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each Stationery single or set that I use for my daily shares.? If you
do not have the original font I created them with, just write and ask me to
send it to you.? All Information about the Stationery is in the footer credits
at the bottom of each letter.? In Incredimail’s style box my letters
are sent to folders starting with SA and the month or subject.
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Have a blessed year, 2025.
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Love and prayers always,
Pastor Karen
DAILY PRAYER
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Lord we Thank and Praise you for all you do each day to guide, protect, provide, and answer every petition as they make their needs, wants, and the desires of their hearts known to you.
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Lord please bless, keep, guide, and provide each person this message reaches. Throughout each day, bless them with perfect health, healing, and the abundant supply to fulfill all they need, want or desire.? Keep each of them safe and secure, no matter the weather, temperatures, or other circumstances that should try to cause their body, mind or our spirits to be tried and tested! Guide each of them as they pray, ask, and require.? (2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20;Luke 1:1-4; Luke 18:1-8; Colossians 1:9-23; Romans 8:26-30)
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Dear Lord in sharing the words of prayers and words of wisdom from history, I hope to encourage all my readers of these messages, to show that we are not experiencing anything that others in the past have not, and to show that you always provide. Let the readers also reflect on the time and circumstances of these prayers and words of wisdom, so they may draw strength and insight from them.? Amen
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God knows us through and through. Not the most secret thought, which we most hide from ourselves, is hidden from him. As then we come to know ourselves through and through, we come to see ourselves more as God sees us, and then we catch some little glimpse of his designs with us, how each ordering of his providence, each check to our desires, each failure of our hopes, is just fitted for us, and for something in our own spiritual state, which others know not of, and which, till then, we knew not. Until we come to this knowledge, we must take all in faith, believing, though we know not, the goodness of God toward us.
Edward Bouberie Pusey (1800–1882)
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Have a wonderfully blessed and prosperous day in the Lord today!
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TODAYS DEVOTIONS
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(It is not my intent to be a salesperson, just send uplifting and encouraging devotions, so all links are removed, but are in bold print, the attached PDF still should have hot links or you can follow the link at the bottom to view the devotion online)
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With Our Young and Our Old
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Moses answered, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival?to the?LORD”?– Exodus 10:9
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Each week in synagogue, Jews read through the?Torah?from Genesis to Deuteronomy.? The?Torah?portion for this week is?Bo,?which means “come”, from Exodus 10:1–13:16.
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Whenever I have the opportunity to walk in the?, I find myself filled with awe at the greatness of God’s plan for history.? The simple fact that we live at a time when we see prophecies in the Bible fulfilled just never gets old.
But there’s one place that is very special to me. It’s a courtyard in the Jewish Quarter. On one side of the courtyard is a small school.? In the center of courtyard there is a playground and some park benches.? On a short wall next to the playground, the following verses are engraved in large Hebrew letters.
This is what the?LORD?Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem,?each of them with cane in hand because of their age.?The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”? – Zechariah 8:4-5
I was there one day when the children in the school came out to play during recess.? Sure enough, there were a few elderly people sitting on the park benches watching the children play.? I was stunned.? Zechariah’s words?literally?came to life right before my eyes.
The Young and Old
I thought about these words, and how Zechariah specifically described children and the elderly in his vision of God’s redemption of Israel.? I thought to myself, “This is what it’s all about.? There is no redemption without the young and the old.”? God’s redemption includes all.? The past and the future.
In this week’s?Torah?portion, we see??emphasize this point to Pharaoh, “We will go out with our young and old, our sons and daughters…”? No one was to be left out of God’s plan for redemption.
We cannot rejoice in God’s salvation without appreciation for those who came before us.? And our redemption is meaningless without the children, the future of the Jewish nation.
Your Turn:
Take a moment to offer gratitude to those who came before us and pray for the children who will lead us into the future.
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PDF attached:
With Our Young and Our Old
By: Yael Eckstein?
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Pastor Karen Runbox
