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The true nature of fasting

Isaiah 58:2-10 (NIV)
For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.

The very definition of cause and effect

Proverbs 16:4 (NET)
The Lord works everything for its own ends – even the wicked for the day of disaster.

The lord sees your motives

Proverbs 16:2 (NET)
All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.

God is the author of language

Proverbs 16:1 (NET)
The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

Work with wisdom!

Proverbs 14:35 (NET)
The king shows favor to a wise servant, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.

Plan not evil, but good

Proverbs 14:22 (NET)
Do not those who devise evil go astray? But those who plan good exhibit faithful covenant love.

Quick temperedness will hurt you

Proverbs 14:17 (NET)
A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.

There is always a price to backsliding

Proverbs 14:14 (NET)
The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

We cant always trust our judgment

Proverbs 14:12 (NET)
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

Make amends and give to others when you wrong them

Proverbs 14:9 (NET)
Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.

Use wisdom to discern all your ways

Proverbs 14:8 (NET)
The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

Intellectual arrogance is in opposition to wisdom

Proverbs 14:6 (NET)
The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.

P and PC Wisdom

Proverbs 14:4 (NET)
Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen.

Your words will protect you

Proverbs 14:3 (NET)
In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.

The wise woman!

Proverbs 14:1 (NET)
Every wise woman builds her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

Prophets menitioned

Ezra 5:1 (NET)
Then the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied concerning the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

The joy of unity

Psalm 133:1 (NIV)
How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity!

He remembers that we are dust

Psalm 103:14 (NIV)
for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

He has removed our sins completely

Psalm 103:12 (NIV)
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

God doesn't treat us as our sins deserve

Psalm 103:10 (NIV)
he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

I will yet praise him

Psalm 43:5 (NIV)
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Prayer when the nation is unfaithful

Psalm 43:1 (NIV)
Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.

Humility is key

Proverbs 12:9 (NIV)
Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

Pass it on

Psalm 102:18 (NIV)
Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the lord:

The King will return

Psalm 102:15-16 (NIV)
The nations will fear the name of the lord, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.