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That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. I Corinthians 11:30 NIV

4Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Psalm 32:4 NLT

3When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. 4Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Psalm 31:10 NIV

Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. Psalm 31:10 NLT

After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. ^c And his strength left him. 20Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.  Judges 16:19-20

His strength left him was because the Lord left him. The Lord was his strength when his relationship with the Lord.  Sin depleted his strength.

Moses said in Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my song.

David said in Psalm 28:7 The Lord is my strength and my shield.

Habakkuk said in chapter 3:19 The sovereign Lord is my strength.

The sons of Korah and Psalm 46:1 said God is our refuge and strength and ever present help in times of trouble.

Nehemiah 8:10 The joy of the Lord is your strength.”

12“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” 13Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. 14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing— Joel 2:12-14

You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons. You cannot participate at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons. I Corinthians 10:21 GWT

1When all the people had crossed the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, 2“Now choose twelve men, one from each tribe. 3Tell them, ‘Take twelve stones from the very place where the priests are standing in the middle of the Jordan. Carry them out and pile them up at the place where you will camp tonight.’” 4So Joshua called together the twelve men he had chosen—one from each of the tribes of Israel. 5He told them, “Go into the middle of the Jordan, in front of the Ark of the LORD your God. Each of you must pick up one stone and carry it out on your shoulder—twelve stones in all, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. 6We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 7Then you can tell them, ‘They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant went across.’ These stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever.” Joshua 4:1-7

 “Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Jeremiah 31:21 BSB

Psalm 107:1-11

(There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Proverbs 14:12 ESV)

(All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way;  Isaiah 53:6)

Psalm 107:12-20

The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. Matthew 8:8 NIV

You restored me to health

and let me live.

17Surely it was for my benefit

that I suffered such anguish.

In your love you kept me

from the pit of destruction;

you have put all my sins

behind your back.

18For the grave cannot praise you,

death cannot sing your praise;

those who go down to the pit

cannot hope for your faithfulness.

19The living, the living—they praise you,

as I am doing today;

parents tell their children Isaiah 38:16-19

Psalm 107:21-31

And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Mark 4:39 ESV
 

THE CONCLUSION AND THE APPLICATION