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Proverbs chapter 18 verse 15 says an intelligent heart acquires knowledge

and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. I love that

phrase at the very beginning of that that verse an intelligent heart and don't we

all want that like an intelligent heart?

Nobody wants a dumb heart.

All right? We want smart hearts like we want to have an intelligent heart.

Well if we're going to have an intelligent heart, we've got to realize

we need more knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks more knowledge. There's a humility

that marks the intelligent heart that realizes there's a lot of things I don't know.

There's a lot of areas I need to grow in, my knowledge and my wisdom and my understanding. And so I'm going to seek knowledge I'm going to acquire knowledge and this is wise.

So God we pray that you would guard us from thinking we know at all in any situation just

like we've seen in other proverbs like help us God we pray not to be wise in our own eyes but to be humble

Before you before others to realize that we have so much to learn in any and every circumstance.

I have so much to learn in life. So help us to learn, help us to acquire more knowledge, help us to seek more knowledge,

guard us from pride that says I've got it figured out. I think of so many times I'm prone to think

I got this one figured out and then I I do something

foolish and I have to repent before you before others so guard us from that kind of pride we pray give us a humility that

seeks knowledge and in the process of seeking knowledge and acquiring

knowledge we pray that our hearts would grow smarter, that we would grow to have more

intelligent hearts and that we would find wisdom in the

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