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Leen Ritmeyer - Using The Psalms For Overcoming - Class 5 - Follow His Steps

September 23, 2024 45 min

Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 314.

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  1. 0:01

    Thank you, brother Philip. Good morning, my beloved brother and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. Follow his steps, and the more we know how Jesus walked, the better we can follow his steps. Remember we referred to that in one of our evening studies when in Revelations, in the letter to the Elysians, Jesus says to him that overcomers will I grant or sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and then sat down with my Father in his throne.

  2. 0:42

    We’ve looked during these studies how we can use the Psalms for overcoming. And in this last study, I’d like to look at a very inspiring example of how Jesus overcame. And when we think of what Jesus had to overcome, we may think of him, you know, avoiding being tripped up by the Pharisees.

  3. 1:09

    We may think of him being tempted in all things like we are. We can think most of all how we overcame sin all in his life and death on that awful cross. He suffered both mentally but also physically and we need to understand especially how he suffered physically if you are to be saved by his life. See in in the gospels, if you turn to Matthew chapter 8 for example, we see Jesus healing all sorts of people. I’m sure you know the chapter well. We don’t have to read it, but in verses yeah, from 2:00 to 4:00 we see him healing a leper, and in verses 5 to 13 he heals the centurion servant, and in verses 14 and 15 he heals Peter’s mother-in-law.

  4. 2:20

    And in verse 16 we read that he healed many and it paints an optimistic and an upbeat picture of Jesus going round and doing good to all people. But it says in verse 17 that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying he himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses. Well, that refers back to our readings of Isaiah 53, which with the Vince read, read for us. If you go back to Isaiah chapter 53, then if you will be able to read it in in Hebrew, it’s much more powerful. If you look at first 3, which says He is despised and rejected of men and men of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, men of sorrows and acquainted with grief, it says actually in the Hebrew He is a man of pains and knowing sickness. There’s a difference of being acquainted with as knowing about as knowing in experiencing in your own body those diseases and the pains of the people he heals. And that is the true sense of fellowship, I believe, which we sometimes confuse with membership. Because to know Jesus in this way, as we hope to see in this study, then we understand perhaps better what the apostle Paul says about fellowship.

  5. 4:14

    That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings being made conformable unto His death. The more we understand how He suffered, the better sense we have what fellowship is all about, and how we can put fellowship through fellowship into practice. And then in first four of Isaiah chapter 53, it says He has borne our Greece and carried our sorrows. Again.

  6. 4:52

    It means that He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. And a verb to carry to bear means to to bear a load or to carry away his diseases. Jesus did not make those diseases just disappear as with a magic wound. He took away those diseases of the people and He carried Him himself in His own body, and in doing so He became I’ll himself. In verse 4, the word stricken is the word for plagued, and that word occurs 60 times in Leviticus chapters 13 and 14 and it plainly speaks about the plague of leprosy in the Gospels.

  7. 5:49

    We don’t read much what effect that healing of other people had on Jesus himself. There are two incidents recorded that gives us a little bit of an insight of this nature. If you go to Luke chapter 6, then we read in verse 17. And he came down with them, and stood in the plane and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And they got to effects this unclean spirits, and they were healed.

  8. 6:43

    And the whole multitude sought to touch Him for the event virtue out of him and he healed them all. And it’s phrase virtue went out of him also occurs in Mark chapter 5. And in Mark chapter 5 we know with this woman that’s had an issue of blood for 12 years. And you know how she touched the hem of his garment and was healed. And how it says in verse 34 he said unto her, daughter, thy faith has made the whole go in peace. But Jesus in verse 30 had said He was immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of him. Now what does that mean?

  9. 7:58

    The woman was healed of her plague. That means a whip or a skirts. It was indeed a skirts. For this woman to have been bleeding for 12 years, probably since she had given birth to her daughter, was now dying, and only women can fully understand what devastating effect that constant bleeding must have had on her body.

