| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall
find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
JER 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of
the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
JER 6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is
among them.
JER 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto
my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
JER 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the
sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZR 8:19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari,
his brethren and their sons, twenty;
EZR 8:20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had
appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty
Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
EZR 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we
might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for
us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
EZR 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers
and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had
spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: repentance.
MAT 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and
the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
MAT 9:15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber
mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come,
when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
MAT 9:16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for
that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent
is made worse.
MAT 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles
break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put
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