Bible Chat Devotional

NOVEMBER 3 - Fire or Fuel? 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 27:3–4; Deuteronomy 5 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?” — Proverbs 27:3–4 “You shall hav...

NOVEMBER 2 - Bragging Rights or God’s Glory? 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 27:2; Psalm 126; Deuteronomy 3–4 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.” — Proverbs 27:2 “The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.” — Psalm 126:3...

NOVEMBER 1 - Don’t Wait for “Someday” 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 27:1; Deuteronomy 1–2 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.” — Proverbs 27:1 “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.” — Deuteronomy 1:26...

OCTOBER 31 - Words That Win or Wound 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:28; Psalm 125; Revelation 19–20 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.” — Proverbs 26:28 “Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever...

OCTOBER 30 - Falling Into Your Own Trap 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:27–28; Revelation 17–18 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling. A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.” — Proverbs 26:27–2...

OCTOBER 29 - Behind the Smile 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:24–26; Psalm 124; Revelation 15–16 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart… though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.” — Proverb...

OCTOBER 28 - Words That Burn or Build 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:22–23; Psalm 123; Revelation 14 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart...

OCTOBER 27 - Fuel or Fire? 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:20–21; Psalm 122; Revelation 12–13 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife — Proverbs...

OCTOBER 26 - Words That Hit Different 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:18–19; Psalm 121; Revelation 10–11 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, ‘I am only joking!’” — Proverbs 26:18–19 “I lift up my eyes to the hills...

OCTOBER 25 - Mind Your Own Drama 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:17; Psalm 120; Revelation 8–9 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.” — Proverbs 26:17 “Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.” — Psalm 120:2...

OCTOBER 24 - Too Tired to Try 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:15–16; Revelation 6–7 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.” — Proverbs 26:15–16 “For the...

OCTOBER 23 - Hit Snooze or Wake Up? 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:13–14; Revelation 4–5 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “The sluggard says, ‘There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!’ As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.” — Proverbs 26:13–14 “Holy, holy, holy, is the...

OCTOBER 22 - Too Smart for Your Own Good 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:12; Revelation 1–3 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.” — Proverbs 26:12 “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are t...

OCTOBER 21 - Don’t Go Back to the Vomit 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:10–11; John 21 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.” — Proverbs 26:11 “Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ … Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet...

OCTOBER 20 - Wisdom, Wounds, and Wonder 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:8–9; John 20 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool. Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.” — Proverbs 26:8–9 “Then he sa...

OCTOBER 19 - Walking with Wisdom and Wounds 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:6–7; John 19 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence. Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.” — Proverbs 26:6–7 “S...

OCTOBER 18 - Walk the Line 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:4–5; Psalm 119:137–176; John 18 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. — Proverbs 26:4–5 Righteous are you, O Lord, and...

OCTOBER 17 - Unshakable Truth 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:2; Psalm 119:97–136; John 17 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.” — Proverbs 26:2 “Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.” — Psalm 119...

OCTOBER 16 - Wisdom, Discipline, and Peace 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 26:1,3; Psalm 119:65–96; John 16 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool… A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.” — Proverbs 26:1,3 “Yo...

OCTOBER 15 - Guardrails for Your Soul 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 25:28; Psalm 119:33–64; John 15 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.” — Proverbs 25:28 “Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.” — Psalm 119...

OCTOBER 14 - Too Much of Me 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 25:27; Psalm 119:1–32; John 14 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.” — Proverbs 25:27 “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!” — Psalm 119:1 “Jes...

OCTOBER 13 - Fresh Water in a Dry Place 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 25:25–26; John 13 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.” — Proverbs 25:25–26 “If I t...

OCTOBER 12 - Peace Over Drama 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 25:23–24; Psalm 118; John 12 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.” — Proverbs 25:23–24 “The...

OCTOBER 11 - Unlikely Kindness 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 25:21–22; John 11 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.” — Proverbs 25:21–22 “Jesus wept.”...

OCTOBER 10 - Unbreakable Trust 3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 25:19–20; Psalm 117; John 10 // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3-Year Bible Devotional Book Available on Amazon ⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ________________________________________ “Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips. Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day.” — Proverbs 25:19...