  10. 8:27

    And on top of that plague which she hadn’t caused, it just happened to her, she was condemned by the law as unclean and she was separated by she’s husband who was the rule of the synagogue where he couldn’t be contaminated by a woman who was all the time unclean, was separated from her husband.

  11. 8:50

    And the glads for the healing process because then that woman was united with her husband and with her daughter. But it may be misleading to think that. But it says virtue went out of him. That Jesus was being very virtuous, though he healed that woman and united the family is wonderful. But it says something else. In the Greek, the word for virtue is dunamis. That means strength or power.

  12. 9:21

    And he must have felt that strength left him when he was healing that woman, and all the other people strengthened out of him while he was healing that woman, He became weaker himself because he took upon himself the devastating result of that disease that was slowly killing that woman. Jesus, more than anybody else, would have known where all diseases came from. And in this case of that woman that began bleeding at childbirth, Jesus must have thought back of the Garden of Eden, where let’s go to Genesis chapter 3 and 16. The result of sin for the woman

  13. 10:14

    is in verse 16. I will greatly multiply not thy sorrow. It says thy pain. It is painful to give birth to children for women. I was present at the birth of all my children. I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception. In pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

  14. 10:44

    And his punishment was the immediate result of sin, which eventually led to Eve’s death. And these must have seen all this portrayed in that woman who had touched the hem of his garment. But by touching that garment, that desperate woman expressed her faith in the Scriptures. Go to Numbers chapter 15, Numbers 15, starting at verse 38, when Yahweh was speaking to Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel and bitten, that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, that they put upon the fringe of the borders ribbons of blue, and shall be unto you for a fringe, that you may look upon it.

  15. 11:46

    And remember all the commandments of the hour, and do them, and that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to go for whoring, that you may remember. And do all my commandments and be holy unto your alvine. I am Yahweh, your Alvine that’s brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your alvine.

  16. 12:13

    I am Yahweh your Halloween. Unlike Eve, this woman desperately wanted to be holy and do all God’s commandments, but she was prevented from doing it by her condition.

  17. 12:34

    We often read that Jesus was filled with compassion when he saw mankind’s suffering, which he knew was the result of sin. Jesus said empathy, which means entering into and sharing somebody’s misfortune. And Jesus didn’t to such an extent that by taking away their diseases, he became I’ll himself. We don’t read much about it in the Gospels, but you do in the sounds.

  18. 13:06

    The sounds reveal the mind of the suffering Christ. And more than any of the Psalm in this context that tells us what Jesus physically went through is Psalm 38.

  19. 13:30

    We’ve got to spend some time in this Psalm. It is undoubtedly a messianic Psalm, although I believe that all psalms are messianic. But first eleven makes it very clear. It’s as my lovers and my friends stand aloof from my soul and my kinsmen stand afar off. I remember Peter denied Jesus and but yet followed him afar off. Peter followed him afar off and to the high priest palace. And he went in and set as the servant to see the end. Oh, he was there, but not next to Jesus. He was far off.

  20. 14:13

    And when Jesus hung on the cross, we made in in the Gospels that all his acquaintance and the women that followed him from Galilee stood afar off beholding these things. But the title of the Psalm is the Psalm of David, or the best food for the beloved to bring to remembrance. And the contents of the Psalm appears to indicate that Jesus wanted God to remember the frailty of the flesh which he experienced in himself, as in the next time, for example, 39 in verse 4, it’s yeah, I will make it to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how frail I am.

  21. 15:03

    And the more he took on the diseases of the people and feeling it in himself, the frailer he became. And he wanted God to remember this for our sakes. So let’s then look at this sound it says in verse one, Yahweh rebuked me not in thy wrath, neither chastened me in thy hot displeasure. And Jesus physically Mr. felt the wrath of God and his hot displeasure with sin when he took on himself the pains and the sicknesses of us.

