April 20 – Faith That Works

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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 20th.

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Faith that works.
There is a difference between

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talking about change and
actually walking in it.

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It is easy to say you want to
grow, want to trust God, want to

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become more disciplined, or want
to live differently.

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But Proverbs chapter 14 verse 23
says in all toil there is

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profit, but mere talk tends only
to poverty.

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In other words, words alone do
not build a life.

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Faith is meant to move.
Growth usually comes through

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obedience, persistence, and
action.

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Psalm 32, verse 5 says I
acknowledged my sin to you and I

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did not cover my iniquity.
That is another kind of action,

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honest confession.
Real faith does not hide behind

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excuses.
It comes into the light.

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It brings sin to God and
receives forgiveness.

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Then Romans chapter 4 points us
to Abraham, who received the

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promise through faith.
His faith was not empty belief,

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It was trust that shaped the way
he lived.

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That matters so much because
sometimes people think faith

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means sitting back passively and
hoping things somehow change.

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But biblical faith responds, It
prays and it obeys.

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It trusts and it moves.
It believes God’s promises

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enough to live differently
because of them.

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Maybe there is an area of your
life where you have been stuck

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in talk.
You say you want peace, but you

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keep feeding anxiety.
You say you want closeness with

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God, but you rarely make space
for him.

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You say you want to grow, but
you avoid the effort growth

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requires.
This is not about earning God’s

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love.
It is about letting faith become

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visible in the choices you make.
Small acts of obedience matter.

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Opening your Bible when you do
not feel like it matters.

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Confessing sin instead of
covering it matters.

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Doing the next faithful thing
matters.

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God sees every step He works
through the ordinary efforts

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that are surrendered to Him.
Faith that works is not flashy.

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It is steady.
It is honest, it is willing.

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And God delights.
To strengthen that kind of

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faith, let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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calling me to a faith that is
real and active.

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Help me move beyond empty words
into obedience, honesty and

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trust.
Give me courage to confess my

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sin, strength to do the work of
growth and confidence that you

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are with me in every faithful
step.

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Let my life reflect a faith that
is alive, steady and rooted in

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You.
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, verse 23

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World English Bible In all hard
work there is profit, but the

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talk of the lips leads only to
poverty.

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Psalm chapter 32 World English
Bible by David a contemplative

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Psalm.
Blessed is he whose disobedience

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is forgiven, whose sin is
covered.

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Blessed is the man to whom
Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity,

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in whose spirit there is no
deceit.

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When I kept silence, my bones
wasted away through my groaning

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all day long for day and night.
Your hand was heavy on me.

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My strength was sapped in the
heat of summer.

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Selah.
I acknowledged my sin to you.

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I didn’t hide my iniquity.
I said I will confess my

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transgressions to Yahweh, and
you forgave the iniquity of my

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sin.
Selah.

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For this let everyone who is
godly pray to you in a time when

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you may be found.
Surely when the great waters

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overflow, they shall not reach
to Him.

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You are my hiding place.
You will preserve me from

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trouble.
You will surround me with songs

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of deliverance.
Selah.

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I will instruct you and teach
you in the way which you shall

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go.
I will counsel you with my eye

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on you.
Don’t be like the horse or like

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the mule, which have no
understanding, who are

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controlled by bit and bridle, or
else they will not come near to

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you.
Many sorrows come to the wicked,

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but loving kindness shall
surround him who trusts in

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Yahweh.
Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice

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you righteous.
Shout for joy all you who are

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upright in heart.
Romans chapter 4 World English

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Bible What then will we say that
Abraham, our forefather, has

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found according to the flesh?
For if Abraham was justified by

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works, he has something to boast
about, but not toward God.

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For what does the Scripture say?
Abraham believed God, and it was

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accounted to him for
righteousness.

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Now to him who works, the reward
is not counted as grace, but as

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something owed.
But to him who doesn’t work, but

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believes in him who justifies
the ungodly, his faith is

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accounted for righteousness,
even as David also pronounces

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blessing on the man to whom God
counts righteousness apart from

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works.
Blessed are they whose

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iniquities are forgiven, whose
sins are covered.

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Blessed is the man whom the Lord
will by no means charge with

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sin.
Is this blessing then pronounced

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only on the circumcised, or on
the uncircumcised also?

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For we say that faith was
accounted to Abraham for

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righteousness.
How then was it counted when he

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was in circumcision or in
uncircumcision?

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Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision.

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He received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the

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righteousness of the faith which
he had while he was in

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uncircumcision, that he might be
the father of all those who

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believe, though they might be an
uncircumcision, that

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righteousness might also be
accounted to them.

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He is the father of circumcision
to those who not only are of the

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circumcision, but who also walk
in the steps of that faith of

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our father Abraham, which he had
an uncircumcision for.

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The promise to Abraham and to
his offspring that he would be

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heir of the world, wasn’t
through the law, but through the

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righteousness of faith.
For if those who are of the law

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are heirs, faith is made void,
and the promise is made of no

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effect.
For the law produces wrath.

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For where there is no law,
neither is there disobedience.

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For this ’cause it is a faith
that it may be according to

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grace to the end, that the
promise may be sure to all the

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offspring, not to that only
which is of the law, but to that

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also which is of the faith of
Abraham, who is the father of us

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all.
As it is written, I have made

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you a father of many nations.
This is in the presence of him

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whom he believed, God, who gives
life to the dead, and calls the

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things that are not as though
they were against Hope.

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Abraham and Hope believed to the
end that he might become a

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father of many nations according
to that which had been spoken.

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So will your offspring be
without being weakened in faith.

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He didn’t consider his own body
already having been worn out, he

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being about 100 years old and
the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

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Yet looking to the promise of
God, he didn’t waver through

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unbelief, but grew strong
through faith, giving glory to

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God and being fully assured that
what He had promised, he was

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also able to perform.
Therefore, it also was credited

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to him for righteousness.
Now, it was not written that it

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was accounted to Him for His
sake alone, but for our sake

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also to whom it will be
accounted who believe in Him,

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who raised Jesus our Lord from
the dead, who was delivered up

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for our trespasses and was
raised for our justification.

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Thanks for joining us on Bible
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