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“When we pray over our choices and decisions (the big and important stuff) we acknowledge that God is in control. When we bring to Him our plans first to get His will and not the other way around, we will be blessed and be assured of being in God’s will.”

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The Solomon Principles

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Paddick van Zyl

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