May 26 – Wisdom That Guides Your Heart

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today.

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May 26th Wisdom that guides your
heart.

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Here’s something worth thinking
about.

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Of all the things you could
develop in your life skills,

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influence, wealth, good looks, a
great reputation, What actually

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lasts?
What’s the thing that keeps

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working for you across every
season, every relationship,

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every challenge you’ll face?
Proverbs chapter 16, verses 21

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and 22 make a compelling case
for wisdom and understanding.

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The wise of heart is called
discerning, and sweetness of

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speech increases persuasiveness.
Understanding is a fountain of

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life to one who has it.
But folly is the punishment of

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fools, a fountain of life.
That’s not a small image.

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Wisdom isn’t just useful, it’s
life giving.

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It flows, it refreshes, it keeps
going, and notice that it

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doesn’t stay contained.
It flows outward through your

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speech, your influence, your
relationships.

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A wise heart produces words that
actually move people that

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persuade, not through
manipulation, but through

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genuine clarity and grace.
When you speak from a place of

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real understanding, people feel
it.

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And then Ephesians chapter one
verse 3 expands the picture

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magnificently.
Blessed be the God and Father of

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our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us in Christ with every

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spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places, every spiritual

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blessing in Christ.
You are not lacking.

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You are not working from a
deficit, trying to scrape

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together enough wisdom or enough
faith or enough grace to get by.

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You have been blessed, past
tense already done with

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everything you need spiritually.
The resources are already there,

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already given, already yours in
Him.

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And verse 11 grounds that in
something even more settled in

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Him we have obtained an
inheritance, having been

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predestined according to the
purpose of Him who works all

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things according to the counsel
of His will.

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God is not improvising with your
life.

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He is not reacting to
circumstances and trying to make

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the best of a bad situation.
He is working all things, every

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detail, every twist, every
unexpected turn, according to

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His perfect, purposeful will.
Your life is not random.

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It is held and shaped and guided
by a God who knows exactly what

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he is doing.
That matters so much.

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When you’re in the middle of
something confusing, when you

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don’t know which way to go, when
a decision feels too big for

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you, when you’re unsure whether
what you’re doing matters, come

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back to this.
You have been given wisdom

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through the Spirit, you have
been blessed with every

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spiritual resource you need, and
you are in the hands of a God

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who works all things according
to His purpose.

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So the invitation today is to
actually use what you’ve been

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given, not to coast on the idea
of being blessed without walking

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in it.
Use discernment before you

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speak.
Bring understanding to your

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relationships.
Think before you react.

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Choose words that build rather
than damage.

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Let the wisdom God has placed in
you be the thing that shapes

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your conversations today.
Because here’s what’s true.

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Your words have impact far
beyond what you typically

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realize.
An encouragement you offer in

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passing might be exactly what
someone needed to keep going.

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A thoughtful response in a tense
moment might defuse something

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that could have escalated badly.
The wisdom you carry when you

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actually walk in it doesn’t just
benefit you.

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It touches the people around you
in ways you may never fully see.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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blessing me with every spiritual
blessing in Christ, including

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wisdom and discernment.
Help me to actually walk in what

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you’ve given me.
Let my words be life giving,

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grounded in genuine
understanding rather than

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reaction.
And on the days when I don’t

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know what to do or say, remind
me that you are working all

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things according to your will
and I can trust you with every

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detail of my life.
Guide my heart and my mouth

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today in Jesus name, Amen.
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darkness loses every right to
stay?

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Proverbs, chapter 16, verses 21
to 22 World English Bible.

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The wise in heart shall be
called prudent.

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Pleasantness of the lips
promotes instruction.

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Understanding is a fountain of
life to one who has it, but the

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punishment of fools is their
folly.

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Ephesians chapter one world
English Bible.

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Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus
through the will of God to the

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Saints who are at Ephesus and
the faithful in Christ Jesus.

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Grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of

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our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual

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blessing in the heavenly places.
In Christ, even as He chose us

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in Him before the foundation of
the world, that we would be holy

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and without defect.
Before Him in love, having

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predestined us for adoption as
children.

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Through Jesus Christ.
To Himself, according to the

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good pleasure of His desire.
To the praise of the glory of

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His grace by which He freely
gave us favor.

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In the Beloved in whom we have
our redemption.

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Through His blood, the
forgiveness of our trespasses.

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According to the riches of His
grace, which He made.

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To a bound toward us.
In all wisdom and prudence,

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making known to us the mystery
of His will.

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According to His good pleasure
which He purposed in Him.

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To an administration of the
fullness of the times.

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To sum up all things in Christ,
the things in the heavens, and

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the things on the earth.
In Him we were also assigned an

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inheritance, in Him, having been
foreordained according to the

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purpose of Him who does all
things after the counsel of His

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will, to the end that we should
be to the praise of His glory.

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We who had before hoped in
Christ.

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In Him you also, having heard
the word of the truth, the good

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news of your salvation, in whom,
having also believed, you were

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sealed with the promised Holy
Spirit, who is a pledge of our

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inheritance to the redemption of
God’s own possession, to the

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praise of His glory.
For this ’cause I also, having

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heard of the faith in the Lord
Jesus which is among you, and

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the love which you have toured
all the Saints, don’t cease to

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give thanks for you, making
mention of you in my prayers.

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That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may

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give to you a spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge

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of Him, having the eyes of your
hearts enlightened.

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That you may know what is the
hope of His calling, and what

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are the riches of the glory of
His inheritance in the Saints.

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And what is the exceeding
greatness of His power toward us

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who believe, according to that
working of the strength of His

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might which He worked in Christ
when He raised Him from the

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dead, and made Him to sit at His
right hand in the heavenly

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places.
Far above all rule, authority,

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power, dominion, and every name
that is named, not only in this

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age, but also in that which is
to come, He put all things in

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subjection under His feet, and
gave Him to behead over all

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things for the assembly which is
his body, the fullness of him

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who fills All in all.
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