Category: Proverbs
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Ecclesiastes 7:19 “Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.” One Saturday afternoon I was watching an American college football game. It was a close low scoring match between two highly ranked teams. The score was tied late in the game and you got the feeling that…
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Proverbs 16:9 “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” Proverbs 20:24 “A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?” A number of years ago, I started learning how to play the game of chess. After I learned the moves of the different types…
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(Listen to the podcast) (Listen to the devotional) By Jamere King Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding Proverbs 3:5 is one of those verses in the Bible that people quote all the time like Philippians 4:13 and John 3:16. But, how many of us…
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Proverbs 29:18 “When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.” NLT Back when I was in elementary school, I remember sitting in class one day listening to the teacher going over a lesson. We were fairly quiet that day, probably because it was after lunch and…
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Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; Recently I attended the funeral of one of my nephews. He was 22 years old when he passed suddenly. One of the many thoughts I…
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Proverbs 15:6 “Great and priceless treasure is in the house of the [consistently] righteous one [who seeks godly instruction and grows in wisdom], But trouble is in the income of the wicked one [who rejects the laws of God].” AMP Right after I graduated from college, I started working for a large company. Even though…
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Proverbs 15:5 “A [flippant, arrogant] fool rejects his father’s instruction and correction, But he who [is willing to learn and] regards and keeps in mind a reprimand acquires good sense.” AMP One of the major events of Jewish history in the Bible was the Babylonian invasion of Judah which started about 598 BC and ended…
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Proverbs 7:1-2, 24-27 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;2 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.25 Let not your heart turn aside to her [the prostitute’s] ways; do not stray into her paths,26 for many a…
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Proverbs 27:4 “Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?” The first time I sat and really thought about this Proverb, it seemed like a slight exaggeration on the power of jealousy in comparison to wrath and anger. But the longer I thought about it, I realized that jealousy opens the…
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