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🗓️ 8 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:10.6 | Did you discover anything good in our reading today? I bet you did, and I hope that whatever it was, |
0:18.5 | you'll spend some more time thinking about it today. Because Proverbs 1620 says, |
0:23.2 | whoever gives thought to the word will discover good. |
0:26.7 | Ponder the word, dwell in it and let it dwell in you. |
0:29.5 | Be intentional about it. |
0:30.8 | Wisdom is never an accident. |
0:33.3 | One of the things I noticed that I want to spend more time thinking about |
0:36.1 | showed up twice in Proverbs 16, and it's the idea of sweetness of speech. |
0:41.6 | Verse 21 says, the wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness. |
0:49.1 | Verse 24 says, |
0:51.1 | Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. |
0:56.8 | I don't know if you've ever eaten honeycomb or not, not the cereal, but it's amazing and |
1:01.4 | super healthy. I want to speak words like that, gracious, sweet, life-giving words. It's so easy |
1:08.9 | to default to sarcasm or slander or skepticism, but I want him to transform |
1:13.7 | my heart in such a way that it flows out of my mouth. And God knows speech control and self-control |
1:19.8 | go hand in hand. Verse 32 points to that as well. It says, whoever is slow to anger is better than the |
1:26.3 | mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he |
1:29.3 | who takes a city. |
1:30.9 | This proverb points out that it's more challenging to control ourselves than to win a war against |
1:36.5 | others. |
1:37.4 | What? |
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