  22. 15:40

    All that were chastened also occurs in Second Samuel Chapter 7. And David gave the beautiful promise of his Son. You come back to that later on. And in verse 2 it says thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore. But keep coming back to Psalm 38. But in Psalm 64

  23. 16:20

    we read this to hinder the overcomers, the best fruits for their beloved. Hear my voice, Ellen, in my prayer. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity, who wet their tongues like a sword and bend their bows to shoot arrows. Bitter words that they may shoot in secret at the perfect, suddenly that they shoot at him, and fear not. And Jesus had many of those arrows pointed at him. The book of Job was to be in such a comfort to Jesus in his suffering.

  24. 17:00

    It says in chapter 6 of Job, Oh, that my grief was thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together. For that will be heavier than the scent of the sea. Therefore my words are swallowed up, For the errors of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks of my spirit, the terrors of Elanine, who set themselves in a ray against me. And now Psalm 38, the second-half of the verse which you read, said, Die hand presses me sword. And although the words of Job’s so-called friends hurt him very much, he knew, as he says in chapter 19, the hand of God has touched me.

  25. 17:44

    God’s hand was heavy on Joe and also on Jesus. You go to Psalm 17. We read there in verses 313 to 14. It says, arise. I would disappoint him, cast him down, deliver my soul from the wicked which thy sword from the men which I die handy hour from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and who belly thou fill as we take treasures and so on, and go back to our Psalm 38. We read then there’s no soundness in my flesh and it’s physical and also mental suffering made him look old beyond his years.

  26. 18:45

    It says in John now not yet 50 years old, he’s only 30 and he looked like an old 50 year old. And then it says in verse 4, for my iniquities I’ve gone over my head. So unlike David, the author of the Psalm, Jesus has never committed iniquity. But like other great men in Scriptures as Moses and Daniel and Nehemiah, he took on himself the sins of the people. And then in verse 5 we read my wounds stink and I corrupt says in Hebrew my wounds are stinking and rotting. And then it says in verse 6, I am troubled. If you look in your margin, it says for the word troubled, right?

  27. 19:46

    And that’s a true meaning. That means crooked, not crooked in the New Zealand centre. You’re sick now. Crooked in the sense of Ecclesiastes. That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Ecclesiastes 7 and 13. Consider the work of Alvin, who can make straight which he had made crooked. Unless the word Jesus says I am crooked, I don’t understand the meaning behind His word.

  28. 20:27

    We need to go back to Second Samuel Chapter 7 where the very same words or derivation of it is used. Read about this wonderful promise in verse 12. And thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep as thy fathers our set up thy seed after thee. Speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall proceed. Arrow thy battles, and I’ll establish His Kingdom. He shall build an house for my name. I’ll establish the throne of His Kingdom forever. I will be His Father, and He shall be my Son. But let me read.

  29. 21:11

    If he commit iniquity, I’ll chasten him. Is the God of men, and is the tribes of the children of men. Now Jesus certainly was chastened, wasn’t he? But he never committed iniquity. So this phrase, if he commit iniquity would only refer to Solomon. But you know this applies to Jesus and it doesn’t say commit iniquity. It’s that same word as in Psalm 38 verse 6, which is crooked. It means in this context, if not if he committed iniquity, but being in his iniquity or being crooked. See, Jesus bore our nature.

  30. 22:04

    Our nature is crooked, our nature is iniquities. And that’s the nature which Jesus also bore. And therefore He also had to be chastened with the rod of men. It says in Hebrews, who in the days of His flesh that He had offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, and Him that was able to save Him from death, and was hurt in that He feared, though He were a Son.

  31. 22:31

    He had learned to obedience by the things which He suffered. He had to suffer in order to learn obedience, but He never committed to niquity, but He had to learn that because He had our nature. So He can only learn obedience and become an example for us to imitate, to follow His steps, if He had our nature, which He did. And according to the words of Psalm 38, He bore the full brunt of it.

