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Unguarded Hearts

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Proverbs 4:1-27

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Even as you strive to stop saying toxic words to others, you will still have to deal with toxic words being said to you. As a result, you must do what God’s Word tells us to do when others speak toxic words to us: you must guard your heart against them.

How will you guard your heart against toxic words?

via Soul Detox | YouVersion.com.

Here’s our WORD for today not only for ridding our minds and souls of toxic thinking but every other issue of correction plaguing us.

13 Hold fast to discipline, don’t let it go; guard it, for it is your life.

via Proverbs 4:1-27 CJB – Listen, children, to a father’s – Bible Gateway.

23 Above everything else, guard your heart; for it is the source of life’s consequences.

via Proverbs 4:1-27 CJB – Listen, children, to a father’s – Bible Gateway.

This one is settling in hard on me. 

My life.

Your life.

Our lives are what our hearts make them.

No one can ruin, stain, disrupt, corrupt, etc. etc. etc.  my life but me; and I do that with my very own unguarded heart.  Does this bear witness with you today?

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Word Types

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Day 9 – Soul Detox

Proverbs 15:1-33

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Our words are powerful. They have the power to kill and the power to give life. Throughout the book of Proverbs, Solomon often writes about the dangers and the life-giving abilities of our words. He was very aware of the power of words. As a result, Solomon encourages us all to be aware of the types of words we speak to others and the positive and negative affects they can have.

What types of words do you tend to speak most – toxic or life-giving? Explain.

via Soul Detox | YouVersion.com.

This strikes me as something important:

2 The tongue of the wise presents knowledge well, but the mouth of a fool spews out folly.

via Proverbs 15:1-33 CJB – A gentle response deflects fury, but a – Bible Gateway.

Presents knowledge well.  A wise soul presents knowledge well. Doesn’t say we have ALL knowledge just that what we have we present well. I like that. That would require good and right thinking, wouldn’t it? I want to meditate on this until it makes a difference in me.

22 Without deliberation, plans go wrong; . . .

via Proverbs 15:1-33 CJB – A gentle response deflects fury, but a – Bible Gateway.

Does this say to you as it says to me that if I am not deliberate about casting down my toxic thinking, my ‘plan’ to think well, will be a failed plan?

And so it is true. Look at this.

28 The mind of the righteous thinks before speaking, but the mouth of the wicked spews out evil stuff.

via Proverbs 15:1-33 CJB – A gentle response deflects fury, but a – Bible Gateway.

This reminds me of something I have been thinking and praying about for a while now. We, people I mean, have forgotten how wicked without CHRIST we really are. We have forgotten that to ABBA sin is WICKED and EVIL. It’s not just a ‘mistake’ to Him. It is wicked and evil.

And this one I am comforted to think on . . .

29 Adonai is far from the wicked, but he listens to the prayer of the righteous.

via Proverbs 15:1-33 CJB – A gentle response deflects fury, but a – Bible Gateway.

He listens to my prayers. Not because I am righteous; far be it — but because JESUS is righteous and HIS righteousness has been imputed to me.  Same for each of you who have said yes to JESUS in salvation. HE hears our prayers!

And there is much praying to do: family, friends, our Nation, the Church, the poor, the hungry, the lost having no Shepherd.

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Train

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I have been eager since earlier this morning to share my YOU VERSION devotion with you today. Contained in the devotion is information that I do not recall having previously received. It is good!

CREATING A TASTE FOR GOD

Perhaps the key passage in Scripture to understanding the parent’s proper attitude toward children is Proverbs 22:6. However, we often misunderstand that verse because we do not really know what the verb ‘train’ means.

To the modern mind, the verb ‘train’ smacks of discipline. We can almost see the hard-boiled sergeant dressing down the new recruit, a strict teacher telling his student what to do, or a demanding father insisting a son do something right. However, in the original Hebrew that is not at all what ‘train’ meant. In that ancient tongue, “train” denoted the action of the midwife when she would dip her finger in the oil and rub the tiny palate of the newborn baby, causing that baby to have a desire to suck. Thus, what that verse really means is, “Create a taste for God in the heart of your child, and when he is old nothing else in life will satisfy his hunger.”

What a difference a correct understanding of this simple verse makes. As godly parents, we are not always to “straighten out our children.” Rather, we are to love them deeply and provide a climate of love and security that is a result of our relationship with God. The child raised in such an atmosphere is a lot closer to Calvary than one raised in a hostile or cold setting.

via Draw Near – 365 Guides to Greater Intimacy with God | YouVersion.com.

Did you see it?

What a revealing definition of train. It makes so much sense to me! Train up a child so they have a hunger for GOD and that child will not have departed from the LORD even when he is old. It’s a bit late for me as my childbearing years are over :) but perhaps I can still be TRAINED and some young ones will yet benefit. :) I hope you will pass this along to some young mothers. How glorious it would be to have a generation of children so trained.

Proverbs 22:6 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

6 Train a child in the way he [should] go; and, even when old, he will not swerve from it.

via Proverbs 22:6 CJB – Train a child in the way he [should] – Bible Gateway.

Blessings of Joy and Peace,  Kathie