Keep On Walking

We have the promise in our heart but most of the time God doesn't do things instantly.

10 sufferers of leprosy were asked to do something that didn't make sense after asking Jesus to heal them.

Taking a good look at them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." They went, and while still on their way, became clean. One of them, when he realized that he was healed, turned around and came back, shouting his gratitude, glorifying God. He kneeled at Jesus' feet, so grateful. He couldn't thank him enough—and he was a Samaritan.

Luke 17:14‭-‬16 MSG

Leprosy was very contagious and sufferers were asked to stay away from people so they could have argued or talked themselves out of it.

They ran out of wine and Jesus told them to fill up pots with water.

Three days later there was a wedding in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. Jesus and his disciples were guests also. When they started running low on wine at the wedding banquet, Jesus' mother told him, "They're just about out of wine." Jesus said, "Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn't my time. Don't push me." She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it." Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, "Fill the pots with water." And they filled them to the brim. "Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host," Jesus said, and they did. When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn't know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, "Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you've saved the best till now!" This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

John 2:1‭-‬11 MSG

Is God asking you to do something that doesn't make sense?

Had they not filled up those pots there would have been no wine.

Elijah

One day the wife of a man from the guild of prophets called out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead. You well know what a good man he was, devoted to God . And now the man to whom he was in debt is on his way to collect by taking my two children as slaves." Elisha said, "I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me, what do you have in your house?" "Nothing," she said. "Well, I do have a little oil." "Here's what you do," said Elisha. "Go up and down the street and borrow jugs and bowls from all your neighbors. And not just a few—all you can get. Then come home and lock the door behind you, you and your sons. Pour oil into each container; when each is full, set it aside." She did what he said. She locked the door behind her and her sons; as they brought the containers to her, she filled them. When all the jugs and bowls were full, she said to one of her sons, "Another jug, please." He said, "That's it. There are no more jugs." Then the oil stopped. She went and told the story to the man of God. He said, "Go sell the oil and make good on your debts. Live, both you and your sons, on what's left."

2 Kings 4:1‭-‬7 MSG

Make room for it even when you see no signs of it. Plan for it, talk like it, act like it

She could have said, sir you heard me wrong, I only have a little oil... but she was obedient!

God is not moved by what's not moving.

Joshua watched his mentor part the red sea so he mimiced Moses' actions in faith but the waters did not part so he just kept walking! He didn't know God was about to do something that he'd never seen!

Are you going to get your feet wet?

The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away.

Psalms 114:3 NLT

God said to Joshua, "This very day I will begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel. They'll see for themselves that I'm with you in the same way that I was with Moses. You will command the priests who are carrying the Chest of the Covenant: 'When you come to the edge of the Jordan's waters, stand there on the river bank.'" Then Joshua addressed the People of Israel: "Attention! Listen to what God , your God, has to say. This is how you'll know that God is alive among you—he will completely dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. Look at what's before you: the Chest of the Covenant. Think of it—the Master of the entire earth is crossing the Jordan as you watch. Now take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe. When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the Chest of God , Master of all the earth, touch the Jordan's water, the flow of water will be stopped—the water coming from upstream will pile up in a heap." And that's what happened. The people left their tents to cross the Jordan, led by the priests carrying the Chest of the Covenant. When the priests got to the Jordan and their feet touched the water at the edge (the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest), the flow of water stopped. It piled up in a heap—a long way off—at Adam, which is near Zarethan. The river went dry all the way down to the Arabah Sea (the Salt Sea). And the people crossed, facing Jericho. And there they stood; those priests carrying the Chest of the Covenant stood firmly planted on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground. Finally the whole nation was across the Jordan, and not one wet foot.

Joshua 3:7‭-‬17 MSG

I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.

Psalms 37:25 NKJV

You have armor for moving forward.

What awaits you if you just keep walking 

Don't try to figure it out just keep expecting.

-Jeniro on the go!
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Victory Begins in the Dark

At 12am nothing looks different. If you didn't have a watch you wouldn't know that it was a new day.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:1‭-‬2‭, ‬8 NKJV

That's what faith is about. If day started at sunrise everything would make sense but midnight makes no sense. That's why you have to walk by faith and not by sight.

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV

The very moment I call to you for a father's help the tide of battle turns and my enemies flee. This one thing I know: God is on my side!

