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between good and bad counsel and as I read this, I am just brought to my knees and I want to lead us in prayer.

In two ways, really one, that God would help each one of us to seek good counsel and to discern good

from not good counsel, even evil counsel, to discern wise counsel from unwise counsel.

We all need every single one of us needs good counselors around us, people who are speaking

into our lives and encouraging us to walk with God, who are wise, people who are walking with God.

We need that. And at the same time, the second way this verse leads me to pray is that God would

make me a good and wise counselor that God would help me and each of us to provide good, wise counsel

to people around us. And so let's pray for both of those knowing, knowing whenever we start to pray for

wisdom and for help from God in areas like this, really in every area, but specifically, God gives us

promises all throughout his word that when we ask for wisdom and for help to live wisely, he promises to

give us what we need. And so just like we pray all the time on this podcast, no reason for this

podcast is to be a daily reminder that when we pray according to God's word, he hears us and he

will answer according to what we ask in his word. So God, we come to you with second Chronicles 10,

before us with Rehoboam abandoning the counsel that was given him and taking counsel from people who

did not know what was good and wise and best. God, we pray according to your word and according to

your promises and James 1 to give us wisdom when we ask God, we confess our need for wisdom. We

confess that all of us are prone to foolishness to selfishness. So we pray and we plead, oh God,

for wisdom in our lives and we pray that you would provide wise counselors around us,

that you would grant us discernment to know the difference between wise and unwise counsel,

to filter every bit of counsel encouragement, advice we receive through your word and your

spirits discernment in our minds. God, we pray for that and at the same time we pray that you

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