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~Favorite
Bible Passages~
There
are three Bible passages that are deeply rooted in my heart and I would like to share them with you here. Every person who loves God should take these passages into consideration also, because they tell so much
about Who PAPA DIEU really is like. These passages are my anchor, my
reason to go on another pain, another day. Without any of the Scriptures, for
that matter, I would be the most lost person on the face of this Earth. The Scripture
is my guide and consoler, my cries and my praises. Without them I would certainly
be a lost soul.
I
pray that when you read them below, that the HOLY SPIRIT will read them for you so that HIS WISDOM will be shed on you, in
every paragraph, line and or WORD, this I ask in Jesus Christ's Holy Name. Amen+
1. Hear me, O coastlands,
listen, O distant peoples.
The LORD called me from birth,
from my mother's womb he gave me my name.
2. He made of me a sharp edge sword
and concealed me in the shadow of his arm.
He made of me a polished arrow,
in his quiver he hid me.
3.You are my servant, he said to me,
Israel (here say your name), through whom I show my glory.
4. Though I thought I had toiled in vain
and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength,
Yet my reward is with the LORD,
my recompense is with my God.
5. For now the LORD has spoken
who formed me as his servant from the womb,
and I am glorious in the sight of the LORD,
and my God is now my strength!
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8. Thus say the LORD:
In a time of favor I answer you,
on the day of salvation I help you,
to restore the land
and allot the desolate heritages,
9. Saying to the prisoners: Come out!
To those in darkness: Show yourselves!
Along the ways they shall find pasture,
on every bare height shall their pastures be.
10. They shall not hunger or thirst,
nor shall the scorching wind or the sun strike them;
For he who pities them leads them
and guides them besides springs of water.
13. Sing out, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth
break forth into song, you mountains.
For the LORD comforts his people
and shows mercy on his afflicted.
14. But Zion (say your name) said, The LORD has forsaken me;
my LORD has forgotten me.
15.Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.
16. See, upon the palms of my hands I have
written you name;
your walls are ever before me.
17. Your rebuilders make haste,
as those who tore you down and laid you waste
go forth from you;
19. Though you were wasted and desolate,
a land of ruins,
Now you shall be too small for your inhabitants,
While those who swallowed you up will be
far away.
20. The children whom you had lost
shall yet say to you,
This place is too small for me,
make room for me to live in.
21. You shall ask yourself;
Who has borne me these:
I was bereft and barren
(exiled and repudiated);
who has reared them?
I was left all alone;
Where then do these come from?
22. Thus says the LORD God:
See, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
and raise my signal to the peoples;
26. --- All mankind shall know
that I, the LORD, am your savior,
your redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
Part of his this Isaiah 49 passages version was taken from THE CATHOLIC STUDY BIBLE
NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
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LORD, you have probed me, you know me:
you know when I sit and stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
My travels and my rest you mark;
with all my ways you are familiar.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
LORD, you know it all.
Behind and before you encircle me
and rest your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is beyond me,
far too lofty for me to reach.
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Where can I hade from your spirit?
From your presence, where can I flee?
If I ascend to the heavens, you are there;
if I lie down in Sheol, you are there too.
If I fly with wings of dawn
and alight beyond the sea,
Even there your hand will guide me,
you right hand hold me fast.
If I say, Surely darkness shall guide me,
and night shall be my light-
Darkness is not dark for you,
and night shines as the day.
Darkness and light are but one.
III
You formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mothers womb.
I praise you, so wonderfully you made me;
wonderful are you works!
My very self you knew;
my bones were not hidden from you,
When I was being made in secret,
fashioned as in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes foresaw my actions;
in your book all are written down;
my days were shaped, before one came to be.
IV
How precious to me are you designs, O God;
how vast the sum of them!
Were I t count, they would outnumber the sands;
to finish, I would need eternity.
V
Probe me, God, know my heart;
try me, know my concerns.
See if my way is crooked,
then, lead me in the ancient paths.
Part of his Psalm 139 version was taken from THE CATHOLIC STUDY BIBLE
NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
Yahweh is my shepherd,
I lack nothing.
In meadows of green grass he lets me lie.
To the waters of repose he leads me;
there he revives my soul.
He guides m by paths of virtue
For the sake of his name.
Though I pass through a gloomy valley,
I fear no harm;
beside me your rod and you staff
are there, to hearten me.
You prepare a table before me
Under the eyes of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil,
my cup brims over.
Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me,
every day of my life;
my home, the house of Yahweh,
as long as I live!
This version of Psalm 23, as written is my favorite. It is taken from
The Jerusalem Bible Readers Edition.
Grief-stricken in spirit, I groaned and wept aloud.
Then with sobs I began to pray:
Tobit’s Prayer for Death
“You are righteous, O Lord,
and all your deeds are just;
All you ways are mercy and truth;
you are the judge of the world.
And now, O Lord, may you be mindful of me,
and look with favor upon me.
Punish me not for my sins,
nor for my inadvertent offenses,
nor for those of my fathers.
“They sinned against you,
and disobeyed you commandments.
So you handed us over to plundering, exile,
and death,
till we were an object lesson, a byword, a
reproach
in all the nations among whom you
scattered us.
“Yes, your judgments are many and true
in dealing with me as my sins
and those of my fathers deserve.
For we have not kept your commandments,
nor have we trodden the paths of truth
before you.
“So now, deal with me as you please,
and command my life breath to be taken
form me,
that I may go from the face of the earth into
dust.
It is better for me to die that to live,
because I have heard insulting calumnies,
and I am overwhelmed with grief.
“Lord, command me to be delivered from such
anguish;
let me go to the everlasting abode;
Lord, refuse me not.
For it is better for me to die
than to endure so much misery in life,
and to hear these insults!”
ll: Sarah's Plight
Sarah Falsely Accused
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At that time, then, she spread out her
hands, and facing the window, poured out this
prayer:
Sarah’s Prayer for Death
“Blessed are you, O Lord, merciful God!
Forever blessed and honored is you holy
name;
may all your works forever bless you.
And now, O Lord, to you I turn my face
and raise my eyes.
bid me to depart from the earth,
never again to hear such insults. …
But if it please you, Lord, not to slay me,
look favorably upon me and have pity on
me;
never again let me hear these insults!”
An Answer to Prayer At the very time, the
prayer of these two suppliants was heard in the
glorious presence of Almighty God. So
Raphael was sent to heal them both: to remove the
cataracts from Tobit’s eyes, so that he might
again see God’s sunlight; and to marry Raguel’s
daughter Sarah to Tobit’s son Tobiah, and then
drive the wicked demon Asmodeus from her.
For Tobiah …
In the very moment that Tobit returned from
the courtyard to his house, Raguel’s daughter
Sarah came downstairs from her room.
Tobit 3:1-17
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My
Prayer voiced out many a time!
Praying, still, that I, also, will be heard!
I had written down some special verses that touched my life so deeply to the point of putting them
down on paper.
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(about God wanting our happiness.)
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(Choosing Wisdom; look ahead.)
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(Well done good & faithful servant.)
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(Where two or three are…)
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(about more trials we cannot endure.)
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(the narrow road is the way to heaven.)
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(Everything
you shall ask the Father in my name…)
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(… will do the works that I do…)
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(…we are the temples of the living God...)
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(… you are the intelligent folk…)
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-Songs of Song 4:
12 to end
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(The Bible was on a table in the center
of our circle at the prayer meeting and
a page was straight up. I pushed it down
several times but the page would pop right
back up again. I decided I should read
what was on that page and my eyes
started at the above verses.)
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