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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>JUL
12 - ISAIAH 13-23 - TEN BURDENS ON THE NATIONS</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
14:12 (13-14, ESV) BURDEN OF BABYLON AND PHILISTIA. <font size="3">“How
you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut
down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Some
think this refers to Adam, and give interesting proof texts. But
Father, if it be indeed the covering cherub who fell by pride, who
brought forth the fall of man; who contaminates his spirit; who
corrupted the nations of the world; then let his kingdom be brought
to nothing - and Your Kingdom in our Lord Jesus come! </span><b><i>Hallowed
be your :name!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
16:5 (15-16) BURDEN OF MOAB. <font size="3">“Then a throne will be
established in steadfast love (CHEsed), and on it will sit in
faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice
and is swift to do righteousness.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
it is Your will that You through Jesus, David’s Greater Son, should
rule over the kingdoms of this earth, including Israel as the chief.
</span><b><i>Your :kingdom come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
17:7 (17-18) BURDEN OF DAMASCUS AND ETHIOPIA. <font size="3">“In
that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the
Holy One of Israel.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
why is it that it so often requires judgment to bring us to our
senses, so that we can look unto You? O forgive us our proneness to
wander! </span><b><i>Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
19:24-25 (19-20) BURDEN OF EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">In
that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing
in the midst of the earth, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">25
</font><font size="3">whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying,
‘Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel my inheritance.’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
if You can call the things that are not as though they were; and if
You can forgive past sins: then You can forgive our sins, and put a
forgiving heart with us. Do it for Israel, Egypt and Iraq! </span><b><i>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
21:6 (21) BURDEN OF BABYLON, DUMAH AND ARABIA. <font size="3">For
thus the Lord said to me: “Go set a watchman; let him announce what
he sees.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">And Lord,
You set a watchman over Your church: mature prophets, who know the
times, and what is about to happen, and what the church should do.
Your true watchmen are not always popular at the time, but the day
will come when they are accepted because of fulfillment. </span><b><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
22:22 (22) BURDEN OF JERUSALEM. <font size="3">“And I will place
on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and
none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">See
Revelation 3:7-8. Earthly kings of Judah, of the house of David, are
but a type, but a dim prefiguring of Your Glorious Son, O Father.
Through </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the head of the tempter was crushed! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
23:9 (23) BURDEN OF TYRE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all
glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Glory, O Great Jehovah Father, You will not give to man. You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">break</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the pride of man and Lucifer! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
Psalm 12:6 (12) THE FAITHFUL HAVE VANISHED! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on
the ground, purified seven times!” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, let us never forget how precious and valuable is Your Word!
Your Word through Your prophets and apostles is an extension of
Yourself! You and Your Word are one </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">(John
1:1)!</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Let us continually tremble at Your word (Isaiah 66:2b).</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 12:5 (12) THE FAITHFUL HAVE VANISHED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Because
the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,”
says the LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Who
else is a God like You, Creator of the universe, yet observing the
fall of a sparrow and the plight of the need? Make us like Yourself!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed be
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Title:
This Psalm is headed, “T</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">o</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the Chief Musician upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David,” which title
is identical with the Sixth Psalm, except that </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Neginoth</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is here omitted. The subject will be better before the mind’s eye
if we entitle this Psalm: “Good Thoughts in Bad Times.” It is
supposed to have been written while Saul was persecuting David and
those who favored his cause.</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">12:1
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Help, Lord. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Psalmist sees the extreme danger of his position, for a man had
better be among lions than among liars; he feels his own inability to
deal with such sons of Belial, for “he who shall touch them must be
fenced with iron.” He therefore turns to his all-sufficient Helper,
the Lord, Whose help is never denied to His servants and Whose aid is
enough for all their needs. As small ships can sail into harbors
which larger vessels, drawing more water, cannot enter, so our brief
cries and short petitions may trade with heaven when our soul is
wind-bound, and business-bound, as to longer exercises of devotion,
and when the stream of grace seems at too low an ebb to float more
laborious supplication.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">12:2
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>They speak vanity
every one with his neighbor. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Compliments
and fawning congratulations are hateful to honest men; they know that
if they take they must give them, and they scorn to do either.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b><span style="text-decoration:none">With
flattering lips and with a double hear</span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
to they speak</span></b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
He who puffs up another’s heart has nothing better than wind in
his own.</span></span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">12:3
</span></span></span><i><b><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks
proud things.</span></b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Strange it is that the easy yoke of the Lord should so gall the
shoulders of the proud, while the iron bands of Satan they bind about
themselves as chains of honor. One generally imagines that
flatterers are such mean parasites, so cringing and fawning, that
they cannot be proud; but the wise man will tell you that while all
pride is truly meanness, there is in the very lowest meanness no
small degree of pride. Caesar’s horse is even more proud of
carrying Caesar than Caesar is of riding him. None are so detestably
domineering as the little creatures who creep into offices by
cringing to the great; those w</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">re
bad times, indeed, in which these obnoxious beings are numerous and
powerful.</span></span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">12:6
</span></span></span><i><b><span style="text-decoration:none">The
words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of
earth, purified seven times.</span></b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Man’s words are yea and nay, but the Lord’s promises are yea and
amen. In the original there is an allusion to the most severely
purifying process known to the ancients, through which silver was
passed when the greatest possible purity was desired; the dross was
all consumed, and only the bright and precious metal remained; so
clear and free from all alloy of error or unfaithfulness is the book
of the words of the Lord. The Bible has passed through the furnace of
persecution, literary criticism, philosophic doubt, and scientific
discovery, and has lost nothing but those human interpretations which
clung to it as alloy to precious ore. - Charles H. Spurgeon -
“Treasury of David”.</span></span></span></font></font></p>
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