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December 6 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will finish reading the book of Jacob (James) with Chapters 3:3-18, Chapter 4:1-10, 13-17, and Chapter 5:1-9, and 13-19.
Today we will read about how our mouths are like double edged swords- both good and bad things come out of our mouths.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the big picture of how important it is to guard what we hear and see because they influence our thoughts. What we spend time thinking about becomes what is in our hearts. Jesus taught us that what is in our hearts overflows and comes out of our mouths. This leads us to today's reading of taking control of our tongues so that we don't say hurtful things. Hurtful words come from thinking judgmental thoughts about the person we are thinking about. Then we say those hurtful, judgmental, accusatory words. These words come from satan, whose name means "accuser." When we are accusing others we are doing satan's work. Instead, we need to be kind, forgiving, loving, thoughtful, like God and Jesus are! There are right ways to use our mouths and there are wrong ways to use our mouths. We need to work on using our mouths for building one another up, not tearing one another down.
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Introduction and Encouragement
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Hello again, everybody. Today is the daily recording for December 6th. My name is Robin. I'm within the Family Way Coaching, and I am delighted to bring you today's daily reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible, written by Karen Henley.
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I hope you have been having a fantastic day, whatever day you get around to watching or listening to today's daily reading.
Daily Reading Practices
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I hope that you have been recognizing the different opportunities that God is giving you to practice the things that we have been learning in our daily oblig applications.
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And if you are using your calendar, go ahead and get that out and get your sticker ready or your crayon, your marker, your pencil, your pen, whatever it is you are using to cross off those days.
Teachings on the Mouth
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because we're going to hear the Bible today.
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We are going to be completing the letter from James, ah who, as we learned yesterday, actually translates from from Jacob in in the original writings, not Demetrius, which is James.
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And today we are going to be reading chapters three, four, and five, which will complete his letter. Today we're going to be reading some more of my favorite teachings today.
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We are going to be learning about the mouth. The mouth is a double-edged sword. We do nice things with it. We say nice things with it. And then we also say bad things with it.
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There is nothing that can hurt someone so much as careless words, thoughtless words, unkind words, rude words, hurtful words. And yet at the same time, we can also say something nice to someone who is standing right next to the person that we were just saying nasty things to.
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And with that same mouth, we also praise God. So James is going to be talking with us today about the fact that how we should not be using our mouth and how we should be using our mouth.
Analogies of Control
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So this is a great daily application for us today. So with that in mind, let's head up the Bible and begin our reading today. i am going to include, I think a little bit of the chapter as it starts in our big Bible rather than beginning in our little Bible.
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Chapter three.
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Oh, no, we don't need that. Oh, yes. We all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in speech, then he is a perfect man, able to control the whole body as well.
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We can put bits into the mouth mouths of horses, and that's the way that we make them obey us. We can turn the whole horse around by using a bit.
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A bit is a piece of metal in the tongue, in the mouth of the horse. Like that, I think it goes under, but i'm not sure.
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But we control the whole horse by putting a piece of metal in the mouth. And think about ships. They are so big.
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And strong winds blow them across the water. But there is a small thing underneath the ship called a rudder. It goes like this left and right.
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And it makes the ship go wherever the captain wants it to go. And it's the same way with your mouth. Your mouth is just a small part of your whole body, but it talks big.
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And a small fire can burn down a whole forest. Your mouth is like a fire. Think of all the parts of your body.
Consistency in Speech
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It's your mouth that can bring the most pain. It can make you sin, and the bad things you say come from hell. And it's as if hell has set your mouth on fire.
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People can train all kinds of animals. They can train sea animals and birds and animals that crawl. But nobody can train mouth. It doesn't rest.
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It can be full of hurtful things to say. We praise God with our mouths. And then we turn right around and say bad things about people. and the people are made to look like God.
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Good words and bad words come from the same mouth, and it should not be this way. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same river?
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No. Can you get olives from a fig tree? No. Can you get figs from a grape vine? No.
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Are you wise? Then show it. Or do you understand? Then show it by living God's way and do things that are wise.
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What if anger lives deep inside your heart? And what if it is there because you wanna be like other people? And what if you just think about yourself?
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And what if you want to make yourself great? Then don't say it's not so. And don't brag about it. That is not wise.
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That is what worldly people do. Satan starts things like that. And when you want to be like others, then you are actually asking for trouble.
