EDITOR'S NOTE

Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense with all the powders of the merchants?
I am your Betrothed. I have sown you to Myself in the earth.

I hear the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. My Beloved is mine and I am His. Let my Beloved come into His garden and eat His pleasant fruit.
I am come to give you beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that you might be called a tree of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that I might be glorified!

Lord, you have searched me and known me. How precious are your thoughts to me, O God. Blessed be the Lord! My soul has escaped from the snare of the fowler. My help is in the Name of the Lord who made heaven and earth.   
As a father pitieth His children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. I am come to deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence that walks in darkness and the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

By you I have been upheld from birth. My praise shall continually be of you. You visit the earth and water it. You greatly enrich it. You water its ridges abundantly. You settle its furrows; you make it soft with showers. You bless its growth. Your paths drip with abundance.
Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened to you. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces grain.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. And renew a right spirit within me.
He who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption but he who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life. Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

Save me, O God! for the waters are come unto my soul. I am sinking in deep mire! Be not far from me.
The Husbandman is never as close to the vine as when He prunes it. I am the True Vine. My Father is the vine dresser.

Oh God! You have cast me off! You have broken me down. You have been displeased. O restore me again. You have made me tremble. I am shaking! You have shown me hard things. I am confused!
If you don't understand My word, which is the seed, the wicked one will snatch it away. Are you offended at My trial? You must endure so My seed will die and your root will grow deep. I want you to be fruitful.

I will turn to the Lord for He has torn me and He will heal me. He has smitten me and He will bind me.
Who is wise let him understand these things. Who is prudent, let him know them, for the ways of the Lord are right.

O, Lord, you are acquainted with all my ways. You reveal the deep secret things. You know what is in the darkness. The light dwells with you. But, Lord! will you hide yourself forever?
To everything there is a season. A time for every purpose under the heaven. A time to plant, and time to pluck what is planted. A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning!

I know that you can do everything and that no thought can be withheld from you. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now my eye seeth Thee.
I will pour water on him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour My spirit upon thy seed and My blessing upon thine offspring and they shall spring up as among the grass and willows by the water courses.

Lord, I feel the cool refreshing of Your presence. You are my Rock in a weary land. O Lord, You are here. I have You. My soul is happy. The path at my feet is pleasant and peaceful. There is a Tree of Life at my gate. What have you named these paths?
Their names are Mercy and Truth.

In Paul's letters, we read that he continually prays for the new believer —

All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth...

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. Colossians 1:6b, 9-12

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In the "arrangement" of life, each flower, bud, twig, or branch has a place in the grand scheme of things. It is said of watchmen that their portion on the wall only allows to them to see things in their view. It takes the watchmen on ALL the walls to bring forth the full picture.