Psalms 56:9 TPT

Psalms 56:9 NKJV

One day as we were going down to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit that enabled her to tell the future. She earned a lot of money for her masters by telling fortunes. A mob quickly formed against Paul and Silas, and the city officials ordered them stripped and beaten with wooden rods. They were severely beaten, and then they were thrown into prison. The jailer was ordered to make sure they didn't escape.

Acts of the Apostles 16:16‭, ‬22‭-‬23 NLT

Paul and Silas were doing what they were supposed to be doing but were sent to jail.

They could have been down and depressed.

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.  And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.  And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.  But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.  Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,  And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Acts 16:25‭-‬30 KJV

Don't go by what you feel, go buy what you know. God starts the day in the dark. God's timing is not our timing.

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalms 50:15 KJV

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Luke 12:32 KJV

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 1:1 KJV

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

Job 10:12 KJV

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:  Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

Job 8:20‭-‬21 KJV

What if the darkness you are going through is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb?!?!

God is using that darkness to birth something!

You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,

Psalms 30:11 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.30.11.NLT

When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before! Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring. So the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Job 42:10‭-‬12 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/job.42.10-12.NLT

When you go from pm to am nothing looks different.

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Ready to Rise

We all have things that can push us down but we're never meant stay down.

We were created to  overcome!

We have bounce back!

Don't, enemy, crow over me. I'm down, but I'm not out. I'm sitting in the dark right now, but God is my light. I can take God 's punishing rage. I deserve it—I sinned. But it's not forever. He's on my side and is going to get me out of this. He'll turn on the lights and show me his ways. I'll see the whole picture and how right he is. And my enemy will see it, too, and be discredited—yes, disgraced! This enemy who kept taunting, "So where is this God of yours?" I'm going to see it with these, my own eyes— my enemy disgraced, trash in the gutter.

Micah 7:8‭-‬10 MSG

This problem didn't come to stay it came to pass.

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.

Psalms 40:2 NKJV

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 8:11 NKJV

The enemy's best will never be enough.

Palm Trees bend so they don't break

Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.

The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalms 92:12 NKJV

After the storm you won't look like what you came through. The storms strengthen the Palm Tree's root system with a greater capacity for growth.

Down is not my destiny. 

After listing his shortcomings he said this

Therefore I will look to the Lord ; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

Micah 7:7 NKJV

A caravan had been traveling long before Joseph's brothers plotted against him in jealousy. That caravan kept him from being left for dead. He kept honoring God and living in good character so after going from the pit to the prison, he was in the palace.

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."

Genesis 41:44 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.41.44.NKJV

Joseph had his coat of many colors taken away which probably upset him but God had something better ahead.

How many of us are longing for the robe of many colors when we knew we were favored and loved.

But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

I Corinthians 2:9 NKJV

You'll be so blessed and favored that your enemies don't recognize you. 

Now Joseph was governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth. Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, "Where do you come from?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

Genesis 42:6‭-‬8 NKJV

Let God arise, Let His enemies be scattered; Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.

Psalms 68:1 NKJV

When you let God arise you make him bigger than your problems.

It's important to keep a song of praise in your heart. Take the time that you'd usually spend to worry and turn it to worship.

Even if you brought the troubles on yourself you can still bounce back.

The Prodigal Son, Jacob, leaves his father's farm to seek his fortune in the city. ... With a group of followers gathered about him, Jesus tells the parable of the Prodigal Son, Jacob, the younger son of a successful farmer, begs his father for his inheritance so he can go to the city and become a rich money lender.

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Luke 15:17 NKJV

"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Luke 15:22 NKJV

The prodigal son had to make a decision.

For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.

Proverbs 24:16 NKJV

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The Shaking is for Shifting

Pastor Joel @ Lakewood Church

The Pandemic is shaking things in reality causing us to be shaken on the inside. It doesn't take a pandemic, this happens with any change: a death, a layover, etc...

It may look like a setback but it's a setup.

Saul approved the stoning of Stephen. Some faithful followers of the Lord buried Stephen and mourned very much for him. At that time the church in Jerusalem suffered terribly. All of the Lord's followers, except the apostles, were scattered everywhere in Judea and Samaria. Saul started making a lot of trouble for the church. He went from house to house, arresting men and women and putting them in jail.

Acts 8:1‭-‬3 CEV

Jerusalem. A holy city for Jews (see also Jews), Christians (see also Christian), and Muslims; the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah and of the modern state of Israel. The name means "city of peace." Jerusalemis often called Zion; Mount Zion is the hill on which the fortress of the city was built.

