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March 22 - Faithfulness Beyond Recognition · 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, March 22nd.
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  Wisdom that wins. Not every victory is loud.
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  Some of the most important wins in life happened quietly,
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  through steady choices, disciplined habits, and wisdom
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  that does not need attention to prove its value.
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  In a world that often celebrates, whoever speaks the
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  most reacts the fastest or shows off the loudest.
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  God reminds us that real strength is often quieter than
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  that. Real strength can look like
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  restraint. It can look like diligence.
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  It can look like showing up faithfully when no one is
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  watching. Proverbs chapter 12, verses 23
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  to 24 says a prudent man conceals knowledge, but the
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  heart of fools proclaims folly. The hand of the diligent will
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  rule, while the slack hand will be put to forced labor.
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  That means wisdom is not about showing off what you know.
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  It is about knowing how to use what you know.
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  And diligence is not just working hard once in a while.
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  It is choosing consistency, responsibility, and faithfulness
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  over laziness and distraction. Then Judges chapter 3, verse 9
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  says, And the Lord raised up judges who saved them out of the
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  hand of those who plundered them.
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  God used ordinary people in powerful ways.
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  They were not all impressive by human standards, and they were
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  certainly not perfect, but God raised them up at the right time
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  to bring deliverance. That is encouraging because it
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  reminds us that God can use willing hearts.
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  He can use people who are ready to act, ready to trust Him, and
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  ready to stay faithful. Maybe you have been
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  underestimating the power of small, obedient choices,
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  Studying when you do not feel like it, Staying humble instead
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  of showing off, Being responsible with what you have
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  been given. Keeping your word, Being
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  diligent in prayer. These things may seem ordinary,
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  but they are the kind of habits God builds into strength.
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  Wisdom wins because it sees beyond the moment.
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  Diligence wins because it keeps going when others quit.
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  And when both are placed in God's hands, He can use them to
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  open doors, strengthen character, and bring help to
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  others through your life. You do not need to be flashy to
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  be useful. You do not need to know
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  everything to be wise. You just need a heart that
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  listens to God and a life that keeps showing up faithfully.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for
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  showing me that wisdom and diligence matter more than
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  appearances. Help me to be steady, humble,
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  and faithful in the things You have placed before me.
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  Teach me to use what I know with wisdom and to work with
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  consistency and purpose. Raise me up in the ways You
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  choose and use my life to bring help, strength and hope to
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  others in Jesus name, Amen. What if the most important
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  question in your life deserves more than a shallow answer?
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  explores reality, meaning, and truth through reason, evidence,
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  human experience, and scripture without preaching pressure or
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  assumptions. Book 1.
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  Something from Nothing confronts the mystery of existence itself
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  and asks why anything exists at all.
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  Book 2. The Cause Behind the Cosmos,
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  examines the origin of the universe and whether it points
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  beyond itself. Book 3.
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  Design or Accident wrestles with order and complexity.
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  Are they products of chance or intelligence?
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  Book 4. The Moral Signature explores why
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  objective right and wrong may require a source beyond human
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  opinion. Book 5.
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  The God We Cannot Escape considers conscience, longing,
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  and humanity's persistent awareness of God.
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  Book 6, From Reason to Revelation, asks whether the God
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  who exists would also speak, and Book 7, Denying God, examines
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  the internal tensions of unbelief and the deeper
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  implications of rejecting the divine.
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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 12 verses 23 to
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  24 World English Bible A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the
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  hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
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  The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in
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  slave labor. Judges Chapter 3 World English
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  Bible. Now these are the nations which
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  Yahweh left to test Israel by them, even as many as had not
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  known all the wars of Canaan, only that the generations of the
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  children of Israel might know to teach them war, at least those
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  who knew nothing of it before. The five Lords of the
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  Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sedonians and the Hivites
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  who lived on Mount Lebanon from Mount Bale, Hermon to the
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  entrance of Hamath. They were left to test Israel by
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  them to know whether they would listen to Yahweh's commandments
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  which He commanded their fathers by Moses.
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  The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the
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  Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the
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  Jebusites. They took their daughters to be
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  their wives and gave their own daughters to their sons and
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  served their gods. The children of Israel did that
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  which was evil in Yahweh's sight and forgot Yahweh their God, and
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  served the Baales and the Asharath.
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  Therefore, Yahweh's anger burned against Israel, and He sold them
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  into the hand of Cushion Rishitime, king of Mesopotamia.
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  And the children of Israel served cushion Rishitime 8
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  years. When the children of Israel
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  cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of
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  Israel who saved them. Even Othneil, the son of Kennas,
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  Caleb's younger brother. Yahweh's spirit came on him, and
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  He judged Israel, and he went out to war.
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  And Yahweh delivered cushion Rishitime, king of Mesopotamia,
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  into his hand. His hand prevailed against
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  cushion Rishitime. The land had rest 40 years.
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  Then Othneil, the son of Kennas died.
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  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh's
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  sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon, the king of Moab, against
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  Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh's
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  sight. He gathered the children of
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  Ammon and a Malek to himself, and he went and struck Israel,
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  and they possessed the city of palm trees.
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  The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab 18 years.
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  But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised
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  up a savior for them. Ehud the son of Guerra the
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  Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent
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  tribute by him to Eglon, the king of Moab.
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  Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in
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  length, and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
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  He offered the tribute to Eglon, king of Moab.
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  Now Eglon was a very fat man. When Ehud had finished offering
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  the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute,
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  but he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by
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  Gilgal and said, I have a secret message for you, O king.
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  The king said keep silence. All who stood by him left him.
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  Ehud came to him and he was sitting by himself alone in the
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  cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from
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  God to you. He arose out of his seat.
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  Ehud put out his left hand and took the sword from his right
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  thigh and thrust it into his body.
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  The handle also went in after the blade and the fat closed on
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  the blade for he didn't draw the sword out of his body and it
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  came out behind. Then Ehud went out onto the
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  porch and shut the doors of the upper room on him and locked
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  them. After he had gone, his servants
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  came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked.
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  They said surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.
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  They waited until they were ashamed, and behold, he didn't
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  open the doors of the upper room.
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  Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their
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  Lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
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  Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols
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  and escaped to Sarah. When he had come, he blew a
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  trumpet in the Hill Country of Ephraim, and the children of
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  Israel went down with him from the Hill Country, and he led
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  them. He said to them, Follow me, for
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  Yahweh has delivered your enemies, the Moabites, into your
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  hand. They followed him and took the
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  Fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and didn't allow any
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  man to Passover. They struck at that time about
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  10,000 men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor.
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  No man escaped, so Moab was subdued that day under the hand
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  of Israel. Then the land had rest. 80 years
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  after him was Shamgar, the son of an Ath who struck 600 men of
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  the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.
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