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April 23 - Strength in Stillness · 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 23rd.
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  Strength and stillness. Sometimes the strongest thing
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  you can do is pause. Not react, not defend yourself
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  immediately, not let anger or anxiety take the steering wheel.
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  Proverbs chapter 14 verse 29 says whoever is slow to anger
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  has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts
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  folly. In a world that rewards quick
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  reactions. God teaches us the strength of
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  self-control. Psalm 46 verse 10 says be still
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  and know that I am God. Stillness is not weakness, it is
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  trust. It is choosing to remember that
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  God is God even when your emotions are loud and your
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  circumstances feel chaotic. Romans Chapter 7 verses 22 to 23
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  reminds us that even Paul knew the struggle of wanting what is
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  right while feeling another battle inside.
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  That inner battle is real. You may want to be patient but
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  still snap. You may want to trust God but
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  still panic. You may want to do what is right
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  but feel pulled the other way. God is not surprised by that
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  struggle. He meets you in it.
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  Being still does not mean ignoring problems.
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  It means refusing to let the problem become bigger in your
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  heart than God. It means breathing before you
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  speak, praying before you act, and surrendering before you
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  spiral. Today, when pressure rises,
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  pause. Ask God for wisdom.
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  Let His peace slow you down. You do not have to be controlled
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  by every emotion that passes through you in Christ.
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  You can respond with understanding instead of
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  impulse. There's strength in stillness
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  because stillness makes room for God's voice.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for
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  being steady. When I feel overwhelmed, help me
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  slow down before I react and trust You in the middle of my
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  struggles. Teach me to be still, to
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  remember that you are God, and to respond with wisdom instead
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  of anger. Let your peace guide my heart
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  today. In Jesus name, Amen.
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  Proverbs chapter 14, verses 28 to 29 World English Bible.
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  In the multitude of people is the King's glory, but in the
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  lack of people is the destruction of the Prince.
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  He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who
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  has a quick temper displays folly.
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  Psalm Chapter 46 World English Bible for the chief musician by
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  the sons of Korah According to a Lamothe God is our refuge and
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  strength, a very present help in trouble.
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  Therefore we won't be afraid. Though the earth changes, though
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  the mountains are shaken into the heart of the Seas, though
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  its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains
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  tremble with their swelling. Selah.
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  There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad.
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  The holy place of the tents of the Most High God is within her.
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  She shall not be moved. God will help her.
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  At dawn the nations raged, the kingdoms were moved.
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  He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
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  Yahweh of armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
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  Selah. Come see Yahweh's works.
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  What desolations He has made in the earth.
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  He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.
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  He breaks the bow and shatters the spear.
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  He burns the Chariots in the fire.
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  Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the
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  nations. I will be exalted in the earth.
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  Yahweh of armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
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  Selah. Romans Chapter 7 World English
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  Bible. Or don't you know brothers?
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  For I speak to men who know the law, that the law has dominion
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  over a man for as long as he lives.
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  For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband
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  while he lives. But if the husband dies, she is
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  discharged from the law of the husband.
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  So then if while the husband lives, she is joined to another
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  man, she would be called an adulteress.
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  But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she
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  is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
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  Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law
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  through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another,
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  to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce
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  fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh,
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  the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our
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  members to bring out fruit to death.
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  But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to
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  that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of the
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  Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
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  What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
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  May it never be. However, I wouldn't have known
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  sin except through the law. For I wouldn't have known
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  coveting unless the law had said, You shall not covet.
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  But sin finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me
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  all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law sin is
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  dead. I was alive apart from the law
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  once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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  The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for
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  death. For sin finding occasion through
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  the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.
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  Therefore the Law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy,
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  righteous, and good. Did then that which is good
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  become death to me? May it never be but sin that it
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  might be shown to be Sin was producing death in me through
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  that which is good, that through the commandment sin might become
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  exceedingly sinful. For we know that the Law is
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  spiritual. But I am fleshly sold under sin.
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  For I don't understand what I am doing.
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  For I don't practice what I desire to do, but what I hate
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  that I do. But if what I don't desire that
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  I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
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  So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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  For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing.
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  For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that
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  which is good. For the good which I desire I
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  don't do, but the evil which I don't desire that I practice.
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  But if what I don't desire that I do, it is no more I that do
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  it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the law that while I
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  desire to do good, evil is present.
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  For I delight in God's law after the inward person.
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  But I see a different law in my members, warring against the law
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  of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin
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  which is in my members. What a wretched man I am who
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  will deliver me out of the body of this death.
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  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the
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