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May 26 - Secure in the Grace of God · 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 26th Wisdom that guides your heart.
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  Here's something worth thinking about.
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  Of all the things you could develop in your life skills,
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  influence, wealth, good looks, a great reputation, What actually
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  lasts? What's the thing that keeps
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  working for you across every season, every relationship,
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  every challenge you'll face? Proverbs chapter 16, verses 21
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  and 22 make a compelling case for wisdom and understanding.
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  The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of
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  speech increases persuasiveness. Understanding is a fountain of
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  life to one who has it. But folly is the punishment of
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  fools, a fountain of life. That's not a small image.
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  Wisdom isn't just useful, it's life giving.
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  It flows, it refreshes, it keeps going, and notice that it
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  doesn't stay contained. It flows outward through your
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  speech, your influence, your relationships.
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  A wise heart produces words that actually move people that
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  persuade, not through manipulation, but through
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  genuine clarity and grace. When you speak from a place of
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  real understanding, people feel it.
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  And then Ephesians chapter one verse 3 expands the picture
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  magnificently. Blessed be the God and Father of
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  our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every
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  spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, every spiritual
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  blessing in Christ. You are not lacking.
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  You are not working from a deficit, trying to scrape
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  together enough wisdom or enough faith or enough grace to get by.
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  You have been blessed, past tense already done with
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  everything you need spiritually. The resources are already there,
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  already given, already yours in Him.
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  And verse 11 grounds that in something even more settled in
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  Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been
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  predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all
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  things according to the counsel of His will.
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  God is not improvising with your life.
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  He is not reacting to circumstances and trying to make
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  the best of a bad situation. He is working all things, every
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  detail, every twist, every unexpected turn, according to
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  His perfect, purposeful will. Your life is not random.
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  It is held and shaped and guided by a God who knows exactly what
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  he is doing. That matters so much.
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  When you're in the middle of something confusing, when you
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  don't know which way to go, when a decision feels too big for
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  you, when you're unsure whether what you're doing matters, come
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  back to this. You have been given wisdom
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  through the Spirit, you have been blessed with every
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  spiritual resource you need, and you are in the hands of a God
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  who works all things according to His purpose.
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  So the invitation today is to actually use what you've been
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  given, not to coast on the idea of being blessed without walking
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  in it. Use discernment before you
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  speak. Bring understanding to your
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  relationships. Think before you react.
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  Choose words that build rather than damage.
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  Let the wisdom God has placed in you be the thing that shapes
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  your conversations today. Because here's what's true.
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  Your words have impact far beyond what you typically
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  realize. An encouragement you offer in
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  passing might be exactly what someone needed to keep going.
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  A thoughtful response in a tense moment might defuse something
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  that could have escalated badly. The wisdom you carry when you
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  actually walk in it doesn't just benefit you.
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  It touches the people around you in ways you may never fully see.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for
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  blessing me with every spiritual blessing in Christ, including
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  wisdom and discernment. Help me to actually walk in what
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  you've given me. Let my words be life giving,
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  grounded in genuine understanding rather than
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  reaction. And on the days when I don't
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  know what to do or say, remind me that you are working all
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  things according to your will and I can trust you with every
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  detail of my life. Guide my heart and my mouth
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  today in Jesus name, Amen. What if the battles hitting your
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  family are not random and your home can become a place where
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  darkness loses every right to stay?
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  The Secured Home is a powerful six book prayer series for
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  believers who want to guard their households with biblical
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  authority, peace and confidence in Jesus Christ.
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  Book 1. Guarded Thresholds fortifies
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  every doorway, room, and entry point with prayerful protection.
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  Book 2, Cleansed Rooms, helps reclaim spaces marked by fear,
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  unrest, and spiritual defilement.
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  Book 3, Closed Breaches, exposes hidden access points and severs
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  every agreement with darkness. Book 4, Broken Assignments,
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  confronts oppression, torment, and attacks against your family.
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  Book 5, Consecrated Walls, dedicates every space and rhythm
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  of the home to God. Book 6, Abiding Peace, shows how
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  to maintain spiritual order, rest, and holy presence every
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  day. Order now on Amazon or visit
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  prayerscripts.org. Now I invite you to spend time
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  with God in today's three-year Bible reading plan.
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  Proverbs, chapter 16, verses 21 to 22 World English Bible.
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  The wise in heart shall be called prudent.
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  Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
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  Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the
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  punishment of fools is their folly.
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  Ephesians chapter one world English Bible.
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  Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God to the
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  Saints who are at Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus.
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  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of
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  our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
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  blessing in the heavenly places. In Christ, even as He chose us
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  in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy
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  and without defect. Before Him in love, having
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  predestined us for adoption as children.
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  Through Jesus Christ. To Himself, according to the
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  good pleasure of His desire. To the praise of the glory of
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  His grace by which He freely gave us favor.
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  In the Beloved in whom we have our redemption.
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  Through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses.
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  According to the riches of His grace, which He made.
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  To a bound toward us. In all wisdom and prudence,
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  making known to us the mystery of His will.
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  According to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him.
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  To an administration of the fullness of the times.
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  To sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and
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  the things on the earth. In Him we were also assigned an
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  inheritance, in Him, having been foreordained according to the
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  purpose of Him who does all things after the counsel of His
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  will, to the end that we should be to the praise of His glory.
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  We who had before hoped in Christ.
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  In Him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good
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  news of your salvation, in whom, having also believed, you were
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  sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is a pledge of our
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  inheritance to the redemption of God's own possession, to the
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  praise of His glory. For this 'cause I also, having
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  heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and
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  the love which you have toured all the Saints, don't cease to
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  give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.
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  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
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  give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
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  of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened.
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  That you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what
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  are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the Saints.
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  And what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us
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  who believe, according to that working of the strength of His
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  might which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the
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  dead, and made Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly
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  places. Far above all rule, authority,
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  power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
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  age, but also in that which is to come, He put all things in
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  subjection under His feet, and gave Him to behead over all
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  things for the assembly which is his body, the fullness of him
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  who fills All in all. Thanks for joining us on Bible
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