You're on the verge of something better than ever.

Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

Acts 8:4‭-‬7 NKJV

If Philip hadnt left Jerusalem then none of that wouldn't have happened.

And there was great joy in that city.

Acts 8:8 NKJV

The best is still out on front of you. 

He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing.

Job 8:21 NKJV

For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Psalms 18:39 NKJV

God can shift your desires.

Delight yourself also in the Lord , And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Psalms 37:4 NKJV

Flourishing can come out of a shaky time.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Proverbs 13:22 NKJV

God doesn't change and he is the giver of all good the thing. Source vs. Resource

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Psalms 37:19 NKJV

God keeps track of the decent folk; what they do won't soon be forgotten. In hard times, they'll hold their heads high; when the shelves are bare, they'll be full.

Psalm 37:18‭-‬19 MSG

God is into multiplication.

God won't let you get into a situation 

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.

Acts 16:26 NKJV

New doors, new relationships, etc...

Devon Franklin at Lakewood Church

Marriages and communication is having to be readjusted.

Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you. Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together.  Each one of you is part of the body of Christ, and you were chosen to live together in peace. So let the peace that comes from Christ control your thoughts. And be grateful. Let the message about Christ completely fill your lives, while you use all your wisdom to teach and instruct each other. With thankful hearts, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. Whatever you say or do should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks to God the Father because of him.
Colossians 3:13‭-‬17 CEV

• Ask what your spouse is afraid of. Underneath a lot of curt comments is fear and that fear needs to be unearthed.

• Ask for forgiveness and give forgiveness. With all of the unknowns an unstable environment had been created but let love be the connective tissue that holds your relationship together.

• Accept your spouse for where they are not where you want them to be. When we have a "why can't you just" POV that creates more tension. Acceptance can be the key to propelling your spouse to where God wants you to be.

Nick Nilson at Lakewood Church

I will give you treasures hidden in dark and secret places. Then you will know that I, the Lord God of Israel, have called you by name.

Isaiah 45:3 CEV

Dark places can be scary but often that's where valuable things are buried.

When the COVID pandemic started shutting things down the rodeo was one of the first things hit. That hurt a lot of vendors because the HLSR was a resource they used to make income. Someone decided to create an online market for those vendors and now they are seeing more income than before.

Don't confuse a resource with The Source

Tasha Cobbs at Lakewood Church

Don't be moved by what you see, be moved by what you know. 

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-Pound Pro Jenny

You have the cure.

One of the problems with the Corona Virus is that there are no antibodies.

Diseases that were treated years ago aren't around anymore. Once you have the cure you don't have to worry about the disease anymore.

2000 years ago the antidote to spiritual diseases was developed by our Savior.

My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don't lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

Proverbs 4:20‭-‬22 NLT

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.  Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Jeremiah 8:21‭-‬22 KJV

Sheep's blood provides rattlesnake anti-venom

The blood of sheep in South Australia is being used to develop rattlesnake anti-venom for a UK-based biotechnology company. Protherics is developing the treatment at a property at Mintaro in South Australia's Clare Valley. About 2,000 sheep are injected with rattle snake venom each month and the venom anti-bodies are collected later from their blood. Protherics operations manager Rob Mugford says Australian sheep are being used because they are free of diseases like scrapie and foot and mouth. "You could not guarantee that if you took scrapie free sheep from out of Australia and put them onto a property in the UK that you'd be able to maintain that scrapie freedom," he said. "Our company did look at it, but it was a lot easier to have the sheep in Australia do all the work here and we ship the serum back to the UK for processing. "We start with a much lower dose and slowly ramp it up, so that they increase their amount of antibodies they produce until we get a hyper-immune animal that is producing a significant quantity of rattlesnake anti-venom or anti-bodies," Mr Mugford said. 

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Hebrews 2:14 NKJV

So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

Numbers 21:6‭-‬7 NKJV

But he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. However, they were expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had looked for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

Acts 28:5‭-‬6 NKJV

A honey bee sting is a suicide mission for the worker. Because of the barbs on the stinger, it becomes embedded in whatever they have stung. When the bee pulls away from the victim, the stinger and venom sac are left behind. This is catastrophic for the bee and will cause its death.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:55‭-‬58 KJV

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Power Thinking

It's easy to go around thinking things will never get better. We draw in what we constantly think about.  Think power thoughts. 

