![]() It's a challenge just to get through the day on your own strength, but extra love and support is always welcome. In this day and age marriages, families, and relationships are being torn apart on a daily basis. It shows how one can put faith not only in God, but learn what a blessing it is to open your heart, trust others, and allow them to love and support you in the time of need. A roller coaster of emotions and inspiring personal memories help enhance this powerful testimony. I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.How do you handle your most difficult circumstances? Where does your strength come from? Who do you turn to? How do you survive? This story begins with a diagnosis of renal cancer. Then I said, “Behold, I have come in the scroll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do your will, O my God your law is within my heart.” I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. I waited patiently for the Lord he inclined to me and heard my cry. Much to my shock - they all managed to rise to the challenge and nobody got hurt. ![]() ![]() until about halfway through the course when suddenly they realize that they’d get a lot further a lot faster if they’d just give in to the fact that they were tied together with a giant piece of rubber and work together. There are few things less united than 10 teenagers crammed into an inner tube together trying to do an obstacle course. It was not my idea and I actually thought it was a pretty ill thought out and potentially dangerous activity, but when I think about what the Corinthian church was going through, it reminds me of that obstacle course. One of the obstacles was that something like 8 or 10 of them had to get into a bicycle inner tube together and navigate a flight of stairs. The course was meant to encourage the kids to find ways to work together. It was actually just one leg of an obstacle course. There was one in particular that I strongly advised my colleagues against. ![]() As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!īack when I worked in youth ministry, there were a great number of terrible ideas that came to fruition during youth group. I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.
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