| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto
Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
NEH 2:6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For
how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased
the king to send me; and I set him a time.
NEH 2:7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let
letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may
convey me over till I come into Judah;
NEH 2:8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that
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
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
JER 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
JER 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man
repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one
turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
JER 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and
the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
JER 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?
Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
RTH 3:17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he
said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
RTH 3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the
matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have
finished the thing this day.
RTH 4:1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and,
behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho,
such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat
down.
RTH 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye
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