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“Do Not Let Your Hands Drop Down”The Watchtower (Study)—2016 | September
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4 To let the figurative hands drop down has at times been used to describe someone who is discouraged, disheartened, or without hope. (2 Chron. 15:7, ftn.; Heb. 12:12) It is common for a person in that situation to give up.
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“Do Not Let Your Hands Drop Down”The Watchtower (Study)—2016 | September
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5. (a) When problems arise, what might we do, but of what should we remind ourselves? (b) What will we discuss?
5 Read Zephaniah 3:16, 17. Rather than give in to fear and discouragement, which is like letting our hands drop down, we are invited by our caring Father, Jehovah, to ‘throw all our anxiety on him.’ (1 Pet. 5:7) We can take to heart what God told the Israelites, that his mighty ‘hand is not too short to save’ his loyal servants. (Isa. 59:1)
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