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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture,

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Speaker 1: a calming, scripture centered devotional podcast designed to help you

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Speaker 1: end each day with God's Word in your mind and

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Speaker 1: on your heart. Right after this short word from our

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Speaker 1: sponsors will reflect on tonight's scripture Proverbs twenty two. Tonight's

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Speaker 1: scripture reflection is written by Chelsea Dimitaeus and read by

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Speaker 1: Lea Gerard. Proverbs twenty two. A good name is more

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Speaker 1: desirable than great riches. To be esteemed is better than

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Speaker 1: silver or gold. Rich and poor have this in common.

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Speaker 1: The Lord is the maker of them all. The prudent

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Speaker 1: see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going

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Speaker 1: and pay the penalty. Humility is the fear of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Its wages are riches and honor and life. In the

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Speaker 1: paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, But those

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Speaker 1: who would preserve their life stay far from them. Start

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Speaker 1: children off on the way they should go, and even

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Speaker 1: when they are old, they will not turn from it.

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Speaker 1: The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is

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Speaker 1: slave to the lender. Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and

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Speaker 1: the rod they wield in fury will be broken. The

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Speaker 1: generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food

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Speaker 1: with the poor. Drive out the mocker, and outgoes strife.

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Speaker 1: Quarrels and insults are ended. One who loves a pure heart,

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Speaker 1: and who speaks with grace will have the King for

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Speaker 1: a friend. The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,

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Speaker 1: but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful. The sluggard says,

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Speaker 1: there's a lion outside. I'll be killed in the public square.

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Speaker 1: The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit.

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Speaker 1: A man who is under the Lord's wrath falls into it.

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Speaker 1: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

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Speaker 1: but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

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Speaker 1: One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, and

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Speaker 1: one who gives gifts to the rich both come to poverty.

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Speaker 1: Sayings of the Wise saying one, pay attention and turn

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Speaker 1: your ear to the sayings of the wise. Apply your

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Speaker 1: heart to what I teach. For it is pleasing when

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Speaker 1: you keep them in your heart, and have all of

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Speaker 1: them ready on your lips, so that your trust may

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Speaker 1: be in the Lord. I teach you today, even you

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Speaker 1: have I not written thirty sayings for you. Sayings of

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Speaker 1: counsel and knowledge, teaching you to be honest and to

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Speaker 1: speak the truth, so that you bring back truthful reports

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Speaker 1: to those you serve. Saying two, do not exploit the

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Speaker 1: poor because they are poor, and do not crush the needy.

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Speaker 1: In court, the Lord will take up their case and

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Speaker 1: will exact life for life. Saying three, do not make

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Speaker 1: friends with a hot tempered person. Do not associate with

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Speaker 1: one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and

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Speaker 1: get yourself ensnared. Saying four, do not be one who

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Speaker 1: shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts.

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Speaker 1: If you lack the means to pay, your very bed

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Speaker 1: will be snatched from under you. Saying five, do not

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Speaker 1: move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.

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Speaker 1: Saying six, do you see someone skilled in their work,

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Speaker 1: they will serve before kings. They will not serve before

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Speaker 1: officials of low rank. Life throws us a million curveballs.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels as if they all come at once

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Speaker 1: by the grace of God. As they do, the Lord

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Speaker 1: promises to pour out his wisdom, which flows forth as

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Speaker 1: we navigate the issues that come with them. In Proverbs

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Speaker 1: twenty two, we're told that your trust may be in

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Speaker 1: the Lord. I have made them known to you today,

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Speaker 1: even to you, we can trust in God's heart to

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Speaker 1: be faithful despite what we may be walking through. Ponder

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Speaker 1: the life of David in the Bible, or even with

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Speaker 1: the disciples who carried the Gospel to many nations endured

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Speaker 1: curveball after curveball, choice after choice. They could either trust

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Speaker 1: in the heart of God as they faced disparity and

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Speaker 1: circumstances that asked much of them, or they could falter

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Speaker 1: and fall into tremendous worry and fear. They chose to trust.

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Speaker 1: They trusted the wisdom of God to carry them through

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Speaker 1: whatever was presented to them that day. I think that's

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest things we learn from Scripture. They

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Speaker 1: didn't know much of what was coming, and when faced

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Speaker 1: with big asks from God or the persecution of man,

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Speaker 1: most often they kept walking forward. You have the same

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Speaker 1: invitation to do so. You can trust in God's wisdom

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Speaker 1: and instruction, not out of fear, but knowing that out

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Speaker 1: of His great love for you, he has given you

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Speaker 1: a book full of wisdom and the Spirit of God

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Speaker 1: to lead you as you journey out your faith in

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Speaker 1: the day to day, No matter what tomorrow holds. Trust

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Speaker 1: the heart of God to guide you. The wisdom of

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Speaker 1: the Lord, and confidence in who he says he is

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Speaker 1: will carry you through anything. Father, thank you for the

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Speaker 1: wisdom you generously pour out over me as the curveballs

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Speaker 1: of my life. Come, Help me to keep my eyes

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Speaker 1: on you as the faithful guide. Make me a brave

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Speaker 1: and bold disciple in the places you have me. Make

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Speaker 1: my life a great witness, one marked by faith. In

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Speaker 1: who you are. You are the one constant in my life.

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Speaker 1: You are my only hope. Lead me in your ways

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Speaker 1: and make known to me where your spirit is leading me.

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