December 29 – Radiant in the Dark

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, December 29th.

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Radiant in the dark Have you
ever tried getting ready in the

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dark?
Like the lights are off, you’re

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guessing, and everything feels
uncertain?

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That’s what it can feel like
living in this world sometimes.

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But God calls you to be radiant
anyway.

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Not with perfect appearance, but
with real character.

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Proverbs chapter 31 verse 30
says charm is deceitful and

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beauty is vain, but a woman who
fears the Lord is to be praised.

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That’s not an insult to beauty.
It’s a reminder that beauty

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without God doesn’t last and
charm without character can fake

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you out.
Second Peter chapter 3 verse 10

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sobers us up.
The day of the Lord will come

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like a thief, and the earth and
the works that are done on it

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will be exposed.
That means what’s hidden won’t

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stay hidden forever.
The things people flex online

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won’t matter the way they think.
The only life that stands is the

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one built on Jesus, truth,
holiness, love and faithfulness

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and revelation.
Chapter 19, verse 7 gives the

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hope.
Let us rejoice, for the marriage

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of the Lamb has come and his
bride has made herself ready.

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The bride is the church, God’s
people.

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That means you’re not just
waiting around for the future.

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You’re preparing.
You’re becoming.

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You’re learning to love Jesus
more than distractions, more

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than approval, more than the
temporary shine of the world.

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So in a dark, noisy culture, you
can be radiant by fearing the

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Lord, by living with integrity
when others fake it, by choosing

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purity when others compromise,
by loving people when others use

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them.
You’re getting ready for

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something bigger than this life.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, help me value
what you value.

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Teach me that real beauty is
found in a heart that fears you

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and loves you.
Keep me from being distracted by

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what fades and help me live with
purpose because the day of the

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Lord is real.
Prepare me as part of your

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church, ready, faithful, and
full of love for Jesus.

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Let my life shine in the dark
with your light, in Jesus name,

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Amen.
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with clarity in your spirit,
strength in your soul, and the

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supernatural backing of heaven
behind every step you take.

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with God in today’s three-year
Bible Reading plan Proverbs 3110

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to 31 World English Bible.
Who can find a worthy woman, for

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her value is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband trusts

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in her.
He shall have no lack of gain.

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She does him good and not harm.
All the days of her life she

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seeks wool and flax and works
eagerly with her hands.

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She is like the merchant ships.
She brings her bread from afar.

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She rises also while it is yet
night, gives food to her

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household and portions for her
servant girls.

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She considers a field and buys
it with the fruit of her hands.

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She plants a vineyard.
She arms her waist with strength

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and makes her arm strong.
She perceives that her

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merchandise is profitable.
Her lamp doesn’t go out by

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night.
She lays her hands to the

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distaff, and her hands hold the
spindle.

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She opens her arms to the poor.
Yes, she extends her hands to

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the needy.
She is not afraid of the snow

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for her household, for all her
household are clothed with

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scarlet.
She makes for herself carpets of

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tapestry.
Her clothing is fine linen and

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purple.
Her husband is respected in the

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gates when he sits among the
elders of the land.

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She makes linen garments and
sells them, and delivers sashes

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to the merchant.
Strength and dignity are her

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clothing.
She laughs at the time to come.

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She opens her mouth with wisdom.
Kind instruction is on her

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tongue.
She looks well to the ways of

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her household and doesn’t eat
the bread of idleness.

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Her children rise up and call
her blessed.

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Her husband also praises her.
Many women do noble things, but

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you excel them all.
Charm is deceitful and beauty is

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vain, but a woman who fears
Yahweh, she shall be praised.

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Give her of the fruit of her
hands.

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Let her works praise her in the
gates.

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Second Peter 31 to 13 World
English Bible.

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This is now, beloved, the second
letter that I have written to

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you.
And in both of them I stir up

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your sincere mind by reminding
you that you should remember the

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words which were spoken before
by the holy prophets and the

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commandment of us, the apostles
of the Lord and Savior.

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Knowing this first, that in the
last days mockers will come

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walking after their own lusts,
and saying, Where is the promise

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of His coming?
For from the day that the

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fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the

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beginning of the creation.
For they willfully forget that

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there were heavens from of old,
and an earth formed out of water

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and amid water by the word of
God.

