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Proverbs 1:2-7 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth —
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Lessons From Our Failures

LUKE 22:31-34: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,32but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen yourbrothers.”33Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”34Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not…

God Never Leads the Easy Way

EXODUS 13:17-18-When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel…

Motivated By Love

1 CORINTHIANS 16:14:  Let all that you do be done in love.” It is less than ten words, yet, like a small stick of dynamite, it contains enormous power. In fact, it is the greatest power in the earth. It heals hurts. It carries burdens. It lifts the downcast. It removes the dark clouds of depression. And in God’s work of the…

The Two Workings of God’s Grace

1 CORINTHIANS 15:10: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.” Today’s scripture might be considered one of those humanly irreconcilable dilemmas in our Bibles, not…