Hinds' Feet On High Places: The Original And Complete Allegory With A Devotional For Women

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HINDS’ FEET
On
HIGH PLACES
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The original and complete allegory with a
devotional for women by Darien Cooper
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Re-release – 2005 – Destiny Image Publishers
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T A
HE UTHOR
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OF EVOTIONALS
Darien B. Cooper is a wife, mother, lecturer, and author of several books
including the best-seller, You Can Be the Wife of a Happy Husband, with over a
million in print after 30 years of publication. Her practical teaching on the
woman’s role in marriage and complete abandonment to Jesus Christ has
changed countless lives both in the USA and abroad.
After graduating from Carson Newman College in Jefferson City, Ten-
nessee, with a degree in Sociology and double minor in Psychology and
Mathematics, Darien and her husband, Dewitt, served as associate staff with
Campus Crusade for Christ Lay Ministry in the early 1970s. Then in the
mid-1980s they served as missionaries with Family Consultation Service, a
ministry to the poor in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, for eight years.
In 1993 they left Atlanta, their home for 35 years, to move to the Dal-
ton area of North Georgia. The book, You Can Be the Happy Mom of an
Empty Nest, was published in 1999 from lessons learned by living intimately
with extended family and yet releasing them to be what God calls them to
be. Darien and Dewitt now have an international family with five of their
twelve grandchildren having been adopted from three other nationalities.

D
EDICATED TO
My sister, Jan Bruner, who has added to my collection of
preciousstones as we have journeyed together to the High Places.

C
ONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
PREFACETOTHEALLEGORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
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Part One
CHAPTER 1
Invitation to the High Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
CHAPTER 2
Fearing Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
CHAPTER 3
Flight in the Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
CHAPTER 4
Start for the High Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
CHAPTER 5
Encounter With Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
CHAPTER 6
Detour Through the Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
CHAPTER 7
On the Shores of Loneliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
CHAPTER 8
On the Old Sea Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
CHAPTER 9
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Great Precipice Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
CHAPTER10
Ascent of the Precipice Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174
CHAPTER11
In the Forests of Danger and Tribulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
188
CHAPTER12
In the Mist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
206
CHAPTER13
In the Valley of Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
226
CHAPTER14
The Place of Anointing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
240
CHAPTER15
The Floods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
260
CHAPTER16
Grave on the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
276
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Part Two
CHAPTER17
Healing Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
CHAPTER18
Hinds Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294
CHAPTER19
High Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
CHAPTER20
Return to the Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322
I
NTRODUCTION
All of us are traveling on our life’s journey. It is my desire
that the devotions in this book be used by our Lord to enhance
and enrich your journey.
Most of these devotions are “quiet time” meditations, ones
which you can use to draw nearer to Jesus. As you do, you will
be renewed from within—knowing who you are “in Him”;
knowing the truth about who you are; and no longer believing
the enemy’s lie that defeats and discourages you. You also will
learn who He is, how much He loves you, and how to love Him
in return. It is to be a resting, establishing, and bonding time
between you and your Lord which results in stabilization, secu-
rity, strength, dignity, and peace in your inner being.
If spending time with the Lord as instructed here is new
and different to you, you may feel foolish or that you are wasting
your time and nothing is really happening. Know that such
thoughts and feelings are from your enemy, who is trying to rob
you of the greatest relationship in life: a love walk with Jesus
Christ. Even when nothing seems to be happening, you are not
wasting your time. It has been wisely said, “Not to wait on God is
the only great idleness.” The psalmist admonishes us to wait before
Him: “Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him, and patiently stay
yourself upon Him” (Ps. 37:7a AMP), as well as James: “Come close
to God and he will come close to you” (Jas. 4:8 AMP). God’s Word
also promises that those who seek Him will find Him:“I love those
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who love me[wisdom],and those who seek me early and diligently shall
find me”(Prov. 8:17 AMP).
When your thoughts wander during your devotional time,
don’t feel guilty. Just quietly focus on Him again. If you are faithful
and persistent, you will be rewarded by tasting of the Lord and see-
ing that He is good. It will become the best and the most cherished
time of your day. This time should also spill over into the rest of
your day, influencing and guiding your thoughts. Gradually, you
will learn to dwell in His presence all day long!
Whether the devotion is a quiet time, an instructional time, or
a time of examining your ways with Him, carefully follow through
with the directions. Each devotional builds upon the previous
one. They are carefully designed to firmly establish you in Him
and to strengthen your daily walk.
You may want to read through the allegory first, enjoying
the delightful flow of the story. Then take one devotional per
day, comparing your own pilgrimage with Much-Afraid’s.
Using a special notebook, record your own journey. Take time
to read each Scripture from your own Bible. Do not rush
through these times with the Lord. A love relationship cannot
and will not be developed unless quality time is spent with
Him. Carefully meditate upon the areas that He makes per-
sonal to you. Cherish each nugget of truth as He brings it from
His heart to your heart!
I’m looking forward to comparing our life’s journey
notes—whether here in time or there in eternity!
Darien Cooper