May 8 – Paths of the Heart

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today.

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May 8th Pads of the Heart Every
day your heart is walking

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somewhere.
Even when your body is sitting

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in class, working at a job,
scrolling on your phone, or

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lying awake at night, your heart
is moving towards something,

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toward God or away from Him,
toward humility or pride, toward

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healing or hiding, toward life
or destruction.

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Proverbs chapter 15 verses 24 to
25 says the path of life leads

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upward for the prudent, that he
may turn away from she.

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All beneath the Lord tears down
the House of the proud, but

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maintains the widow’s
boundaries.

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Psalm chapter 51 asks God for a
clean heart and a renewed

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spirit, and 1st Corinthians
Chapter 11 verse 26 says that as

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often as believers eat the bread
and drink the cup, they proclaim

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the Lord’s death until He comes.
These verses bring together

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wisdom, repentance, and
remembrance.

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The wise person does not drift
through life.

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The wise person chooses the
upward path.

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Not the easy path, not the
popular path, the upward path,

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the path that leads away from
destruction and closer to God.

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But what happens when we fail?
Psalm chapter 51 reminds us that

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God welcomes honest repentance.
You do not have to pretend your

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heart is clean when it is not.
You can ask Him to create in you

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a clean heart.
You can ask Him to renew your

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spirit.
You can ask Him to restore your

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joy.
And 1st Corinthians Chapter 11

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points us back to Jesus.
We remember his sacrifice

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because our hope is not in our
perfect record.

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Our hope is in His death, His
mercy, and His coming again.

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So today, pay attention to your
path.

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Pride may look strong, but it
cannot stand before God.

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Humility may feel low, but it
leads upward.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, lead my heart

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on the path of life.
When pride rises in me, humble

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me with your love.
When I sin, draw me into honest

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repentance instead of hiding.
Create in me a clean heart and

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renew a right spirit within me.
Keep my eyes on Jesus, His

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sacrifice and the life He calls
me to walk 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
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stay?
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defilement.
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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 24 to

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25 World English Bible The path
of life leads upward.

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For the wise to keep him from
going downward to she all Yahweh

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will uproot the House of the
proud, but he will keep the

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widow’s borders intact.
Psalm Chapter 51 World English

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Bible Have mercy on me, God,
according to your loving

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kindness, according to the
multitude of your tender

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mercies, Blot out my
transgressions, wash me

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thoroughly from my iniquity,
cleanse me from my sin, for I

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know my transgressions.
My sin is constantly before me

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against you and you only.
I have sinned and done that

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which is evil in your sight.
So you may be proved right when

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you speak, and justified when
you judge.

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Behold, I was born in iniquity.
My mother conceived me in sin.

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Behold, you desire truth in the
inward parts.

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You teach me wisdom in the
inmost place.

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Purify me with hyssop, and I
will be clean.

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Wash me, and I will be whiter
than snow.

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Let me hear joy and gladness,
that the bones which you have

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broken may rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins and

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blot out all of my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart.

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Oh God, renew a right spirit
within me.

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Don’t throw me from your
presence, and don’t take your

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Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your

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salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.

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Then I will teach transgressors
your ways.

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Sinners will be converted to
you.

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Deliver me from the guilt of
bloodshed, Oh God, the God of my

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salvation.
My tongue will sing aloud of

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your righteousness.
Lord, open my lips.

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My mouth will declare your
praise for you.

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Don’t delight in sacrifice, or
else I would give it.

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You have no pleasure in burnt
offering.

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The sacrifices of God are a
broken spirit.

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Oh God, you will not despise a
broken and contrite heart.

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Do well in your good pleasure to
Zion.

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Build the walls of Jerusalem,
then you will delight in the

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sacrifices of righteousness in
burnt offerings and in whole

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burnt offerings.
Then they will offer bulls on

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your altar.
First Corinthians Chapter 11

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World English Bible Be imitators
of me, even as I also am of

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Christ.
Now I praise you, brothers, that

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you Remember Me in all things,
and hold firm the traditions

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even as I delivered them to you.
But I would have you know that

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the head of every man is Christ,
and the head of the woman is

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man, and the head of Christ is
God.

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Every man praying or prophesying
having his head covered,

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dishonors his head.
But every woman praying or

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prophesying with her head
uncovered dishonors her head.

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For it is one and the same thing
as if she were shaved.

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For if a woman is not covered,
let her hair also be cut off.

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But if it is shameful for a
woman to have her hair cut off

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or be shaved, let her be
covered.

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For a man indeed ought not to
have his head covered, because

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he is the image and glory of
God, but the woman is the glory

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of the man.
For man is not from woman, but

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woman from man.
For man wasn’t created for the

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woman, but woman for the man.
For this cause the woman ought

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to have authority over her own
head because of the angels.

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Nevertheless, neither is the
woman independent of the man,

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nor the man independent of the
woman in the Lord.

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For as woman came from man, so a
man also comes through a woman.

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But all things are from God.
Judge for yourselves.

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Is it appropriate that a woman
pray to God Unveiled?

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Doesn’t even nature itself teach
you that if a man has long hair,

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it is a dishonor to him?
But if a woman has long hair, it

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is a glory to her, for her hair
is given to her for a covering.

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But if any man seems to be
contentious, we have no such

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custom.
Neither do God’s assemblies.

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But in giving you this command I
don’t praise you that you come

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together not for the better, but
for the worse.

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For first of all, when you come
together in the assembly, I hear

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that divisions exist among you,
and I partly believe it.

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For there also must be factions
among you, that those who are

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approved may be revealed among
you.

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When therefore, you assemble
yourselves together, it is not

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the Lord’s Supper that you eat.
For in your eating each one

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takes his own supper.
First one is hungry and another

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is drunken.
What, don’t you have houses to

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eat and to drink in?
Or do you despise God’s

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assembly, and put them to shame
who don’t have enough?

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What shall I tell you?
Shall I praise you in this?

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I don’t praise you.
For I received from the Lord

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that which also I delivered to
you, that the Lord Jesus, on the

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night in which he was betrayed,
took bread.

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When he had given thanks, he
broke it and said, Take, eat.

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This is my body which is broken
for you.

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Do this in memory of me.
In the same way he also took the

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cup after supper, saying, This
cup is the new covenant in my

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blood.
Do this as often as you drink in

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memory of me.
For as often as you eat this

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bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord’s death until

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he comes.
Therefore whoever eats this

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bread or drinks the Lord’s cup
in a way unworthy of the Lord,

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will be guilty of the body and
the blood of the Lord.

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But let a man examine himself,
and so let him eat of the bread

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and drink of the cup.
For he who eats and drinks in an

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unworthy way eats and drinks
judgment to himself, if he

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doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
For this cause many among you

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are weak and sickly, and not a
few sleep.

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For if we discerned ourselves,
we wouldn’t be judged.

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But when we are judged, we are
punished by the Lord, that we

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may not be condemned with the
world.

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Therefore, my brothers, when you
come together to eat, wait for

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one another.
But if anyone is hungry, let him

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eat at home, lest your coming
together be for judgement.

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The rest I will set an order
whenever I come.

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