| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: sake.
GEN 18:30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I
will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said,
I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
GEN 18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto
the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I
will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
GEN 18:32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak
yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I
will not destroy it for ten's sake.
GEN 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
EZR 1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of
the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and
had put them in the house of his gods;
EZR 1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of
Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince
of Judah.
EZR 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
EZR 1:10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four
hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: SA1 15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
SA1 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the
sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
SA1 15:10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
SA1 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is
turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments.
And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
SA1 15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it
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