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When you think about just yourself, you are also asking for trouble. And when you want to be great, you are asking for trouble. Things will get out of order and it brings all kinds of sin.
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Now here's what comes with heaven's wise thinking. First, you're spotless and clean without sin. And then you love peace.
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You put others first. You let your leaders lead you. And you are full of kindness. And good things happen when you are around.
Living Wisely and Humbly
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You are fair. You say what is true. and people who make peace are like farmers. They plant shalom.
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and then they pick a crop of doing what is right.
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Where do quarrels and conflicts come from? What makes you fuss and fight? Fussing and fighting comes from wanting things.
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You want something, but you don't get it. And then you don't have it. And you don't ask God for it. That's why you don't have it.
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And then when you do ask God for it, you don't get it, and that's because you're asking him for the wrong reasons. You just want whatever it is just to make yourself feel good. And you are turning away from God.
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Don't you know? If you are the world's friend, then you hate God. People who are the world's friends are God's enemies.
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And people have a problem with wanting to be like others. But God is kind to us. And there's a wise saying from God's word that puts it this way.
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God is against people who think that they are the greatest. God is kind to people who know that they are not great.
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Let God lead you and turn away from Satan. Then Satan will run away from you. Instead, come close to God and then he will come close to you.
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You people who sin, clean up your hearts, be sorry, cry and stop laughing about it. Stop being glad for what you have done.
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Let God know that he is the most important to you and then he will make you important to him.
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You might say, today we'll go here and tomorrow we'll go there and oh, and we'll have a business and we'll make money. But you don't really know what is going to happen tomorrow.
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That's what we would call big talk. Your life is like a fog. It just comes for a little while and then it fades away.
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And so instead, you should say that if God wants, then we will do this. And if God wants, then we will do that.
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But you are bragging, and that is wrong.
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So whoever knows things are that are right, and who knows the right thing to do, and does not do it, for him, it is sin.
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When we know that we are supposed to do good, but we don't do it, we are sinning.
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Now you rich people listen. You can cry because of what's coming to you. You will see that your riches are rotten. Moths ate up your clothes and your gold and rust your gold and silver rusted away.
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And it all shows that you held on to your riches. Look! You didn't pay the people who worked for you, and that says bad things about you. The workers cried about it, and God heard them.
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You lived with riches all around you, and you bought whatever you wanted. You made yourself fat, and now it's time to pay for it. You blamed people who did nothing wrong, and you killed people who were not even against you.
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But everyone who follows Jesus should wait quietly. Wait until the Lord comes. Look at the farmer.
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He waits for a good crop to grow. He waits for rain in the spring and the fall. So you can wait too. Hold on.
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The Lord is coming soon. So don't fuss with each other. If you do, then God will judge you for it. He is right at the door.
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How should we use our mouths? That's my interjection there. That's not written there. So how
Purposeful Use of Words
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should we use our mouths? We've talked a lot about what what we should not be doing with our mouths.
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James tells us, are you in trouble? Then pray. Are you happy? Then sing praise songs. Are you sick?
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Ask the leaders of the church to pray for you and ask them to put oil on you, anoint you in Jesus' name. Believe and pray.
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And sick people will get well. God will make them well. And then if they have sinned, God will forgive them. And if you have sinned, say so.
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Pray for each other, and then God will make you well. A person who is right with God can pray a powerful prayer, and it does a lot of good.
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For example, Elijah was a person just like us, and he prayed with all of his heart that it would not rain. And it did not rain.
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It didn't rain for three and a half years. Then Elijah prayed again and the rain came and crops grew again.
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going to insert our big Bible here.
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My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you strays from the truth and someone turns him back, let him know that the one who turns a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sin.
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And I added that in there as part of our reading, even though it's not part of our condensed version, because it's it's very important um to remember that that's using our mouth.
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And when we, ah because we just learned recently that all of God's word is useful for teaching and correction. So if we use God's word, which means we are speaking to another person, that is a good way to use our mouth.
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And we've spoken in the past ah about the correct way to give correction. It's not to be done with judgment, but the goal of correction is reconciliation between the believer and God, as well as reconciliation with the believer and the other believers in our family.
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And so when we do that, then James is explaining to us that if we have turned someone from the error of his ways, then we have saved that person's soul from death and covered a multitude of sins because Jesus forgives all of the sins that that person committed.
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And that is something that's done with our mouth. So it's the right way to deal with our mouth, to use it properly. And I wanted to be sure and include that.
