The Valley

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THE VALLEY
Psalms 23:4

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.”
The hills of prosperity, happiness and love shelters the sorrows of the valleys below.
Many and various are the sorrows hidden in the shadows; dark, ominousness defeating creatures born of Lucifer. The darkest of all is the shadow of death. Though God pronounced death into existence, he claimed no control over death.
Hebrews 2:14 ”Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” God is the comptroller of all. Beneath his watchful eye, death’s fear diminishes as it fades into magnificent anticipation.
2 Peter 1:19 “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:” We often climb the rough side of the mountain; not willingly. From the valley below one can view the sun break over the hill tops. It is the hills that block hope and faith. The rough sides are the north sides. Often indentations receive only ambient light. For sure, while in those faded hope indentations, we must remember who we are and who is our advocate.
Isaiah 54:10 “For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Psalms 97:5 “The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
As we struggle along bound in chains of fear and doubt, Christ watches over us; pleading ‘have faith my child.’ Luke 1:76 “And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;” We prepare within the path death and disaster trod into our life and skips along singing songs of Satan. Only we can know the word of God well enough to smooth the humps and bumps by faith. Looking up from the valleys below, smoothing them might seem impossible. But, things impossible for humans are possible with God.
Luke 3: “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5  Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 6  And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
Prayer is a bulldozer and faith an excavator. Through them we can be delivered out of the valley of death onto the mountain high where green grass grows and colorful flowers bloom. Where there will be no death or sorrow and the son never sits. Past are the things associated with pending death. Great are the rewards of victory. 1 St. Corinthians 15:54 “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
When thy soul sinks to its lowest, prayer is weak and only God the Father of all can hear and deliver from the dying pains of the flesh. Romans 7:24 “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Grace, love, Christ. Holy Spirit and Father God in one is the answer. He delivers us from death just as He delivers us from sin brought by disobedience of His law. 1 Corinthians 15:56 “The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.” 1 Corinthians 15:26 “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
Romans 6:4 “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Romans 8: “35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Death, Satan, shall be removed from life. 1 Corinthians 15:55 “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Know God, know peace. Amen 002-07-2020 BLL

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