| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
MAT 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul?
MAT 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with
his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
MAT 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which
shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his
kingdom.
MAT 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his
brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did
choose that wherein I delighted not.
ISA 65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall
eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye
shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be
ashamed:
ISA 65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
ISA 65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for
the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
ISA 65:16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which
appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the
house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the
good hand of my God upon me.
NEH 2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them
the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and
horsemen with me.
NEH 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a
man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
NEH 2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
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