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So what do you think? The mouth can be a double-edged sword doing both good and bad. It is so hard to tame a mouth. Mouths are snippy.
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But you know what? We've been talking this year about the fact that we need to protect our minds. That Jesus told us that we cannot even think about sinful things. Because when we think about them, then what happens is we end up doing them.
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And Jesus teaches us that out of the mouth comes the overflow of the heart. So the only way that we can control our mouth is to be filled up inside by thinking about things that are good, which we've learned recently as well, that whatever is wonderful, whatever is lovely, whatever is beautiful, whatever is good, whatever is praiseworthy, these are the things that we need to be thinking of.
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When we spend our time thinking judgmental thoughts about others, then that's what comes out of our mouths. And that's often what we are doing when we are talking to somebody. We are accusing them of things. And that is coming from Satan.
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How do we know that? Because he is the adversary. He is the accuser. That's what hasatan means. In Hebrew, they say hasatan. meaning the, ha, meaning the Satan, the Satan, the accuser.
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He is the accuser. So when we are judging people, we are accusing them of doing something. And when we are doing that, that is Satan. It is not God. God is not accusing us. He forgives us He can correct us with his spirit and he can, I'm drawing a blank as to the word at this exact second, convict us. There we go. Our spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for giving me that word.
Judgment vs. Conviction
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our The Holy Spirit convicts us.
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That is not the same word as accuse. So when we are accusing somebody, we are doing Satan's work. Our mouth is like a fire.
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And it spreads and it burns. Nobody likes to feel accused or judged. You are bad. You are mean. That's a judgment. That's an accusation. That is hasatan.
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That is not of God. So when we sit there, and even though we may not be saying it out loud, eventually, i have noticed this even in myself, it's terrible. Whatever it is that you spend time thinking about, that's what ends up popping out of your mouth, whether you realize it's going to come out at that moment or not. If you are thinking judgmental or rumpy thoughts about someone, one It is hard to keep them inside. You just want to say what is on your mind. Let me give you a piece of my mind.
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Well, how about if the piece of our mind we are giving people is praise songs, praying for someone, asking someone to pray for you, asking someone to anoint you
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Those are the things that are good for us to do with our mouths. We need to submit to God and be thoughtful of others. And we can't just be thoughtful of others and be kind to others unless it starts up here in the mind.
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So that's why it is so important. This is why it is all coming together for us in the pit in the big picture. That we we need to think carefully.
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thoughtful thoughts and whatever is pleasant and to mind our thoughts and guard them with that helmet of truth and know that it is not our position to judge people because we cannot see people's hearts.
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It is difficult sometimes. And so we need to catch ourselves and take control of every thought. I think it was Paul who taught us that because when we do that,
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then what will come out of our mouths the will be the overflow of our heart, which will be good. And it's amazing, James tells us today, that although we can train every kind of animal and we can lead an entire horse or a big ship by putting just a little tiny thing in the mouth or with a little tiny rudder, then we cannot seem to manage to control our mouths.
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So I hope that you are encouraged to see how everything is working together so that you can have understanding of the truth. And when we have understanding of why it is important to make all of these choices, to see how extensive our choices are, or how far they go, that when just thinking those thoughts can really cause bad things to happen because then we end up bleh, spouting out bad things.
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We end up talking big and bragging about things that we shouldn't be bragging about. And instead, when we understand the big picture, and we're thinking about more than just ourselves as james said we don't want to just think about ourselves in fact everybody has said it so far in the bible that we if we are only thinking about ourselves then we're not looking at the big picture we need to be looking at the big picture Because when we are doing that, then it helps make the decision easier when we are faced with these situations every day.
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it helps us to make our choices easier for us as we think about it and we take captive those thoughts and we control them and we say, you know what? I know I really want to be thinking about how irritated I am with that person right now, but I need to not be judging them because that's what I am doing.
00:21:44
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And Jesus says not to do that. So I'm going to start changing my mind. We call that changing the channel. We talked about early this year and say, I don't have to think about this.
Transforming Negative Thoughts
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I don't have to. Instead, we deliberately choose to think about something different and we change the channel. And our mind may come back to wanting to switch that channel back over as we're flipping through thoughts, but we need to take those thoughts captive. And when every time they come back, we catch ourselves and we control those thoughts and we say, I don't need to think about that. I'm going to change the channel.
