May 4 – Contentment Over Clutter

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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for today.

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May. 4th Contentment over
clutter.

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It is easy to believe the lie
that more will finally make you

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happy.
More money, more attention, more

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beauty, more success, more
followers, more control.

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But what if more without peace
only gives you a louder kind of

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emptiness?
Proverbs chapter 15 verses 16 to

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17 says, better is a little with
the fear of the Lord than great

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treasure and trouble with it.
Better is a meal of vegetables

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where love is than a fattened ox
and hatred with it.

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First Corinthians chapter 6,
verse 19 asks, Do you not know

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that your bodies are temples of
the Holy Spirit, who is in you,

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whom you have received from God?
And in that same chapter, Paul

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calls believers to flee sexual
immorality and honor God with

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their bodies.
These verses remind us that life

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is not measured by how much you
have, how much people admire

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you, or how much pleasure you
can chase.

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A simple life with God’s peace
is better than a full life

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filled with trouble.
A small table with love is

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better than abundance surrounded
by hatred.

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A body surrendered to God is
better than a life controlled by

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pressure, appetite or
insecurity.

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This speaks directly to the
world many of us live in.

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You are constantly told to
compare yourself, expose

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yourself, upgrade yourself, and
satisfy yourself.

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But God calls you something
holy.

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Your body is not worthless.
Your choices are not

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meaningless.
Your relationships are not

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casual to Him.
You belong to Christ.

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Contentment does not mean you
stop dreaming.

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It means you stop letting
temporary things define your

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worth.
You can enjoy what God gives

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without worshipping it.
You can desire good things

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without being controlled by
them.

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You can choose purity, love, and
peace even when the world around

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you chooses compromise.
Let’s pray, Heavenly Father,

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free my heart from chasing
things that cannot satisfy me.

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Teach me to value peace, love,
purity, and Your presence more

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than popularity, possessions, or
pleasure.

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Help me honor You with my body,
my relationships, and my

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choices.
Give me contentment that is

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rooted in You and make my life
simple, strong and full of Your

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peace in Jesus name, Amen.
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Proverbs chapter 15, verses 16
to 17 World English Bible.

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Better is little with the fear
of Yahweh than great treasure

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with trouble.
Better is a dinner of herbs

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where love is, than a fattened
calf with hatred.

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First Corinthians chapters 5 to
6 World English Bible It is

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actually reported that there is
sexual immorality among you, and

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such sexual immorality as is not
even named among the Gentiles.

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That one has his father’s wife.
You are arrogant and didn’t

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mourn instead that he who had
done this deed might be removed

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from among you.
For I most certainly, as being

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absent in body, but present in
spirit, have already, as though

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I were present, judged Him who
has done this thing in the name

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of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When you are gathered together

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with my spirit, with the power
of our Lord Jesus Christ, you

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are to deliver such a one to
Satan for the destruction of the

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flesh, that the Spirit may be
saved in the day of the Lord

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Jesus.
Your boasting is not good.

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Don’t you know that a little
yeast leavens the whole lump?

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Purge out the old yeast, that
you may be a new lump, even as

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you are unleavened.
For indeed Christ, our Passover

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has been sacrificed in our
place.

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Therefore let’s keep the feast,
not with old yeast, neither with

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the yeast of malice and
wickedness, but with the

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unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth.

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I wrote to you in my letter to
have no company with sexual

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sinners, yet not at all meaning
with the sexual sinners of this

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world, or with the covetous and
extortionists, or with

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idolaters.
For then you would have to leave

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the world.
But as it is, I wrote to you not

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to associate with anyone who is
called a brother who is a sexual

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Sinner, or covetous, or an
idolater, or a slanderer, or a

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drunkard, or an extortionist.
Don’t even eat with such a

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person.
For what do I have to do with

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also judging those who are
outside?

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Don’t you judge those who are
within, but those who are

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outside, God judges.
Put away the wicked man from

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among yourselves.
Dare any of you having a matter

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against his neighbor go to law
before the unrighteous, and not

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before the Saints?
Don’t you know that the Saints

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will judge the world?
And if the world is judged by

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you, are you unworthy to judge
the smallest matters?

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Don’t you know that we will
judge angels?

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How much more things that
pertain to this life?

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If then you have to judge things
pertaining to this life, do you

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set them to judge who are of no
account in the assembly?

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I say this to move you to shame.
Isn’t there even one wise man

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among you who would be able to
decide between his brothers?

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But brother goes to law with
brother, and that before

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unbelievers.
Therefore it is already

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altogether a defect in you that
you have lawsuits one with

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another.
Why not rather be wronged?

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Why not rather be defrauded?
No, but you yourselves do wrong

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and defraud, and that against
your brothers.

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Or don’t you know that the
unrighteous will not inherit

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God’s Kingdom?
Don’t be deceived.

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Neither the sexually immoral,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

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nor male prostitutes, nor
homosexuals, nor thieves, nor

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covetous, nor drunkards, nor
slanderers, nor extortionists,

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We’ll inherit God’s Kingdom.
Some of you were such, but you

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were washed, you were
sanctified, you were justified

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in the name of the Lord Jesus
and in the Spirit of our God.

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

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expedient.
All things are lawful for me,

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but I will not be brought under
the power of anything.

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Foods for the belly, and the
belly for foods, but God will

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bring to nothing both it and
them.

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But the body is not for sexual
immorality, but for the Lord,

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and the Lord for the body.
Now God raised up the Lord, and

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will also raise us up by His
power.

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Don’t you know that your bodies
are members of Christ?

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Shall I then take the members of
Christ and make them members of

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a prostitute?
May it never be.

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Or don’t you know that he who is
joined to a prostitute is 1

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body?
For the two he says will become

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one flesh, but he who is joined
to the Lord is 1 Spirit Flee

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sexual immorality.
Every sin that a man does is

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outside the body, but he who
commits sexual immorality sins

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against his own body.
Or don’t you know that your body

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is a temple of the Holy Spirit
who is in you, whom you have

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from God?
You are not your own, for you

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were bought with a price.
Therefore, glorify God in your

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body and in your spirit, which
are gods.

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