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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm
Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Proverbs chapter two, and
Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the New American Standard Bible. My son,
Speaker 1: if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments
Speaker 1: within you, make your ear attentive to wisdom. Incline your
Speaker 1: heart to understanding. For if you cry for discernment, lift
Speaker 1: your voice for understanding. If you seek her as silver,
Speaker 1: and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you
Speaker 1: will discern the fear of the Lord and discover the
Speaker 1: knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom. From his
Speaker 1: mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom
Speaker 1: for the upright. He is a shield to those who
Speaker 1: walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice, and he
Speaker 1: preserves the way of his godly ones. Then you will
Speaker 1: discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course.
Speaker 1: For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be
Speaker 1: pleasant to your soul. Discretion will guard you, understanding will
Speaker 1: watch over you to deliver you from the way of evil,
Speaker 1: from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who
Speaker 1: leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways
Speaker 1: of darkness, who delight in doing evil and rejoice in
Speaker 1: the perversity of evil, whose paths are crooked, and who
Speaker 1: are devious in their ways. To deliver you from the
Speaker 1: strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words,
Speaker 1: that leaves the companion of her youth and forgets the
Speaker 1: covenant of her God, For her house sinks down to death,
Speaker 1: and her tracks lead to the dead. None who go
Speaker 1: to her return again, nor do they reach the paths
Speaker 1: of life. So you will walk in the way of
Speaker 1: good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Speaker 1: For the upright will live in the land, and the
Speaker 1: blameless will remain in it, but the wicked will be
Speaker 1: cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be
Speaker 1: uprooted from it. Let's pray, Lord, We thank you for
Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege to
Speaker 1: be able to look at it together today, and we
Speaker 1: thank you for the reminders that you give to us
Speaker 1: in your word, to be people who willingly receive and
Speaker 1: eagerly apply your wisdom to our day to day lives. Lord,
Speaker 1: We know that we need your help for this. We
Speaker 1: know that we need your strength and your guidance, and
Speaker 1: we know that ultimate wisdom only comes to us through
Speaker 1: faith in your son, Jesus Christ. So Lord, we pray
Speaker 1: that we would be students of your word who take
Speaker 1: the things that are found in your word and apply
Speaker 1: them to our lives in the appropriate life circumstances, so
Speaker 1: that you receive the glory, and so that we live
Speaker 1: in a manner that brings you honor. We love you, Lord.
Speaker 1: We're grateful for the fact that you've given us this counsel,
Speaker 1: and we're grateful for the fact that we have the
Speaker 1: privilege to walk with you day by day. We commit
Speaker 1: this day to your care, and we pray this all
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen.