| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to
establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever
shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O
king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
DAN 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that
it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which
altereth not.
DAN 6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
DAN 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into
his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem,
he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
AMO 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall
devour the palaces of Benhadad.
AMO 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from
the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto
Kir, saith the LORD.
AMO 1:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried
away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
ECC 11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or
that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
ECC 11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the
eyes to behold the sun:
ECC 11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let
him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that
cometh is vanity.
ECC 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer
thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and
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