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The Presence in the Valley - Pentecostal (Psalm 23)

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A woman diagnosed with cancer said the hardest part wasn't the treatment—it was the fear at 3 AM when she couldn't sleep. One night, overwhelmed, she started whispering Psalm 23. "Even though I walk through the valley..." Suddenly, she felt warmth, presence, peace. "I can't explain it," she said later, "but I knew He was there." The psalm promises more than doctrine about God's care; it promises His PRESENCE. "You are with me." Have you felt the Shepherd's presence in your valley?

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