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Trust the Lord in ALL your Ways!

May 6, 2023

Proverbs 3:5-7Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths{make straight your footsteps/paths}. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.
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Do not be wise in your own eyes
Lean not on your own understanding
Acknowledge the Lord in all your ways
Let Him direct our steps according to His word –Ps 119:133
His word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path –Ps 119:105
His words are Spirit and Life –Jn 6:63
Keep in step with His Holy Spirit and Live! –Gal 5:25
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Galations 5:25 NLT … If we are living now by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
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Psalm 119:105,107 AMPC … Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. … I am sorely afflicted; renew and quicken me [give me life], O Lord, according to Your word!
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Word Study
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From NetBible Proverbs 20:24A person’s steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way?
* To say that one’s steps are ordained by the Lord means that one’s course of actions, one’s whole life, is divinely prepared and sovereignly superintended{managed} (Gen 50:26; Pro 3:6). Ironically, one is not actually in control of his own steps{paths}.
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From BibleHub Proverbs 20:24
*One’s goings are of the Lord.–Comp. Jeremiah 10:23 and the collect, “O God, from whom . . . all just works do proceed.”
How can a man then understand his own way?–i.e., how he should go. So much the more reason for the prayer of Psalm 25:3-5, “Shew me thy ways, O Lord.” (Psalm 119:33; 143:7-10.)
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From NetBible Ps 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet{ to walk by} and a light to{illumine} my path.
word[01697] = speech, saying, utterance, commandment
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From NetBible John 6:63It is the Spirit who gives life{quickens}; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
*Spirit[4151] = breath {of the wind}, Holy Spirit, emphasizes work and power of the Spirit of Truth[4154] = to breathe, to blow – {of the wind}
*gives life[2227] = quickens, makes alive, restore life, revitalize
** seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing up, growing
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