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Blessed is she who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 

Breath prayers have become a lost practice in the Western church, and I’ve been practicing one this week by the instructions of my biblestudy. 

Blessed is she who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 

“Cursed is the woman who trusts in mankind and makes flesh her strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. She is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. She shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 

Blessed is she who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. She is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”  - Jeremiah 17:5-8 (re-gendered) 

When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said to him, I am God Almighty, El Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless. Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering. And on that mountain, God himself will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, for without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. 

Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. For it was the will of the LORD to crush him, and he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

And the LORD said to his people, I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. 

So Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, ‘the LORD will provide’.

Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.