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They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind -- the one who had the "Legion" -- and they were afraid.



But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled,



I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.


For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge --


He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land."

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.


They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

The river's channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the sovereign One.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life -- water as clear as crystal -- pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.










There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.






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