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Did you say it seems as if the locusts have stripped you? Well, listen ...
God saw it all and has a Word just for you ... Joel 2:22-26 says, "And I will
restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the
caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never
be ashamed."
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I like God's measure of reciprocity. Don't you? And guess what? God
will even give you back-pay from your enemies. Proverbs 13:22 says, A
good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of
the sinner is laid up for the just." And check this one - Ecclesiastes 2:26
says, "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and
knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to
heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God This also is vanity '··.
and vexation of spirit. " Just think about it --- someone is busy collecting,
working, earning, and yet, because this promise is in place, it is laid up in
store for YOU. Doesn't this give you a more firm incentive to just keep on
living RIGHT?

Your enemies think they've gotten over on you ... not so. Remember God
saw and God sees. Look at Joseph who went through terrible ordeals, and
yet his back pay was phenomenal. What was the conclusion of his whole
matter? VICTORY.

Genesis 50:19-21 says, "And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in
the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God
meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people
alive. Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones.
And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them." That's why you
should remember Psalm 37: 1-2 ... "Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon
be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. "

So, look up; perk up; get up and take care of the business at hand. Grab
hold of your second wind and look for your back pay. From what direction?
Don't know. What date will it arrive? Don't know that ~ither? r
In what form? Don't know? But what I do know 1s The -.. . -rr-=
Source of your back pay will be God. James 1: 17 confirms it i~t1··
... "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning."

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