Fighter Verse Songs

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Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. 22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:9,22

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Generally speaking, a wise way to respond to an offensive word or action is to not tell other people about it. The relationship between even close friends might harmed if you unwisely bring others into the conflict.

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Song and Sung By Scott Jamison and daughter Adelyn

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Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 139:23-24

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It is good to trust God to determine where our grievous ways are.
Trust Him and he will into the everlasting way.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Psalm 139:17-18

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God’s awareness is infinite.
When we fall asleep, he doesn’t stop thinking about us, loving up, caring for us.

You will always be on his mind.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Psalm 139:15-16

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God knew you before you were born. God knew your life story. He formed you. He wrote your book, before you had breath – before anyone else saw you.

Worship this God. Trust this God.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 139:13-14

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Here’s one good reason for you to praise God:
You are fearfully and wonderfully made. And deep in your heart you know it and feel it.

God made you – he chose that you would exist – and you have the physical body that he built to be you.

Praise him for this.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

Psalm 139:11-12

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We do not have a God who is blind. The saviour of our souls is not fooled, or ignorant, or mystified or tricked.

Our God sees and knows all. Trust His guidance.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Psalm 139:9-10

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There are times for all of us when we feel like we are flying and on top of things.

There are times for all of us when we feel like we are being crushed by the weight of the ocean.

In both cases (and those time in between) we are being led by the loving hand of our heavenly father.

And we are being held by him.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

Psalm 139:6-8

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God is everywhere. God knows everything.

For the sinner, that is bad news.
For those in Jesus – who want God’s presence and protection – it is wonderful knowledge.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Psalm 139:4-5

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Our God, this infinite being who knows every word we say before we say it, He is a protector.

If you are His child, his hand is on you.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family

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O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Psalm 139:1-3

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We have a God who understands each of us and isn’t surprised by anything that happens to us.
He knows what we are thinking and where we are going.

This could be a frightening thought, if he weren’t a loving God, but we’ll need to wait just a few verses to learn about that.

In the meantime, know this: You are known by God.

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Song and Sung By Phil Krause and his family