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Reflect on these scriptures, allowing the Spirit to speak to your heart.

Psalm 102:1-3, 12-13

Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to you. Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations. You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.

Exodus 6:2-12

God also said to Moses, \u201cI am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord, I did not make myself fully known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

\u201cTherefore, say to the Israelites: \u2018I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.\u2019\u201d

Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor. Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cGo, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.\u201d But Moses said to the Lord, \u201cIf the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?\u201d

Hebrews 10:36-39

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For, \u201cIn just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.\u201d And \u201cBut my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.\u201d But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

John 11:1-4

Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, \u201cLord, the one you love is sick.\u201d When he heard this, Jesus said, \u201cThis sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God\u2019s glory so that God\u2019s Son may be glorified through it.\u201d

Prayer

Merciful Lord, forgive your people from our offences, that through your abundant goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our weakness we have committed; make it so, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.