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*Except the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it.* Psalm 127:1, Amplified. Psalm 127 does not question whether people are building — it assumes they are. Everywhere you look people are building businesses, ministries, families, institutions, cities, and nations. The question Scripture asks each of us is this: whose blueprint are you building from? Christ is never presented as standing back while we devise our own works and then asking Him to bless them. He

A woman who had bled for twelve years reached out and touched the fringe — the tassel at the hem of Jesus' prayer shawl. She was in a crowd pressing in on Him from every side, yet her touch in faith released healing power. Luke's word for that fringe is the same word the Greek Old Testament uses for the tassel commanded in Numbers, tied at the corner where a man's own eye would find it, so that he would remember the commandments of the Lord rather than follow his own heart. M