  We live in a world where the devil has reign, but he is never going to defeat
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  Christ, nor his plans, nor his people, if we are walking in his way and in his will.
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  The world will attack you. We're different than they are.
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  People don't like things that are different. That's excuse enough for them to begin to attack.
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  But if you stand in the mighty promises of God, and you stand in the face of
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  God and you follow after what he says, you'll watch your enemies fall one by one.
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  They won't know what hit them, but you will because you will have spent your
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  time in prayer. You will have made a petition to the God.
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  Watches over you, that provides for you, that cares for you,
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  the one and only true God, the one that delivered the three Hebrew children
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  out of the fiery furnace, the one who made a way for Noah to escape,
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  the one who let just the one person come out of Sodom and Gomorrah because he
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  was just the one who made sure there was a lamb for the sacrifice when Abraham
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  went to sacrifice his only son.
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  That's who we serve. These things that are happening in your life, they may be huge to you.
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  They may be devastating to you, but they're going to only be devastating if
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  you keep your eyes upon the problem.
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  But when you get your eyes upon the problem solver, and when you get your heart
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  connected to the problem solver, and when you allow your faith to feel with him,
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  and you begin to step out in confidence that
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  the God of the universe who loved you so
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  much that he sent his only begotten son has placed his Holy Spirit in you so
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  that you would never be alone to comfort you and teach you who has given you
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  Jesus who is ever living to make intercession for you who prays for his people
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  daily when you begin to realize that you're going to realize that David said,
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  the battle's not mine, it belongs to the Lord.
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  And you'll begin to watch your enemies fall just as David slayed the giant.
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  Because the giants in your life are no bigger than the giants that was in David's.
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  The fire in your life is no hotter than the fire that was for the three Hebrew children.
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  And the task that's set before you is no more grave or difficult than the task
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  that was set before Abraham. And he delivered them and he's the same God today,
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  yesterday, and forever.
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  And what he did for them, he'll do for you. It requires a heart that is completely
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  dependent upon Jesus and who trust him with their every step and their every move.
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  Fear not. He says, thou drewest near in the day I called upon thee.
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  The scriptures tell us that if we draw nigh unto God, that he will draw nigh unto us.
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  It's an interesting conversation that we're sort of peeking into here for a moment.
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  And it says, thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee.
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  For many of us, the problem that we are facing,
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  we try to face it on our own for
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  a long time or maybe even forever and we don't call
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  upon the lord that is like having the
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  richest bank account that you could ever imagine and
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  sitting in your house starving because you say you won't go to the store and
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  there sets the money that you need to go buy all that you need that's the same
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  kind of mentality that you would be using when you go Go and face your problems,
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  and you go and face your troubles without calling upon the Lord.
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  He tells us that we're to be careful for nothing. But in everything,
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  with prayer and thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God,
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  and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  The Bible says that if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
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  Then he says in Luke chapter 12, he says that your father knoweth.
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  That you have need of these things. And in that very scripture,
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  he's talking about, consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
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  They toil not, they spin not.
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  And yet I say unto you that Solomon and all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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  If he considers the lilies, how much more will he consider you when you have
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  been created in his image and he sent his only son to die for you?
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  Fear not, for I'm with thee.
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