Guard your heart

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 In the New Testament we read that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. According to Proverbs, it’s apparently more than just our words that come
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Sharpen and be sharpened

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 Yesterday, we spoke a little bit about being one’s own god and how our human nature is that we like to be in charge of our own lives. One way this manifests itself is that we
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Walk the way of life

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12 You’ve got to love the Message paraphrase of the Bible. Here’s how it puts this verse: “There’s a way of life that looks harmless enough; look a
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Trust in the Lord

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Prov 3:5-6 It is so easy to lean on our own understanding, so easy to look to ourselves for wisdom
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Fear the Lord

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov 1:7 I asked Google, “What does it mean to fear the Lord” and top of the page was “Fearing God means having such a reverence for Him that it has a
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