February 4 – Don’t Waste Your Season

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, February 4th.

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Don’t waste your season.
Have you ever looked back on a

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moment and thought I had more
time, I had more ability, I just

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didn’t use it?
Maybe it was a class you could

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have taken more seriously, a
friendship you could have

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invested in, or a season where
you knew God was nudging you,

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but you kept putting it off.
Regret has a way of showing up

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when opportunities pass us by.
Proverbs chapter 10, verses 4 to

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5 speak straight into that
feeling.

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It tells us that a slack hand
leads to lack, but the hand of

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the diligent brings increase.
It says the one who gathers in

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summer is wise, but the one who
sleeps during harvest brings

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shame.
In other words, timing matters.

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There are seasons when effort
counts more than later excuses.

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What you do now shapes what you
experience next.

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Psalm 14 adds another layer.
It says the Lord looks down from

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heaven to see if there are any
who understand, any who truly

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seek after God.
That’s sobering.

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God isn’t just watching
outcomes, He’s watching pursuit.

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He’s not impressed by busy lives
that ignore Him, but he is drawn

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to hearts that actively seek Him
in the middle of everyday life.

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Then we see this lived out
powerfully.

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In Acts chapter 4.
Peter and John are standing

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before powerful leaders who are
questioning them.

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These leaders noticed something
surprising.

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Acts chapter 4 verse 13 says
they saw their boldness and

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realized they were ordinary,
uneducated men and they were

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astonished.
Why?

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Because they recognized that
these men had been with Jesus.

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Peter and John didn’t waste
their season walking with him.

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They listened.
They learned they were changed,

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and when pressure came, what had
been planted earlier showed up

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as courage.
This is such an important

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reminder for us.
You don’t drift into spiritual

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strength.
You don’t accidentally become

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bold in faith.
It’s built quietly, daily, in

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the seasons that don’t feel
dramatic.

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Prayer when no one sees.
Obedience when it’s

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inconvenient.
Choosing diligence when it would

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be easier to sleep through the
harvest.

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Your current season matters more
than you think.

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The habits you’re forming now
are shaping the person you’re

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becoming.
God is inviting you not to waste

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what He’s given you, but to lean
in, seek Him, and stay faithful.

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And one day, when pressure comes
or opportunity knocks, people

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will notice something different
about you, too.

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Not because you’re impressive,
but because you’ve been with

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Jesus.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
reminding me that this season of

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my life matters.
Help me not to waste the

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opportunities you’ve placed in
front of me.

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Teach me to be diligent with my
time, my faith, and my

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relationships.
Stir my heart to seek You daily,

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not halfway, but fully, and let
your presence shape me so

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clearly that others can see I’ve
been with Jesus.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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Proverbs chapter 10 verses 4 to
5 World English Bible.

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He becomes poor who works with a
lazy hand, but the hand of the

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diligent brings wealth.
He who gathers in summer is a

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wise son, but he who sleeps
during the harvest is a son who

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causes shame.
Psalm chapter 14 World English

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Bible for the chief musician by
David.

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The fool has said in his heart
there is no God.

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They are corrupt.
They have done abominable deeds.

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There is no one who does good.
Yahweh looked down from heaven

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on the children of men to see if
there were any who understood

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who sought after God.
They have all gone aside.

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They have together become
corrupt.

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There is no one who does good.
No, not one have all the workers

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of iniquity no knowledge who eat
up my people as they eat bread,

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and don’t call on Yahweh.
There they were in great fear,

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for God is in the generation of
the righteous.

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You frustrate the plan of the
poor, because Yahweh is His

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refuge.
Oh, that the salvation of Israel

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would come out of Zion.
When Yahweh restores the

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fortunes of His people, then
Jacob shall rejoice and Israel

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shall be glad.
Acts, chapter 4.

