May 7 – Plans, Choices, and God’s Guidance

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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Today, May 7th, Plans, choices,
and God’s guidance.

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Have you ever made a choice that
looked harmless at first, but

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slowly started taking over more
of your heart than you expected?

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A habit, a friendship, a secret,
a desire, a distraction.

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Sometimes the danger is not that
something looks obviously wrong,

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it is that it quietly begins to
dominate you.

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Proverbs chapter 15 verses 22 to
23 says without counsel plans

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fail, but with many advisors
they succeed to make an

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apartment.
Answer is a joy to a man and a

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word in season how good it is.
First Corinthians chapter 10

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verse 13 says that no temptation
has overtaken you except what is

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common to man and that God is
faithful and will provide the

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way of escape.
Then First Corinthians chapter

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10 verse 23 says all things are
lawful for me, but not all

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things are helpful.
All things are lawful for me,

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but I will not be dominated by
anything.

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That is wisdom for real life.
You do not have to figure

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everything out alone.
God often protects you through

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wise counsel, a parent, a
mentor, a pastor, a trusted

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friend, or someone who loves you
enough to tell you the truth.

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Plans can fail when we are too
proud to ask for help, but there

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is safety and humble listening.
And when temptation comes, God

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does not shame you for being
tempted.

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He reminds you that you are not
alone, and He provides a way of

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escape.
There is always a moment to

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pause, a door to walk away from,
a message you do not have to

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send, a website you can close, a
conversation you can leave, a

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prayer you can whisper.
The question is not only can I

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do this, sometimes the better
question is, is this helping me

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become who God called me to be?
Let’s pray Heavenly Father guide

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my plans and shape my choices.
Give me humility to seek wise

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counsel and courage to listen
when you correct my direction.

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When temptation comes, help me
see the way of escape and take

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it.
Do not let anything dominate my

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heart except your love and Your
will.

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Lead me in the path that honors
you in Jesus name, Amen.

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What if the battles hitting your
family are not random and your

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home can become a place where
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stay?
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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 15 verses 22 to

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23 World English Bible where
there is no counsel.

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Plans fail, but in a multitude
of counselors they are

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established.
Joy comes to a man with the

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reply of his mouth.
How good is a word at the right

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time?
First Corinthians Chapter 10

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World English Bible Now I would
not have you ignorant brothers,

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that our fathers were all under
the cloud and all pass through

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the sea, and we’re all baptized
into Moses in the cloud and in

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the sea, and all ate the same
spiritual food and all drank the

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same spiritual drink, for they
drank of a spiritual rock that

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followed them, and the rock was
Christ.

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However, with most of them God
was not well pleased, for they

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were overthrown in the
wilderness.

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Now these things were our
examples to the intent we should

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not lust after evil things as
they also lusted.

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Don’t be idolaters, as some of
them were.

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As it is written, the people sat
down to eat and drink, and rose

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up to play.
Let’s not commit sexual

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immorality, as some of them
committed, and in one day 23,000

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fell.
Let’s not test Christ, as some

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of them tested and perished by
the serpents.

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Don’t grumble as some of them
also grumbled and perished by

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the destroyer.
Now all these things happen to

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them by way of example, and they
were written for our admonition

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on whom the ends of the ages
have come.

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Therefore let him who thinks he
stands be careful that he

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doesn’t fall.
No temptation has taken you

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except what is common to man.
God is faithful who will not

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allow you to be tempted above
what you are able, but will with

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the temptation also make the way
of escape, that you may be able

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to endure it.
Therefore, my beloved, flee from

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idolatry.
I speak as to wise men.

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Judge what I say.
The cup of blessing which we

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bless, isn’t it a sharing of the
blood of Christ?

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The bread which we break, isn’t
it a sharing of the body of

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Christ?
Because there is one loaf of

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bread?
We who are many are one body,

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for we all partake of the one
loaf of bread.

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Consider Israel according to the
flesh.

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Don’t those who eat the
sacrifices participate in the

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altar?
What am I saying then?

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That a thing sacrificed to idols
is anything, or that an idol is

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anything but?
I say that the things which the

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Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to demons and not to

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God.
And I don’t desire that you

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would have fellowship with
demons.

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You can’t both drink the cup of
the Lord and the cup of demons.

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You can’t both partake of the
table of the Lord and of the

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table of demons.
Or do we provoke the Lord to

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jealousy?
Are we stronger than He?

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All things are lawful for me,
but not all things are

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profitable.
All things are lawful for me,

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but not all things build up.
Let no one seek his own, but

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each one his neighbor’s good.
Whatever is sold in the butcher

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shop, eat, asking no question
for the sake of conscience.

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For the earth is the Lord S and
its fullness.

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But if one of those who don’t
believe invites you to a meal

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and you are inclined to go, eat
whatever is set before you,

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asking no questions for the sake
of conscience.

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But if anyone says to you, This
was offered to idols, don’t eat

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it for the sake of the one who
told you, and for the sake of

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conscience.
For the earth is the Lord S with

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all its fullness.
Conscience, I say, not your own,

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but the others conscience.
For why is my liberty judged by

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another conscience?
If I partake with thankfulness,

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why am I denounced for something
I give thanks for?

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Whether therefore, you eat or
drink, or whatever you do, do

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all to the glory of God.
Give no occasion for stumbling,

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whether to Jews or to Greeks, or
to the Assembly of God, even as

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I also please all men in all
things, not seeking my own

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prophet, but the prophet of the
many, that they may be saved.

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