Chapter 27
VS 6 “faithful are the wounds of a friend …”
Vs 10 “Do not forsake your own friend or your fathers friend…”
Vs 14 “He who blesses his friend with a loud voise rising early in the morning it will be counted a curse to him”
Vs 17 “As iron sharpens iron so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend”
To have a faithful friend, what a blessing, even if that friend has to point out when you are wrong. It has been said to have a friend one must himself be friendly, or perhaps to have a friend you need to be there for that friend.
I can honestly say I do not get vs 14 unless it is saying do not wake you friend up early in the morning by yelling.
The best verse in my opinion is to have a friend that will challenge you, that will hold you accountable in every area of your life, one that encourages you to be better. I want to be this kind of friend and I desire to have this kind of friend to me.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Chapters 23-26
I did not realize that I was so far behind. No excuse this week no company just lazy I guess any way here are my thoughts.
Chapter 23
This chapter makes me think about all those people caught up in addiction vs. 29-35 warn about wine, but I am of the opinion that this can be applied to any addiction. I do not believe that people set out be become addicted it is just one step along that pathway and at some point it becomes like a snow ball down a hill and it seems as if there is no way out. Breaking free is very very hard. The person must decide they want to be free then they have to turn their back on friends and or family to make the change and that is a very scary part the part about being alone no friends. We really need to pray for those trying to get out and to offer a hand when we can. Well off my soap box for now. And on to Chapter 24
Vs 3 & 4 wisdom, understanding, and knowledge
Is this house your life? Could you relate this to your life?
Is your life established with God? Or are you still wondering?
Is your mind filled with good? And what is Good, God is the only good.
Take time to draw near to our Heavenly creator to proclaim Him as King of your life and ask Him to help you to start right now living for Him. Much easier said than done, especially for me.
Chapter 25
Oh me here I am again requesting that I would have a sweet spirit
Vs 23 “It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman”
I have to ask Lewis often for forgiveness due to my smart mouth. I thank God for him daily. A little over 20 years ago I was praying daily for the rapture, because I had two little boys on my hands and I was sure that I could not raise them in a way that would ensure they grew to be Godly men. I am sorry sometimes that we moved from Benton, but never sorry we have Lewis. I so want to be the mate he deserves. So I pray to have a sweet spirit and not be contentious.
Chapter 26
This chapter speaks to me about being lazy; I am guilty of being lazy for the Lord to often. I need to find my place and become a more active member of my church. Is there an area you are lazy in? Let us take this chapter to heart and help us to change our lazy ways.
Chapter 23
This chapter makes me think about all those people caught up in addiction vs. 29-35 warn about wine, but I am of the opinion that this can be applied to any addiction. I do not believe that people set out be become addicted it is just one step along that pathway and at some point it becomes like a snow ball down a hill and it seems as if there is no way out. Breaking free is very very hard. The person must decide they want to be free then they have to turn their back on friends and or family to make the change and that is a very scary part the part about being alone no friends. We really need to pray for those trying to get out and to offer a hand when we can. Well off my soap box for now. And on to Chapter 24
Vs 3 & 4 wisdom, understanding, and knowledge
Is this house your life? Could you relate this to your life?
Is your life established with God? Or are you still wondering?
Is your mind filled with good? And what is Good, God is the only good.
Take time to draw near to our Heavenly creator to proclaim Him as King of your life and ask Him to help you to start right now living for Him. Much easier said than done, especially for me.
Chapter 25
Oh me here I am again requesting that I would have a sweet spirit
Vs 23 “It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman”
I have to ask Lewis often for forgiveness due to my smart mouth. I thank God for him daily. A little over 20 years ago I was praying daily for the rapture, because I had two little boys on my hands and I was sure that I could not raise them in a way that would ensure they grew to be Godly men. I am sorry sometimes that we moved from Benton, but never sorry we have Lewis. I so want to be the mate he deserves. So I pray to have a sweet spirit and not be contentious.
Chapter 26
This chapter speaks to me about being lazy; I am guilty of being lazy for the Lord to often. I need to find my place and become a more active member of my church. Is there an area you are lazy in? Let us take this chapter to heart and help us to change our lazy ways.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Proverbs 20, 21, 22
Proverbs 20
Vs 11 “Even a child is known by his deeds whether what he does is pure and right”
Those of us that are saved/children of the King of Kings the world see all our deeds. Are they pure and right?