  32. 23:04

    It says, I bow down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. Like it said in Psalm 42. The Psalm is full. All the Psalms are full of the suffering of Christ. Look at Psalm 42 and verse 9. I will say unto Alvin, my rock, Why has thou forgotten me? Why go? I’m mourning because of the oppression of the enemy as it is soared to my bones. My enemies reproach me while they say Dalian to me. Where is thy Elovene?

  33. 23:45

    Why art thou cast down my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in Elovene, for I shall yet praise him who’s the health of my countenance and my Elovene. And going back to our Psalm 38,

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    it says in verse 7, my loins I filled with a loathsome disease. And I can only think back of that woman who was bleeding for 12 years. She had a loathsome disease in her bowels. And Jesus felt that husbands understand what women go through, especially at childbirth. Women talk about themselves and they understand these things. And men are different.

  35. 24:44

    It’s easier for men to relate to a Jesus who said to the Pharisees, you, you hypocrites and generational Vipers, there’s a man that we rather can relate to. You know, you feel the righteous anger belling up and you said you, you want to tell them off. But but Jesus, he felt he was a man. He wasn’t even a husband, but he felt that what what woman was going through in his own body.

  36. 25:12

    My loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and that shows us what Jesus felt. Virtue went out of him. Strength left him. He felt the pain of that woman in his own insight. That is empathy, Brothers and sisters, that is the truth fellowship of the suffering of Christ and ever we understand perhaps better that next verse verse 8. I’m feeble and sore broken.

  37. 25:51

    I’ve roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. That’s what he felt when he saw suffering mankind and feeling, experiencing, knowing in himself the suffering of the people. It didn’t turn him away from God. It was a Psalm of remembrance to make God remember what is the result of sin. And He was his Son, suffering all the things that humankind suffers from experience in himself, and he would never send himself.

  38. 26:32

    It says, Lord, all my desires before Thee, and my groaning is not hit from Thee. So in his agony, his groanings, he was groaning all the nights, praying those sounds. He spent all night in the prayer of God. What better way to pray than with the sounds which had been prepared for Him to be used in precisely such circumstances?

  39. 26:58

    He could never to compose a prayer like this that has been prepared to us. In Psalm 22, when He was hanging on the cross, he speaks of the words of my roaring. He was crying out those prayers to God, but his only desire was to be with God through the words of this powerful prayer.

  40. 27:21

    When we are in difficulties, as we often are physically or mentally, it would be good to focus our desire on on God as David did in Psalm 27. One thing if I desire that will I seek after that I may dwell in the House of Yahweh all the days of my life, and to behold the beauty of Yahweh and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 16, it says, I said Yahweh always before me, because He’s on my right hand, I shall not be moved. It was the only strength Jesus had to go through this valley of sorrows.

  41. 28:00

    And if you continue reading the sound, you get as well a list of all the diseases which He had healed and took upon Himself. He said in verse 10, My strength fails me. He felt that that strength went out of Him when he healed all those people and that woman that was bleeding.

  42. 28:28

    And then it says the light of my eyes, it is also gone from me. And we think of how Jesus healed that blind man in John Chapter 9, which says he’s pat on the ground and he made a face and put in the eyes. He said he made to be healed. It was it a little on the ground to make a lot of paste.

  43. 28:55

    He must have scraped his throat up and then bend down into the soil, knee that soil in his hand. His hand got dirty with the clay and physically put it on the eyes of that man. That is hands on healing and it says the light of my eyes. It is also gone from me.

  44. 29:22

    I’m not saying that Jesus actually became blind, but He so much entered into the soul of that blind man that He felt the blindness himself. The light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. And then verse 12, they also get sick after my life lay snares for me. That’s the mental suffering of Christ.

  45. 29:47

    And we can only imagine Jesus pouring out his soul to God after the many times that the Pharisees and the scribes and the Jews tried to lay snares for him and trap him for the things which he said. And the final Test came when he stood before the chief priest. If you go to Mark chapter 14,

  46. 30:13

    read the verse 55 and the chief priest said all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death and found none for many bear false witness against him. But the witnesses agreed not together and there arose certain and bear false witness against him, saying we’ve heard him say I will destroy this temple that is made with hands.

