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SPECIFICATIONS TIMELESS WORDS SERIES A Time to Heal ISBN: 9788771324174 A Time to Laugh ISBN: 9788771324150 A Time to Love ISBN: 9788771324143 A Time to Plant ISBN: 9788771324167 Age: Adults Size: 105x105 mm Pages: 96 pages + ends + case + 1 card + 1 bag Full color Case:128 gsm glossy art with matt lamination + patterned gold foil stamping over 2.5 mm board; Ends: 140 gsm woodfree; Card: 250 gsm C1S with UV varnishing; Bag: 140 gsm glossy art with machine varnishing Retail price: US $14.99/set containing book, card, and bag

When you want to say more than just “Thank you” or “Praying for you,” the little books from this series will express your concern for those you cherish and love.

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Timeless Words from the Bible about Change and Growth

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A TIME TO PLANT

TIMELESS WORDS FROM THE BIBLE ABOUT CHANGE AND GROWTH Published by Scandinavia Publishing House 2013 Scandinavia Publishing House Drejervej 15,3, DK-2400 Copenhagen, NV, Denmark E-mail: info@scanpublishing.dk Web: www.scanpublishing.dk Editor and designer: Ben Alex Proofreader: Anne Clark All quotes from New International Version (NIV and NIV 1984) Photo copyright © Dreamstime cover page Photo copyright © Thinkstock pages 1,8,10,14,18,23,25,28,30,35,36,38,41,53,56, 61,63,68,70,72,76,81,82,89,90,95,96 Photo copyright © Janis Zroback pages 17,44,47,58,75 Visit Janis at http://www.redbubble.com/people/paintability Photo copyright © Grethe Dyrsø Larsen pages 13,42,64,84 Photo copyright © Karen Julie Frederiksen pages 49,54,73 Photo copyright © Edith Borgholm page 26 Photo copyright © Maren Axelsen page 78 Photo copyright © Scandinavia/Nationalhistorisk Museum, Frederiksborg, Denmark page 93

There is a time for everything, and a season for every action under heaven: a time to plant and a time to uproot.

Ecclesiastes 3:1,2a

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O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!

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Jeremiah 22:29

Genesis 13:17

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Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.� And it was so.

Genesis 1:11

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Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.

Zechariah 9:12

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The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”

Genesis 12:1

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“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. ” Genesis 28:15a

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“So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Exodus 3:8

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Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us.

Psalm 67:6

“My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.�

Jeremiah 24:6

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Turn from evil and do good; then you will dwell in the land forever.

Psalm 37:27

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All these people... admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.

Hebrews 11:13-16a

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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5

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Isaiah 33:17

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...break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.

Hosea 10:12

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Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty.

Zechariah 4:6

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Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.

You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.

Psalm 65:9

Jeremiah 4:3b

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Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.

Isaiah 40:4

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He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert.

Psalm 105:41

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He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs.

Psalm 107:35

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The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.

Isaiah 35:1

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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.

Ezekiel 36:26

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Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.�

Joel 2:23

John 4:10

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The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send workers into his harvest field.

Matthew 9:37-38

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“I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate.�

Ezekiel 36:36b

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Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

Exodus 34:21

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“For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.�

Isaiah 44:3

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May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

Genesis 28:3

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They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.

Jeremiah 31:12c

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Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love...

Hosea 10:12a

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I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints....

Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.

Job 11:16b-18

Ephesians 3:17b-18a

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This is what the sovereign LORD says: “On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.�

Ezekiel 36:33-34

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“I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.�

Jeremiah 2:2b

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The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11

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“I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.�

Genesis 17:6

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Ezekiel 17:8

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For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful.

Isaiah 30:23a

Romans 8:13

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I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.

Song of Songs 6:11

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Do you not say, “Four months more and then the harvest�?

I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields!

They are ripe for harvest.

John 4:35

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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

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I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.

Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.

John 4:38

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Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

John 4:36

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Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

Psalm 126:5

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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Romans 6:22

Leviticus 19:9

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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:9

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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

Hebrews 12:11

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Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.

Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.

Exodus 23:16

For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

Deuteronomy 16:15b

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Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

James 3:18

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Revelation 14:15b

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Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Psalm 34:8

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God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.

Genesis 41:52b

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I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Song of Songs 2:3b

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Awake, north wind, and come, south wind!

Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad.

Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.

Song of Songs 4:16

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My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.

Song of Songs 2:16

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As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.

Genesis 9:7

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“I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.�

Ezekiel 36:30

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

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In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit.

In this way your harvest will be increased.

I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:24-25

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They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

Psalm 36:8-9

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Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work—this is a gift of God. Ecclesiastes 5:19

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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:14

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They will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds.

Jeremiah 31:12b

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Proverbs 13:2a

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...so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God. Colossians 1:10

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ— to the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11

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Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice.

Deuteronomy 14:26b

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For He who has compassion on them will lead them, and will guide them to springs of water.

Isaiah 49:10

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Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.�

So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:3

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How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:103

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Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 2:2-3

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Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail.

Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.

Ezekiel 47:12

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On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.

And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22:2

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