Father, help me to see my sins and help me to confess these and to allow your spirit to mold me to be what would bring glory and honor to you Amen
Proverbs 21
Are you getting discouraged? Have you missed a couple days? We have had company this past week and I have been reading, but I have not had time to post my readings or discussions and I have not checked my email hope all are doing well. Don’t give in to Satan, pick up today and keep going. My thought today is again about my mouth:
Vs 9 “contentious woman”
Vs 19 “contentious and angry women”
Vs 23” Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from trouble”
Father, God I need you to guard my heat with the breast plate of righteousness so that what comes out my mouth will be loving and will build up others in your name I ask. Be glorified in my life in Jesus name Amen
9 more days and we start proverbs over. I think I will look fir a different version I currently have New King James Version.
Proverbs 22
Lewis and I are taking a class at church: Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and today there are a couple of verses that bring home some of the points in this lesson
Vs 7 “and the borrower is servant to the lender”
Vs 26 “one of those who is surety for debts”
I really wish I had this class when I was much younger to learn some of the principles so that my life and the lives of my children would be so much more financially secure. We are learning different ways to do things what a challenge.
Vs 11 “Even a child is known by his deeds whether what he does is pure and right”
Those of us that are saved/children of the King of Kings the world see all our deeds. Are they pure and right?
Father, help me to see my sins and help me to confess these and to allow your spirit to mold me to be what would bring glory and honor to you Amen
Proverbs 21
Are you getting discouraged? Have you missed a couple days? We have had company this past week and I have been reading, but I have not had time to post my readings or discussions and I have not checked my email hope all are doing well. Don’t give in to Satan, pick up today and keep going. My thought today is again about my mouth:
Vs 9 “contentious woman”
Vs 19 “contentious and angry women”
Vs 23” Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from trouble”
Father, God I need you to guard my heat with the breast plate of righteousness so that what comes out my mouth will be loving and will build up others in your name I ask. Be glorified in my life in Jesus name Amen
9 more days and we start proverbs over. I think I will look fir a different version I currently have New King James Version.
Proverbs 22
Lewis and I are taking a class at church: Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and today there are a couple of verses that bring home some of the points in this lesson
Vs 7 “and the borrower is servant to the lender”
Vs 26 “one of those who is surety for debts”
I really wish I had this class when I was much younger to learn some of the principles so that my life and the lives of my children would be so much more financially secure. We are learning different ways to do things what a challenge.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Pathway continues Chapter 16 & 17
0ur Path continues: Chapter 16 & 17
Chapter 16
Vs 17 “the highway of the upright is to depart from evil”
I am again drawn to the song by Casting Crowns “Slow Fade” and the simple phrase included in that song “oh be careful little eye what you see”
We are to depart from evil, to run away from it, to turn and go in the other direction as fast as we can.
Lord help us to know sin for what it is and to remove ourselves quickly from it before we are caught up in it.
Chapter 17
When is it ok to be angry? What is the best way to be angry and sin not? I really think I need some conflict resolution classes or some class that will help me to be angry in a constructive way.
Vs 27 “He who has knowledge spares his words and a man of understanding is a calm spirit”
What is the knowledge you have to have so that what you say is the right thing “spare his words”?
What understanding do you have to have to have “a calm spirit”?
I would really like for someone to discuss this with me and to help me understand so that I can grow in this area.
Chapter 16
Vs 17 “the highway of the upright is to depart from evil”
I am again drawn to the song by Casting Crowns “Slow Fade” and the simple phrase included in that song “oh be careful little eye what you see”
We are to depart from evil, to run away from it, to turn and go in the other direction as fast as we can.
Lord help us to know sin for what it is and to remove ourselves quickly from it before we are caught up in it.
Chapter 17
When is it ok to be angry? What is the best way to be angry and sin not? I really think I need some conflict resolution classes or some class that will help me to be angry in a constructive way.
Vs 27 “He who has knowledge spares his words and a man of understanding is a calm spirit”
What is the knowledge you have to have so that what you say is the right thing “spare his words”?
What understanding do you have to have to have “a calm spirit”?
I would really like for someone to discuss this with me and to help me understand so that I can grow in this area.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Chapter 10-13
Our Pathway continues
Are you still with me? Are you reading a Proverb daily? If you are like me I needed to take a deep breath today Day 12 and consider days 10,11,&12 so many things to ponder, let us remember one day at a time. If you have fallen behind just start with what ever day it is and read the Proverb with that date on it i.e. June 12 read chapter 12. Such a great adventure (to borrow from Steven Curtis Chapmon) to see what God has in store for us this summer.
