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Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - Fountains and Streams: Wellspring of Wisdom

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Day 6: Wellspring of wisdom

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook (Proverbs 18:4 - NKJV).


Our Father, sovereign, omnipotent God, You are the God who knows the secrets of the heart (Psalm 44:21) — the God who is aware of our reasonings (Luke 5:22).


The apostle Paul posed the rhetorical question, Who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? He invited the obvious answer— no other human does; yet the Spirit of God who alone knows the thoughts of God, (1 Corinthians 2:11), perceives our thoughts from afar (Psalm 139:2).


O Lord, since we do not have Your knowledge and insight, we misjudge often in our limited human understanding. We measure much of life by the outward and the exterior (1 Samuel 16:7), but You are the Lord [who] searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts (1 Chronicles 28:9).


We pray for Your wellspring of wisdom, the flowing brook of godly counsel, and knowledge, and instruction springing up into eternal life (John 4:14). We understand our desperate need for Your vision and Your wisdom, for we see all around us the fruit of godless lips— evil and brutishness, wickedness and perversion, ignorance and folly. We see contentions, dissentions, jealousies, envy, hatred, and outbursts of wrath.


But You call us to love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5: 16-23). Be our source, be our supply, lest we drown in the deep waters of the fool whose mouth gushes folly (Proverbs 15:2).


O Lord of Hosts, You who test the righteous, who see the mind and the heart (Jeremiah 20:12, Revelation 2:23), we earnestly pray the words of David, Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting (Psalm 139:23-24).



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