April 25 – Unshaken Confidence

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 25th.

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Unshaken confidence.
Life can feel unstable so

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quickly.
Plans change, people disappoint

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you, the future feels unclear.
You try your best but still

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cannot control everything.
Proverbs chapter 14 verses 32 to

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33 says that the righteous find
refuge and that wisdom rests in

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the heart of a person of
understanding.

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Psalm 47, verses 7 to 8 says God
is the king of all the earth and

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God reigns over the nation’s.
That truth is an anchor.

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God reigns not just when life
makes sense, not just when

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prayers are answered the way you
hoped, not just when things feel

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calm.
God reigns when the world feels

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loud, when your heart feels
uncertain, and when you cannot

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see what comes next.
Romans Chapter 9 reminds us that

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God’s mercy and purpose are not
based on human striving.

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That can be humbling, but it is
also freeing.

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Your security does not rest on
your ability to perform

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perfectly, control outcomes, or
earn God’s love.

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It rests on His mercy.
Unshaken confidence is not

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pretending you are never afraid.
It is knowing where to run when

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fear comes.
It is remembering that the

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throne of God does not shake
just because your circumstances

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do.
Your grades, reputation,

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relationships, and future
matter, but they are not strong

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enough to carry your identity,
only God is.

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So when life feels uncertain,
look higher.

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The King is still on his throne.
His wisdom is still true.

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His mercy is still enough.
You can rest because your life

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is held by someone stronger than
your circumstances.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you that

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you reign over everything.
When life feels uncertain, help

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me find refuge in you.
Teach me to trust Your mercy

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instead of relying on my own
efforts or control.

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Give me wisdom, peace, and
unshaken confidence because my

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life is in your hands.
In Jesus name, Amen.

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What if you could rise up and
declare with full spiritual

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authority, I shall not die, but
live?

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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 14, verses 32

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to 33 World English Bible.
The wicked is brought down in

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his calamity, but in death the
righteous has a refuge.

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Wisdom rests in the heart of one
who has understanding and is

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even made known in the inward
part of fools.

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Psalm chapter 47 World English
Bible for the chief musician.

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A Psalm by the sons of Korra.
Oh, clap your hands all you

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nations.
Shout to God with the voice of

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triumph, for Yahweh Most High is
awesome.

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He is a great king over all the
earth.

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He subdues nations under us and
peoples under our feet.

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He chooses our inheritance for
us, the glory of Jacob whom he

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loved.
Selah.

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God has gone up with a shout,
Yahweh with the sound of a

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trumpet.
Sing praises to God.

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Sing praises.
Sing praises to our king.

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Sing praises, for God is the
king of all the earth.

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Sing praises with understanding.
God reigns over the nations.

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God sits on His holy throne.
The Princess of the peoples are

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gathered together, the people of
the God of Abraham.

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For the Shields of the earth
belong to God.

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He is greatly exalted.
Romans Chapter 9 World English

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Bible I tell the truth in
Christ.

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I am not lying, my conscience
testifying with me in the Holy

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Spirit, that I have great sorrow
and unceasing pain in my heart.

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For I could wish that I myself
were a cursed from Christ for my

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brothers sake.
My relatives according to the

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flesh, who are Israelites, whose
is the adoption, the glory, the

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covenants, the giving of the
law, the service and the

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promises, Of whom are the
fathers?

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And from whom is Christ, as
concerning the flesh, who is

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over all God blessed forever,
Amen.

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But it is not as though the Word
of God has come to nothing, for

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they are not all Israel that are
of Israel.

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Neither because they are
Abraham’s offspring are they all

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children.
But your offspring will be

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accounted as from Isaac.
That is, it is not the children

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of the flesh who are children of
God, but the children of the

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promise are counted as heirs.
For this is a word of promise.

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At the appointed time I will
come, and Sarah will have a son.

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Not only so, but Rebecca also,
conceived by one by our Father

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Isaac, for being not yet born,
neither having done anything

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good or bad, that the purpose of
God according to election might

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stand not of works, but of him
who calls.

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It was said to her.
The elder will serve the

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younger, even as it is written.
Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

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What shall we say then?
Is there unrighteousness with

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God?
May it never be.

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For he said to Moses, I will
have mercy on whom I have mercy,

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and I will have compassion on
whom I have compassion.

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So then it is not of him who
wills, nor of him who runs, but

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of God who has mercy.
For the Scripture says to

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Pharaoh, for this very purpose I
caused you to be raised up, that

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I might show in you my power,
and that my name might be

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proclaimed in all the earth.
So then He has mercy on whom he

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desires, and he hardens whom he
desires.

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You will say then to me, why
does he still find fault?

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For who withstands His will?
But indeed, O man, who are you

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to reply against God?
Well, the thing formed, ask him

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who formed it.
Why did you make me like this?

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Or hasn’t the Potter a right
over the clay from the same

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lump, to make one part a vessel
for honor, and another for

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dishonor?
What if God, willing to show His

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wrath, and to make His power
known, endured with much

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patience vessels of wrath
prepared for destruction, and

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that He might make known the
riches of His glory on vessels

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of mercy which He prepared
beforehand for glory?

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Us whom He also called not from
the Jews only, but also from the

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Gentiles, as He says also in
Hosea.

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I will call them My people,
which were not My people, and

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her beloved who was not beloved.
It will be that in the place

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where it was said to them, You
are not My people, though they

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will be called children of the
living God.

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Isaiah cries concerning Israel.
If the number of the children of

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Israel are as the sand of the
sea, it is the remnant who will

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be saved, for he will finish the
work and cut it short in

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righteousness, because the Lord
will make a short work upon the

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earth.
As Isaiah has said before,

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unless the Lord of armies had
left us a seed, we would have

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become like Sodom and would have
been made like Gomorrah.

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What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles who didn’t

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follow after righteousness
attained to righteousness, even

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the righteousness which is of
faith.

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But Israel following after a law
of righteousness didn’t arrive

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at the law of righteousness.
Why?

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Because they didn’t seek it by
faith, but as it were by works

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of the law.
They stumbled over the stumbling

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stone even as it is written,
Behold, I lay in Zion, a

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stumbling stone and a rock of
offense.

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And no one who believes in him
will be disappointed.

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