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\u201cD<\/strong>on\u2019t expect your companion (or anyone else) to be what only God can be to you.\u201d<\/h1>\n

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 21<\/sup><\/strong>Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.  22<\/sup><\/strong>Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.<\/em><\/p>\n

Isaiah 45:21-22<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Victory Action<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There is a certain quality of relationship that I can experience only with God, so I will expect Him, and not others, to meet the kind of need that only He can fulfill.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t expect your companion (or anyone else) to be what only God can be to you.\u201d    21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside … <\/p>\n

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