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February 3 - More Than the Gift Expected · 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 3rd.
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  More than silver and gold. Have you ever wanted something
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  so badly that you were sure it would finally make you feel
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  whole? Maybe it was something you saved
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  up for, something you prayed for, or something you thought
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  would fix the ache inside. And then you got it, and the
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  emptiness was still there. That moment can be confusing,
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  even disappointing, but it also reveals something important
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  about how God works in our lives.
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  Proverbs chapter 10, verse 3 tells us the Lord does not let
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  the righteous go hungry, but He thwarts the craving of the
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  wicked. God knows the difference between
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  real hunger and misplaced craving.
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  He knows what will truly sustain your soul, not just what feels
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  urgent in the moment. He is committed to meeting real
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  needs, not just temporary wants. We see this so clearly in Acts
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  chapter 3. There's a man who had been
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  unable to walk since birth. Every day he was placed at the
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  beautiful gate of the temple, asking people for money.
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  That was his routine. That was his survival plan.
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  When Peter and John approached him, he expected what he always
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  expected. A coin, a handout, a little help
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  to get through another day. But what he received was so much
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  more. Peter told him he didn't have
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  silver or gold, but what he did have he gave him in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. The man stood up.
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  Acts chapter 3 verses 9 to 10 say that all the people saw him
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  walking and praising God, and they recognized him as the same
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  man who used to beg at the gate. His entire identity changed.
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  He didn't just receive healing in his legs.
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  He received a new life, a new future, and a new reason to
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  praise God. So often we are like that man.
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  We aim our expectations low because that's what we're used
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  to. We ask God for quick fixes,
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  surface solutions, or small comforts when He is offering
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  transformation. We think we need relief, but God
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  knows we need restoration. We think we need provision, but
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  God knows we need purpose. We think we need approval, but
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  God knows we need healing. God is not withholding good from
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  you, He is protecting you from settling for less than His best.
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  He knows what will truly satisfy you, strengthen you, and bring
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  Him glory through your life. And when He moves, the change is
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  noticeable. People see it.
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  Your story becomes a testimony. Your praise becomes contagious.
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  You may not always get what you expect from God, but you will
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  receive what you need most. And what He gives will always be
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  more valuable than silver or gold.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank You that
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  You see my true needs even when I misunderstand them.
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  Forgive me for settling for quick fixes when You are
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  offering lasting change. Help me to trust Your wisdom
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  over my desires and to believe that what you give is always
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  better than what I asked for. Open my eyes to recognize Your
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  greater blessings and give me the courage to praise You openly
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  and share what You have done in my life in Jesus name, Amen.
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  sustains all things. Yahweh draws you into
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  relationship with the Eternal I AM who is present and faithful.
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  strengthens you. El Olam anchors your faith in
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  the everlasting God whose purposes never fail.
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  compassionate father. And El Gabor awakens confidence
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  Journey now I invite you to spend time with God in today's
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  three-year Bible reading plan. Proverbs Chapter 10 Verse three
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  World English Bible Yahweh will not allow the soul of the
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  righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the
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  wicked. Acts Chapter 3 World English
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  Bible Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour
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  of prayer, the 9th hour. A certain man who was lame from
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  his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at
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  the door of the temple, which is called beautiful, to ask gifts
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  for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
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  Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to
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  receive gifts for the needy. Peter, fastening his eyes on him
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  with John, said, Look at us. He listened to them, expecting
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  to receive something from them. But Peter said, I have no silver
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  or gold, but what I have that I give you in the name of Jesus
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  Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.
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  He took him by the right hand and raised him up.
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  Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
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  Leaping up, he stood and began to walk.
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  He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping and
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  praising God. All the people saw him walking
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  and praising God. They recognized him that it was
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  he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the
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  beautiful gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and
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  amazement at what had happened to him.
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  As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all
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  the people ran together to them in the porch that is called
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  Solomon's, greatly wondering. When Peter saw it, he responded
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  to the people. You men of Israel, why do you
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  marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on
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  us as though by our own power or godliness we had made Him walk?
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  The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers,
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  has glorified His servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied
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  in the presence of pillate, when He had determined to release
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  him. But you denied the holy and
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  righteous one, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
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  and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead,
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  to which we are witnesses by faith in His name.
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  His name has made this man strong, whom you see and know.
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  Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect
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  soundness in the presence of you all.
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  Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did
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  also your rulers. But the things which God
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  announced by the mouth of all His prophets that Christ should
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  suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn
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  again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may
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  come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and
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  that He may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you, before
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  whom heaven must receive, until the times of restoration of all
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  things which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy
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  prophets. For Moses indeed said to the
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  fathers, The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among
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  your brothers. Like me.
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  You shall listen to Him in all things.
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  Whatever he says to you. It will be that every soul that
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  will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from
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  among the people. Yes, and all the prophets from
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  Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken
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  also told of these days. You are the children of the
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  prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers,
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  saying to Abraham, all the families of the earth will be
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  blessed through your offspring. God having raised up his
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  servant, Jesus sent him to you first to bless you in turning
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  away everyone of you from your wickedness.
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