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WHO'S GONNA RIDE YOUR WILD HORSES

Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot
For any spirit to haunt
Jesus: "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it comes, it finds it swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first." Luke 11:24-26 NASB
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?
This is what the Lord says: "…They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, 'Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.'" Isaiah 45:14 NIV
 
As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.” Acts 10:25-26 NIV
The hunter will sin for ivory skin
Your neck is like an ivory tower. Song of Songs 7:4 NIV/NASB/NRSV
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His abdomen is carved ivory inlaid with sapphires. Song of Songs 5:14 NASB
Hallelujah! Heaven's white rose
The doors you open I just can't close
At that time Jesus came… and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness…. He was with the wild animals… Mark 1:9-12 NIV
 
When I saw him, I fell down at his feet… and [he] said: “… when he opens a door, no one can close it, and when he closes it, no one can open it…. I have opened a door in front of you, which no one can close…. I will make them come and bow down at your feet." Revelation 1:17 & 3:7-9 GNB
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