Please read Proverbs 17.
Meditate on verses 1 and
22.
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it than a house full of
feasting with strife.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Chapter 17 is full of
individual proverbs to pray over your loved ones. In this chapter many negative
characteristics and consequences of those characteristics are revealed. You may
know people who are shameful, wicked, contentious, mockers, gossips, fools, and
abominations to the LORD. This is a great chapter to slowly journey through and
seek God to change them while there is still time.
The meditation verses
reflect the value of Godly fruit in your life and in relationships with others.
In verse 1, starving in a quiet home is contrasted to a full house of feasting
with strife. A feast blessing many in a home of love and peace is the ideal,
but strife robs the scene of the joy that ought to be there.
In verse 22, a joyful
heart is good medicine to a person, but a broken spirit destroys the fabric of
the body. As a believer, you are commanded to be joyful always
(1 Thessalonians 5:14).
Through the power of the Holy Spirit in you, this is possible despite crushing
circumstances that may cause you to feel that your spirit is breaking. Ask God
to restore the joy of your salvation and renew your spirit (Psalm 51:10, 12).
Pray Proverbs 17:1 and 22
over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful
watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD, let 
and my house be filled
and my house be filled
with Your joyful feasting and Your peace.
Remove the strife! Give us a joyful heart
that is good medicine for others and ourselves.
LORD, heal our broken spirits.
In Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL
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