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knowing that we are not going to give the devil a foothold. When we take those thoughts and we entertain them, we are giving him a foothold. And we wanna be sure that we are not doing that because it will spread like a fire, James tells us to- today.
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And that little fire that starts with a spark can burn down a whole forest. Meaning that once those thoughts start, they just whoosh, they take over. And then before you know it, you're you're irritable and grumpy and it escalates inside.
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Before you know it, you're grumpy. And not that we don't get grumpy sometimes, but look at what made you grumpy. It was because you were focusing on thoughts that you shouldn't have been entertaining, needed to take time to change the channel.
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And it's not an easy discipline. It is one we have to work on our entire lives because none of us is perfect. And it's,
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a complicated thing to do, but we are meant to do be submitting to God and doing things his way. God has all power. So his mouth could be used to deliver meanness and unkindness, but yet he is not. He is kind.
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God speaks lovingly. Everything he does, he works to good. So if our heavenly father, who is capable being of being ah you know, strong-armed and mean and and has every right to judge us and to tell us, you know, we're misbehaving.
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And instead, he corrects us with gentleness. If he can do it, then we need to work at doing it too. because he has a whole lot more people that he has to deal with than we do. He could be irritable and grumpy and and angry about people all the time with all of the sins that we commit all the time.
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But instead, God says he prefers mercy. He desires mercy more than sacrifice. He desired mercy. So he sent Jesus to save us from our sins so that he is angry with us no more.
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We are spotless and clean. So we have big examples to take from. And he wants us to follow his examples because he is our good shepherd.
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He leads us by example. And remember that as we go through our days, we are also supposed to lead by example. We could build on and on and on to this big picture.
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And it starts with controlling our thoughts so that we don't let what is in our heart come out of our mouths and be terrible. We want what comes out of our mouths to be loving and kind and speaking to one another with psalms and hymns and praises.
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not with accusations and judgments and snappy things. So I hope that you feel encouraged and convicted that we need to try to keep those tongues under control by first controlling our thoughts.
00:25:44
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and protecting what goes in. So if people talk to us about somebody and and we need to stop them and say, I really don't want to listen to this because we need to protect what goes into our ears.
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We need to protect what goes into our eyes so that we can protect the thoughts that are going on in our head. We need to be strong with that spirit of power And not a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love and of power and our sound mind to be able to say, please don't talk about things like that. I don't want to hear them.
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They are not what I am wanting to listen to because i they're not right for me to listen to. I need to protect my mind. So please don't talk to me about those things. It's not okay for me to hear them.
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And it it can be a struggle to do that, but we can do it. I know you can.
Prayer for Guidance
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Lord, I pray that you would protect our minds and give us strength in you to give us the words with your so from your spirit that when we hear people speaking or to us or around us about things that are worldly, that are judgmental, that are hurtful, that are unkind, that are gossipy, that you strengthen us, Lord, by asking, by helping us to step away from situations so that we do not hear them. Please strengthen our thoughts, Lord, so that we do not entertain them.
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Protect our mind with your helmet of truth and so that we do not... Give in to these temptations so that our hearts will not be filled with these types of thoughts, so that in turn our mouths will not speak them.
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But instead, Lord, fill us with your Holy Spirit and give us kindness and love and the other fruits of your Spirit, patience and peace. Your shalom is only you can give us so that what comes out of our mouth is prayers for others,
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It is kindness. It is encouragement that nothing will come out that does not build up another person. We do not tear down people with the with the words in our outcome that come out of our mouths.
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Help us to love and to speak the way you speak, Lord. And it's in Jesus's name that I pray this for all of us listening to today. Amen.
Conclusion and Invitation
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Well, thank you for joining me today for our daily reading here on December 6th out of the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley. And I hope that you will be hungry to come back again and hear tomorrow's daily reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible as we begin the book of Jude tomorrow.
00:28:33
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We will be actually, ah that's a very, very short book. And it is only, it looks like one chapter long. So we will read both Jude and then begin the book of 1 Peter tomorrow.
00:28:49
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So I hope you will join me for that. So in the meantime, whatever day you are getting around to watching or listening to today's daily reading, I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day. Very blessed and full of God's Holy Spirit of peace.
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He says, peace I leave with you, not as peace as the world gives, but peace as he gives that transcends all understanding. So in Jesus's name, I pray for you to have shalom until we see each until we have our next daily reading.