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May 16 - Treasure in Fragile Hands · 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.
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  May. 16th plans in his hands. Have you ever felt like you're
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  carrying too much? Like everyone around you seems
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  to have a plan, a direction, a sense of purpose, and you're
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  just trying to keep your head above water?
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  Or maybe you have goals and dreams, but there's this nagging
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  anxiety underneath. What if it doesn't work out?
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  What if I'm not enough? What if I'm wasting my time?
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  Proverbs chapter 16 verse 3 cuts right through that anxiety with
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  one of the most practical and powerful promises in all of
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  Scripture. Commit your work to the Lord,
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  and your plans will be established.
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  Not maybe, not possibly will be established.
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  There's a certainty there that's rooted not in your ability, but
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  in God's faithfulness. The key is that little word,
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  commit, not just mention your plans to God in passing, not
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  just ask for a quick blessing and then go do things your own
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  way. Actually entrust your work, your
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  goals, your daily effort to Him. Roll it over to Him fully.
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  And when you do that, He takes responsibility for the outcome.
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  Paul adds A breathtaking layer to this in Second Corinthians
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  chapter 4, verse 7. We have this treasure in jars of
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  clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to
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  us. You are a jar of clay, not an
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  insult. A beautiful, honest description.
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  Ordinary, fragile, in some ways imperfect, and yet carrying
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  something extraordinary inside the life and light of God
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  himself. The point of that image is that
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  when something amazing happens through you, nobody gets
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  confused about where the power came from.
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  It clearly came from God. Your limitations don't
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  disqualify you. They actually become the very
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  thing that makes God's power visible.
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  And then verse 16 says we do not lose heart.
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  Even though our outer self is wasting away.
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  Our inner self is being renewed day by day, day by day, not all
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  at once, not in one dramatic transformation.
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  Little by little, as you stay connected to God, something
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  inside you is being strengthened and refreshed.
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  Even on the hard days, even on the days that feel like nothing
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  is happening, even when you feel like you're going backward.
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  That's the rhythm God invites us into.
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  Not a Sprint towards some perfect version of yourself, but
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  a daily returning, a daily committing, a daily trusting
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  that He is doing something in you that you cannot always see
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  yet. So today, whatever is on your
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  plate, the assignment you're stressed about, the friendship
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  that feels complicated, the dream that feels far away, bring
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  it to God, not as a formality, but as a genuine act of trust.
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  Say, God, I'm giving this to you.
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  I'll do my part faithfully, but I'm trusting you with the
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  outcome. That's not passivity.
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  That's one of the most courageous things you can do.
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  And here's what makes that possible.
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  Every small, ordinary, faithful step you take matters.
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  God doesn't need you to be impressive, He needs you to be
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  committed, and when you are, He takes what looks ordinary and
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  does something extraordinary with it.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank You for
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  the promise that when I commit my plans to you, you establish
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  them. Help me to truly hand over my
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  goals, my worries, and my daily efforts, not just in words, but
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  in real trust. On the days I feel weak or
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  limited, remind me that Your power shows up best in my
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  weakness. Renew me from the inside out,
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  day by day so I can keep going with faith and purpose.
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  I give today to you in Jesus name, Amen.
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  What if the battles hitting your family are not random and your
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  home can become a place where darkness loses every right to
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  stay? The Secured Home is a powerful
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  their households with biblical authority, peace and confidence
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  fortifies every doorway, room, and entry point with prayerful
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  protection. Book 2, Cleansed Rooms, helps
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  reclaim spaces marked by fear, unrest, and spiritual
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  defilement. Book 3, Closed Breaches, exposes
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  hidden access points and severs every agreement with darkness.
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  Book 4, Broken Assignments, confronts oppression, torment,
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  and attacks against your family. Book 5, Consecrated Walls,
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  dedicates every space and rhythm of the home to God.
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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 16 verse three
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  World English Bible Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans
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  shall succeed. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 World English Bible
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  Therefore, seeing we have this ministry even as we obtained
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  mercy, we don't faint, but we have renounced the hidden things
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  of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the
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  word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth,
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  commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of
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  God. Even if our good news is veiled,
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  it is veiled in those who are dying, in whom the God of this
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  world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light
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  of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God,
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  should not dawn on them. For we don't preach ourselves,
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  but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for
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  Jesus sake, seeing it is God who said light will shine out of
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  darkness, who is shown in our hearts to give the light of the
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  knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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  But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding
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  greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
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  We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed, perplexed yet
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  not to despair, pursued yet not forsaken, struck down, yet not
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  destroyed, always carrying in the body the putting to death of
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  the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in
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  our body. For we who live are always
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  delivered to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of
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  Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
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  So then death works in us, but life in you.
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  But having the same spirit of faith according to that which is
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  written. I believed and therefore I
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  spoke. We also believe, and therefore
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  we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will
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  raise us also with Jesus and will present us with You.
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  For all things are for your sakes, that the grace being
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  multiplied through the many, may cause the Thanksgiving to abound
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  to the glory of God. Therefore we don't faint.
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  But though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is
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  renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which
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  is for the moment works for us more and more exceedingly an
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  eternal weight of glory, while we don't look at the things
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  which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
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  For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things
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  which are not seen are eternal. Thanks for joining us on Bible
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