June 19 – Words That Matter

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, June 19th.

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Words that matter.
Has a rumor ever gotten back to

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you?
Something that someone said

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about you that spread through
your friend group before you

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even knew what was happening?
There’s something about gossip

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that moves faster than almost
anything else.

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Proverbs chapter 18, verse 8
nails it.

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The words of a whisperer are
like delicious morsels.

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They go down into the inner
parts of the body.

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Gossip is appealing.
It feels like it tastes good in

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the moment, but it goes deep, it
sticks, and it does real damage

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to the person being talked about
and honestly to the person doing

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the talking.
David found himself in a

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situation in First Samuel,
chapter 21, where people were

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suspicious and afraid of him.
He was alone, out of context,

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and being watched.
Aheimlec, the priest, trembled

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when he saw him.
Why are you alone and no one

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with you?
Fear and uncertainty surrounded

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David.
He was walking through one of

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the most vulnerable seasons of
his life, fleeing, hiding,

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unsure of who he could trust.
And in those moments, Psalm 34,

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verse 4 became his anchor.
I sought the Lord, and He

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answered me and delivered me
from all my fears.

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And Psalm 56 verse 3 echoes it.
When I am afraid, I put my trust

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in God, not in public opinion,
not in his own strength or

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reputation, not in who was
talking about him or what rumors

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were circulating in God.
That’s such a clear path forward

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for all of us in a world where
words, especially online, can

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spread so fast and cut so deep.
When people are whispering, when

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fear starts creeping in, when
the pressure of what others

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think becomes overwhelming, the
response that actually works is

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to run toward God, not to keep
up with the noise.

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Proverbs also says in verse 9
that slacking in your work makes

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you a brother to destruction.
Half hearted effort and careless

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living invite their own kind of
chaos.

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How you work, how you speak, and
where you place your trust.

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These things are all connected.
Choose diligence.

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Choose life giving words.
Choose trust in God over trust

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in your own management of what
people think.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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being our refuge.
When fear and gossip surround

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us, help us to speak words that
build rather than whisper.

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Words that break.
When fear creeps in about our

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reputation, our relationships,
our future.

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Remind us of David’s prayer.
I sought you and you answered

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me.
We put our trust in you.

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Deliver us from fear and teach
us to live with courage and

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integrity.
In Jesus name, Amen.

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What if the road ahead is not
meant to be rushed, feared, or

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walked alone?
Going with God is a prayer

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walking with the Lord in real
life, right where they are.

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paths, provision, and

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protection, this series helps
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with confidence over the road
before you.

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Proverbs, chapter 18, verses 8
to 9.

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World English Bible.
The words of a gossip are like

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dainty morsels.
They go down into a person’s

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innermost parts.
One who is slack in his work is

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brother to him who is a master
of destruction.

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First Samuel.
Chapter 21.

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World English Bible.
Then David came to Knob to

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Aheimletch the priest.
Aheimletch came to meet David

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trembling, and said to him, Why
are you alone, and no man with

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you?
David said to Aheimletch the

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priest.
The king has commanded me to do

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something and has said to me,
let no one know anything about

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the business about which I send
you and what I have commanded

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you.
I have sent the young men to a

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certain place.
Now therefore what is under your

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hand, please give me 5 loaves of
bread in my hand or whatever is

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available.
The priest answered David and

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said, I have no common bread,
but there is holy bread, if only

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the young men have kept
themselves from women.

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David answered the priest and
said to him, Truly, women have

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been kept from us as usual these
three days.

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When I came out, the vessels of
the young men were holy, though

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it was only a common journey.
How much more than today shall

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their vessels be holy?
So the priest gave him holy

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bread, for there was no bread
there, but the show bread that

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was taken from before Yahweh to
put hot bread in the day when it

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was taken away.
Now a certain man of the

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servants of Saul was there that
day, detained before Yahweh, and

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his name was Doge the Edomite,
the best of the herdsmen who

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belonged to Saul.
David said to Ahem, Lech, isn’t

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there here under your hand,
spear or sword?

