The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people;
and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
EXO 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people
I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in
any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work
of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
EXO 34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I
drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
EXO 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
EST 1:14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and
Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the
kingdom;)
EST 1:15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law,
because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by
the chamberlains?
EST 1:16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti
the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the
princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto
him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them
that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
JER 40:8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the
son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah
the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
JER 40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto
them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
JER 40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
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