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By which means the world that
existed then, being overflowed

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with water, perished.
But the heavens that exist now,

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and the earth by the same word,
have been stored up for fire,

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being reserved against the day
of judgement and destruction of

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ungodly men.
But don’t forget this one thing,

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beloved, that one day is with
the Lord as 1000 years, and 1000

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years as one day.
The Lord is not slow concerning

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His promise, as some count
slowness, but He is patient with

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us, not wishing that anyone
should perish, but that all

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should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will

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come as a thief in the night, in
which the heavens will pass away

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with a great noise, and the
elements will be dissolved with

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fervent heat, and the earth and
the works that are in it will be

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burned up.
Therefore, since all these

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things will be destroyed like
this, what kind of people ought

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you to be in holy living and
godliness, looking for and

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earnestly desiring the coming of
the day of God, which will cause

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the burning heavens to be
dissolved, and the elements will

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melt with fervent heat?
But according to His promise, we

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look for new heavens and a new
earth in which righteousness

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dwells.
Revelation 19.

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World English Bible.
After these things, I heard

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something like a loud voice of a
great multitude in heaven saying

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Hallelujah.
Salvation, power and glory

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belong to our God.
For His judgments are true and

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righteous.
For He has judged the great

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prostitute who corrupted the
earth with her sexual

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immorality, and He has avenged
the blood of His servants at her

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hand.
A second said Hallelujah.

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Her smoke goes up forever and
ever.

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The 24 elders and the four
living creatures fell down and

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worshipped God who sits on the
throne, saying Amen, Hallelujah.

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A voice came from the throne
saying, Give praise to our God,

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all you his servants, you who
fear Him, the small and the

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great.
I heard something like the voice

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of a great multitude, and like
the voice of many waters, and

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like the voice of mighty
thunders, saying Hallelujah.

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For the Lord our God the
Almighty reigns.

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Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly
glad, and let’s give the glory

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to Him.
For the wedding of the Lamb has

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come and his wife has made
herself ready.

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It was given to her that she
would array herself in bright,

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pure, fine linen.
For the fine linen is the

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righteous acts of the Saints.
He said to me, Right, blessed

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are those who are invited to the
wedding supper of the Lamb.

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He said to me, These are true
words of God.

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I fell down before his feet to
worship him.

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He said to me, Look, don’t do
it.

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I’m a fellow bond servant with
you and with your brothers who

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hold the testimony of Jesus.
Worship God, for the testimony

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of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy.

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I saw the heaven opened, and
behold a White Horse, and he who

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sat on it is called faithful and
true.

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In righteousness He judges and
makes war.

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His eyes are a flame of fire,
and on his head are many crowns.

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He has names written, and a name
written which no one knows but

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he himself.
He is clothed in a garment

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sprinkled with blood.
His name is called the Word of

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God.
The armies which are in heaven,

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clothed in white, pure fine
linen, followed him on white

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horses.
Out of his mouth precedes a

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sharp double edged sword, that
with it he should strike the

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nations.
He will rule them with an iron

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rod he treads the wine Press of
the fierceness of the wrath of

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God the Almighty.
He has on his garment and on his

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thigh a name written King of
Kings and Lord of LORDSI saw an

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Angel standing in the sun.
He cried with a loud voice,

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saying To all the birds that fly
in the sky, Come, be gathered

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together to the great supper of
God, that you may eat the flesh

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of kings, the flesh of captains,
the flesh of mighty men, and the

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flesh of horses and of those who
sit on them, and the flesh of

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all men, both free and slave,
small and great.

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I saw the beast, the kings of
the earth and their armies

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gathered together to make war
against him who sat on the horse

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and against his army.
The beast was taken, and with

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him the false prophet who worked
the signs in his sight with

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which he deceived those who had
received the mark of the beast

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and those who worshipped his
image.

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These two were thrown alive into
the lake of fire that burns with

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sulfur.
The rest were killed with the

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sword of him who sat on the
horse, the sword which came out

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of his mouth.
So all the birds were filled

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with their flesh.
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