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December 21 - Unshakable Hope · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, December 21st.
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  Unshakable hope. Have you ever wanted something
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  so badly it started running your life like it's the first thing
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  you think about and the last thing you scroll for?
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  More attention, more money, more approval, more control.
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  Proverbs chapter 30 verse 15 paints that craving like a Leech
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  with two daughters named Give and give.
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  And it says some things never say enough.
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  That's what chasing the world feels like.
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  It keeps asking for more, but it never actually satisfies you.
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  Now listen to the contrast in Psalm 146.
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  It says, put not your trust in Princess, in a son of man in
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  whom there is no salvation. And then blessed is he whose
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  help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God.
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  People can inspire you, trends can hype you up, and even your
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  own feelings can feel convincing.
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  But none of those can save you. They can't hold your soul steady
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  when everything shakes. That's why Psalm chapter 16
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  verse eight hits so deep. I have set the Lord always
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  before me because he is at my right hand.
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  I shall not be shaken, not I might not be shaken not I'll be
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  fine if life is easy. No, I shall not be shaken.
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  That's unshakable hope. And Acts chapter 2 shows us what
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  that hope is built on. Jesus, Peter tells the crowd,
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  God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you
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  crucified. And then he says repent and be
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  baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
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  forgiveness of your sins. That's the turning point.
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  Real hope isn't a vibe. It's not a motivational quote.
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  It's a person, Jesus, Lord, and Christ, Savior and King.
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  When you stop chasing what can't satisfy and you turn toward Him,
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  you don't just get a better day. You get forgiveness, a new
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  start, and a foundation that won't collapse when life gets
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  messy. Setting the Lord before you
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  means you're choosing Him as your focus, your anchor.
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  You're enough. Let's pray, Heavenly Father,
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  show me where I've been chasing things that never satisfy.
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  Help me stop putting my trust in people, approval or temporary
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  stuff and teach me to place my hope fully in You.
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  Thank you for Jesus, Lord and Christ who forgives my sin and
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  gives me real life. Help me set you always before me
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  so I won't be shaken. In Jesus name, Amen.
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  Proverbs 3015 to 17 World English Bible The Leech has two
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  daughters. Give, give.
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  There are three things that are never satisfied. 4 That don't
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  say enough. She all, the barren womb, The
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  earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that doesn't
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  say enough. The eye that mocks at his father
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  and scorns obedience to his mother.
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  The Ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles
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  shall eat it. Psalm 146 World English Bible
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  Praise Yah, praise Yahweh. My soul, while I live, I will
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  praise Yahweh, I will sing praises to my God as long as I
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  exist. Don't put your trust in
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  Princess, in a Son of man in whom there is no help.
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  His spirit departs and he returns to the earth.
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  In that very day his thoughts perish.
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  Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for His help, whose hope
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  is in Yahweh, His God who made heaven and earth, the sea and
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  all that is in them, who keeps truth forever, who executes
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  justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.
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  Yahweh frees the prisoners. Yahweh opens the eyes of the
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  blind. Yahweh raises up those who are
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  bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
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  Yahweh preserves the foreigners, He upholds the fatherless and
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  widow, but He turns the way of the wicked upside down.
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  Yahweh will reign forever your God, O Zion to all generations,
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  praise Yah. Psalm 16, eight to 11 World
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  English Bible. I have set Yahweh always before
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  me because He is at my right hand.
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  I shall not be moved, therefore my heart is glad and my tongue
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  rejoices. My body shall also dwell in
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  safety. For you will not leave my soul
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  in Sheol, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
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  You will show me the path of life.
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  In Your presence is fullness of joy.
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  In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
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  Acts 222 to 39 World English Bible.
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  Men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man
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  approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs,
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  which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know him,
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  being delivered up by the determined counsel and for
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  knowledge of God. You have taken by the hand of
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  lawless men, crucified and killed, whom God raised up,
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  having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not
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  possible that he should be held by it.
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  For David says concerning him, I saw the Lord always before my
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  face, for He is on my right hand that I should not be moved.
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  Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced.
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  Moreover, my flesh also will dwell in hope, because you will
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  not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy
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  One to see decay. You made known to me the ways of
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  life. You will make me full of
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  gladness with your presence. Brothers, I may tell you freely
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  of the Patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and
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  his tomb is with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and
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  knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit
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  of his body according to the flesh, he would raise up the
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  Christ to sit on his throne. He, foreseeing this, spoke about
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  the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn't left in
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  hades, and his flesh didn't see decay.
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  This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses,
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  Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having
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  received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he
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  has poured out this which you now see and hear.
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  For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself,
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  The Lord said to my Lord, sit by my right hand until I make your
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  enemies a footstool for your feet.
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  Let all the House of Israel therefore know certainly that
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  God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you
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  crucified. Now when they heard this, they
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  were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the
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  apostles. Brothers, what shall we do?
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  Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized everyone of you in
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  the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you
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  will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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  For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who
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  are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to
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