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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 344, 10 December 2025 - 18 Day of Advent   
      
   3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation   
      
   Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools   
      
   Week 5 Rejoice in Grace - Day 4 Under the Mercy   
      
   Ps 13:5-6   
      
   5 I for my part confide in Your kindness;may my heart exult in Your salvation!   
   6 I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.   
      
   5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.   
   6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.   
      
   In Sheldon Vanauken's book "A Severe Mercy", Vanauken faced the "severe mercy"   
   of the untimely death of his wife. His friend C. S. Lewis , who had endured a   
   similar grief , comforted him through letters,   
   encouraging him with the exhotation, "Go under the Mercy".   
   While God's grace deals with sin and forgiveness,   
   God's mercy deals with the pain pf human existence. We all experience pain   
   - sometimes as a natural result of wrongs we have done, sometimes unfairly   
   as a consequence of living in a fallen world.   
   But for all who hurt, God provides   
   mercy - respite from pain, and the assurance of a Lord who cares.   
   David , in Psalm 13 says " I trust in your mercy, your unfailing love."   
   God's love never fail us, no matter how much we may have failed him.   
   David knew the consequences of sin; he knew what it meant to fail God,   
   to rebel against God's faithfulness. Yet David trusted in God's Goodness   
   rather than depending upon his own; he focused his attention upon the   
   mercy of the Lord.   
   We need, like David, to "Go under the mercy", even when it is a   
   "severe mercy."   
   Even when circumstances seem bad; even when things seem out of control; even   
   when we think God has forsaken us, yet his mercy is at work to bring us   
   fulfillment and cause us to turn to him   
   with a song of praise on our lips.   
      
   Application   
      
   a) How have I experienced the mercy of God?   
      
   b) How can these verses help me focus on God's   
   merciful intervention in my life even when circumstances seem   
   out of control?   
      
   4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland   
      
   Exodus 3:7-8   
      
   7 (Ps 106:44; Ex 2:23-25)The Lord said,   
   "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt   
   and have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters,   
   for I know their sorrows.   
   8 (Ge 50:24; 15:18-21; Ex 13:5) Therefore, I have come down   
   to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,   
   and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land,   
   to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of   
   the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites,   
   the Hivites, and the Jebusites."   
      
   7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people   
   which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters;   
   for I know their sorrows;   
   8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand   
   of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and   
   a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the   
   Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,   
   and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.   
      
   5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:   
      
   When you are lonely   
      
   PSALMS 23   
      
   A Psalm of David.   
      
   1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.   
   2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) He makes me lie down in green pastures;   
   He leads me beside still waters.   
   3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He restores my soul;   
   He leads me in paths of righteousness   
   for His name's sake.   
   4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Even though I walk   
   through the valley of the shadow of death,   
   I will fear no evil;   
   for You are with me;   
   Your rod and Your staff,   
   they comfort me.   
   5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You prepare a table before me   
   in the presence of my enemies;   
   You anoint my head with oil;   
   my cup runs over.   
   6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me   
   all the days of my life,   
   and I will dwell in the house of the Lord   
   forever.   
      
   Psalm 23   
      
   A Psalm of David.   
      
   1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.   
   2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:   
   He leadeth me beside the still waters.   
   3 He restoreth my soul:   
   He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.   
   4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,   
   I will fear no evil:   
   for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.   
   5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:   
   Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.   
   6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:   
   And I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.   
      
   Remember God's promises when You pray   
      
   The Lord's prayer   
      
   Matthew 6:9-13   
      
   9 "Therefore pray in this manner:   
   Our Father who is in heaven,   
   hallowed be Your name.   
   10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;   
   Your will be done   
   on earth, as it is in heaven.   
   11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.   
   12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,   
   as we forgive our debtors.   
   13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,   
   but deliver us from evil.   
   For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."   
      
   9 After this manner therefore pray ye:   
   Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.   
   10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.   
   11 Give us this day our daily bread.   
   12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.   
   13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:   
   For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.   
      
   6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2023 edition?)   
      
   The Northern Territories of Canada   
      
   Yukon   
      
   Yukon Total population (2015) 36500 Muslim (est) 69   
      
   In Whitehorse the Muslim population grew from 2 families   
   in 2001 to more than 60 people in 2014. Originally meeting in a church,   
   they now meet for prayer service in a former office space.   
      
   Pray for Muslims and believers in Whitehorse to come together,   
   and for Muslims to find faith in Jesus Christ.   
      
   Northwest Territories (NWT)   
      
   NWT population (2015) 43600 Muslim (est) 473   
      
   The Muslim community of Yellowknife has grown from 275 to 330 un the past year.   
   To replace their inadequate facility, they are planning a C$2 to C$2.5 million   
   Islamic Centre.   
      
   Pray that the Muslims in Yellowknife and all of the NWT will awaken to   
   spiritual hunger and be open to saving faith in Jesus Christ.   
      
   Nunavut (NU)   
      
   NU total population (2015) 36600 Muslim (est) 86   
      
   The Islamic Centre of Iqaluit now claim about 100 Muslims and have surpassed   
   80 % of their funding goal to building the first mosque in this territory.   
   Their stated goal is "To spread the message of Islam   
   in the far northern reaches of Canada."   
      
   Pray that believers in Iqaluit take up Jesus' command to love and reach   
   their Muslim neighbours with the Gospel.   
      
   Adding further   
      
   30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020   
      
   Under the Keep Praying page   
      
      
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