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World English Bible As they
spoke to the people, the priests

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and the captain of the Temple
and the Sadducees came to them,

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being upset because they taught
the people and proclaimed in

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Jesus the resurrection from the
dead.

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They laid hands on them and put
them in custody until the next

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day, for it was now evening.
But many of those who heard the

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word believed, and the number of
the men came to be about 5000 in

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the morning.
Their rulers, elders, and

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scribes were gathered together
in Jerusalem.

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Anas, the high priest, was there
with Caiaphas, John, Alexander,

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and as many as were relatives of
the high priest.

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When they had stood Peter and
John in the middle of them, they

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inquired, By what power or in
what name have you done this?

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Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Spirit, said to them, You rulers

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of the people and elders of
Israel, If we are examined today

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concerning a good deed done to a
crippled man, by what means this

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man has been healed?
May it be known to you all and

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to all the people of Israel,
that in the name of Jesus Christ

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of Nazareth, whom you crucified,
whom God raised from the dead,

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this man stands here before you,
hole in him.

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He is the stone which was
regarded as worthless by you,

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the builders, which has become
the head of the corner.

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There is salvation in no one
else, for there is no other name

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under heaven that is given among
men by which we must be saved.

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Now when they saw the boldness
of Peter and John, and had

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perceived that they were
unlearned and ignorant men, they

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marvelled, They recognized that
they had been with Jesus.

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Seeing the man who was healed
standing with them, they could

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say nothing against it.
But when they had commanded them

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to go aside out of the council,
they conferred among themselves,

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saying, What shall we do to
these men?

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Because indeed a notable miracle
has been done through them, as

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can be plainly seen by all who
dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t

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deny it.
But so that this spreads no

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further among the people, let’s
threaten them that from now on

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they don’t speak to anyone in
this name.

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They called them and commanded
them not to speak at all, nor

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teach in the name of Jesus.
But Peter and John answered

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them, whether it is right in the
sight of God to listen to you

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rather than to God, judge for
yourselves.

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For we can’t help telling the
things which we saw and heard.

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When they had further threatened
them, they let them go, finding

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no way to punish them because of
the people.

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For everyone glorified God for
that which was done.

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For the man on whom this miracle
of healing was performed was

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more than 40 years old.
Being let go, they came to their

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own company and reported all
that the chief priests and the

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elders had said to them.
When they heard it, they lifted

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up their voice to God with 1
accord and said, Oh Lord, you

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are God who made the heaven, the
earth, the sea, and all that is

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in them.
Who by the mouth of your servant

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David said, Why do the nation’s
rage and the people’s plot a

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vain thing?
The kings of the earth take a

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stand, and the rulers plot
together against the Lord and

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against his Christ.
For truly both Herod and Pontius

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Pillate with the Gentiles and
the people of Israel were

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gathered together against your
holy servant Jesus, whom you

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anointed to do whatever your
hand and your counsel for

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ordained to happen.
Now, Lord, look at their threats

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and grant to Your servants to
speak Your word with all

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boldness, while you stretch out
your hand to heal, and that

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signs and wonders may be done
through the name of Your holy

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servant Jesus.
When they had prayed, the place

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was shaken where they were
gathered together.

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They were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and they spoke the

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Word of God with boldness.
The multitude of those who

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believed were of 1 heart and
soul.

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Not one of them claimed that
anything of the things which he

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possessed was his own, but they
had all things in common with

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great power.
The apostles gave their

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testimony of the resurrection of
the Lord Jesus.

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Great grace was on them all, for
neither was there among them any

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who lacked.
For as many as were owners of

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lands or houses sold them and
brought the proceeds of the

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things that were sold and laid
them at the apostles feet and

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distribution was made to each
according as anyone had need.

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Jose is who by the apostles was
also called Barnabas, which is

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being interpreted son of
encouragement, A Levite, a man

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of Cyprus by race having a field
sold it and brought the money

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and laid it at the apostles
feet.

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Thanks for joining us on Bible
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