June 25 – Life in Your Words

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, June 25th, life.

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In your words.
Think about the last thing you

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said today that you actually
meant.

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Not a pleasantry, not a quick
response to a notification,

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something that you said from the
heart.

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Now think about the weight of
that Proverbs chapter 18, verse

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21 says death and life are in
the power of the tongue, and

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those who love it will eat its
fruits.

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That’s not poetic exaggeration.
That is a spiritual law.

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The words we consistently speak
over ourselves, over others, out

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of frustration, out of faith,
shape the environment we live

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in, the relationships we have,
and the trajectory of our own

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hearts.
We live in one of the most word

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saturated moments in human
history.

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Texts, posts, captions,
comments, voice notes, live

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streams.
We are constantly producing

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words and most of us never stop
to ask, what is the cumulative

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effect of what I’m putting out?
Is it building life or

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contributing to death?
To discouragement, to

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comparison, to cynicism?
Isaf, the writer of Psalm 73,

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was honest about the battle he
faced in his own heart.

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He was watching wicked people
prosper.

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Life seemed unfair.
His faith was being tested, not

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by a specific crisis, but by the
slow erosion of seeing the wrong

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people win.
And he almost lost his footing.

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But then he came back to this
anchor in Psalm 73, verse 25.

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Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth

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that I desire besides you.
When everything felt uncertain

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and unfair, his focus returned
to God, and that refocus changed

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everything.
Then there’s David in first

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Samuel chapter 27, verse one.
Fear took over.

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He said in his heart, I will now
perish one day by the hand of

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Saul.
And that internal declaration of

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fear led him to make a risky,
complicated decision, seeking

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refuge among Israel’s enemies,
the Philistines.

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It wasn’t his finest moment.
He wasn’t acting from faith.

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He was acting from panic and the
choices he made in that fearful

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season had consequences.
Notice the pattern.

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What we say in our hearts, not
just out loud, but internally,

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shapes what we do.
David’s fearful inner dialogue

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led to fearful choices.
Isafs shift back toward God led

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to peace and clarity.
This is so real for all of us.

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The internal voice matters.
The words we speak to ourselves

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when no one is listening.
The narratives we rehearse, the

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fears we declare over our
situations, they have power.

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When you tell yourself I’m not
going to make it, you act like

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you’re not going to make it.
When you tell yourself God is

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with me and I can trust his
plan, you carry yourself

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differently.
So here’s the challenge today.

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Bring your words in line with
your faith.

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Speak life over the people
around you.

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Speak truth over yourself.
And when fear starts to narrate

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your situation, when that
internal voice starts saying

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there’s no way through this,
redirect it back to the God who

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has never lost a battle.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
reminding us of the incredible

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power that lives in our words.
Help us to be people who speak

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life over ourselves, over our
friends, over our circumstances.

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When fear tries to direct our
internal narrative, redirect our

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hearts back to you.
Teach us to desire You above

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everything else so that our
words and choices flow from a

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place of faith rather than fear
or frustration.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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meant to be ruled by fear, but
covered by the presence and

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authority of God?
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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs chapter 18 verses 20 to

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21 World English Bible A man’s
stomach is filled with the fruit

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of his mouth.
With the harvest of his lips he

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is satisfied.
Death and life are in the power

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of the tongue.
Those who love it will eat its

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fruit.
Psalm Chapter 73 World English

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Bible Surely God is good to
Israel, to those who are pure in

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heart.
But As for me, my feet were

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almost gone.
My steps had nearly slipped.

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For I was envious of the
arrogant when I saw the

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prosperity of the wicked.
For there are no struggles in

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their death, but their strength
is firm.

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They are free from burdens of
men.

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Neither are they plagued like
other men.

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Therefore pride is like a chain
around their neck.

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Violence covers them like a
garment.

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Their eyes bulge with fat, their
minds past the limits of

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conceit.
They scoff and speak with

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malice.
In arrogance they threaten

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oppression.
They have set their mouth in the

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heavens.
Their tongue walks through the

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earth.
Therefore their people return to

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them and they drink up waters of
abundance.

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They say.
How does God know?

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Is their knowledge in the Most
High?

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Behold, these are the wicked.
Being always at ease, they

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increase in riches.
Surely I have cleansed my heart

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in vain, and washed my hands and
innocence for all day long.

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I have been plagued and punished
every morning.

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If I had said, I will speak
thus, behold, I would have

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betrayed the generation of your
children.

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When I tried to understand this,
it was too painful for me, until

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I entered God’s sanctuary and
considered their latter end.

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Surely you set them in slippery
places.

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You throw them down to
destruction.

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How they are suddenly destroyed.
They are completely swept away

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with terrors as a dream when one
wakes up.

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So, Lord, when you awake, you
will despise their fantasies.

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For my soul was grieved.
I was embittered in my heart.

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I was so senseless and ignorant.
I was a brute beast before You.

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Nevertheless, I am continually
with You.

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You have held my right hand.
You will guide me with Your

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counsel and afterward receive me
to glory.

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Whom do I have in heaven?
There is no one on earth whom I

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desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fails, but

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God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.

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For behold, those who are far
from you shall perish.

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You have destroyed all those who
are unfaithful to you.

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But it is good for me to come
close to God.

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I have made the Lord Yahweh my
refuge, that I may tell of all

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your works.
First Samuel chapter 27 World

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English Bible David said in his
heart, I will now perish one day

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by the hand of Saul.
There is nothing better for me

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than that I should escape into
the land of the Philistines, and

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Saul will despair of me to seek
me anymore in all the borders of

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Israel.
So shall I escape out of his

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hand.
David arose and passed over he

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and the 600 men who were with
him to a Chish, the son of Malk,

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king of Gath.
David lived with a Chish at

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Gath, he and his men, every man
with his household, even David

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with his two wives, Ahenom the
Jezreelitis and Abigail the

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Carmelitis.
Nabel’s wife Saul was told that

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David had fled to Gath, and he
sought no more again for him.

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David said to a Chish, If now I
have found favor in your eyes,

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let them give me a place in one
of the cities in the country,

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that I may dwell there, For why
should your servant dwell in the

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royal city with you?
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that

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day.
Therefore Ziklag belongs to the

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kings of Judah to this day.
The number of the days that

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David lived in the country of
the Philistines was a full year

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and four months.
David and his men went up and

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raided the Jeshirites, the
Gurzites, and the Amalekites,

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for those were the inhabitants
of the land who were of old on

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the way to Shur, even to the
land of Egypt.

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David struck the land and saved
no man or woman alive, and took

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away the sheep, the cattle, the
donkeys, the camels, and the

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clothing.
Then he returned and came to a

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Chish.
A Chish said, Against whom have

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you made a raid today?
David said, against the South of

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Judah, against the South of the
Jeremy Lights, and against the

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South of the Kenites.
David saved neither man nor

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woman alive to bring them to
Gath, saying, lest they should

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tell about us saying.
David did this and this has been

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his way all the time he has
lived in the country of the

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Philistines, Achish believed
David, saying.

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He has made his people, Israel
utterly to abhor him.

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Therefore, he will be my servant
forever.

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