{"id":220,"date":"2023-10-14T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T20:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/?p=220"},"modified":"2023-10-14T20:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T20:21:26","slug":"exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/2023\/10\/14\/exception\/","title":{"rendered":"exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_87185\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3lpOPDue9A?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>joel 2:28<br \/>\nGod\u2019s Spirit Poured Out<br \/>\n28 \u201cAnd it shall come to pass afterward<br \/>\nThat I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;<br \/>\nYour sons and your daughters shall prophesy,<br \/>\nYour old men shall dream dreams,<br \/>\nYour young men shall see visions.<br \/>\n29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants<br \/>\nI will pour out My Spirit in those days.<\/p>\n<p>30 \u201cAnd I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:<br \/>\nBlood and fire and pillars of smoke.<br \/>\n31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,<br \/>\nIsaiah 64<br \/>\nNew King James Version<br \/>\nA Prayer for Help<br \/>\n64 Oh, that You would rend the heavens!<br \/>\nThat You would come down!<br \/>\nThat the mountains might shake at Your presence\u2014<br \/>\nPsalm 24<br \/>\n3Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?<br \/>\nOr who may stand in His holy place?<br \/>\n4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,<br \/>\nWho has not lifted up his soul to an idol,<br \/>\nNor sworn deceitfully.<br \/>\n5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord,<br \/>\nAnd righteousness from the God of his salvation.<br \/>\n6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,<br \/>\nWho seek Your face. Selah<br \/>\n7 Lift up your heads, O you gates!<br \/>\nAnd be lifted up, you everlasting doors!<br \/>\nAnd the King of glory shall come in.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 6<br \/>\n9 In this manner, therefore, pray:<br \/>\nOur Father in heaven,<br \/>\nHallowed be Your name.<br \/>\n10 Your kingdom come.<br \/>\nYour will be done<br \/>\nOn earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>1 Corinthians 9 (NLT)<br \/>\n24 Don\u2019t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!<\/p>\n<p>Philippians 3<br \/>\n12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.<br \/>\n13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,<br \/>\nforgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,<br \/>\n14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 12<br \/>\n1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the [a]author and [b]finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.<\/p>\n<p>** Nehemiah 8:10\u2014&#8221;Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.&#8221;he<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 11<br \/>\n1 Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.<\/p>\n<p>Mark 12:30-31<br \/>\n30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.\u2019 This is the first commandment.<br \/>\n31 And the second, like it, is this: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019<br \/>\nThere is no other commandment greater than these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philippians 3 (LSB)<br \/>\n12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.<br \/>\n13 Brothers, I do not consider myself as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,<br \/>\n14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\n1 Samuel 30<br \/>\n6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.<br \/>\n7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech&#8217;s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.<br \/>\n8 And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclesiastes 3<br \/>\nNew King James Version<br \/>\nEverything Has Its Time<br \/>\n3 To everything there is a season,<br \/>\nA time for every purpose under heaven:<\/p>\n<p>2 A time [a]to be born,<br \/>\nAnd a time to die;<br \/>\nA time to plant,<br \/>\nAnd a time to pluck what is planted;<br \/>\n3 A time to kill,<br \/>\nAnd a time to heal;<br \/>\nA time to break down,<br \/>\nAnd a time to build up;<br \/>\n4 A time to weep,<br \/>\nAnd a time to laugh;<br \/>\nA time to mourn,<br \/>\nAnd a time to dance;<br \/>\n5 A time to cast away stones,<br \/>\nAnd a time to gather stones;<br \/>\nA time to embrace,<br \/>\nAnd a time to refrain from embracing;<br \/>\n6 A time to gain,<br \/>\nAnd a time to lose;<br \/>\nA time to keep,<br \/>\nAnd a time to throw away;<br \/>\n7 A time to tear,<br \/>\nAnd a time to sew;<br \/>\nA time to keep silence,<br \/>\nAnd a time to speak;<br \/>\n8 A time to love,<br \/>\nAnd a time to hate;<br \/>\nA time of war,<br \/>\nAnd a time of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua 1<br \/>\n6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall [a]divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them<\/p>\n<p>Galatians 2<br \/>\n20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.<br \/>\nIsaiah 55<br \/>\n1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.<br \/>\nMatthew 24<br \/>\n14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 28<br \/>\n19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,<br \/>\nbaptizing them in the name of the Father,<br \/>\nand of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:<br \/>\n20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever<br \/>\nI have commanded you: and,<br \/>\nlo, I am with you always,<br \/>\neven unto the end of the world. 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