{"id":1738,"date":"2015-07-21T07:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T07:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2015-07-21T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T07:59:49","slug":"thoughts-from-proverbs-chapter-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from Proverbs Chapter Two&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PETEE022.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1743\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PETEE022-300x284.jpg?resize=152%2C144\" alt=\"PETEE022\" width=\"152\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><strong><u>Verses:1-6<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Solomon is begging his son here to listen and take notice. A person with a bit of age and experience behind him, can see the pitfalls that a headstrong youngster can never see.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen to me\u201d, Solomon says, \u201cSeek and apply yourselves, ask and seek earnestly for wisdom!\u201d Do we do this?<\/p>\n<p>God has all these blessings in Christ Jesus waiting for us, but we must put effort into getting them <em>(John 15:7)<\/em>. James tells us that we don\u2019t have the enjoyment of them because we don\u2019t ask for them and apply ourselves to getting them <em>(James 4:2c)<\/em>. It is like a student once who needed finance to get through his course and asked the Lord to provide it. He did, but not in the way he expected it\u2026. God provided a job for him to earn his own money!<\/p>\n<p>Those who earnestly and prayerfully seek, WILL find \u2026..this is one of the prayers that God has unconditionally promised He will grant! <em>(Matthew 7:7)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Seek wisdom from the Lord above, Who gives all things richly in love;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But we must search and seek this for, It to be giv\u2019n from God\u2019s rich store.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verses:1-6 Solomon is begging his son here to listen and take notice. A person with a bit of age and experience behind him, can see the pitfalls that a headstrong youngster can never see. \u201cListen to me\u201d, Solomon says, \u201cSeek and apply yourselves, ask and seek earnestly for wisdom!\u201d Do we do this? God has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts from Proverbs Chapter Two&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[126,127,125],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotionals","tag-finding","tag-prayer","tag-seek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-s2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}