Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - What Shall I Cry? - For Insight and Understanding

Day 7: For insight and understanding

The fear of the Lord is the key to God's rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge

Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God (Proverbs 2:3-5 NKJV).

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Be it my only wisdom here,

To serve the Lord with filial fear,

With loving gratitude;

Superior sense may I display,

By shunning every evil way,

And walking in the good.

O may I still from sin depart!

A wise and understanding heart,

Jesus, to me be given;

And let me through Thy Spirit know

To glorify my God below,

And find my way to heaven.

~ Charles Wesley

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Proverbs 2:1-15, 20-22

If you accept my words… turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver  and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. He holds success in store for the upright, He is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, for He guards the course of the just and protects the way of His faithful ones.

Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

Wisdom will save you from the ways of [the wicked], from [those] whose words are perverse, who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways…

Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

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