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1411. Oppression Takes Place Under the Sun Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 1st strategy From the Ancients - Lectio Divina
THIS STRATEGY IS AN AGE OLD STRATEGY - No one has a copyright on this - use it freely! It is wonderful! All other strategies, please contact the author at rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com 1. Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless. 2. So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living. 3. But the most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun. 4. Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless — like chasing the wind. 5. "Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin." 6. And yet, "Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind." Ecclesiastes 4:1-6 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation,copyright©1996,2004.Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved
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