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HOW TO HAVE GREAT Part ll

Presumption is not faith, but an assumption that God has agreed to something. I was once asked to pray for a person who was dead for several days. I asked them why the person was not buried. The response was that God wanted that person to be raised from the dead. “Did God specifically tell you that?”I asked. The feedback I got was that the person was young and had young children, therefore God would certainly want someone like that raised from the dead. The grieving family

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