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For I have neither brought my
sword nor my weapons with me,

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because the King’s business
required haste.

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The priest said, Behold, the
sword of Goliath, the Philistine

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whom you killed in the valley of
Allah is here wrapped in a cloth

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behind the ephod.
If you would like to take that,

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take it, for there is no other
except that here David said,

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there is none like that, give it
to me.

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David arose and fled that day
for fear of Saul, and went to

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Achish the king of Gath.
The servants of Achish said to

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him, Isn’t this David, the king
of the land?

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Didn’t they sing to one another
about him, and dances, saying,

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Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his ten thousands?

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David laid up these words in his
heart, and was very afraid of a

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Chish, the king of Gath.
He changed his behavior before

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them and pretended to be insane
in their hands, and scribbled on

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the doors of the gate, and let
his spittle fall down on his

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beard.
Then a Chish said to his

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servants, Look, you see the man
is insane.

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Why then have you brought him to
me?

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Do I lack Mad Men that you have
brought this fellow to play the

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madman in my presence?
Should this fellow come into my

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house?
Psalm chapter 34.

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World English Bible.
I will bless Yahweh at all

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times.
His praise will always be in my

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mouth.
My soul shall boast in Yahweh.

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The humble shall hear of it and
be glad.

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O magnify Yahweh with me, Let’s
exalt His name together.

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I sought Yahweh and He answered
me and delivered me from all my

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fears.
They look to Him and were

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radiant.
Their faces shall never be

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covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and Yahweh

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heard him and saved him out of
all his troubles.

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Yahweh’s Angel encamps around
those who fear Him and delivers

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them.
Oh, taste and see that Yahweh is

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good.
Blessed is the man who takes

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refuge in him.
O fear Yahweh, you his Saints,

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for there is no lack with those
who fear Him.

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The Young Lions do lack and
suffer hunger, but those who

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seek Yahweh shall not lack any
good thing.

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Come you children, listen to me.
I will teach you the fear of

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Yahweh, who is someone who
desires life and loves many

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days, that he may see good.
Keep your tongue from evil and

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your lips from speaking lies.
Depart from evil and do good.

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Seek peace and pursue it.
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the

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righteous.
His ears listen to their cry.

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Yahweh’s face is against those
who do evil to cut off their

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memory from the earth.
The righteous cry and Yahweh

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hears and delivers them out of
all their troubles.

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Yahweh is near to those who have
a broken heart and saves those

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who have a crushed spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the

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righteous, but Yahweh delivers
Him out of them all.

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He protects all of His bones.
Not one of them is broken.

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Evil shall kill the wicked.
Those who hate the righteous

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shall be condemned.
Yahweh redeems the soul of His

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servants.
None of those who take refuge in

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Him shall be condemned.
Psalm chapter 56.

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World English Bible.
Be merciful to me God, for man

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wants to swallow me up all day
long.

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He attacks and oppresses me.
My enemies want to swallow me up

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all day long, for they are many
who fight proudly against me.

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When I am afraid.
I will put my trust in you.

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In God I praise his word.
In God I put my trust.

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I will not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?

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All day long they twist my
words.

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All their thoughts are against
me.

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For evil they conspire and lurk.
Watching my steps, they are

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eager to take my life.
Shall they escape by iniquity?

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In anger cast down the people’s
God?

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You count my wanderings, You put
my tears into your container.

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Aren’t they in your book?
Then my enemies shall turn back

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in the day that I call.
I know this, that God is for me.

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In God I will praise His word.
In Yahweh I will praise His

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word.
I have put my trust in God.

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I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

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Your vows are on me, God.
I will give thank offerings to

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you, for you have delivered my
soul from death and prevented my

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feet from falling, that I may
walk before God in the light of

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the living.
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