  47. 30:42

    I mean, in three days I’ll build another made without hands. But neither so did the witness agree together. An high priest stood up in the midst, and as Jesus answers there nothing. What is it? What these witness against thee? But in this difficult situation, being falsely accused, He held his peace and answered nothing.

  48. 31:03

    You know what it says in the sun. Verse 13. But I said deaf men heard not, and I said dumb men that open is not his mouth and escorted the context. And these didn’t reply to the high priest and later to Pilate. But it also may indicate that in the healing of many people and dumb people, Jesus became, as it were deaf and dumb himself. Look at Mark Chapter 7,

  49. 31:45

    verse 31 again, departed from the coast of Tyre inside, and he came into the sea, onto the Sea of Galilee, to the midst of the coast of the Kaplis. And they bring with him one that was death. They had an impediment in his speech, and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

  50. 32:01

    And they took him a stomach from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears. And he split and touched his tongue and looked up to heaven east side and said to him, Be Fatah, that is be opened the straight face. His ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed.

  51. 32:18

    And he spake, he spake plain, he spake straight. And he charged them that they should tell no man that the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it. And we’re beyond measure stoned, saying he’s done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.

  52. 32:38

    Again. It is a hands on healing. It wasn’t a picture of benevolent Jesus as she depicts us from Oh my son, be thou healed of thy diseases or like the Pope says, no, my daughter or this now he stuck his fingers in in into his ears. He touched the tongue after dumb as if he wanted to feel with his own hands what it means to be deaf, that he touched the tongue to know what this feels like to be dumb. And that’s what the Psalm says I am a deaf man heard not as a dumb man who opened not his mouth. And then in verse 14 of the Psalm he says does I was as a man that he was not, and in his mouth was no reproof. And of course we can read all that in the Gospels. Look at the Mark, Matthew chapter 12. So the Pharisees went out and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

  53. 33:56

    But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence, and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all, and charge him that they should not make him known that it might be fulfilled. It was spoken by Isaiah as the prophet saying, Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased, I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.

  54. 34:21

    He shall not strive nor cry, nor shall any man hear his voice in the street. A bruised wreath shall he not break, A smoking flag shall he not glance till He sent forth judgment unto victory? It doesn’t mean to say that Jesus will never open His mouth in judgement. He will do so when the time comes because you go to John Chapter 9, that chapter when He healed that blind man.

  55. 34:53

    He says at the end of the chapter in verse 39 for judgement. I am coming into this world that they would see not might see, and they would see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard his words, and suddenly say, Are we blind also? And Jesus said unto them, If you were blind, you should have no sin.

  56. 35:20

    But now you say, we see, therefore your sin remains. And then you know, Psalm verse 15 again he pours out his soul unto God, and for in thee Yahweh do I hope thou wilt answer Yahweh, Lord my God. And he believed that God would answer him at the right time. But we continue with our list of the diseases which Jesus healed. He says it verse 16 For I said, lest they should rejoice over me when my foot slippers they magnify themselves against me, for I’m ready to hold and my sorrow is continually be for me. Similar verses in is in verse Psalm 35 in Psalm 35 in verse 15, but in my adversity looking at margin it’s just in my halting.

  57. 36:39

    They rejoiced and gathered themselves together. They the abjects gathered themselves together against me and I knew it not they did tear and seize not did you go to Psalm 35 If you stay there. Our individuals read this Sorry. Jesus knew what a disability of halting meant, for He had healed people that were lame. Remember, during the capture of Jebus, David spoke of the lame and the blind that I hated of David’s soul. They were taunting him was the blind and the lame. I’m sure that David did not hate people that were blind and lame, but blindness and lameness.

