April 23 – Strength in Stillness

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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 23rd.

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Strength and stillness.
Sometimes the strongest thing

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you can do is pause.
Not react, not defend yourself

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immediately, not let anger or
anxiety take the steering wheel.

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Proverbs chapter 14 verse 29
says whoever is slow to anger

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has great understanding, but he
who has a hasty temper exalts

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folly.
In a world that rewards quick

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reactions.
God teaches us the strength of

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self-control.
Psalm 46 verse 10 says be still

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and know that I am God.
Stillness is not weakness, it is

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trust.
It is choosing to remember that

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God is God even when your
emotions are loud and your

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circumstances feel chaotic.
Romans Chapter 7 verses 22 to 23

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reminds us that even Paul knew
the struggle of wanting what is

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right while feeling another
battle inside.

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That inner battle is real.
You may want to be patient but

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still snap.
You may want to trust God but

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still panic.
You may want to do what is right

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but feel pulled the other way.
God is not surprised by that

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struggle.
He meets you in it.

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Being still does not mean
ignoring problems.

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It means refusing to let the
problem become bigger in your

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heart than God.
It means breathing before you

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speak, praying before you act,
and surrendering before you

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spiral.
Today, when pressure rises,

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pause.
Ask God for wisdom.

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Let His peace slow you down.
You do not have to be controlled

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by every emotion that passes
through you in Christ.

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You can respond with
understanding instead of

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impulse.
There’s strength in stillness

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because stillness makes room for
God’s voice.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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being steady.
When I feel overwhelmed, help me

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slow down before I react and
trust You in the middle of my

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struggles.
Teach me to be still, to

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remember that you are God, and
to respond with wisdom instead

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of anger.
Let your peace guide my heart

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today.
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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Proverbs chapter 14, verses 28
to 29 World English Bible.

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In the multitude of people is
the King’s glory, but in the

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lack of people is the
destruction of the Prince.

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He who is slow to anger has
great understanding, but he who

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has a quick temper displays
folly.

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Psalm Chapter 46 World English
Bible for the chief musician by

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the sons of Korah According to a
Lamothe God is our refuge and

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strength, a very present help in
trouble.

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Therefore we won’t be afraid.
Though the earth changes, though

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the mountains are shaken into
the heart of the Seas, though

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its waters roar and are
troubled, though the mountains

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tremble with their swelling.
Selah.

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There is a river, the streams of
which make the city of God glad.

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The holy place of the tents of
the Most High God is within her.

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She shall not be moved.
God will help her.

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At dawn the nations raged, the
kingdoms were moved.

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He lifted his voice and the
earth melted.

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Yahweh of armies is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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Selah.
Come see Yahweh’s works.

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What desolations He has made in
the earth.

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He makes wars cease to the end
of the earth.

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He breaks the bow and shatters
the spear.

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He burns the Chariots in the
fire.

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Be still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the

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nations.
I will be exalted in the earth.

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Yahweh of armies is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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Selah.
Romans Chapter 7 World English

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Bible.
Or don’t you know brothers?

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For I speak to men who know the
law, that the law has dominion

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over a man for as long as he
lives.

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For the woman that has a husband
is bound by law to the husband

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while he lives.
But if the husband dies, she is

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discharged from the law of the
husband.

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So then if while the husband
lives, she is joined to another

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man, she would be called an
adulteress.

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But if the husband dies, she is
free from the law, so that she

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is no adulteress, though she is
joined to another man.

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Therefore, my brothers, you also
were made dead to the law

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through the body of Christ, that
you would be joined to another,

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to him who was raised from the
dead, that we might produce

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fruit to God.
For when we were in the flesh,

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the sinful passions which were
through the law worked in our

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members to bring out fruit to
death.

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But now we have been discharged
from the law, having died to

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that in which we were held, so
that we serve in newness of the

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Spirit, and not in oldness of
the letter.

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What shall we say then?
Is the law sin?

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May it never be.
However, I wouldn’t have known

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sin except through the law.
For I wouldn’t have known

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coveting unless the law had
said, You shall not covet.

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But sin finding occasion through
the commandment, produced in me

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all kinds of coveting.
For apart from the law sin is

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dead.
I was alive apart from the law

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once, but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.

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The commandment which was for
life, this I found to be for

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death.
For sin finding occasion through

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the commandment deceived me, and
through it killed me.

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Therefore the Law indeed is
holy, and the commandment holy,

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righteous, and good.
Did then that which is good

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become death to me?
May it never be but sin that it

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might be shown to be Sin was
producing death in me through

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that which is good, that through
the commandment sin might become

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exceedingly sinful.
For we know that the Law is

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spiritual.
But I am fleshly sold under sin.

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For I don’t understand what I am
doing.

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For I don’t practice what I
desire to do, but what I hate

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that I do.
But if what I don’t desire that

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I do, I consent to the law that
it is good.

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So now it is no more I that do
it, but sin which dwells in me.

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For I know that in me that is in
my flesh dwells no good thing.

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For desire is present with me,
but I don’t find it doing that

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which is good.
For the good which I desire I

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don’t do, but the evil which I
don’t desire that I practice.

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But if what I don’t desire that
I do, it is no more I that do

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it, but sin which dwells in me.
I find then the law that while I

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desire to do good, evil is
present.

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For I delight in God’s law after
the inward person.

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But I see a different law in my
members, warring against the law

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of my mind, and bringing me into
captivity under the law of sin

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which is in my members.
What a wretched man I am who

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will deliver me out of the body
of this death.

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I thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord.

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So then with the mind, I myself
serve God’s law, but with the

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flesh sins law.
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