The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: COL 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working,
which worketh in me mightily.
COL 2:1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you,
and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in
the flesh;
COL 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the
acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
COL 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
COL 2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
words.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: see it: I pray thee have me excused.
LUK 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go
to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
LUK 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I
cannot come.
LUK 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then
the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly
into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor,
and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
LUK 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast
commanded, and yet there is room.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid
not their hands on the prey,
EST 9:17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
EST 9:18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the
thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the
fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and
gladness.
EST 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled
towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and
feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
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