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God, Where Are You Now?
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Job 23:1-9 

(1) Then Job answered and said,  
(2)  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.  
(3)  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!  
(4)  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.  
(5)  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.  
(6)  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.  
(7)  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.  
(8)  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:  
(9)  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

The Sin of Worry
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Matthew 6:24-34

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to
the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

What God Showed Me
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Micah 6:1-8 
(1) Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.  
(2)  Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.  
(3)  O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.  
(4)  For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.  
(5)  O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.  
(6)  Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?  
(7)  Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?  
(8)  He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

What Will Be Your Lot in Life When Jesus Comes Again
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Luke 17:22-37 
(22) And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.  
(23)  And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.  
(24)  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.  
(25)  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.  
(26)  And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.  
(27)  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.  
(28)  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;  
(29)  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.  
(30)  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.  
(31)  In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.  
(32)  Remember Lot's wife.  
(33)  Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.  
(34)  I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.  
(35)  Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  
(36)  Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  
(37)  And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

The God of the Valleys
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1 Kings 20:23-29 
(23) And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.  
(24)  And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:  
(25)  And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.  
(26)  And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.  
(27)  And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.  
(28)  And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.  
(29)  And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

You Dirty Dog!
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Matthew 15:21-28 
(21) Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.  
(22)  And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.  
(23)  But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.  
(24)  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.  
(25)  Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.  
(26)  But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.  
(27)  And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.  
(28)  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Social Injustice
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Exodus 2:11-14 

(11) And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.  
(12)  And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.  
(13)  And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?  
(14)  And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.