{"query": "The Voice Before the Step", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_416a0ee2264d", "title": "The Voice Before the Step", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.\"\n\nNotice the sequence Jesus gives: hearing comes first, then knowing, then following. He does not say the sheep study a map and then find "}, {"id": "card_n_383123703173", "title": "Psalm 29 — Psalm 29", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David.>> Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array. Yahweh's voice is on t"}, {"id": "card_n_65a5bd511d27", "title": "He Leads, You Move", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.\n\nThere is a small, easily missed word in this verse: leadeth. Not pushes, not shouts from behind, not sends a map. Leads. The shepherd moves fir"}, {"id": "card_n_d025499fc999", "title": "The Voice Finds You Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\n\nFour days in the tomb. Wrapped in grave-cloth. Beyond argument, beyond remedy. And Jesus does not dig, does not negotiate, does not explain the biolog"}, {"id": "card_n_98fd35846353", "title": "John 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.\n2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of th"}, {"id": "card_n_1c57a5f5e006", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_09: The Voice of the Disciple Lord, all that is in the heaven and in the earth is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple Lord, all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine.(1) I desire to offer myself up unto thee as a freewill offering, and to continue Thine for ever. Lord, in the uprig"}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_4f062674a2e5", "title": "Psalm 68 — Psalm 68", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.>> Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts"}, {"id": "card_n_c180a0c53a10", "title": "The Command Reaches Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\"\n\nLazarus was not standing at the door waiting. He was in the tomb — wrapped, sealed, four days gone. Yet the command of "}, {"id": "card_n_13fea045d567", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_045: I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Drunkenness is far from me; Thou wilt have mercy, that it come not near me. But full feeding "}, {"id": "card_n_8a2f565f412d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_11: The Voice of the Disciple O most sweet Lord Jesus, how great is the blessedne...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple O most sweet Lord Jesus, how great is the blessedness of the devout soul that feedeth with Thee in Thy banquet, where there is set before it no other food than Thyself its on"}, {"id": "card_n_a7302e4834d8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_009: And, lo!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And, lo! my infancy died long since, and I live. But Thou, Lord, who for ever livest, and in whom nothing dies: for before the foundation of the worlds, and before all that can be called \"before,\" Tho"}, {"id": "card_n_544e9c724539", "title": "Psalm 5 — Psalm 5", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.>> Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray. Yahweh, in"}, {"id": "card_n_79438d46108b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_040: And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor will I endure the questions of men, who by a penal disease thirst for more than they can contain, and say, \"what did God befo"}, {"id": "card_n_c7927d4c3fcc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_018: \"Will you affirm that to be false, which with a strong voice Truth tells me i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Will you affirm that to be false, which with a strong voice Truth tells me in my inner ear, concerning the Eternity of the Creator, that His substance is no ways changed by time, nor His will separat"}, {"id": "card_n_5acc7b8f7578", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_003: I would lay open before my God that nine-and-twentieth year of mine age.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would lay open before my God that nine-and-twentieth year of mine age. There had then come to Carthage a certain Bishop of the Manichees, Faustus by name, a great snare of the Devil, and many were e"}, {"id": "card_n_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"id": "card_n_dde8b0288252", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_02: The Voice of the Disciple Trusting in Thy goodness and great mercy, O Lord, I...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple Trusting in Thy goodness and great mercy, O Lord, I draw near, the sick to the Healer, the hungering and thirsting to the Fountain of life, the poverty-stricken to the King o"}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_37491db316ef", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_04: “My Son!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son! walk before Me in truth, and in the simplicity of thy heart seek Me continually. He who walketh before Me in the truth shall be safe from evil assaults, and the truth shall deliver him from t"}]}