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in this moment i feel i'd like to pause and just

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agree in prayer with you for that need in that

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life of yours the bible says if any two of us

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shall agree in prayer and father i come boldly

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before the throne of god with that one who has

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a need in their life, a need in that little home,

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that little family. We stand together on your

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promise, knowing that he who has promised will

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keep his word. You've never failed. In this moment,

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meet that material need in that life. according

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to your riches in glory by christ jesus be that

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one's great physician just now give faith where

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faith is needed for jesus sake amen well sir

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for a few minutes again today We're going to

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have a heart -to -heart talk about something

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that affects all of us, and that is the thing

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of sorrow, of suffering, heartaches. I want to

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read a verse of Scripture found in the 50th chapter

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of Isaiah. It's that 10th verse. and i have read

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it over and over again i do not have a bible

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i have never owned a bible where this one verse

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was not marked it has meant much to me through

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the years who is among you that feareth the lord

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that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh

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in darkness and hath no light. Let him trust

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in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God.

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Remember something. Sooner or later, every one

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of us will have to go down to the valley of suffering.

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Sooner or later, trouble will come into the life

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of each of us because we are a part of humanity.

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That's the reason I feel that our heart -to -heart

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talk today is so important. You may not need

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it today. You may not need it tomorrow. But sooner

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or later, you're going to need the very thing

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that I'm going to be talking to you about. And

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I pray to God that every word that I speak to

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you will be remembered. The Bible has a message

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for every life, no matter what its duty, its

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need, its test. There is nothing that ever comes

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into the life of any human being but what the

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Bible holds the answer. And it's just like that.

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you're going to need this promise mark it in

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your bible i pray it shall mean much to you in

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that hour when much strength and courage and

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faith is needed i repeat sooner or later all

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our feet must go down that veil of sorrow and

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suffering and darkness and tears. And this text

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that I've just read to you describes a condition

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that will sometime come to you. And what is the

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condition? Here is one that fears the Lord. who

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loves the Lord with all his heart. This is not

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a sinner. This is not someone who has never known

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the peace of God, who has never had that experience

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of being born again. I must make this very clear

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to you. Here is one who loves the Lord. He fears

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God. He obeys the voice. of his servant, and

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yet walketh in darkness and hath no light. And,

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beloved, that's the condition that sometimes

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comes to us in our earthly experience. That condition

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is sometimes the severest test that ever comes

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to us. And you know exactly what I'm talking

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about. Darkness is always trying to us. Darkness

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is trying to us physically, especially when we're

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ill, agitated, disturbed, nervous. There's something

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about darkness. Oh, how sick people dread the

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night. It's darker, I believe, to one who's ill.

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There's a blackness about the darkness of night

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that becomes even darker. When one is sick, when

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there's pain, everyone else in the house is asleep.

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It's quiet. And there's something about that

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darkness. And a sick person longs for morning

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to come just to hear the chirping of the first...

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bird that signals the breaking of a new day when

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one is sick just to see the light beginning to

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break in the eastern horizon there's something

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about it for a sick person the hours are longer

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and darker during the night than any other time

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and that one always feels that when morning comes,

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it's going to be better. Our troubles, somehow,

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are intensified at night. Our worries are bigger

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at night than they are during the day. I can't

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tell you why, but it's just like that. Oh, when

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we come into the realm of darkness, how terrible

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such darkness becomes and how glorious is light

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when it streams down on our darkness his light

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his hope his courage his strength his faith imparted

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unto us now then it raises an old question as

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old as job And I'm not talking to you about something

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that is new to you. And the very minute that

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I mention the name of Job, you almost feel as

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though I'm talking about a relative of yours.

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Someone who has been a member of your own family,

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of your own household. Oh, sure. I feel as though

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I have met him. I've shaken his hand. I feel

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as though we've wept together, we've rejoiced

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together. Oh, I feel like I've known Job all

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my life, and when I get home to glory, no one's

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going to have to introduce me to Job. No angel

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is going to have to bring Job to me and say,

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Catherine, this is Job. I want you to meet him.

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Instead, I'm going to say, well, bless you, if

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it isn't my friend Job. We made it, didn't we?

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Oh, sure, Job. Why do tears and sufferings and

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darkness come to those who are friends of God?

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that question is asked over and over again why

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why did god allow this thing to happen to me

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and bear in mind if you're his child covered

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with the blood living in his perfect will pleasing

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him fearing lest you grieve him nothing absolutely

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nothing can come into your life or touch you

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but what he allows and he permits and i believe

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that with every atom of my being all things do

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work together for good not for that one who's

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living outside of the will of god not for that

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one who's living contrary to god's will But if

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literally you are seeking his face, if literally

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you are living in the center of his will, covered

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with the blood, and you know you're being obedient

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to the word, obedient to him, nothing. can come

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into your life but what he allows and he permits

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and it's just like that but why do tears and

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sufferings why does darkness come to those who

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belong to him we can understand why trouble would

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come to the man who is not god's friend and refuses

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to be for as a man sows so shall he reap if he

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sows to unbelief the reaping must be of a character

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with the sowing we can understand why the godless

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man the man who will not be god's friend at all

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would come to the harvest of distress that we

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can understand but i admit to you that sometimes

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it is difficult to understand why God allows

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certain things to come into the lives of certain

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individuals. Why do sufferings, why do tears,

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why do disappointments, why do troubles come

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to those who love the Lord? Mm -hmm. That's a

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question. And I want you to see something. I

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want you to see something about this man, Job.

