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Commit your activities to the Lord, and your plans will be achieved.
Proverbs 16:3, HCSB
God is faithful to keep His promises, and He has promised to guide us and help us through life. As our life aligns more with His will, we find we want to do the things He wants.
Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6, HCSB
Satan seeks to divide and sow hatred and disobedience, but God demonstrates that obedience and discipline are good and promote goodness and peace.
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
Proverbs 4:23, HCSB
We are living in a spiritual war, and the enemy will do all he can to make us stumble and be distracted. We guard our hearts with the Word, the Spirit, and faithfulness to the call of Christ.
Don’t consider yourself to be wise; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 3:7, HCSB
God is our source of life, peace, and rest, and we can rest in the knowledge that we have His wisdom when we receive new life in Christ.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7, HCSB
Wisdom is fearing consequences and wanting to know the best ways to find good consequences. Knowledge should point us to the good choice, which is always God’s ways.
True knowledge points to God, and we should fear His wrath unless we are wise and follow Him.
A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.
Proverbs 16:9, HCSB
We think we know what we will do woth our loves, but God helps and guides us down His path. Let us trust Him rather than fight His plans and purposes.
A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.
Proverbs 11:25, HCSB
God wants to give us good things, and as we give freely to others we are following the example of Christ who gave His life for ours. The greatest thing we can give is the gospel of Christ, yet we should also give to meet others’ physical needs.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21, HCSB
God chose to create us and call us friends through Christ, so may we choose to treat others as friends and show Christ’s love in how we speak to others.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time.
Proverbs 17:17, HCSB
Friends choose each other, and brothers are related by blood. Both should help each other. Jesus came to call us friends by shedding His blood to redeem us and make Himself our big brother.
Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the Lord’s decree will prevail.
Proverbs 19:21, HCSB
Joy and peace are found in knowing Christ is sovereign over all, not surprised by anything butbactively in control, that salvation is found in Him alone, and that He is renewing all things.