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Diligent Hands, Not Lucky Breaks · Men's Morning Devotional

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: Gentlemen, every day is a battle.
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  SPEAKER_01: A battle for your faith, your family, and your purpose.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: The men who stand strong don't prepare when the battle arrives.
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  SPEAKER_01: They prepare before it begins.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the men's morning devotional.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get into God's word.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's time to man up.
• 0:27
  Christian Calatayud: Good morning and welcome back to the men's morning devotional.
• 0:32
  Christian Calatayud: My name is Christian Kaladiud, and it's time for another man up moment together.
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  Christian Calatayud: Now we have incredible listeners from all over the world.
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  Christian Calatayud: We've heard that there's some in Japan, some in Turkey, and of course here in the United States as well.
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  Christian Calatayud: And this week we're going to be diving into Proverbs chapter 10.
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  Christian Calatayud: And it's going to be a special week, and we're looking forward to it.
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  Christian Calatayud: Today's devotional is called Diligent Hands, Not Lucky Breaks.
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  Christian Calatayud: Proverbs 10, 4 says, lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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  Christian Calatayud: It's interesting.
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  Christian Calatayud: Solomon is very quick to the trigger here.
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  Christian Calatayud: He doesn't waste his words.
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  Christian Calatayud: He's saying that there's two categories of men.
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  Christian Calatayud: Two outcomes.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lazy hands, poverty, and diligent hands and wealth.
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  Christian Calatayud: What's interesting is he makes no mention of talent, he makes no mention of connections, he makes no mention of luck, no, none of those things.
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  Christian Calatayud: He just mentions hands and what they do with the hours they're given.
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  Christian Calatayud: And the truth is that could unsettle us today.
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  Christian Calatayud: If we're a man who's been waiting for our breakthrough instead of building towards it.
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  Christian Calatayud: You know, there's something important to note and point out about the book of Proverbs.
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  Christian Calatayud: They're not just abstract religious sayings that are thrown together on paper, they're common sense observations on how the world God made actually works.
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  Christian Calatayud: Solomon isn't being poetic here, he he's really being practical.
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  Christian Calatayud: He's saying that diligence produces, while laziness does not.
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  Christian Calatayud: And oftentimes when we read the Bible, we're expecting some spiritual mystery, and that's not this.
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  Christian Calatayud: This is not some spiritual mystery.
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  Christian Calatayud: No, it's just true.
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  Christian Calatayud: Every time, every day, in every generation.
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  Christian Calatayud: And the men before us, they took this proverb pretty seriously.
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  Christian Calatayud: And they took it and it it shaped how they viewed work itself.
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  Christian Calatayud: They didn't view honest labor as beneath a godly man.
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  Christian Calatayud: They saw idleness as a real danger to a man's soul.
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  Christian Calatayud: Because the truth is, a hand that's busy in honest work has less room for the kind of trouble that an idle hand invites.
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  Christian Calatayud: And that's what makes Proverbs really hard for us sometimes.
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  Christian Calatayud: We want the promise, the wealth, the opportunity.
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  Christian Calatayud: Without the process, without diligent hands.
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  Christian Calatayud: We want to skip from lazy to blessed without ever having passed through discipline.
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  Christian Calatayud: But Solomon won't let us skip a step.
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  Christian Calatayud: There is no shortcut sitting next to this one.
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  Christian Calatayud: There is no, or if you're just gifted enough, you can skip the diligent part.
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  Christian Calatayud: You can skip the discipline.
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  Christian Calatayud: No.
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  Christian Calatayud: The man who wins the long game isn't usually the most talented man in the room.
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  Christian Calatayud: It isn't usually the most gifted man in the room.
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  Christian Calatayud: He's the man still showing up, still working long after the talented men got bored and quit.
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  Christian Calatayud: So, gentlemen, here's our man up challenge.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's pick one area of our life right now where we've been waiting for a breakthrough instead of building one.
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  Christian Calatayud: Today, let's get our hands a little bit dirty.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's do the unglamorous, diligent thing in that area: the phone call, the budget, the workout, the extra hour that nobody might see.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's not wait for just some stroke of luck.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's build it with our hands.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's pray.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lord, we thank you for the dignity that you've placed in honest work.
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  Christian Calatayud: And Lord Jesus, make our hands diligent, not lazy.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let us be faithful with the small things that you have given us today.
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  Christian Calatayud: And build in us, Lord, men who trust you enough to work hard and wait well.
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  Christian Calatayud: We love you, we praise you, and we thank you.
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  Christian Calatayud: In Jesus' name, amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, gentlemen, you've heard God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now go live it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lead well, stand strong, honor God in everything you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Share this devotional with another brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, every day is another opportunity to man up.