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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">November 22, 2012</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>JUL
7 - PROVERBS 25-29 - SOLOMON: COPIED BY HEZEKIAH</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
25:28 (25, ESV) PROVERBS FOR PILGRIMS. <font size="3">“A man
without self-control is like a city broken into and left without
walls.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father, this
is a serious word You have spoken unto us. And how can we rule our
spirits except we first deliberately, voluntarily, sacrificially and
</span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">joyfully</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
turn our body over to You as a daily, living sacrifice? Unless we
daily deny ourself, take up our cross and follow You? </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Then</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
all Your promises begin to come true, and we can </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
26:22 (26) PROVERBS MAJORING ON THE TONGUE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into
the inner parts of the body.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we know the hurt and harm that comes to us through the sin of a
talebearer against us. We choose to forgive him this sin. And Father,
we choose with Your help to walk in Psalm 141:3, and not sin against
our brother. And where we have sinned in this respect, please forgive
us and guide us in making restitution. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
27:17 (27:1-17) PROVERBS OF WISDOM. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Iron
sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
acknowledge O Father, that we cannot be our best for You apart from
earnest, honest and friendly discussion. We have blind spots and need
this ministry, to be our best for You. By engaging in this, we have
no doubt it will increase our joy! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
27:21 (27:18-27) PROVERBS ON DILIGENCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is
tested by his praise.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
fining-pot refines silver, and the furnace gold; but praise to a man,
whether his own or others, refines him according as he receives it.
Father, let another man praise us, and not our own mouth, and let it
humble and refine us; for it is You in us being praised! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
28:2 (28) PROVERBS OF PRACTICALITIES. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“When
a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of
understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">See
how king Saul brought blood-guiltiness on the land, but David atoned
for his sin (2 Samuel 21:1-14). Father, help us to search out areas
where the land has been polluted, and bring 2 Chronicles 7:14 and
Daniel 9 to </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">bear</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Be also our armor! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
29:7 (29:1-14) PROVERBS OF RELATIONSHIPS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“A
righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not
understand such knowledge.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, let us continually see the needs spiritual and natural </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">of
both believers and unbelievers. Let us consider how You would help
them through us. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
29:17 (29:15-27) PROVERBS FOR CHILDREN. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Discipline
your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your
heart.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You love us enough to discipline us, that we might mature
spiritually, and become sons of glory. We thank You for Your faithful
love in discipline. We choose to do the same for our children, both
natural and spiritual. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one.</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
29:18 (29:15-27) PROVERBS FOR CHILDREN. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Where
there is no vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he
who keeps the law.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, give us a </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">progressive</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
vision. For the path of the just lights us increasing</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ly</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
We choose to let Your Word lead us into praise and prayer daily! </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 7:17 (7) IN YOU DO I TAKE REFUGE! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I
will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will
sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we are humbled by the revelation of Your Greatness, Your
righteousness and Your highness. And yet You have humbled Yourself to
become like one of us, that we might become the righteousness of God
in You, O Christ. Such love is beyond us! Therefore, we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">It
appears probable that Cush the Benjamite had accused David to Saul of
treasonable conspiracy against his royal authority. This may
be called the “Song of the Slandered Saint.” Even this sorest of
evils may furnish occasion for a Psalm.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">7:1
<i><b>O Lord my God, in You do I put my trust! </b></i><span style="font-style:normal">The
case is here opened with an avowal of confidence in God. Whatever may
be the emergency of our condition, we shall never find it amiss to
retain our reliance upon our God. </span><i><b>“O Lord, </b></i><i><u><b>my</b></u></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
God”</b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
- mine by a special covenant, sealed by Jesus’ blood, and ratified
in my own soul by a sense of union to You; </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>in
You, </b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
in You only </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>do
I put my trust, </b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
even now in my sore distress. I shake, but my rock moves not. It is
never right to distrust God and never vain to trust Him! </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">7:2
</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Lest he tear
my soul like a lion</b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
There was one among David’s foes mightier than the rest. From this
foe, he urgently seeks deliverance. Perhaps this was Saul, his royal
enemy; but in our cas</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">e</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
there is one who goes about like a lion, seeking whom he may devour,
concerning whom we should cry, “Deliver us from the evil
one.” </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Rending
it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. </b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">This
is a soul-moving portrait of a saint delivered over to the will of
Satan. This will make the bowels of Jehovah yearn. A father cannot be
silent when a child is in such peril. It will be well for us here to
remember that this is a description of the danger to which the
Psalmist was exposed from slanderous tongues. Slander leaves a slur,
even if it be wholly disproved. If God was slandered in </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">E</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">den,
we shall surely be maligned in this land of sinners. If we would live
without being slandered, we must wait till we get to heaven!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">7:11
</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>God is angry
with the wicked every day.</b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
We have no insensible and stolid God to deal with; He can be angry;
no, He </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u>is</u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
angry today and every day with you, you ungodly and impenitent
sinners. The best day that ever dawns on a sinner brings a curse with
it!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">7:13
</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Instruments
of death</b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>.
</b></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Remember, God’s arrows never miss the mark, and are every one of
them “instruments of death.”</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">7:14
</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>He made a
pit, and dug it. </b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">He
stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own
hands; he was willing to work in a ditch if others might fall
therein. What mean things men will do to wreak vengeance on the
godly!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">7:16.
</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>His mischief
shall return upon his own head.</b></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Ashes always fly back in the face of him that throws them. - from
“The Treasury of David” by Charles Spurgeon, abridged by David O.
Fuller.</span></span></font></font></p>
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