May 2 – Guard Your Heart, Grow Your Life

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, May 2nd.

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Guard your heart.
Grow your life.

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What if the life you are
building is not mostly shaped by

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the big moments everyone sees,
but by the small responses?

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No one notices the way you
handle correction, the way you

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respond when you’re stressed,
the way you treat people when

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you’re tired, the choices you
make when no one is checking on

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you.
All of it matters.

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Proverbs chapter 15 verses 12 to
13 says, a scoffer does not like

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to be reproved.
He will not go to the wise.

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A glad heart makes a cheerful
face, but by sorrow of heart the

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spirit is crushed.
Psalm chapter 50, verse 15 says,

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call to me in the day of
trouble.

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I will deliver you, and you
shall glorify me.

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And 1st Corinthians chapter 3,
verse 13 says each one’s work

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will become manifest for the
day, will disclose it because it

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will be revealed by fire, and
the fire will test what sort of

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work each one is done.
That is a serious thought, but

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it is also full of hope.
God is not just watching what

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you build.
He is helping you build what

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lasts.
He calls you to be teachable,

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not because He wants to
embarrass you, but because He

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wants you to grow.
He calls you to joy not because

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life is always easy, but because
your heart can be anchored in

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Him even when your circumstances
feel heavy.

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Maybe today you are dealing with
pressure at school, tension at

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home, drama with friends,
uncertainty about your future,

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or private battles no one knows
about.

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God does not ask you to pretend
everything is fine.

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He says, call to me in the day
of trouble.

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He invites you to bring Him the
real struggle, the real fear,

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the real frustration.
And as you do, He teaches you to

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build differently.
Not on pride, not on impulse,

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not on temporary attention, but
on humility, wisdom, joy, and

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faithfulness.
Let’s pray, Heavenly Father,

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help me guard my heart and build
my life on what matters to You.

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Make me teachable when
correction comes, joyful when

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life feels heavy, and faithful
in the choices I make each day.

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When I am in trouble, remind me
to call on You.

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Instead of carrying everything
alone, build something lasting

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in me for your glory in Jesus
name, Amen.

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What if the battles hitting your
family are not random and your

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home can become a place where
darkness loses every right to

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stay?
The Secured Home is a powerful

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six book prayer series for
believers who want to guard

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their households with biblical
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in Jesus Christ.
Book 1, Guarded Thresholds,

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fortifies every doorway, room,
and entry point with prayerful

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protection.
Book 2, Cleansed Rooms, helps

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reclaim spaces marked by fear,
unrest, and spiritual

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defilement.
Book 3, Closed Breaches, exposes

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hidden access points and severs
every agreement with darkness.

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Book 4, Broken Assignments,
confronts oppression, torment,

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and attacks against your family.
Book 5, Consecrated Walls,

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dedicates every space and rhythm
of the home to God.

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Book 6, Abiding Peace, shows how
to maintain spiritual order,

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rest, and holy presence every
day.

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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 15 verses 12 to

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13 World English Bible A scoffer
doesn’t love to be reproved.

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He will not go to the wise.
A glad heart makes a cheerful

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face, but an aching heart breaks
the spirit.

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Psalm Chapter 50 World English
Bible A Psalm by a SAF.

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The mighty One God, Yahweh
speaks and calls the earth from

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sunrise to sunset.
Out of Zion the perfection of

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beauty God shines out.
Our God comes and does not keep

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silent.
A fire devours before him.

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It is very stormy around him.
He calls to the heavens above,

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to the earth, that he may judge
His people.

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Gather my Saints together to me,
those who have made a covenant

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with me by sacrifice.
The heavens shall declare His

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righteousness, for God himself
is judge.

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Selah here my people, and I will
speak.

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Israel, I will testify against
you.

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I am God, your God.
I don’t rebuke you for your

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sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are

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continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from

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your stall, nor male goats from
your pens.

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For every animal of the forest
is mine, and the livestock on

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1000 hills I know all the birds
of the mountains, the wild

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animals of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not

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tell you, for the world is mine
and all that is in it.

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Will I eat the meat of bulls or
drink the blood of goats?

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Offer to God the sacrifice of
Thanksgiving.

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Pay your vows to the Most High.
Call on me in the day of

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trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will

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honor me.
But to the wicked God says, What

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right do you have to declare my
statutes, that you have taken my

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covenant on your lips, since you
hate instruction, and throw my

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words behind you?
When you saw a thief, you

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consented with him and have
participated with adulterers.

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You give your mouth to evil,
your tongue frames deceit.

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You sit and speak against your
brother.

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You slander your own mother’s
son.

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You have done these things, and
I kept silent.

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You thought that I was just like
you.

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I will rebuke you and accuse you
in front of your eyes.

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Now consider this, You forget
God, lest I tear you into pieces

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and there be no one to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of

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Thanksgiving glorifies me and
prepares his way so that I will

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show God’s salvation to him.
First Corinthians chapter 3

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World English Bible Brothers, I
couldn’t speak to you as to

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spiritual, but as to fleshly, as
to babies in Christ.

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I fed you with milk, not with
solid food, for you weren’t yet

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ready.
Indeed you aren’t ready even

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now, for you are still fleshly.
For insofar as there is

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jealousy, strife, and factions
among you, aren’t you fleshly?

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And don’t you walk in the ways
of men?

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For when one says I follow Paul
and another I follow Apollo’s,

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aren’t you fleshly?
Who then is Apollo’s?

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And who is Paul?
But servants through whom you

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believed, And each as the Lord
gave to him.

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I planted, Apollo’s watered, but
God gave the increase.

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So then neither he who plants is
anything, nor he who waters, but

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God who gives the increase.
Now he who plants and he who

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waters are the same, but each
will receive his own reward

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according to his own labor.
For we are God’s fellow workers.

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You are God’s farming, God’s
building, according to the grace

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of God which was given to me as
a wise master builder.

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I laid a foundation and another
builds on it.

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But let each man be careful how
he builds on it, for no one can

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lay any other foundation than
that which has been laid, which

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is Jesus Christ.
But if anyone builds on the

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foundation with gold, silver,
costly stones, wood, hay, or

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straw, each man’s work will be
revealed for the day.

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We’ll declare it because it is
revealed in fire, and the fire

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itself will test what sort of
work each man’s work is.

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If any man’s work remains which
he built on it, he will receive

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a reward.
If any man’s work is burned, he

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will suffer loss, but he himself
will be saved.

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But as through fire, don’t you
know that you are God’s temple

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and that God’s Spirit lives in
you?

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If anyone destroys God’s temple,
God will destroy him.

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For God’s temple is holy, which
you are.

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Let no one deceive himself.
If anyone thinks that he is wise

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among you in this world, let him
become a fool, that he may

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become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is

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foolishness with God.
For it is written, he has taken

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the wise in their craftiness.
And again, the Lord knows the

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reasoning of the wise, that it
is worthless.

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Therefore let no one boast in
men, for all things are yours,

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whether Paul or Apollo’s, or
Cephas, or the world, or life,

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or death, or things present, or
things to come, all are yours,

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and you are Christ S and Christ
is God’s.

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Thanks for joining us on Bible
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Until next time, stay rooted in
truth, anchored in hope, and

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