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SEPTEMBER 1-7
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 29
Don’t Follow Beliefs and Traditions That Not in the Bible
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Visions of Those in the Invisible Heavens
The same way they can tie the prisoner dem with chain, that how plenty people na tie theirself with different-different believes and the fear they get for the evil spirit dem. That the reason why they can go to the medicine man dem to give them things like leaves, thread, beads, gamble seeds and other thing dem to protect theirself. But you not need to do this one. The Bible promise that: “The eyes of Jehovah are roving about through all the earth to show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him.” (2 Chronicles 16:9) The true God Jehovah, who powerful more than Satan, will protect you if you put your trust in Him.
For Jehovah to protect you, you need to learn about the thing dem that can make him happy and do it. For example, in the first century, the Christian dem that wor living in the city they call Ephesus, put all their magic book dem together and burn it. (Acts 19:19, 20) That the same way, if you want God to protect you, you must destroy anything that get something to do with the demons. Thing like medicine, chain, beads, thread or any other thing.
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Stand By the Truth You Know About Death
13 If you not too sure about certain tradition or custom, pray to Jehovah and ask him in faith to give you wisdom. (Read James 1:5.) Then do deep study in our publication dem. If it possible, talk with the elder dem in your congregation. They will not tell you what to do, but they will show you some good-good advice from the Bible that will help you, like the one dem that in this article here. When you do this thing dem, it will help you to train your “powers of discernment,” and it will help you to be able to know the difference between “right and wrong.”—Heb. 5:14.
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“I Will Walk in Your Truth”
12 Traditions and celebrations that not in line with the Bible. Our family member dem, workmates, and schoolmates can try to force us to join them in their celebrations. Even when we under pressure, how we can say no to custom and holiday dem that can’t honor Jehovah? We can do this one by learning and understanding how Jehovah think and feel about this thing dem. Going over the publication dem that talk about where all this holiday dem come from can help us. When we remember why the Bible say we must not take part in this holiday dem, then we will be convince that we doing the thing that “is acceptable to the Lord.” (Eph. 5:10) When we trust in Jehovah and his word the Bible it will protect us from “trembling at men.”—Prov. 29:25.
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Flattery
To flatter somebody, mean to praise the person too much or to praise them even when they not do anything good. This kindna praise that just mouth talk and it not from the heart. Most of the time people can do it, to satisfy somebody who like theirself too much or to just make the person head big. And this kindna praises can harm people. Why people can do this one? That because they want the person who they praising to like them, get some something from the person or to make theirself look good. This kindna false praise can be trap for the person and it can lead to their downfall. (Pr 29:5) People who can flatter other people not get the wisdom that come from God, but that the wisdom from the world they get. Because they selfish, they can pick and choose and they can pretend. (Jas 3:17) Giving glory to men, lying to them and giving them false praise, all part of the thing dem that God hate.—2Co 1:12; Ga 1:10; Eph 4:25; Col 3:9; Re 21:8.
SEPTEMBER 8-14
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE
PROVERBS 30
“Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches”
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What Kindna Love Can Really Make Us happy?
10 That true all of us need money, because it can protect us sometime. (Eccl. 7:12) But you think somebody can really be happy, if they get money that can only provide the thing dem they need? Yes! (Read Ecclesiastes 5:12.) Jakeh son, Agur say: “Give me neither poverty nor riches. Just let me consume my portion of food.” We can understand the reason why he pray that he not want be too poor. That because, he not want be tempted to steal so he can’t spoil God name. But why he pray for God to not make him rich? He say: “So that I do not become satisfied and deny you and say, ‘Who is Jehovah?’” (Prov. 30:8, 9) Maybe you know some people who na put their whole trust in their material thing dem instead of God.
11 People who like money business can’t make God happy. Jesus say: “Nobody can be slave for two masters; because he will hate one and love the other one, or he will serve one with his whole heart and he will not get any respect for the other one. So you can’t be slave for God and for money.” But before he could say this one he started by saying: “Stop keeping good-good things for yourselves on earth, where insect and rust can spoil them and where rogue can enter and steal. But keep your good-good things in heaven, where no insect or rust can spoil them, and where rogue can’t enter and steal.”—Matt. 6:19, 20, 24.
12 Plenty people na come to see that living simple life can’t only make them happy, but it can give them more time to serve Jehovah. Jack, who live in America, sell his big house and business because he knew that it will help him to pioneer with his wife. He say: “It wor hard for us to sell our fine house and the property dem we wor having. But, for plenty years, I use to come home from work feeling bad, because of the problem dem I wor facing to my working place. My wife wor regular pioneering, and she wor always happy. She use to say, ‘I get the best boss man!’ Now-now two of us working for the same boss man, Jehovah, because myself too I pioneering.”
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Fear Jehovah and You Will Be Happy
◆ 30:15, 16—What lesson we learn from this example dem?
They show us that somebody who greedy can’t be satisfy. Just how leech can stick on somebody and continue to suck their blood, that how the greedy person can always want more money or power. Just like the grave that can’t get full that how greedy people looking. The same way woman who can’t born will continue to ‘cry’ for children, that how greedy people will continue to cry for more things. (Genesis 30:1) They also looking just like sandy ground that can just suck water. And greedy people looking Just like fire that they keep putting wood on. But people who get the wisdom that come from God can’t allow this selfish attitude to control them.
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How I Can Manage the Small Thing I Get?
Learn to save before buying. Even though it look like old school idea, keeping money to buy things, that the best thing to do. It can save you from money problem. Doing this one can help you to be free from crediting and all the problem dem that can come with it. Like the plenty interest they people can add on the money. And the more you waste time to pay that how the interest will keep going up. The Bible talk about the ants dem, it say they get plenty ‘sense’ because they can look for enough “food” during the “harvest” time, and keep it for the future.—Proverbs 6:6-8; 30:24, 25.
