My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
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… My foot has held his steps. His way have I kept and not declined. Neither have I turned back from the command of his lips. I have esteemed, prized, valued the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. That's why in deep grief, you lose your appetite. You're feeding on divine manna that comes to minister to you from the heavenlies, provided for you by the Lord your God. I so respect you for going through it and being able to talk about it and letting it change you. I've seen people refer to it almost glibly. Oh, yeah, we lost too. No, no, no, no. Don't say it like that. Joe Bailey lost three boys, three boys. One is a baby, one older, and the other in a sledding accident, of all things. Oh, my goodness. And Joe said he wrote a book called A View from the Hearse. I read that book. Love the book. Joe's gone now, but his son was one of our interns at Fullerton. …
… When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to his path. I have kept his way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. pause and pray with me we have sung of your great names and the names of your son our father and even some names of the spirit who works within us and fills us with power and encouragement and today we speak to you through Christ not because of our deserving to do so but because of him who has opened the way to you through his blood. Thank you sincerely, our Father, for the cross where we first saw the light and the burden of our hearts rolled away. And we still walk with you by faith. We still seek you by faith. We still long to please you and to honor your name and to represent you correctly and fairly and appealingly to those who have never known that you are approachable or forgiving or full of compassion and love. …
… When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps. His way have I kept and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the command of his lips. I have valued the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. And he said that when his body was covered with boils. Let's go. The Father is at work in you. Last evening I was in a room in our home and trying to put together some final thoughts. My youngest daughter, who's been sick the last few days, crept in the room and sat down in the corner and stared at me. There's no way that you can study when Colleen stares at you. And in her bottom eyelids were little tears. She was hurting. I said, honey, are you in pain? She said, yes, sir. And I had just gone into some of this passage and I said to her, honey, have you thanked God in your sickness? She said, no, sir. How can you? …