Our feelings of
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Our need for
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Our right to be
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Our longing for
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“Trust in the Lord with SOME of your heart and lean on your OWN understanding. In SOME of your ways, acknowledge Him, and YOU will make your paths straight.” —Proverbs 3:5-6 CFV (Control Freak Version)
“Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart and lean NOT on your own understanding; in ALL your ways submit to Him, and HE will make your paths straight.” —Proverbs 3:5-6
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’ Abram agreed to what Sarai said.” —Genesis 16:1-2
“So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.” —Genesis 16:3-4a
“What am I trying to
?”
1. Is it worth my
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“Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” —Jesus, Luke 10:41-42
2. Is it
to control?
“Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” —James 4:13-14 > 3. Is it for GOD alone?
“Do not be anxious about ANYTHING, but in EVERY situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to GOD. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” —Philippians 4:6-7
“Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.” —Genesis 22:13-14
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