Everyone had already decided: name him after his father. Then Elizabeth speaks up, "Not so; but he will be called…Everyone had already decided: name him after his father. Then Elizabeth speaks up, "Not so; but he will be called John." Her husband couldn't talk, yet somehow she knew. A barren woman, long overlooked, now standing against a room full of relatives because God had spoken.
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Father, I want to be proven right more than I want to be made new. Teach me to leave the…Father, I want to be proven right more than I want to be made new. Teach me to leave the settling of scores with you, trusting that what is built on lies will not stand, and that your justice is kinder than mine.
David's men had been shamed, half shaved, their clothes cut off, sent home humiliated. He could have called them straight…David's men had been shamed, half shaved, their clothes cut off, sent home humiliated. He could have called them straight back to court. Instead: "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."
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Where in your life have you been told to hurry past a wound? Some things grow back slowly, and the King is not impatient with you.
You have known me rebellious "from the day that I knew you," and still You did not walk away. Thank…You have known me rebellious "from the day that I knew you," and still You did not walk away. Thank You for bearing with my stubbornness, for an intercessor who pleads when I deserve nothing, and for keeping Your promise when I kept breaking mine.
Naomi had said, "I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty." Now look at her arms.…Naomi had said, "I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty." Now look at her arms. "Naomi took the child, and laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him." God didn't give back the husband or the sons she buried. He gave something she never asked for. Sometimes restoration doesn't look like the old life returning. It looks like a weight in your lap you didn't expect to carry.
Father, I see the quiet pull toward lawlessness already at work in the world and in me. Thank you that…Father, I see the quiet pull toward lawlessness already at work in the world and in me. Thank you that it is not unchecked, that something holds it back. Keep restraining what would ruin us, and keep my heart turned toward you.
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