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And I want you to see it for one reason. Sometimes

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when a Christian is seen to be in darkness and

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trouble and tears and heartbreak, the superficial

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Pounces upon that one and sits on a little throne

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of judgment and says, this trouble comes as a

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result of some sin. You know, I think the cruelest

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person in the world, and I mean that, the cruelest,

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the meanest, person in the world will not be

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the man who will snatch my purse, who will assassinate

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my character, but the person who will point a

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finger of judgment. at me when god allows and

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permits certain things to happen in my life to

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strengthen me to school me to educate me when

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that person will point an accusing finger and

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say ha ha she must have sinned ha ha god's just

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sending his judgment upon her And there's many

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an old sister with a long tongue and a treacherous

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heart and a dirty mind who makes it her business

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to go around judging everybody when sorrow, when

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disaster, when death, when trouble comes. to

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an individual or to a family and say, ha, ha,

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I wonder what she's done. I wonder what he has

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done. There must be sin there someplace. Mm -hmm.

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You know them. I know them. Be careful that you

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judge not. when it comes to God's dealings with

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individuals. The Word of God is not that cruel.

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The Word of God does not teach that doctrine.

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That doctrine is as false as it is cruel, and

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as cruel as it is false. And I mean that with

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all my heart. Whom the Lord loveth, the Bible

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says, he chasteneth. Yes, ma 'am. If ye be without

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chastisement, then are ye bastards and not sons.

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Furthermore, we've had fathers of our flesh which

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corrected us. and we gave them reverence shall

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we not much rather be in subjection unto the

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father of spirits and live oh this very hour

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i could worship at the feet of my mother my tears

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Could bathe my mother's feet if she were living

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today. Tears of gratitude for the time that she

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disciplined me. I had a strict mother. Don't

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let anybody tell you that Mrs. Jo Kuhlman didn't

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discipline her children. Of course, at the time,

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my feelings were hurt. My rear end hurt. Eyeballed.

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I didn't scream. No, ma 'am. But when Mama took

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me down the basement and took me across her knee,

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now you can talk about switchesin', brushesin',

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tattles of all kinds. i don't know where mamma

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ever got all the strength that she had in just

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one hand because she was a small woman i don't

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think mamma ever weighed any more than a hundred

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and seven pounds but all of her strength was

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in her right hand i'll tell you that oh and now

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sometimes i wonder if it really was that painful

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or whether it was just because at the time I

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felt I was being abused. No, I couldn't do what

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other children did. When night came, Mama said

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I was to sleep at home in my own bed. that's

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the reason i had a home and a bed in my home

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i think kids could sleep at the neighbor's house

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or do just about as they pleased but when night

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came i was home and that was the rule at our

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house i felt abused When Mama said no, she meant

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no. There was no arguing. Mama's word was law.

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I was brought up in a very strict home. Today,

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I thank my God for my early training. And there's

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coming a day, beloved, when we stand in the presence

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of our Heavenly Father and we'll thank Him for

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the chastening. We'll thank Him for His fitness.

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We'll thank Him for the deep waters. We'll thank

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Him for those things that He permitted. And allowed

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to come into our lives. He knows exactly what

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he's doing in training us. Even now. I look back

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through the years of my life. And I thank my

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God for every tear. For those hard places. For

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those days when I didn't know where my next meal

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was coming from. For the days that I had nothing

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to eat but just a five -cent roll. Those were

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the things that made me strong. Sure, I was growing.

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I was going through a time of schooling. And

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he was the teacher. Whom the Lord loveth, he

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chasteneth. Be careful when sorrows don't come.

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Be careful when there's nothing to weep about.

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Be careful when he lifts the rod. I believe the

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most beautiful words. that Jesus ever spoke regarding

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this very thing is when he says, As many as I

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love, I rebuke and chase. I've seen many a dad

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and many a mother who permit their children to

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do anything they want to do their dick as the

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death to get them out of the house in the morning.

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They're tickled to death to just get a little

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breakfast cereal in their stomachs and say, Now,

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kids, get out. Get out. And they are sorry when

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they see them come back in again. Yeah? I don't

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want my Heavenly Father to feel that way about

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me. I wonder if those parents really do love

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me. their children. I wonder. I've wondered that

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more than once. These parents who just permit

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their children to do anything they want to do.

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There's no discipline. Nothing. Nothing. They

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do as they please. Our Heavenly Father isn't

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like that. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.

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And so, you see, a part of the program and plan

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and experience of human life is chastisement,

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is trial. In the world, Jesus said, ye shall

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have tribulation. is one of the most expressive

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words in the bible but he goes on to say be of

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good cheer i have overcome the world god bless

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you