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be a light unto me.... He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall
behold His righteousness.”
Micah 7:8, 9
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Heaven’s plan of salvation is broad enough to embrace the whole
world. God longs to breathe into prostrate humanity the breath of life.
And He will not permit any soul to be disappointed who is sincere in
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his longing for something higher and nobler than anything the world
can offer. Constantly He is sending His angels to those who, while
surrounded by circumstances the most discouraging, pray in faith
for some power higher than themselves to take possession of them
and bring deliverance and peace. In various ways God will reveal
Himself to them and will place them in touch with providences that
will establish their confidence in the One who has given Himself a
ransom for all, “that they might set their hope in God, and not forget
the works of God, but keep His commandments.”
Psalm 78:7
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“Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered?” “Thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall
be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered.”
Isaiah
49:24, 25
. “They shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images,
that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.”
Isaiah 42:17
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“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is
in the Lord his God!”
Psalm 146:5
. “Turn you to the stronghold, ye
prisoners of hope!”
Zechariah 9:12
. Unto all the honest in heart in
heathen lands—“the upright” in the sight of Heaven—“there ariseth
light in the darkness.”
Psalm 112:4
. God hath spoken: “I will bring
the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that
they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and
crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not
forsake them.”
Isaiah 42:16
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