Today, I gave an old homeless man, who was pushing around a shopping cart full of dirty clothes and other junk, my shelter-dispensed loaf of bread and sandwich.
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| At City Team Ministeries, lined up for dinner |
Although it was stuff I would have barely choked down anyway, he looked sincerely grateful; but, does that mean God is obliged to keep His promise, as implied in Psalm 41?
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| The food line at City Team Ministeries |
Read it, and then vote using the form at the end of this post:
| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. |
| The Psalms |
| 41 |
A Prayer for Healing |
| To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. |
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| 1 | Blessed is he that considereth the poor:
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| the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. |
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| 2 | The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive;
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| and he shall be blessed upon the earth: |
| and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. |
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| 3 | The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
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| thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. |
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| 4 | I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul;
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| for I have sinned against thee. |
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| 5 | Mine enemies speak evil of me,
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| When shall he die, and his name perish? |
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| 6 | And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity:
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| his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; |
| when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. |
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| 7 | All that hate me whisper together against me:
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| against me do they devise my hurt. |
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| 8 | An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him:
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| and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. |
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| 9 | Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
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| 10 | But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me,
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| and raise me up, that I may requite them. |
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| 11 | By this I know that thou favorest me,
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| because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. |
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| 12 | And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,
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| and settest me before thy face for ever. |
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| 13 | Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
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| from everlasting, and to everlasting. Ps. 106.48 |
Amen, and Amen.
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