  58. 37:29

    And Jesus also hated it and therefore he had the power to heal it. And then in verse 18 of our Psalm, it says, for I will declare my iniquity, I’ll be sorry for my sin. So again, he’s never committed iniquity, but he had our iniquitous nature for God that made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we may be made the righteousness of God in him. And so at the end of praying this Psalm, he says in verse 21 and 22, forsake me not Yahweh, my heaven, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. Jesus also needed salvation, and he prayed his many, many Knights to ask his Father to help him.

  59. 38:37

    So what does this exploration of this very personal Psalm of Jesus mean for us believers? What can we learn from it? He can learn from Jesus not just to be sympathetic with our brethren and sisters when they suffered, but to enter selflessly into their plight for them. We are much better able to help them and to appreciate God’s salvation. It gives us an appreciation of the compassion which the apostle Paul had for his fellow believers. Because he said who is weak and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not.

  60. 39:24

    It teaches also the extraordinary features of the garments of the high priest, the breastplate, which are the names of all the 12 sons of Jacob there. If you go to Psalm 89, remember that process. Much more powerful if you cut out the italics. Just remember, Lord, the reproach of Thy servants. I do bear in my bosom all the mighty people.

  61. 40:12

    And so Jesus was a high priest. He’s carried all the people with all their diseases and their frailnesses and their sin and their sicknesses. He felt that in Himself. He carried them in his bosom, and He can learn so much from that. We must follow his steps, and we can only do that if we show fellowship, the fellowship of the suffering of Christ, which you can see in the suffering of our brethren and of our sisters. Remember when Jacob wrestled with the Angel in Peniel all through the night, what was resolved? He halted on his thigh.

  62. 41:00

    If you go now to Second Corinthians chapter 4, if we do this, he speaks there verse 13, we have the same spirit of faith according as it is written. I believed and therefore have I spoken the Psalm of the 16. By the way, we also believe, and therefore speak, knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace marks through the Thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God, for which ’cause we feigned not. For though our outward men perish, and that in the Greek is, though our outward men is being disabled, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

  63. 42:16

    So the more our outward man is disabled, and we can do that when we help our brethren citizen their suffering, and the inward man is renewed day by day. We see Jesus getting frailer and frailer and frailer, but his inward man became stronger and stronger and stronger.

  64. 42:36

    We don’t have the same capacity that Jesus had that is an inspiring example to follow his steps. Just greater love has no men like this, that the men lay down his life for his friends. So the Psalms are the place to develop his empathy shown by Jesus and his Father. I’d like to conclude these studies with the words of our well beloved Psalm 72. By reading this, we project ourselves forward into the Kingdom.

  65. 43:28

    By God’s grace we’ll be able to help to turn all nations to Him in love. And look what we have to do in the Kingdom, if you haven’t done it in this life, how we’ll be able, how we’ll be chosen to do that in the Kingdom. In verse 11 all kings shall fall down before him, All nations shall serve him, for he shall deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and him that has no helper.

  66. 43:59

    He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence and pressure shall their blood be in his sight, and he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Prayer also shall be made to him. Continually and daily shall he be prayed. In the prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. Amen and Amen.

  67. 44:34

    So Brian says, I hope that this study has been perhaps helpful to you in turning more to the sounds to learn how to live how he can follow his steps. Now, it’s very heartened to see how the prayers of the brethren, I felt sorry for them in this context of this study. We called the path to pray, but quite a few that rose to the occasion.

  68. 44:59

    And I think we all felt that the more brethren start to learn to use Scripture in their prayer, the the more powerful they become. Won’t you agree? And the more we, especially as sisters, we can relate to that because we recognise the word of scriptures. In our introduction I showed you this little pouch that’s the Israeli soldiers take with them and inside is a little Psalm book. They all get one and they always have it with them. Then they go out to battle.

  69. 45:38

    And I hope that you’ve perhaps learned in this Bible school that we also have a battle to fight and the best tools, the best weapons to do that is just a book of sounds. Thank you.

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