Victory starts in our minds. Success and new levels start with our thinking. 

No weapon formed against me will prosper. Favor is surrounding me like a shield. I've been armed with strength for every battle.

Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

Proverbs 4:23 NKJV

Pay attention to what your dwelling on. Don't think about any thought that enters your mind.

If you can be defeated in your thoughts you can be defeated in life. Pay attention to what's going on in your mind.

God had already promised the Israelites the land but they came back with weak thoughts. 

God spoke to Moses: "Send men to scout out the country of Canaan that I am giving to the People of Israel. Send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a tried-and-true leader in the tribe." They presented themselves before Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the People of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told the story of their trip: "We went to the land to which you sent us and, oh! It does flow with milk and honey! Just look at this fruit! The only thing is that the people who live there are fierce, their cities are huge and well fortified. Worse yet, we saw descendants of the giant Anak. Amalekites are spread out in the Negev; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites hold the hill country; and the Canaanites are established on the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan." Caleb interrupted, called for silence before Moses and said, "Let's go up and take the land—now. We can do it." But the others said, "We can't attack those people; they're way stronger than we are." They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, "We scouted out the land from one end to the other—it's a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers."

Numbers 13:1‭-‬2‭, ‬27‭-‬33 MSG

Joshua and Caleb saw the same thing that the other 10 spies saw. 10 men infected the rest of the people.

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

II Corinthians 2:14 NKJV

Don't look at how big the problem is look at how big God is 

Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.

Isaiah 59:1‭, ‬19 NKJV

Negative news spreads faster than positive news.

God spoke strongly to me, grabbed me with both hands and warned me not to go along with this people. He said: "Don't be like this people, always afraid somebody is plotting against them. Don't fear what they fear. Don't take on their worries. If you're going to worry, worry about The Holy. Fear God -of-the-Angel-Armies. The Holy can be either a Hiding Place or a Boulder blocking your way, The Rock standing in the willful way of both houses of Israel, A barbed-wire Fence preventing trespass to the citizens of Jerusalem. Many of them are going to run into that Rock and get their bones broken, Get tangled up in that barbed wire and not get free of it."

Isaiah 8:11‭-‬15 MSG

Be on the offensive when negative news comes your way.

Pastor Joel rides a bike trail often that usually takes an hour. Most of the trail is flat but there's a hill that he dreads sometimes he says negativethings like this is going to be hard, I don't want to take this hill. Once he was on the phone and went up the hill without realizing it because he was distracted.

How many times are we telling ourselves what we can't do. We're dreading things thinking weak defeating thoughts when we've been equipped with everything we need.

At the start of the day decide what you want to think before you check your phone or read email. 

Think thoughts on purpose.

O Lord , do good to those who are good, whose hearts are in tune with you.

Psalms 125:4 NLT

Your thoughts are setting the limits for your life.

Don't believe lies.

Instead of shame and dishonor, you will enjoy a double share of honor. You will possess a double portion of prosperity in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.

Isaiah 61:7 NLT

(Saul's son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth, who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child's nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)

2 Samuel 4:4 NLT

Sometimes well meaning people can hurt you. But that didn't erase his lineage. He was still the son of a king.

Lo-debar was also considered a ghetto town in biblical times. He went from the palace to the ghetto.

Lo-debar [N] no pasture, ( 2 Samuel 17:27 ), a town in Gilead not far from Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok ( 2 Samuel 9:4 2 Samuel 9:5 ). It is probably identical with Debir ( Joshua 13:26 ). p

The king then asked him, "Is anyone still alive from Saul's family? If so, I want to show God's kindness to them." Ziba replied, "Yes, one of Jonathan's sons is still alive. He is crippled in both feet." "Where is he?" the king asked. "In Lo-debar," Ziba told him, "at the home of Makir son of Ammiel." So David sent for him and brought him from Makir's home. His name was Mephibosheth ; he was Jonathan's son and Saul's grandson. When he came to David, he bowed low to the ground in deep respect. David said, "Greetings, Mephibosheth." Mephibosheth replied, "I am your servant." "Don't be afraid!" David said. "I intend to show kindness to you because of my promise to your father, Jonathan. I will give you all the property that once belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will eat here with me at the king's table!" Mephibosheth bowed respectfully and exclaimed, "Who is your servant, that you should show such kindness to a dead dog like me?"

2 Samuel 9:3‭-‬8 NLT

Get rid of that dead dog thinking. 

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