My soul pants for You, O God

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"Stand firmly in the place where your dear Lord has put you, and do your best there. 

God sends us trials or tests, and places life before us as a face-to-face opponent.  

It is through the pounding of a serious conflict that he expects us to grow strong. 

The tree planted where the fierce winds twists its branches and bend its trunk, often nearly to the point of breaking, is commonly more firmly rooted than a tree growing in a secluded valley where storms never bring any stress or strain.

The same is true of human life. The strongest and greatest character is grown through hardship."

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Psalm 42:1-8

"As the deer pants for the water brooks,


So my soul pants for You, O God.


My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;


When shall I come and appear before God?


My tears have been my food day and night,


While they say to me all day long, 

“Where is your God?”


These things I remember 

and I pour out my soul within me.


For I used to go along with the throng 

and lead them in procession to the house of God,


With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, 

a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?


And why have you become disturbed within me?


Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him


For the help of His presence.


O my God, my soul is in despair within me;


Therefore I remember You 

from the land of the Jordan


And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.


Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves 

have rolled over me.


The Lord will command His lovingkindness 

in the daytime;


And His song will be with me in the night,


A prayer to the God of my life."...

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