1411.Oppression Takes Place Under the Sun — Ecclesiastes 4:7-12

1411.

Oppression Takes Place Under the Sun 
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Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
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Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom.
If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now.
He knows it. You are forgiven. 
Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out.

a prayer:
Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight.

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1st strategy 
From the Ancients - Lectio Divina

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• Ask God to open your heart and mind to what is written in the passage.
• Read the passage
• Re-read the passage looking for 3 words or phrases that really resonate in your heart.
• Write those words down.
• Re-read the passage. Of the 3 words which 1 resonates most in your heart? 
  • Ask yourself what does this word mean in my life?
  • Where do I need change/growth/revelation?
• Write this word down. Or, remember this word throughout your day.
• Ask God to show you meaning from the passage.
• We read, reflect, and communicate. Share with the community.
• Don't forget to thank God for being with you during this endeavor to find intimacy with Him.

THIS STRATEGY IS AN AGE OLD STRATEGY - No one has a copyright on this - use it freely! It is wonderful!
All other strategies, please contact the author at rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com
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1. Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless.
2. So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.
3. But the most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.

4. Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless — like chasing the wind.

5. "Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin."

6. And yet,
"Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind."
Ecclesiastes 4:1-6 NLT
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