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¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
    through painful toil you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.”
–Genesis 3:17-18 (NIV)–

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
–Isaiah 53:4-5 (NIV)–

¹⁷ This was to fulfill what was spoken
through the prophet Isaiah:

“He took up our infirmities
    and bore our diseases.”
–Matthew 8:17 (NIV)–

⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
–1 Peter 1:6-7 (NIV)–

¹² Do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. ¹³ But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
–1 Peter 4:12-13 (NIV)–

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Lester Liles, ed. Streams of Healing: A Book of Comfort (Revell, 1958), pp. 145-154.

Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline (HarperCollins, 2018).

Randy Clark, Eyewitness to Miracles (Thomas Nelson, 2018).

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations (Walking Barefoot Ministries, 2008), p. 163.

In the City of Dreams
I was whisked away
To a variety
Of spiritual sights

At first the arrogant teacher
A Catholic high school
Bullying down high and mighty
To the country bumpkin

Then comes Mr. UFC Fighter
I beat him once before
He always says I wanna fight you
Don’t worship the ground he walks on

Then there’s the estranged family
Living in a depressed flat
In the midst of a place
Like a city dump

Constant construction
Or was it destruction
Of the buildings all around me
Dumpsters and rubble

Two little girls
With a pregnancy test
To find out that they’ll have a baby
As lesbian twelve year olds

One cried because they
They went against the culture
And I said I won’t affirm you
So get right with God

Fornicators all over the place
One bikini clothed man
With both breasts and a beard
Drove around in his open-top car

Somehow, someway
The conservatives of culture
Had the ladies hold parties
And they sang songs to preserve things

Go into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature.
–Mark 16:15 (NKJV)–

If you do evil, be afraid;
for he does not bear the sword in vain;
for he is God’s minister,
an avenger to execute wrath
on him who practices evil.
–Romans 13:4 (NKJV)–

If you do evil, be afraid;
for he does not bear the sword in vain;
for he is God’s minister,
an avenger to execute wrath
on him who practices evil.
–Romans 13:4 (NKJV)–

A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.
–Ecclesiastes 3:8 (NKJV)–

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