Day Twenty
Strength for the Day
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Overcomer's Confession
Strength 20: PLAN (the work)
Joseph thought ahead and developed a plan.
A plan speaks of a commitment to the future, a belief in a better day yet ahead.
A plan tells us what to do next and keeps us on course.
Focus: Genesis 41:35 "And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 "Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine."
Truth: If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
1
Wine is a mocker,
Strong drink is a brawler,
And whoever is led astray by it
is not wise.
2 The wrath[a]
of a king is like the roaring of a lion;
Whoever provokes him to anger
sins against his own life.
3 It is honorable
for a man to stop striving,
Since any fool can start a quarrel.
4 The lazy man
will not plow because of winter;
He will beg during harvest and have
nothing.
5 Counsel in the heart
of man is like deep water,
But a man of understanding will
draw it out.
6 Most men will proclaim
each his own goodness,
But who can find a faithful man?
7 The righteous
man walks in his integrity;
His children are blessed
after him.
8 A king who sits
on the throne of judgment
Scatters all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, “I
have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin”?
10 Diverse weights
and diverse measures,
They are both alike, an abomination
to the LORD.
11 Even a child is
known by his deeds,
Whether what he does is pure
and right.
12 The hearing ear
and the seeing eye,
The LORD has made them both.
13 Do not love sleep,
lest you come to poverty;
Open your eyes, and you will
be satisfied with bread.
14 “ It is
good for nothing,”[b]
cries the buyer;
But when he has gone his way, then
he boasts.
15 There is gold and
a multitude of rubies,
But the lips of knowledge are
a precious jewel.
16 Take the garment
of one who is surety for a stranger,
And hold it as a pledge when
it is for a seductress.
17 Bread gained by
deceit is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be
filled with gravel.
18 Plans are established
by counsel;
By wise counsel wage war.
19 He who goes about
as a talebearer reveals secrets;
Therefore do not associate with
one who flatters with his lips.
20 Whoever curses
his father or his mother,
His lamp will be put out in deep
darkness.
21 An inheritance
gained hastily at the beginning
Will not be blessed at the end.
22 Do not say, “I
will recompense evil”;
Wait for the LORD, and He will save
you.
23 Diverse weights
are an abomination to the LORD,
And dishonest scales are
not good.
24 A man’s steps
are of the LORD;
How then can a man understand his
own way?
25 It is a
snare for a man to devote rashly something as holy,
And afterward to reconsider his
vows.
26 A wise king sifts
out the wicked,
And brings the threshing wheel over
them.
27 The spirit of a
man is the lamp of the LORD,
Searching all the inner depths of
his heart.[c]
28 Mercy and truth
preserve the king,
And by lovingkindness he upholds
his throne.
29 The glory of young
men is their strength,
And the splendor of old men is
their gray head.
30 Blows that hurt
cleanse away evil,
As do stripes the inner depths
of the heart.[d]
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