Chapter 10
Vs 1 A wise son makes a glad father
Vs 2 righteousness delivers from death
Vs 3 The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish this is where I paused today. What could cause a soul to famish? Lack of time with the Lord, lack of Bible Study, lack of group worship, lack of prayer time. Where do many look to fill this spot in us that only God can fill? “the righteous” those that have a persona relationship with God no longer have that void. Turn to Jesus today, surrender your will to Him, and accept Him as your savior.
What did this Chapter say to you?
Chapter 11
I was personally convicted by vs. 22 “as a ring of gold in a swine’s snort so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion”. So many times I react I speak without thinking, I respond in anger, I say hurtful things. I do not want to be like the wicked person in this chapter. I want to be like the righteous as in vs. 12 “but a man of understanding holds his peace” oh to know when to just “shut up”, but to also know when to speak-discretion.
Continue to pray with me about my/our discretion.
Chapter 12
Don’t you just live the first half of vs. 21 “no grave trouble will over take the righteous”? We will enjoy the splendor of a New Heaven and a New Earth. We will see Jesus daily and can walk with Him and talk with Him just think a restored but better Garden of Eden because this time there will be no serpent.
I do hope every one is enjoying reading Proverbs. What is God saying to you as you read this chapter? Is He calling you to turn to Him today? Don’t resist come to Him and join us in this New Heaven and Earth.
Chapter 13
All of these verses have something for every step of our path. Today the 2nd half of vs. 17 really spoke to me “a faithful ambassador brings health”
If I am a faithful ambassador for Jesus Christ I will bring health to others, I want to be this kind of person and I thin I can do this in two ways:
1. I want others to see Jesus in me and for their sin sickness to be washed away by the blood of Jesus-I must share the gospel with them
2. I want to use by certification (APN) to help people stay healthy, become healthier and to recover form illness or to be able to deal with the illness and by doing this to also have the opportunity to share Jesus with them. I am not real sure how this will work I am still praying about this and waiting on the Lord to open the door.
How exciting to wait on God to see what He has in mind.
What verse spoke to you today and what did it mean to you?
Are you still with me? Are you reading a Proverb daily? If you are like me I needed to take a deep breath today Day 12 and consider days 10,11,&12 so many things to ponder, let us remember one day at a time. If you have fallen behind just start with what ever day it is and read the Proverb with that date on it i.e. June 12 read chapter 12. Such a great adventure (to borrow from Steven Curtis Chapmon) to see what God has in store for us this summer.
Chapter 10
Vs 1 A wise son makes a glad father
Vs 2 righteousness delivers from death
Vs 3 The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish this is where I paused today. What could cause a soul to famish? Lack of time with the Lord, lack of Bible Study, lack of group worship, lack of prayer time. Where do many look to fill this spot in us that only God can fill? “the righteous” those that have a persona relationship with God no longer have that void. Turn to Jesus today, surrender your will to Him, and accept Him as your savior.
What did this Chapter say to you?
Chapter 11
I was personally convicted by vs. 22 “as a ring of gold in a swine’s snort so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion”. So many times I react I speak without thinking, I respond in anger, I say hurtful things. I do not want to be like the wicked person in this chapter. I want to be like the righteous as in vs. 12 “but a man of understanding holds his peace” oh to know when to just “shut up”, but to also know when to speak-discretion.
Continue to pray with me about my/our discretion.
Chapter 12
Don’t you just live the first half of vs. 21 “no grave trouble will over take the righteous”? We will enjoy the splendor of a New Heaven and a New Earth. We will see Jesus daily and can walk with Him and talk with Him just think a restored but better Garden of Eden because this time there will be no serpent.
I do hope every one is enjoying reading Proverbs. What is God saying to you as you read this chapter? Is He calling you to turn to Him today? Don’t resist come to Him and join us in this New Heaven and Earth.
Chapter 13
All of these verses have something for every step of our path. Today the 2nd half of vs. 17 really spoke to me “a faithful ambassador brings health”
If I am a faithful ambassador for Jesus Christ I will bring health to others, I want to be this kind of person and I thin I can do this in two ways:
1. I want others to see Jesus in me and for their sin sickness to be washed away by the blood of Jesus-I must share the gospel with them
2. I want to use by certification (APN) to help people stay healthy, become healthier and to recover form illness or to be able to deal with the illness and by doing this to also have the opportunity to share Jesus with them. I am not real sure how this will work I am still praying about this and waiting on the Lord to open the door.
How exciting to wait on God to see what He has in mind.
What verse spoke to you today and what did it mean to you?
Chapter 14 & 15
Pathway Chapter 14 & 15
Chapter 14
So many good things we need to apply to our lives
Vs 17 “a quick tempered man acts foolishly”
Vs 29 “He who is slow to wrath has great understanding”
I would suppose that it would be Biblical to say-now when you get mad count to 10 before responding-instead of reacting.
