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God had told them and shown them. 

 

Is that the way you enter a project?

Did not God show you and command you to do this thing?  Was it God who sent you, putting it in your heart to do this?

If God be for us, who can be against us?  Though they fight against the will of God, they will not win against God.

Our faith should show this and show our belief in that which God has said to us.

Joshua 1:9  God says:  Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

 

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* Abraham:

Genesis 12

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; 

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 * Moses:

Exodus 2

23  And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

Exodus 1

22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born (to the Hebrews houses) ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

 

Exodus 2

 

1 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

 

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*Joshua and Caleb:

Numbers 13

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

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*  Joan Boney prayer:  (several times for at least 2 1/2 decades)

To God:  "If anything happens to me where I can't take care of myself. Please never put Sandra in charge of me."

December, 2018  Night before surgery.  Nurse comes to my room and says:  "Before we can operate on you, we must know who is in charge of you if you can't care for yourself."  Without any thought at all, I reply: "Pam Padgett is in charge of me."  (I had not asked Pam.  It was just what it was. God must have put this into my heart without my realizing it for it just came from my heart when nurse asked the question.)

It was told to Pam that I said she was in charge of me.  She thought about it for a second and then replied:  "OK."  Then Pam said to God:  "Well ... what do we do now?"

This is the reason God put Pam in charge.  She would ask God and not just try to figure it out of her own self.

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* Pam Padgett against cancer:

September, 2022:  Surgeon says: You must have a series of chemotherapy followed by surgical removal of your bladder.  If you do not do this, you will die within a year or maybe 2 years. Then for remainder of your life you must wear a bag or device to artificially remove waste from your body.  

Pam didn't mind having the chemotherapy treatments, but she greatly minded the thought of removal of her bladder and having to use artificial means for waste removal for the rest of her life. So Pam ask God if there was any way surgery could be eliminated from the cancer plan.

* Joan Boney:  to God:  upon being told of Pam Padgett's cancer.  "This is illegal!  YOU put me to live at Pam Padgett's house.  YOU are not going to kill Pam and leave me alone to try to take care of 2 dogs and 4 cats when I can't even take care of myself.

The Bible says of YOU:  James 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

With YOU there is no variableness, and not even a shadow of turning.

This will not happen.  YOU cannot be overcome this way.  There is not even a "shadow" of turning with YOU. 

YOUR plans come to pass.  Nothing and no one overcomes YOU.

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2020:  While test driving Acura MDX car:  God said to me:  "You should drive a Mercedes."  (We bought that Acura.  3 1/2 years later, we bought a Mercedes and got rid of the Acura.)  God got us where we needed to be.  We bought a Mercedes and sold the Acura.)

In the previous years, I had 7 broken bones in my body.  I needed a car with good air suspension which I could ride in without pain.  God knew which car that would be and HE told me, but at first I didn't follow HIM and the pain when I rode in the Acura was constant.  That has not been the case with the Mercedes.  

God knows the way we should go and HE tells us but we must follow HIM to win.

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