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give us grace today to pour out our souls to those in need10 if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
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and satisfy the afflicted soul,
11 Yahweh will guide you continually,
satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water
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Give us grace today to be self controlled8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
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Give us grace today to allow the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven to do your work in us33 He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:
Greetings.
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance…
更多14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
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Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
16 In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the seed of the Kingdom grow in us31 He set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds.
But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”Heavenly Father
give us grace today to turn away from looking down on others, and put our hearts into caring for others9 “If you take away from among you the yoke,
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finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
10 and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will rise in darkness,
and your obscurity will be as…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to ……cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
更多15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
17 Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that…
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The earth also is yours,
the world and its fullness.
You have founded them.
12 You have created the north and the south.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
13 You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today tol live at peace alongside all that is good and all that is not good in the world.28 “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
29 “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
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30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,…Heavenly Father
give us grace today to give to those in need and to work towards freeing the oppressed6 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
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to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke?
7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to subject ourselves to others, walking humbly under your mighty hand
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5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder.
Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another;
for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to trust you when bad things happen24 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. 26 But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. 27 The…
更多1 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge…
更多8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
9 You rule the pride of the sea.
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
10 You have broken Rahab [Egypt, probably] in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to hear and understand the word of the Kingdom of God, so that we may bear fruit abundantly23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be humble and become aware of any disobedience in ourselves so that our sin may be burnt away and become like ash.1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
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Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Declare to my people their disobedience,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily,
…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to fulfil our own calling today willingly, humbly and faithfully1 Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
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2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
3 …Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid the deceitfulness of riches22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
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your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are…Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow your words to us take root in the way in which we live today.20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
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give us grace today to have a contrite and humble spirit so that we may have peace in our hearts, and may be a channel of peace to those who are far off, and to those who are near.18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him. [who is of a contrite and humble spirit, from verse 15]
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I will lead him also,
and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
19 I…Heavenly father give us grace today to entrust our souls to you, particularly when we find ourselves in trouble.
16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
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17 For the time has come for judgement to begin with the household of God.
If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
18 “If it is…(Ignore previous email)
Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to understand what you say to us in our hearts18 “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. 19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a…
更多3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’”
[and Jesus is David’s descendant]Give us grace today to live in Jesus’ kingdom
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give us grace today to be thankful for everything we have have been given.16 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men
desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them;
and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.Heavenly Father
give us grace today to know when to let go of our anger, as you let go of yours.16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;
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for the spirit would faint before me,
and the souls whom I have made.
17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.
I hid myself and was…Heavenly father give us grace to do good today, particularly in our interaction with other people
15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other people’s matters.
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Heavenly father
give us grace to live today with our eyes open and ears attentive, so that we may understand and find healing for when our hearts are callous, our ears dull of hearing and our eyes wide shut.13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see,
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and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
14…26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
Your faithfulness is in them.”Heavenly father
give us grace today to look for the deeper mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven10 The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
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11 He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance;
but whoever doesn…Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be contrite and humble14 He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way!
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Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy, says:
“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to…Heavenly father give us grace today to rejoice in all circumstances
12 Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
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13 But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
14 If you are insulted for the name of…Heavenly father
give us grace today to root out all those things which get in the way of eternally important things.7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
8 Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried.
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In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul?
Why do you hide your face from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me.
…Heavenly father
give us grace today to allow your words to affect our lives at a deep level5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.Heavenly Father
give us grace today to see the futility of everything which is outside the kingdom of God.1 The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart.
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4 Aren’t you children of disobedience
and offspring of falsehood,
5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks; [giving worship to someone/thing that isn’t God]
who kill the children in the valleys …Heavenly father give us grace today to serve others in all that we do or say today.
10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
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11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God.
If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies,
that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom belong the glory and…Heavenly father
give us grace today to discard what is of ultimate importance1 On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
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2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.
3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by…4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is…
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You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8 You have taken my friends from me.
You have made me an abomination to them.
I am confined, and I can’t escape.
9 My eyes are dim from grief.
I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
I have spread out my…Heavenly father
give us grace today to do your will.46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
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47 One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
48 But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
49 He stretched out his hand…Heavenly Father
give us grace to faithfully care for those we need to watch out for today.9 All you animals of the field, come to devour,
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all you animals in the forest.
10 His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge.
They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark — dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yes, the dogs are greedy. They…Heavenly father give us grace today to be hospitable to others
9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
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give us grace today to open our hearts to you spirit today, so that there is no room for evil within us.43 “When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through water less places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
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44 Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
45 Then he goes and takes with…17 The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.”1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation,
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I have cried day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer enter into your presence.
Turn your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles.
My life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit.
I am like a man…Heavenly father
give us grace today to pay attention to the one who died and rose again, so that we may repent of everything that draws us away from him38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
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39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
40 For as Jonah…Heavenly Father
give us grace to have a larger heart for others today, so that there is room for foreigners and outcasts.[the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh
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to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name]
7 Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
8 …Heavenly father give us grace today to love others earnesly.
8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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give us grace today to open our hearts to you, so that our mouths may speak your words of truth and peace33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good,
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or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
35 The…Praise to the God of All Comfort
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and…
更多This is an extraordinary Psalm - it says that ALL PEOPLE are born in God City, Zion.
They are made in the image of God, and God is the source of all that is good in them.
ALL PEOPLE includes our worse enemies both the Babylonians who deported Israel and the Philistines who were a perpetual enemy of Israel.1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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2 Yahweh loves the…Heavenly father
give us grace today to turn to you today in our hearts, in what we do and in what we say30 “He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.
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31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him;…Heavenly Father
give us grace to be joined to you today, serving you and loving you in all that we do.6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him,
and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and holds fast my covenant,
7 I will bring these to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer.Heavenly father give us grace today to pray today so that we may be self-controlled
7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.Heavenly father
Deliver us all from evil today, we pray27 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
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28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.
29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods,
unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder…Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God;
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for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
2 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem.
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the broken in heart,
and binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars.
He calls them all by their names.
5…14 God, the proud have risen up against me.
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A company of violent men have sought after my soul,
and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me!
Give your strength to your…Heavenly father
give us grace today to be loyal to those who hearts are set on the kingdom of God24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
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25 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation,
and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
26…Heavenly Father
give us grace to be gracious to those who aren’t married with children in the usual way, just as you are gracious3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying,
“Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.”
Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”4 For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,…
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3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles,
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and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
4 They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
5 …Heavenly father
give us grace today to help those who cannot see things to see them, and those who cannot communicate to communicate22 Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him,
so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
23 All the multitudes were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?”11 Teach me your way, Yahweh.
I will walk in your truth.
Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart.
I will glorify your name forever more.
13 For your loving kindness is great toward me.
You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
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give us grace today to be gentle to those who are bruised20 He won’t break a bruised reed.
He won’t quench a smoking flax,
until he leads justice to victory.
21 In his name, the nations will hope.”Heavenly Father
give us grace to do what is just and right today1 Yahweh says,
“Maintain justice
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and do what is right,
for my salvation is near
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast;
who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
and…Heavenly father give us grace today to have the mind of Christ so that we may do your will
1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves also with the same mind;
for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men,
but for the will of God.Heavenly father
give us grace today to focus on justice rather than publicity15 Great multitudes followed Jesus; and he healed them all,
16 and commanded them that they should not make him known,
17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,
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my beloved in whom my…1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. 3 For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”Psalm 69:9 4 For whatever…
更多9 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.
They shall glorify your name.
10 For you are great, and do wondrous things.
You are God alone.Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid conflict and to help others14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
15 Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there.
Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,
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