Why Do Folks Try To Overrule Him?

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 The Lord doesn't want me to stress out, so why do folks try to overrule Him?  Seems there are specialists of folks attempting to stress everybody because stress and illness is all they know while living in their proverbial crab-buckets.  i've seen the creepy unprofessional stalker lying in wait getting her staff to do her dirty work by having them lie in wait because she realized she's not going to succeed in fooling everyone all the time.  She could fill up every chapter of Proverbs.

O Lord, my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me! -[Psalm 7:1] It's not like i've done evil to them.  It's just that i'm praying to You to keep this motel from burning to the ground or someone being smothered in smoke because they fell asleep while holding a cigarette in bed.  The enemies are pursing me, gathered at the bus stop and lying in wait around the corners and outside the library doors.

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded. - [Psalm 7: 6] So the snakes are getting a good look at me and i can feel Your presence during my walks in the town because my heart is still and calm and i don't become short of breath anymore.

The Lord shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness; And according to my integrity within me...My defense is of God, who saves the upright in heart. --[Psalm 7; 8, 10] If i am ever upright, it can't be my doing.  It's because You already blessed me.  i don't need to feel the need to be blessed.  The work of Jesus on the cross accomplished my blessings.

God is a just judge.  And God is angry with the wicked every day.  If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. --[Psalm 7:11] May they fall into the ditches they have dug for me.  You are watching over me, Lord, nudging me to go around another city corner, 

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