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Strength for the Day
Video
Version
Overcomer's
Confession
Strength Five: PRESENTATION
Your life is a commercial for you.
You are writing the story others will one day tell about you.
Focus:
Genesis 39:2 And the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man
Truth:
What made Joseph a good buy on the auction block of his life?
It could have been the way he presented himself, even in the dark hours
of his soul.
The set jaw of
a dreamer with a destiny.
Joseph knew that
he was somebody going somewhere.
Its
not what you are going through, but how you go through it.
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Proverbs
5
The
Peril of Adultery
1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
Lend your ear to my understanding,
2 That you may preserve
discretion,
And your lips may keep knowledge.
3 For the lips of an
immoral woman drip honey,
And her mouth is smoother than
oil;
4 But in the end she
is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to
death,
Her steps lay hold of hell.[a]
6 Lest you ponder
her path of life
Her ways are unstable;
You do not know them.
7 Therefore hear me
now, my children,
And do not depart from the words of
my mouth.
8 Remove your way far
from her,
And do not go near the door of her
house,
9 Lest you give your
honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest aliens be filled
with your wealth,
And your labors go to the house
of a foreigner;
11 And you mourn at
last,
When your flesh and your body are
consumed,
12 And say:
How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
13 I have not obeyed
the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed
me!
14 I was on the verge
of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
15 Drink water from
your own cistern,
And running water from your own well.
16 Should your fountains
be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only
your own,
And not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain
be blessed,
And rejoice with the wife of your
youth.
19 As a loving
deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all
times;
And always be enraptured with her
love.
20 For why should you,
my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
21 For the ways of man
are before the eyes of the LORD,
And He ponders all his paths.
22 His own iniquities
entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his
sin.
23 He shall die for
lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly
he shall go astray.
Footnotes:
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Proverbs 5:5 Or Sheol
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