Sharon Sharing God: PROVERBS PARAPHRASE

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

PROVERBS PARAPHRASE

My heart is like a stream of water directed by the LORD.

May He guide it wherever He pleases.

I might be right in my own eyes - but the LORD examines my heart.

He is more pleased when I do what is right and just, than when I give Him "sacrifices."

Arrogant superiority, a proud heart, and evil actions are all sin.

I will stay away from them.

Rather, I will plan well and work hard.

For I know that hasty and compromising shortcuts lead to poverty - in spirit and in life.

The guilty and the wicked walk a crooked path.

I will travel a straight road.

If you instruct the wise, they will be all the wiser.

Lord, give me Your wisdom.

The Righteous One knows what is going on.

I will pursue righteousness and unfailing love - for that is how I will find life and honor.

Some people are greedy for more, but I will love to give!

Mockers are proud and act with boundless arrogance.

Lord, teach me to be humble.

I will watch my tongue and keep my mouth shut.

I will think before I act.

I will stay out of trouble.

I will not be lazy.

No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the LORD.

Therefore I will prepare for the day of battle, but I will let the LORD fight.

Victory belongs to Him.

(My paraphrase of selected verses from Proverbs 21)

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8 comments:

DebbieMay 4, 2011 at 4:16 AM
"I will watch my tongue and keep my mouth shut.
I will think before I act.
I will stay out of trouble"

This is written like one of those "I will" punishments that teachers would make you write 100 times.

Think I'll get started...
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bettyMay 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM
aren't the Proverbs wonderful? So much wisdom in there if we would just take it to heart and follow some of it (the ones about the quarrelsome wife always gets my attention, LOL)

great paraphrasing of them Sharon!

betty
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Chatty CroneMay 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM
I will watch my tongue and keep my mouth shut.
I will think before I act.
I will stay out of trouble.

I will watch my tongue and keep my mouth shut.
I will think before I act.
I will stay out of trouble.

I will watch my tongue and keep my mouth shut.
I will think before I act.
I will stay out of trouble.

I will try!

sandie
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UnknownMay 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM
That's what I love about paraphrasing verses from the Bible in our own words, we are so much more apt to actually apply what God is teaching us...

Shay
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lioneagleMay 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Hi Sharon -

Philippians 4:1 - KJV
...stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
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SharonMay 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Debbie - You're right! This does sound like one of those teacher things. I've already started my writing...do you have more chalk??

Betty - So, you noticed that I left out the quarrelsome wife, huh?! :)
I find it so instructive to personalize the psalms and proverbs. It helps me take them to heart. And yes, how much better would we be if we really followed their wisdom!

Sandie - Good girl! Repetition makes it sink in. Boy oh boy - how often has my tongue and my haste gotten me into trouble? (That's a rhetorical question. If you really start to count, you're gonna need a calculator!)

Shay - I love doing this. I have been (pleasantly) surprised at what I've learned from *familiar* passages when I make them personal. And isn't that really what God's Word is all about? It is alive, and it's supposed to *speak* His words to us. Praying, that as you said, I can actually apply those words!

Sandra - Such a great verse. I needed to hear just that today. Thank you.

GOD BLESS!
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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

PROVERBS PARAPHRASE

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