April 18 – Walking in Kindness and Integrity

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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 18th.

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Walking in kindness and
integrity.

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Sometimes kindness looks small
in the moment.

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A word of respect, A quiet act
of generosity.

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Choosing not to mock someone who
is already hurting.

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Refusing to overlook the person
everyone else ignores.

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But in God’s eyes, those moments
are never small.

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Proverbs chapter 14, verse 21
says whoever despises his

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neighbor is a Sinner, but
blessed is he who is generous to

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the poor.
That verse reaches beyond money.

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It speaks to posture.
How do you see people with

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contempt, indifference,
superiority, or compassion?

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Psalm 44 shows the honesty of
God’s people in hard times.

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They cry out with confusion and
pain, asking where God is in

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their suffering.
That reminds us that faith does

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not always feel polished.
Sometimes it is raw and real.

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Then Romans chapter 2 reminds us
that God judges rightly.

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He sees not only what we do, but
the heart behind it.

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He sees what no one else sees.
That means integrity matters

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deeply.
Who you are when no one is

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watching matters.
How you treat people who cannot

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help you matters.
Whether you choose kindness when

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it is inconvenient matters.
God is shaping your character in

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those hidden places.
It is easy to be swept up in

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pressure, competition, and self
focus.

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Life can make you feel like you
need to protect your image, push

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ahead, and worry mostly about
yourself.

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But Jesus calls you to another
way.

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He calls you to live with mercy,
honesty, and steady faith.

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To be kind in a harsh world is
not weakness.

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It is evidence of a heart being
formed by God.

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So today, pay attention to the
little moments.

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The overlooked person, the
chance to help, the choice to

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speak gently instead of sharply,
the decision to remain honest

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even when you could easily cut
corners.

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Those small acts are building
something in you.

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They are shaping a life of
integrity.

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Let your faith show up, not only
in worship, but in the way you

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treat people.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
caring about both my actions and

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my heart.
Help me walk in kindness toward

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others, especially when it is
easy to be selfish or

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indifferent.
Teach me to live with integrity

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in public and in private when
life feels hard or unfair.

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Help me stay faithful and trust
that you see every hidden

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choice.
Make my life reflect Your

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compassion, truth and love in
Jesus name, Amen.

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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 21

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World English Bible He who
despises his neighbor sins, but

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he who has pity on the poor is
blessed.

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Psalm Chapter 44 World English
Bible for the Chief Musician by

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the Sons of Korah.
A contemplative Psalm we have

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heard with our ears.
God, our fathers have told us

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what work you did in their days.
In the days of old You drove out

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the nations with your hand, but
you planted them.

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You afflicted the peoples, but
you spread them abroad.

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For they didn’t get the land in
possession by their own sword.

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Neither did their own arms save
them but your right hand, your

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arm, and the light of your face,
because you were favorable to

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them.
God, you are my king.

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Command victories for Jacob.
Through you we will push down

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our adversaries.
Through your name we will tread

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down those who rise up against
us.

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For I will not trust in my bow,
neither will my sword save me.

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But you have saved us from our
adversaries and have shamed

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those who hate us.
In God, we have made our boast

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all day long.
We will give thanks to your name

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forever.
Selah.

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But now you rejected us and
brought us to dishonor.

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And don’t go out with our
armies.

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You make us turn back from the
adversary.

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Those who hate us take plunder
for themselves.

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You have made us like sheep for
food, and have scattered us

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among the nations.
You sell your people for

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nothing, and have gained nothing
from their sail.

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You make us a reproach to our
neighbors, a scoffing and a

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derision to those who are around
us.

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You make us a byword among the
nations, a shaking of the head

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among the peoples.
All day long my dishonor is

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before me, and shame covers my
face at the taunt of one who

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reproaches and verbally abuses
because of the enemy and the

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Avenger.
All this has come on us, yet we

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haven’t forgotten you.
We haven’t been false to your

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covenant.
Our heart has not turned back,

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neither have our steps strayed
from your path, though you have

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crushed us in the haunt of
jackals and covered us with the

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shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of

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our God or spread out our hands
to a strange God, won’t God

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search this out, for he knows
the secrets of the heart.

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Yes, for your sake, we are
killed all day long.

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We are regarded as sheep for the
slaughter.

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Wake up.
Why do you sleep?

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Lord, arise, Don’t reject us
forever.

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Why do you hide your face and
forget our affliction and our

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oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to

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the dust, Our body clings to the
earth.

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Rise up to help us, redeem us
for your loving kindness sake.

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Romans Chapter 2 World English
Bible Therefore you are without

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excuse.
Oh man, whoever you are who

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judge, for in that which you
judge another, you condemn

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yourself.
For you who judge practice the

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same things.
We know that the judgement of

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God is according to truth
against those who practice such

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things.
Do you think this Oh man who

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judges those who practice such
things and do the same, that you

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will escape the judgement of
God?

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Or do you despise the riches of
His goodness, forbearance and

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patience, not knowing that the
goodness of God leads you to

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repentance, But according to
your hardness and unrepentant

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heart, you are treasuring up for
yourself wrath in the day of

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wrath revelation, and of the
righteous judgment of God, who

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will pay back to everyone
according to their works.

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To those who by perseverance in
well doing, seek for glory,

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honor and incorruptibility,
eternal life.

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But to those who are self
seeking and don’t obey the

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truth, but obey unrighteousness,
will be wrath, indignation,

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oppression and anguish on every
soul of man who does evil to the

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Jew 1st and also to the Greek.
But glory, honor and peace go to

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every man who does good to the
Jew 1st and also to the Greek.

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For there is no partiality with
God.

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For as many as have sinned
without the law will also perish

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without the law.
As many as have sinned under the

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law will be judged by the law.
For it isn’t the hearers of the

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law who are righteous before
God, but the doers of the law

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will be justified.
For when Gentiles who don’t have

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the law do by nature the things
of the law, these, not having

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the law, are a law to
themselves, in that they show

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the work of the Law written in
their hearts, their conscience

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testifying with them, and their
thoughts among themselves,

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accusing or else excusing them.
In the day when God will judge

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the secrets of men according to
my good news by Jesus Christ.

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Indeed, you bear the name of a
Jew, rest on the law, glory in

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God, know His will, and approve
the things that are excellent.

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Being instructed out of the law,
and are confident that you

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yourself are a guide of the
blind, a light to those who are

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in darkness, a corrector of the
foolish, a teacher of babies,

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having in the law the form of
knowledge and of the truth.

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You therefore who teach another,
don’t you teach yourself?

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You who preach that a man
shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

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You who say a man shouldn’t
commit adultery, do you commit

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adultery?
You who abort idols, do you rob

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temples?
You who glory in the law, do you

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dishonor God by disobeying the
Law?

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For the name of God is
blasphemed among the Gentiles

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because of you, just as it is
written For circumcision.

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Indeed, profits if you are a
doer of the law, but if you are

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a transgressor of the law, your
circumcision has become

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uncircumcision.
If therefore, the uncircumcised

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keep the ordinances of the law,
won’t his uncircumcision be

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accounted as circumcision?
Won’t those who are physically

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uncircumcised but fulfill the
law judge you who with the

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letter and circumcision are a
transgressor of the law?

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For he is not a Jew who is 1
outwardly, Neither is that

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circumcision which is outward in
the flesh.

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But he is a Jew who is 1
inwardly.

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And circumcision is that of the
heart in the Spirit, not in the

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letter, whose praise is not from
men, but from God.

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