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Proverbs 17 of our 31 Proverbs in 31 days


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Good evening Believers, Hearers, and Doers of Gods word. What's your read/study?

I had a revelation while reading the beginning of Proverbs 17! God instructs us to be hearers and doers of His word because if and when we don't, we are more likely to become EVILDOERS!! I've noticed this more and more in todays time. It's so easy when you don't know God nor do you work to know God! We can slip into the acts of evildoing so easily. 

Not everyone is listening to your worries, fears, complaints, concerns, or needs to HELP you and find solutions! Some are learning how to repeat it, become it, and grow it! Where you can hear God instructions for change and growth. They focus on the wickedness of it. 

People will listen to the wrong that has divided us or the concerns that harm us and use it as a tool of leverage to elevate themselves and it's evil in this world. We say what the devil meant for bad God turns around and works it for our good! But those far from God are being used by the enemy to listen to the wrong and extend its evil ways. Therefore being doers of evil because they fail to be in Gods word, fear God and Do His will. They carefully listen and pays attention to the wicked and liars. They pay attention and learn.

This is why it is so important to BELIVE, LISTEN, HEAR, and DO GOD's Word!!! 

"An evildoer listens closely to wicked lips; And a liar pays attention to destructive and malicious tongue." Proverbs 17: 3

"The refining is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the Lord tests hearts." Proverbs 17: 4


Dangerous....is not having Godly wisdom! Dangerous is anyone who can not and does not learn from his mistakes nor direction. 

Proverbs 17:10 KJV

[10] A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Smart people learn more from a single correction than fools learn from a hundred beatings.

Finishing Proverbs 17 and verse 22, 27, and 28 are so important to meditate on. Verse 22 reminds us that a happy  is good medicine and a joyful  causes healing. We get so busy with life and boggled down in the stressors of life that we fail to see the simplicity of what's good for the body and soul. We have so many sick with disease and ailments who are on all kinds of medicine! But I believe we've all witnessed the natural medicine a happy heart provides the body. A laugh, smile, good news, peace, or just meditation. We have to do better at guarding the heart and it's happiness because that happiness has the medicinal power to drive out illness. A happy heart leads to a joyful mind which causes healing! Healing of the mind, strengthening of the mind, focus of the mind, and the ability to always power mind over any matter. I truly believe. It goes on to say that a broken spirit dries up the bones. We've witnessed how fast a person withers away when their heart is sad and their mind is in misery; focused on the outcome and the negative and defeat. A happy heart and joyful mind gives life! Extends life! Choose life by guarding and defending the happiness your heart desires and the healing your mind requires daily. 

"A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, But a broken spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 17:22 (Proverbs 12:25; 15:13,15)

Proverbs 17:22-28 KJV

[22] A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. [23] A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. [24] Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. [25] A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. [26] Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity. [27] He

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🌱Advance with Z-TruthBy Zandra Ashley