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February 18 - Encouragement for the Work That Remains · 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, February 18th.
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  Strength for the journey Have you ever hit a point where you
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  felt worn down, Like you were running on empty and still
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  expected to keep going? Maybe it was the pressure to
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  stay consistent, to do the right thing when it would be easier to
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  quit, or to keep trusting God when the path feels long and
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  uncertain. Following Jesus isn't always
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  about big dramatic moments. Sometimes it's about finding the
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  strength to take the next step when you're tired.
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  Proverbs chapter 10, verse 29 gives us a powerful promise.
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  It says the way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless.
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  Think about that. God's way isn't just a set of
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  rules or a moral suggestion. It's a place of protection, a
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  refuge. When you choose His way, even
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  when it's hard, you're not walking alone.
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  You're walking inside His strength.
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  What feels demanding on the outside is actually sustaining
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  you on the inside. Psalm 20 adds another layer of
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  encouragement. In Psalm chapter 20, verse 4,
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  the prayer is May He grant your heart's desire and fulfill all
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  your plans. That doesn't mean God hands us
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  everything we want instantly. It means He cares about the
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  direction of your life. When your heart is aligned with
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  Him, His strength fuels the plans He's shaping in you.
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  God isn't distant from your goals, your struggles, or your
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  questions. He's actively involved,
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  strengthening you for the journey ahead.
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  We see this lived out in Acts chapter 18 through the life of
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  Paul. Acts chapter 18, verse 4 tells
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  us that Paul reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath,
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  persuading both Jews and Greeks. That's consistency.
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  Week after week he showed up, spoke truth, and stood firm even
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  when people disagreed or resisted.
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  Paul didn't rely on his own strength.
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  He relied on God's call and God's power to keep going.
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  This matters for us because strength isn't about never
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  feeling weak. It's about knowing where to go
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  when you are. God's way doesn't promise the
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  absence of opposition, but it does promise a stronghold in the
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  middle of it. When you feel overwhelmed, God
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  offers stability. When you feel unsure, He offers
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  direction. When you feel tired, He offers
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  endurance. You don't have to carry
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  everything by yourself. Walking in God's way means
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  you're held, protected, and strengthened even when the
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  journey is long. Stay faithful, stay bold, stay
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  rooted. God's strength is more than
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  enough to carry you forward. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you for being my stronghold.
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  When I feel weak or overwhelmed, remind me that Your way is not
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  only right, but powerful enough to sustain me through every
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  challenge. Help me to trust Your plans even
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  when I don't see the full picture.
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  Strengthen my heart to pray with faith and to live boldly for
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  You, knowing that You are carrying me every step of the
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  Mighty Creator who forms and sustains all things.
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  Yahweh draws you into relationship with the eternal I
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  AM who is present and faithful. Adonai calls you to surrender to
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  the Lord and Master who leads and directs your steps.
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  El Elyon reveals the God Most High, exalted above every power
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  and authority. El Shaddai introduces the all
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  sufficient God who nourishes and strengthens you.
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  El Olam anchors your faith in the everlasting God whose
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  purposes never fail. Elroy assures you that you are
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  seen, known, and cared for by a compassionate father, and El
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  Proverbs Chapter 10 verses 29 to 32 World English Bible.
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  The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but
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  it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
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  The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not
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  dwell in the land. The mouth of the righteous
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  produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
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  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the
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  mouth of the wicked is perverse. Psalm, chapter 20 World English
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  Bible for the chief musician. A Psalm by David.
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  May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble.
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  May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high.
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  Send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support
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  from Zion. Remember all your offerings and
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  accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.
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  May He grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your
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  counsel. We will triumph in your
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  salvation. In the name of our God.
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  We will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your
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  requests. Now I know that Yahweh saves his
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  anointed. He will answer him from His holy
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  heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.
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  Some trust in Chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the
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  name of Yahweh, our God. They are bowed down and fallen,
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  but we rise up and stand upright.
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  Save Yahweh. Let the king answer us when we
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  call Acts chapter 18 World English Bible.
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  After these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to
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  Corinth. He found a certain Jew named
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  Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy
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  with his wife Priscilla. Because Claudius had commanded
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  all the Jews to depart from Rome, he came to them, and
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  because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and
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  worked for by trade. They were tent makers.
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  He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews
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  and Greeks. When Selas and Timothy came down
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  from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit,
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  testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
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  When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his
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  clothing and said to them, Your blood be on your own heads.
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  I am clean. From now on I will go to the
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  Gentiles. He departed there and went into
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  the House of a certain man named Justice, one who worshipped God,
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  whose house was next door to the synagogue.
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  Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord
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  with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when
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  they heard, believed and were baptized the Lord said to Paul
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  in the night by a vision. Don't be afraid, but speak and
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  don't be silent, for I am with you, and no one will attack you
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  to harm you. For I have many people in the
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  city. He lived there a year and six
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  months, teaching the word of God among them.
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  But when Gallio was proconsul of a chaya, the Jews with 1 accord
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  rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgement seat,
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  saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the
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  law. But when Paul was about to open
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  his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed it were a matter
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  of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable
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  that I should bear with you. But if they are questions about
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  words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves, for
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  I don't want to be a judge of these matters.
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  So he drove them from the judgement seat.
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  Then all the Greeks seized, saw scenes the ruler of the
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  synagogue, and beat him before the judgement seat.
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  Gallio didn't care about any of these things.
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  Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave
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  of the brothers and sailed from there for Syria, together with
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  Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in sanctuary,
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  for he had a vow. He came to Ephesus, and he left
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  them there. But he himself entered into the
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  synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
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  When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined.
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  But taking his leave of them, he said, I must by all means keep
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  this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you
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  if God wills. Then he set sail from Ephesus.
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  When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the
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  assembly, and went down to Antioch.
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  Having spent some time there, he departed and went through the
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  region of Galatia and Phrygia in order establishing all the
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  disciples. Now a certain Jew named Apollos,
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  and Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus.
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  He was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in
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  the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and
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  taught accurately the things concerning Jesus.
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  Although he knew only the baptism of John, he began to
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  speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila
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  heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of
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  God more accurately. When he had determined to pass
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  over into a chaya, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the
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  disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly
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  helped those who had believed through grace, for he powerfully
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  refuted the Jews publicly, showing by the Scriptures that
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