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May 25 - The Quiet Work of Faithfulness · 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 25th The strength and humility.
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  We live in a world that is constantly measuring followers,
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  grades, achievements, status. Everything gets ranked and it's
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  easy to feel like you need to keep up or prove yourself.
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  The pressure is real and it's relentless, and sometimes the
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  response is to push harder, to compete more aggressively, to
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  make sure people know what you're capable of.
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  But Proverbs chapter 16, verse 19 offers a perspective that
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  genuinely challenges that instinct.
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  It is better to be of a lowly spirit.
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  With the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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  In other words, humble and less beats prideful and plenty.
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  The company you keep, the spirit you carry, the posture of your
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  heart matters more than how impressive your position looks
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  on the surface. That's a completely different
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  set of values from what culture typically promotes, and it takes
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  real courage to live by it. Verse 20 adds something
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  beautiful. Whoever gives thought to the
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  Word will discover good and blessed is he who trusts in the
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  Lord. Notice those two things,
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  Thinking carefully about God's Word and trusting in the Lord.
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  These aren't passive activities. They require intentionality.
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  You have to choose to slow down, to reflect, to bring your heart
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  to God rather than just reacting to everything around you.
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  And the promise attached to that kind of life is blessing.
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  Not necessarily wealth or fame, but something deeper, goodness
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  discovered along the way, and the steady settledness of a life
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  built on trust. Psalm 59, verse 8 shifts
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  perspective in a way that's actually quite funny if you sit
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  with it. But you, O Lord, laugh at them.
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  You hold all the nations in derision, the enemies and
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  arrogant forces that feel so threatening to us.
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  God is not rattled by them. He holds all the power, and the
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  schemes of the proud are, from his vantage point, ultimately
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  futile. That doesn't mean injustice
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  doesn't matter or that we should be dismissive of real pain, but
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  it does mean that when you're facing betrayal, when someone
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  has wronged you or made your life harder, God sees it and He
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  is not powerless. You don't have to take matters
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  into your own hands to make things right.
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  Galatians chapter 6, verse 10 then brings us back to the
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  ground level with beautifully practical instruction.
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  So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and
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  especially to those who are of the household of faith.
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  As we have opportunity, that phrase is worth pausing on.
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  Opportunities to do good surround you every day.
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  They're just easy to miss or dismiss as too small to matter.
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  The kind word to someone who looks like they're struggling.
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  Defending someone who's being talked about unfairly.
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  Showing up consistently for the people in your life who need
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  you. Serving in your church or youth
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  group even when it's not convenient.
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  These aren't glamorous things, but they are the things that
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  build genuine strength of character, the kind that doesn't
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  depend on other people's recognition or ranking.
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  The kind that, as Proverbs puts it, lasts.
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  True strength isn't loud. It's quiet, consistent, and
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  rooted in something that doesn't shift.
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  You don't have to compete for your value.
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  You don't have to prove yourself to anyone.
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  God sees you clearly, He values you deeply, and He's inviting
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  you to live from that secure place humbly, faithfully, and
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  usefully. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you for showing me that real strength
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  doesn't look like what the world applauds.
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  Help me to choose humility over pride, even when it costs me.
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  In the moment when I feel the pressure to compete or prove
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  myself, remind me that my worth is already settled in You.
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  Teach me to trust You in the unfair moments knowing you see
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  everything, and help me to use every opportunity I have today
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  to do genuine good for the people around me in Jesus name,
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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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  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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  Proverbs, chapter 16, verses 19 to 20 World English Bible.
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  It is better to be of a lowly. Spirit with the poor than to
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  divide the plunder with the proud.
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  He who heeds the Word finds prosperity.
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  Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
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  Psalm Chapter 59 World English Bible Deliver me from my
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  enemies. My God set me on high from those
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  who rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of
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  iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty
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  men, for behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
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  The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my
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  disobedience, nor for my sin. Yahweh, I have done no wrong,
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  yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me.
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  You, Yahweh, God of armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to
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  punish the nation's. Show no mercy to the wicked
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  traitors. They return at evening howling
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  like dogs and prowl around the city.
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  Behold, they spew with their mouth.
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  Swords are in their lips, for they say, Who hears us?
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  But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
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  Oh my strength I watch for you, for God is my high tower.
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  My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
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  God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
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  Don't kill them, or my people may forget.
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  Scatter them by your power and bring them down, Lord our
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  shield. For the sin of their mouth and
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  the words of their lips. Let them be caught in their
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  pride for the curses and lies which they utter.
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  Consume them in wrath. Consume them and they will be no
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  more. Let them know that God rules in
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  Jacob to the ends of the earth. At evening let them return.
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  Let them howl like a dog and go around the city.
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  They shall wander up and down for food and wait all night if
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  they aren't satisfied. But I will sing of your
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  strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your
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  loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower,
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  a refuge in the day of my distress.
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  To you my strength I will sing praises, for God is my high
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  tower, the God of my mercy. Galatians Chapter 6 World
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  English Bible Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault,
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  you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit
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  of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren't
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  tempted, bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law
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  of Christ. For if a man thinks himself to
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  be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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  But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have
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  reason to boast in himself and not in someone else.
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  For each man will bear his own burden.
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  But let him who is taught in the Word share all good things with
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  him who teaches. Don't be deceived.
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  God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows that he
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  will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh
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  will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to
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  the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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  Let's not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due
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  season if we don't give up. So then, as we have opportunity,
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  let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those
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  who are of the household of the faith.
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  See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
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  As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel
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  you to be circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for
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  the cross of Christ. For even they who receive
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  circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to
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  have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
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  But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord
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  Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me,
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  and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither is
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  circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new
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  creation. As many as walk by this rule,
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  peace and mercy beyond them and on God's Israel.
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  From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the
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  marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
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  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
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