Sovereign Over Us

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There is strength within the sorrow, there is beauty in our tears
You meet us in our mourning, with a love that casts out fear
You are working in our waiting, You’re sanctifying us
When beyond our understanding, You’re teaching us to trust

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Your plans are still to prosper, You have not forgotten us
You’re with us in the fire and the flood
You’re faithful forever, perfect in love
You are Sovereign over us

You are wisdom unimagined, who could understand Your ways?
Reigning high above the heavens, reaching down in endless grace
You’re the Lifter of the lowly, compassionate and kind
You surround and You uphold me, Your promises are my delight

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Even what the enemy means for evil
You turn it for our good, You turn it for our good and for Your glory
Even in the valley You are faithful
You’re working for our good, You’re working for our good and for Your glory

What Jesus believed about the Old Testament

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torahMike Matthews writes:

The debate about the Bible’s accuracy is not a secondary, theoretical concern. The integrity of Jesus Christ Himself is at stake. He accepted the Old Testament’s historical accounts as real, and He built His teachings on those facts of history. Here is a list of Christ’s references to various Old Testament events. Interestingly, these are the very events that skeptics have often considered myth:

God’s recent Creation (Mark 10:6–9)
Adam and Eve (Matthew 19:4–5)
Cain’s murder of Abel (Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51)
Noah’s Ark (Luke 17:26)
God’s judgment on the world by a global Flood (Matthew 24:37–39)
Abraham (John 8:56–58)
Lot (Luke 17:28)
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire (Luke 17:29)
Lot’s wife turned to salt (Luke 17:32)
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—not only historical people but still living in Jesus’ day (Matthew 22:32; see John 4:12)
God spoke to Moses in a burning bush (Mark 12:26)
God fed Israel with manna in the wilderness (John 6:32)
Moses’ authorship of Genesis (Luke 24:27; John 5:46–47)
Moses’ brass serpent healed Hebrew believers of snake bites (John 3:14)
David’s great deeds (Matthew 12:3; Mark 2:5; Luke 6:3)
David’s authorship of psalms (Matthew 22:42–45; Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:42–44)
King Solomon’s glorious rule (Matthew 12:42)
Elijah’s and Elisha’s unique miracles (Luke 4:25–27)
God delivered Jonah from a great fish (Matthew 12:39–40)
Isaiah’s authorship of the prophetic book bearing his name (Matthew 13:14 citing Isaiah 6:9–10 and John 12:38 citing Isaiah 53:1)
Daniel’s authorship of the prophetic book bearing his name (Matthew 24:15)