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Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. Psalm 27:9 Measure not God’s love and favor by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds. Richard Sibbes, 1577–1635

Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me. Psalm 27:10 Earthly relationships dissolve. Affection may decay. Fickleness begets estrangement. Distance may part. Death comes, and desolation sits where happy fellowship once reigned. But God's love is strong; He has a Father's heart which beats with tenderness, incapable of diminution or of change. Henry Law, Exposition Psalms, 1878

Teach me Your way, O Jehovah . because of those who watch me. Psalm 27:11a,c An open mind and a teachable spirit mitigate learning the hard way.

O Lord; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. Psalm 27:11b Direct my feet that I be not entangled in secret snares, not fall into hidden traps. The Valley of Vision, Puritan Prayers and Devotions, 1600/1700s

Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence. Psalm 27:12 Envied by some, despised by many, hated by others, often blamed for things I never heard of or had nothing to do with... often sick in body as well as perplexed in mind and embarrassed by circumstances-had not the Lord been specially gracious to me, had not my mind been sustained by the conviction that the work is His and that He is with me, I must have fainted or broken down. But the battle is the Lord's, and He will conquer. James Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905, English missionary to China. Founded the China Inland Mission which at his death included 205 mission stations with over 800 missionaries, and 125,000 Chinese Christians.

"Voice of Inspiration" from Andy Castro

Pretzel Love-Psalms 91:14