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I'd like to say a special welcome to those who

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were just added over the last couple of weeks

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to this encouragement call. We try to get it

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out a couple times a week, and we hope that you're

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blessed by it. You can sign others up as well

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on our website, in our app, Life for Toledo,

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Life for No. 4 Toledo, which is on the App Store

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for iOS and Android. And by texting in, there's

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a variety of ways, so let's get them all signed

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up. so they can be encouraged as well. Thinking

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today of Psalm 139 .10, Even there shall thy

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hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

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If I say surely, verse 11 says, the darkness

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shall cover me, even the night shall be light

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about me. Bottom line is, he's talking about

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if we should go to the depths of hell or be buried

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under the sea or cast beyond the heavens or wherever

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we would wind up, God will be with us if we look

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to God as our God. If we accept Jesus Christ

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as Lord, that means he tells us what to do when

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we do it, and as Savior, that means he paid the

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price for our sins. If we believe in our heart

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and confess with our mouth that he is Lord and

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that God raised him from the dead, then we are

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saved. We're saved from the agonies of this life,

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and no matter how bad they get, he is there to

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hold us. He is there to be with us. This is not

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a promise of miraculous intervention in every

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circumstance, but his presence to stay us through

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whatever we may need to experience. as we leave

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this life and are with him for eternity, and

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as we build up during this life to be with him

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for eternity. Thank God that once he's with us,

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he will never leave us. Thank you, Lord Jesus.