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Isaiah chapter 41, verse 10.

God says, fear not, for I am with you.

Be not dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you.

I will help you.

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. So I've got to tell you where I was when I was reading this verse in my time with the Lord.

I was in Arizona preaching out there and I was in Sedona, Arizona, where there's all these red rock

formations in the mountains. It is beautiful. It is just a tapestry that God and his creativity

has painted across those mountains, all these red and orange colorations.

So it's just beautiful.

So I'm reading Isaiah 41 verse 10.

And just a little background, just what's going on in my life as I'm reading this.

I am just discouraged about some things going on around me and pretty tempted to despair for reasons

that's not necessarily to go into, but just in the midst of discouragement despair.

So I open my Bible to my reading for the day.

In the Old Testament, it's Isaiah 41. I start reading it. I'm sitting there in

front of these beautiful red rock formations and I read these words, fear not, for I am with you.

Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. strengthen you i will help you i will uphold you with my

righteous right hand what an amazing word from god right what my heart needed at that moment maybe

your heart needs at this moment and just to, I'm looking at these red rock formations,

I'm thinking, whoa, the God who created formed these mountains

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