Bible study on Thursday nights we're in the book of Proverbs having completed the Psalms in our

trek through the Bible book by book and chapter by chapters so we're going to try and take and

tackle Lord willing two more chapters tonight we left off last week in Proverbs chapter 3 so we'll

pick it up in chapter 4 and Lord will they make it through to

chapter 5 so why don't we pray and we'll ask God to bless our time together in his word

thank you, so much. Lord, I want to thank you again for our prayer meeting on Tuesday night.

Lord, I want to thank you that there was clearly a powerful presence of the Holy Spirit in our time together in prayer.

And Lord, we're even now thanking you in advance for all that we know by faith you're going to do because we prayed on Tuesday night.

We're looking even now to those good reports that are going to come,

some of which are already coming in.

We're already getting praise reports of answered prayer from our prayer meeting on Tuesday night,

both locally here with our church Ohana and then our online church as well. And so Lord, we cannot thank you enough for that.

Lord, tonight we need for you to help us by the Holy Spirit to concentrate.

I know many of us have had a busy day and are tired and exhausted and Lord we just need for

the Holy Spirit to give us an energy and an alertness so we can focus

and concentrate and hear what it is that the Spirit would say to us, your church, So Lord speak we pray in and through your word

into our lives in Jesus name amen. All right chapter four let's jump in

here my children the instruction of a father, and give attention to no understanding.

For I give you good doctrine, do not forsake my law. When I was my father's son, tender, and the only one in the side of my mother,

you know who he's talking about, by the way, right? This is Solomon, right?

You know who his mom and dad were? David and Bathsheba, which is interesting. And I highlight that

because Solomon was born to Bathsheba who was now married to David, King David,

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