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April 14, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Welcome to the first day of counting the Omer, everyone! We will be met with God's power during our reading of the Proverbs today. The topics of the proverbs we will read today include Good Things and Greatness, Plans of the Heart, Tricking People, and Keeping Promises. In our discussion today we will talk about being able to see people's hearts, who they really are, by the fruit they produce. We will also discuss people who look for what's good will find what is good, whereas people who look for what is bad will find what is bad. We discussed a few days ago to guard our minds and protect what goes into it via our eyes and ears, focusing on thinking on things that are lovely, pure, good, kind. This is right in line with that! Let us use those beautiful thoughts to focus on finding what is good around us rather than finding what is wrong and bad.
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Introduction to Daily Bible Reading
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Hello everybody, today is Monday, April 14th, 2025 and you are here with Robin at In The Family Way Coaching. We are here for our daily Bible reading.
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We are going through the Bible this year reading the Day by Day Kids Bible which has been written by Karen Henley.
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And if you are following along with your calendar, it's time to get that out. I have mine out today and get that sticker on there or however you are keeping track because you're about to hear the Bible today.
Exploration of Proverbs and its Wisdom
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We are presently going through and reading the through the book of Proverbs, and it is a great selection of wise sayings written by King Solomon. Every one of them is useful for teaching, and you may find that you hear your favorite today.
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And I will pick a couple for us to talk about after we have finished reading them. So let's go ahead and read about them today. Karen Henley has put them into groups, and the first group that is we have today is called Good Things and Greatness.
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Bad things come to families of bad people, but good things come to families who please God. God is not happy with people who make fun of others.
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God loves people who make others feel important.
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Others will speak well of wise people, but God will make fools look like they are no good.
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God does not let people who please him go hungry, but he doesn't give bad people what they want. When a storm passes over, bad people are gone, but people who do right stay safe.
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You can be sure of this. Bad people will get paid back for what they've done. But people who do right will go free.
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People who look for what's good find what's good. People who look for what's bad find what's bad. Some people pay back bad for good.
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And trouble will never leave their family.
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God sees families that sin. He brings terrible things to bad people.
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Some people want to do what's right. They look for love that doesn't end. They find a life full of greatness and all that is right. If you plant sin, you will grow trouble.
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Snow does not fit summertime. Rain does not fit the time to gather crops. greatness does not fit a fool.
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Plans of the heart. The things people do might seem right to them, but God sees why they do these things.
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Even children know what they are like. Even children show what they are like by how they act. You can tell if they are good if what they do is right.
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God looks inside people to see their spirits. He sees what you they are thinking.
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When you look into water, you can see your face. When you understand someone's heart, you see what that person is really like.
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God is far away from people who do wrong, but God hears the prayers of people who do right.
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God likes it when people do what is right and fair. He likes it better than any gifts they could give.
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Tricking people is the title of our last section is the title of our next section today. Sinful people go around saying bad things. They wink to show that they are not telling the truth.
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They give secret signs with their feet or fingers. Their hearts plan to trick others. They always make fuss people fuss with each other.
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So trouble will come to these people all of a sudden.
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There won't be any way out of it.
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Good people are guided by truth, but sinful people's lies get them into trouble.
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Some people look at what they want to buy. oh it's not any good, they say. But after they buy it, they brag about it.
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Don't eat with people who don't want to share. Don't even think about wanting their special food. They're the kind of people who worry about what it costs.
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They'll tell you, eat, drink, but they don't really mean it. then Then you'll throw up what you ate and the good things you said about their food won't mean anything.
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Shiny paint covers a pot made from clay. Words that are too good may hide a sinful heart.
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Some people don't care if they hurt others. They may try to hide what they really like. They may sound great, but do not believe them. Their hearts are full of bad things.
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Lies hide their hate, but their sin will show up one day.
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Our last section is entitled Keeping Promises.
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Keep your promises. Write them on your heart. Then God and people will speak well of you. They will be happy to hear your name. Many people say they will never stop loving.
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But who can find someone who keeps all of his promises? Don't trust someone who does not keep their promises. That's as bad as having a hurting tooth.
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It's as bad as walking on a foot that you broke.
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And that is the end of our reading of Proverbs today.
True Character Revealed Through Actions
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I had several Proverbs that I really liked the most and to talk about today. The first one I have that I have marked is for under the section of plans of the heart.
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The things people do might seem right to them, but God sees why they do these things. And even children show what they're like by how they act. You can tell how they are good but if what they do is right.
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and God looks inside people to see their spirits. He sees what you are thinking.
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um
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I like those. Because they talk about... that it's hard to see, its it can be hard to judge what somebody is doing, whether it is right or wrong. We have to look at people to see their heart.
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ah throughout the Bible we've been reading that God sees our hearts. And so one of the things that we can pray for is wisdom to be able to see how people really are.
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And that way we are not deceived by how they act. And sometimes what the Bible is telling us here is that a pot that is shiny can hide words inside that are lies.
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If words are too good, if people just seem to be ah overly saying what they think it sounds like the right thing. It could be that what they're hiding is lies. So that is talking about pretending, pretending to be what they are not.
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And we find that people will pretend to be good and they will lie. and And we have to watch out for that and look for what is on the inside. And how do we tell? By our fruit, by how people act.
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This is why the verse says, even a child is known by how he acts.
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You can tell if they are good if what they do is right. it's not just the words that come out of the mouth. It's our fruit. It's how we behave. It's how we treat others. And if we treat others consistently with good and love, then people will see our heart.
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If we are always saying nasty things about people, then people will be able to see that that is what is in our hearts. Because out of the mouth will come the overflow of the heart. And that's why and really like the one that says, let's see, I marked it here.
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Some people don't care if they hurt others. They may try to hide what they really like, and they may sound great, but don't believe them. Their hearts are full of bad things and lies hide their hate, but their sin will show up one day.
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That's the actions, the fruit. We can tell what Jesus says. We can tell who we are by the fruit that we produce.
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Let's see, what is the one that I really liked? I thought I had another one marked in here.
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Ah, yes, here we go. I had marked it so lightly I almost didn't see it. This one was my very favorite. This is the one that I really wanted to show for our daily application today.
Reflecting on Unexpected Events
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People who look for what's good, find what's good. people who look for what's bad find what's bad we talked a little bit the other day about keeping about um we need to guard what goes into our minds what we hear and what we see because we have to protect our minds and this is kind of along that same line we said well what do we Think about if if we are wanting to make sure that we are not hearing and just seeing bad things.
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And the Bible tells us that whatever is lovely, whatever is pure, whatever is beautiful, think about these things. If we are always thinking bad things, then we will be more inclined to find and look for bad things.
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But if we are thinking about good things, then we will be more likely to think and look for good things. I, oh, we're having an earthquake.
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Okay, well, my phone went off. It says yeah estimated magnitude 5.7, 5.7 miles away. And I think that is over. Well, thank you for that bit of excitement there as we were reading our Bible study today.
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Okay. We are in a very holy time right now. We are in the first day of Omer and we have ah just completed Passover.
Encouragement for Positive Engagement
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And we have Easter approaching, and so ah we should not be surprised that our Earth is having labor pains.
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And so it was just a very mild earthquake, so I'm very thankful for that. That is definitely one of the things that tends to make me a little more scared than other times. And... um I think that just about concludes our recording to- today as we finish talking about thinking about good things.
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And so I just want to make sure I i go back to our... um Keep on track here. Sorry, I'm having little trouble getting back on track there. That ah people who look for good things will find good things.
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So that should be our daily application today. and try look and think about good things and to not focus on bad things. So thank you for joining me today.
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