Proverbs 6 & James 5

0:00Wisdom establishes before it directs. Welcome to wisdom daily meditation. This is a space to slow down and let God's wisdom establish what urgency cannot. This is your moment to be present as we sit with scripture today. Allow the word to steady your thoughts and gently order your day. Let be and be still and know, recognize and understand that God is God. Now, inhale and exhale. Let's begin. Proverbs 6. My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have

1:05struck your hands in pledge for a stranger, you are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. Read yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. Go to the ant you sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which having no chief, overseer or ruler, provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest. How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so your poverty will come as a robber and your scarcity as an armed man. A worthless person, a man of

2:10iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers, who's heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always soles discord. Therefore, his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. There are six things which Yahweh hates, yes, seven, which are an abomination to him. American eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift and running to mischief, a false witness who utters lies, and he who soes discord among brothers. My son, keep your father's commandment and don't forsake your mother's teaching. Find them continually on your heart, tie them around your neck. When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep,

3:13it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. Where the commandment is a lamp and the law is light. Reproves of instruction are the way of life, to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids, where a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread, adulterous hunts for your precious life, and a man's school fire into its lap and his clothes not be burned, or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched, so is he who goes into his neighbor's wife, whoever touches her will not be unpunished. Man, don't despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry, but if he is found, he shall restore seven times, he shall give all the wealth of his house. He who commits adultery with a woman is void of

4:19understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul, he will get wounds in dishonor, his reproach will not be wiped away, but jealousy arouses the fury of the husband, he won't spare in the day of vengeance, he won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, no you give many gifts. James 5, come now you rich, weep and how, for your miseries that are coming on you, your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eat, your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days, behold the wages of the laborers who mold your fields, which you have kept backed by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who greet have entered into the ears of the Lord of armies. You have lived in luxury on the earth

5:19and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your heart as in a day of slaughter, you have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one, he doesn't resist you, be patient therefore brothers until the coming of the Lord, behold the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late reign. You also be patient, establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord is at hand, don't grumble brothers against one so that you won't be judged, behold the judge stands at the door, take brothers for an example, a suffering and a perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, behold we call them blessed who endured, you have heard of the perseverance of joke and have seen the Lord in the outcome and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. But above all things my brothers don't swear not by heaven or by the earth or by any other

6:26oath but let your yes be yes and your no no so that you don't fall into hypocrisy. Is any among you suffering let him pray? Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick and the Lord will raise him up if he has committed sins he will be forgiven. Confess your offenses to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months prayed again and the sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit. Brothers if any among you

7:27wanders from the truth and someone turns him back let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. Thank you for listening to Wisdom Daily Meditation. If you desire to grow spiritually by staying rooted in scripture not rushing the word but letting it take root I invite you to continue this practice with us on youtube at youtube.com or slash at the renewal web. There we gather weekdays at 6.30 a.m. Pacific time for our devotional reset reading the word slowly returning to it daily and allowing scripture to form how we listen discern and live. This is a space for nourishment before movement so wisdom can be received and obedience can be steady I look forward to meeting you

8:32there and may the Lord bless you and keep you may the Lord cause his space to shine upon you and be gracious to you may the Lord lift up his countenance towards you and give you peace have an amazing day