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Proverbs 2
The Value of Wisdom
Lord, thank You for Your Word, Your commands within me are treasured as it guides my ears toward wisdom and teaching me to apply my heart to understanding. Lord, I beg for You to teach me discernment, more and more each day, lifting my voice for understanding, seeking the hidden treasures of wisdom, discernment and understanding. Teach me what it means to fear You, my Lord and teach me Your knowledge. Thank You Lord, for the wisdom You give. Thank You Lord, for the knowledge and understanding which comes from Your mouth. Lord, may You find me worthy enough to store up sound wisdom and be a shield to me. Lord thank You for guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of Your saints, so that I will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. Lord, allow wisdom to enter my heart and knowledge to be pleasant to my soul. Thank You Lord, to know that the teachings of discretion will preserve me. The teachings of understanding will keep me, to deliver me from the way of evil and from the man who speaks perverse things. From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness. Who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked. Whose ways are crooked and who are devious in their paths. To deliver me from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God, for her house leads down to death and her paths to the dead. None who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life. Thank You Lord, for the protection of Your wisdom, discernment and understanding, so that I may walk in the way of goodness and keep to the paths of righteousness. Lord, I pray that You will find me upright and worthy of dwelling in the land and blameless in order to remain in it and that I will therefor not be found wicked and be cut off from the earth or unfaithful and uprooted from it. Thank You Lord for Your teachings on wisdom, discernment and understanding.
