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For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Psalm 43:2 Thou wilt have to cut thy way inch by inch and foot by foot as the Master is making thee an athlete. He is strengthening thy muscles and tendons by the arduous exercise of unanswered prayer, that thou mayest be finely fit for the future. C. H. Spurgeon, 1834-92

Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Psalm 43:3 Here is my blind understanding, chase away its mists of ignorance. Valley of Vision, Puritan Prayers /Devotions, 1600/1700s

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, the joy of my delight, and I will thank with the lyre, O God, my God. Psalm 43:4 God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure. A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why do you moan within me? Hope in God, for I will still thank Him, the salvation of my face, and my God. Psalm 43:5 Hope is imagination put in the harness of faith. It is a willingness to let God do it in his way and in his time. It is the opposite of making plans that we demand that God put into effect, telling him both how and when to do it. Eugene Peterson, 20th century

We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days and in the days of old. Psalm 44:1 Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

"Refreshment in Refuge" from Gina Burgess

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