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To: Jim W N
Trust in the Lord and forget about man’s efforts and failures.

Perhaps you should pray for the Lord to give us the strength and resources to fight what we know is going to happen rather than pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm not particularly religious, but have always heard that the Lord helps those who help themselves.

72 posted on 09/07/2020 8:36:33 AM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: KevinB
"the Lord helps those who help themselves" is not in the Bible.

Here's what's in the Bible:

Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

Jeremiah 17:5-8.
81 posted on 09/07/2020 9:14:53 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: KevinB
the Lord helps those who help themselves.

This exact phrase doesn't occur in the Bible, but is quoted so often people might think it is. It might be inferred by combining many points. I used to have tons of them until I really began searching for them. Online Bible is a real handy place to search. Lists all occurrences of any given text, free to use been around for many years.

Judges 6:13 | And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

God doesn't always agree with Man's plans.

111 posted on 09/07/2020 3:16:43 PM PDT by itsahoot (The ability to read auto correct is necessary to read my posts understanding them is another matter.)
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