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April 25 - Unshaken Confidence · 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, April 25th.
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  Unshaken confidence. Life can feel unstable so
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  quickly. Plans change, people disappoint
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  you, the future feels unclear. You try your best but still
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  cannot control everything. Proverbs chapter 14 verses 32 to
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  33 says that the righteous find refuge and that wisdom rests in
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  the heart of a person of understanding.
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  Psalm 47, verses 7 to 8 says God is the king of all the earth and
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  God reigns over the nation's. That truth is an anchor.
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  God reigns not just when life makes sense, not just when
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  prayers are answered the way you hoped, not just when things feel
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  calm. God reigns when the world feels
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  loud, when your heart feels uncertain, and when you cannot
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  see what comes next. Romans Chapter 9 reminds us that
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  God's mercy and purpose are not based on human striving.
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  That can be humbling, but it is also freeing.
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  Your security does not rest on your ability to perform
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  perfectly, control outcomes, or earn God's love.
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  It rests on His mercy. Unshaken confidence is not
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  pretending you are never afraid. It is knowing where to run when
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  fear comes. It is remembering that the
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  throne of God does not shake just because your circumstances
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  do. Your grades, reputation,
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  relationships, and future matter, but they are not strong
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  enough to carry your identity, only God is.
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  So when life feels uncertain, look higher.
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  The King is still on his throne. His wisdom is still true.
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  His mercy is still enough. You can rest because your life
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  is held by someone stronger than your circumstances.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you that
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  you reign over everything. When life feels uncertain, help
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  me find refuge in you. Teach me to trust Your mercy
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  instead of relying on my own efforts or control.
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  Give me wisdom, peace, and unshaken confidence because my
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  life is in your hands. In Jesus name, Amen.
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  What if you could rise up and declare with full spiritual
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  authority, I shall not die, but live?
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs chapter 14, verses 32
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  to 33 World English Bible. The wicked is brought down in
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  his calamity, but in death the righteous has a refuge.
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  Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding and is
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  even made known in the inward part of fools.
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  Psalm chapter 47 World English Bible for the chief musician.
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  A Psalm by the sons of Korra. Oh, clap your hands all you
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  nations. Shout to God with the voice of
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  triumph, for Yahweh Most High is awesome.
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  He is a great king over all the earth.
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  He subdues nations under us and peoples under our feet.
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  He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he
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  loved. Selah.
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  God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a
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  trumpet. Sing praises to God.
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  Sing praises. Sing praises to our king.
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  Sing praises, for God is the king of all the earth.
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  Sing praises with understanding. God reigns over the nations.
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  God sits on His holy throne. The Princess of the peoples are
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  gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham.
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  For the Shields of the earth belong to God.
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  He is greatly exalted. Romans Chapter 9 World English
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  Bible I tell the truth in Christ.
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  I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy
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  Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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  For I could wish that I myself were a cursed from Christ for my
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  brothers sake. My relatives according to the
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  flesh, who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, the glory, the
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  covenants, the giving of the law, the service and the
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  promises, Of whom are the fathers?
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  And from whom is Christ, as concerning the flesh, who is
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  over all God blessed forever, Amen.
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  But it is not as though the Word of God has come to nothing, for
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  they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
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  Neither because they are Abraham's offspring are they all
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  children. But your offspring will be
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  accounted as from Isaac. That is, it is not the children
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  of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the
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  promise are counted as heirs. For this is a word of promise.
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  At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
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  Not only so, but Rebecca also, conceived by one by our Father
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  Isaac, for being not yet born, neither having done anything
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  good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might
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  stand not of works, but of him who calls.
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  It was said to her. The elder will serve the
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  younger, even as it is written. Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
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  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with
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  God? May it never be.
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  For he said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
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  and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
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  So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but
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  of God who has mercy. For the Scripture says to
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  Pharaoh, for this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that
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  I might show in you my power, and that my name might be
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  proclaimed in all the earth. So then He has mercy on whom he
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  desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
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  You will say then to me, why does he still find fault?
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  For who withstands His will? But indeed, O man, who are you
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  to reply against God? Well, the thing formed, ask him
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  who formed it. Why did you make me like this?
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  Or hasn't the Potter a right over the clay from the same
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  lump, to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for
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  dishonor? What if God, willing to show His
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  wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much
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  patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and
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  that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels
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  of mercy which He prepared beforehand for glory?
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  Us whom He also called not from the Jews only, but also from the
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  Gentiles, as He says also in Hosea.
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  I will call them My people, which were not My people, and
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  her beloved who was not beloved. It will be that in the place
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  where it was said to them, You are not My people, though they
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  will be called children of the living God.
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  Isaiah cries concerning Israel. If the number of the children of
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  Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will
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  be saved, for he will finish the work and cut it short in
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  righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the
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  earth. As Isaiah has said before,
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  unless the Lord of armies had left us a seed, we would have
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  become like Sodom and would have been made like Gomorrah.
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  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who didn't
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  follow after righteousness attained to righteousness, even
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  the righteousness which is of faith.
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  But Israel following after a law of righteousness didn't arrive
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  at the law of righteousness. Why?
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  Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works
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  of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling
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  stone even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion, a
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  stumbling stone and a rock of offense.
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  And no one who believes in him will be disappointed.
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