Sometimes I am good at this and sometimes I am the sinner that I am and I fail. I so wish I could respond in love in stead of reacting in anger. How about you?
Chapter 15
Can you believe we are half way through the month of June? Again we are reminded in Vs 33
“The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom”
Do I really fear the Lord? Do I act like I really fear the Lord? Don’t give up-let’s keep reading and studying and growing into the person we were created to be on that has an active growing relationship with Jesus and to share it with others
Chapter 14
So many good things we need to apply to our lives
Vs 17 “a quick tempered man acts foolishly”
Vs 29 “He who is slow to wrath has great understanding”
I would suppose that it would be Biblical to say-now when you get mad count to 10 before responding-instead of reacting.
Sometimes I am good at this and sometimes I am the sinner that I am and I fail. I so wish I could respond in love in stead of reacting in anger. How about you?
Chapter 15
Can you believe we are half way through the month of June? Again we are reminded in Vs 33
“The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom”
Do I really fear the Lord? Do I act like I really fear the Lord? Don’t give up-let’s keep reading and studying and growing into the person we were created to be on that has an active growing relationship with Jesus and to share it with others
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Chapter 7,8 & 9
Chapter 7
Chapter 5 & Chapter 6 vs 20-29 and all but the first 5 verses of this chapter all talk about sexual immorality, this is a non wise, void of uunderstanding disobedient act. Coming from a medical back ground this is one of the worst things you can do to your own body, considering all the diseases that are present today. If you can not be obedient to the word of God because you do not have a relationship with God at least be scared enough of the diseases to stay away from this behavior (ok off my soap box).
What do you think about vs 2? “Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of you eye”. My Bible commentary compares the apple of the eye to the pupil of our eye and how sensitive it is (more medical stuff) and how we protect our eyes, perhaps we should be sensitive to God’s word.
1. Be sensitive to the call of God, He wants all to become His children, turn accept His as you Savior and then you can spend this summer growing in Him
2. If you already are a child of God’s but like me you have let other things get between you and God now is the time to surrender you will and “keep my commands (vs 2)”.
Chapter 8
This may be simple and I could be missing a lot of things in this chapter but to me this chapter is calling every on to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, now that sounds so churchy-How do I put this so that any that read this would understand? Use the word of God.
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are all without wisdom/God and we can find Him when we seek with our heart
John 3:16 “For God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”.
A life better than gold or silver or rubies
Because in heaven we will walk on streets of gold and I think in Revelations rubies are part of the foundation.
Get wisdom-call on God today-let’s all go to heaven together
Chapter 9
Vs 10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”
Chapter 1 vs 7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”
Vs 29 “Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord”
Chapter 3 vs 7 “ do not be wise in your own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil”
We also have in this chapter the contrast between the wise and the foolish, the wise have a feast and the foolish have bread and water
Choose the Lord
Chapter 5 & Chapter 6 vs 20-29 and all but the first 5 verses of this chapter all talk about sexual immorality, this is a non wise, void of uunderstanding disobedient act. Coming from a medical back ground this is one of the worst things you can do to your own body, considering all the diseases that are present today. If you can not be obedient to the word of God because you do not have a relationship with God at least be scared enough of the diseases to stay away from this behavior (ok off my soap box).
What do you think about vs 2? “Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of you eye”. My Bible commentary compares the apple of the eye to the pupil of our eye and how sensitive it is (more medical stuff) and how we protect our eyes, perhaps we should be sensitive to God’s word.
1. Be sensitive to the call of God, He wants all to become His children, turn accept His as you Savior and then you can spend this summer growing in Him
2. If you already are a child of God’s but like me you have let other things get between you and God now is the time to surrender you will and “keep my commands (vs 2)”.
Chapter 8
This may be simple and I could be missing a lot of things in this chapter but to me this chapter is calling every on to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, now that sounds so churchy-How do I put this so that any that read this would understand? Use the word of God.
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are all without wisdom/God and we can find Him when we seek with our heart
John 3:16 “For God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”.
A life better than gold or silver or rubies
Because in heaven we will walk on streets of gold and I think in Revelations rubies are part of the foundation.
Get wisdom-call on God today-let’s all go to heaven together
Chapter 9
Vs 10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”
Chapter 1 vs 7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”
Vs 29 “Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord”
Chapter 3 vs 7 “ do not be wise in your own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil”
We also have in this chapter the contrast between the wise and the foolish, the wise have a feast and the foolish have bread and water
Choose the Lord
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