Continue to Be Jehovah Guest Forever!
18 It good for us to think about how we feel about money by asking our self this question them: ‘I can always think about money and what I can buy with it? When I credit money, it can be hard for me to pay and I can be thinking that the person who credit me not need it? Money can make me feel that I important more than other people, or it can make it hard for me to do good? I can think that my brother and sister them like material things too much just because they get money? I can only be friendly with people who get plenty money and not get time for people who not get it?’ Jehovah na gave us the wonderful opportunity to be his guest. We can continue to be Jehovah guest if we try our best to not like money business too much. If we do it, Jehovah will never leave us!—Read Hebrews 13:5.
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We Can See Jehovah Wisdom in the Thing Dem He Make
17 When you see the small lizard they can call the gecko or white lizard, it can almost look like it can’t fall down. (Read Proverbs 30:28.) In fact, the people who know about science mouth can be full, when they see how this small lizard can crawl on the wall and even walk upside down on the ceiling without falling down. How the white lizard can do this one? That not using any glue, but each of the lizard toes get small-small lines that get plenty small-small hair on it. Each of this small hair get small-small thing dem on it that looking like thread. And the ending part of this thread dem looking flat just like plate. All this small-small thing dem can work together to help the lizard climb on wall or even walk upside down on glass! The people who can study about this thing dem say, they na look at this lizard foot and fix some material dem that very strong and can hold things together tight just like super glue.
18 Wetin we can learn from the white lizard? The Bible tell us say: “Abhor what is wicked, cling to what is good.” (Rom. 12:9) The plenty bad-bad things dem that in Satan world, can make it hard for us to stick to the advice that in the Bible. For example, when we continue to be around people who not like to follow God law dem, whether in school, to work or the thing dem we choose to enjoy ourself with, It can make us to not do the right thing. Don’t let that one happen to you! The Bible warn us: “Do not become wise in your own eyes.” (Prov. 3:7) But follow the good advice Moses gave the israelite dem way back: “Jehovah your God you should fear. Him you should serve, and to him you should cling.” (Deut. 10:20) When we stick to Jehovah we will be following Jesus example. The Bible say this one about him: “You loved righteousness, and you hated lawlessness.”—Heb. 1:9.
SEPTEMBER 15-21
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 31
Wetin We Can Learn From the Good Advice One Mother Gave Her Son
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Teach Your Children What the Bible Say About Right and Wrong
Teach them the whole truth about man and woman business. It good to warn the children about man and woman business. (1 Corinthians 6:18; James 1:14, 15) But, the Bible make it clear that man and woman business that gift from God, it not temptation from Satan. (Proverbs 5:18, 19; Song of Solomon 1:2) If you only tell your children the bad side about man and woman business it will make them to get the wrong thinking about it. One young woman name Corrina who living in France say “My ma and pa use to talk too much about sexual immorality, and because of that it make me to feel like man and woman business that wor bad thing.”
Make sure that your children know the whole truth about man and woman business. One mother name Nadia who living in Mexico say: “ I can always tell my children that, man and woman business that good thing and it normal, that Jehovah give it to human being to enjoy theirself. But it only for people who marry. They way we use this gift can either make us happy or it can make us to suffer.”
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Talk With Your Children About Liquor
Be the first to discuss this topic. One father in Britain name Mark say, “The way people can drink liquor, it can confuse the young people. I ask my eight-year-old son whether it bad or it good to drink liquor? I make sure the conversation was friendly. And it help him to freely say what was in his heart.”
If you want get good result, then try to talk about liquor business on different-different occasions. Also looking at your child age, you can talk about other thing them like, man and woman business and how to be careful when they walking on the road.
Set example. Children looking just like sponge. They quick to learn and do things they see other people doing around them. And research show that children can learn quick from what they see their parents doing. So if you can always drink liquor to free your mind from stress, you will be telling your child say liquor can take worry away. So, set good example for your children. Make sure you drink liquor the right way.
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Teaching Children to Be Humble
Teach them how to give. Show to your child that “there is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.” (Acts 20:35) How? You and your child can make list for people who need help with buying, transportation, or to do other work dem. Then when you going to help, you can carry your child or your children with you. Let the children see how you can be happy and satisfy when you helping other people. Like that you will be teaching your child how to be humble by your example. And that the best way to teach them—Bible principle: Luke 6:38.
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Young Sisters, How You Can Be Mature Christian?
12 Learn how to listen good-good and be kind when you talking. It important for Christians to do this one. In line with this, the disciple James gave us this good advice: “Everybody must be quick to listen, slow to speak.” (Jas. 1:19) When you listen good-good to other people when they talking, it mean you showing “fellow feeling” or concern for them. (1 Pet. 3:8) If you not sure that you understand what the person saying or how they feeling, ask the right type of question them. Then take small time to think before you talk. (Prov. 15:28, ftn.) Ask yourself: ‘The thing I coming say that true and it can encourage people? It kind and it will show that I get respect for the person?’ Learn from mature sister them who can be kind when they talking and who can listen good-good when other people talking. (Read Proverbs 31:26.) Pay attention to what they say and how they say it. When you learn this thing them good-good, it will be more easy for you to be friendly with other people and yor will get peace among yor self.
SEPTEMBER 22-28
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE
ECCLESIASTES 1-2
Continue Training Young People
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“These Things Entrust to Faithful Men”
3 Plenty of us really like the work we doing, and we will like to continue doing it forever. Sad to say, from Adam time to our day, each generation can grow old and new one can come after it. (Eccl. 1:4) Because of this change, Jehovah organization been facing some problems in recent time. The work Jehovah people doing getting plenty and different-different one dem adding to it. Any time we start new project we have to learn new ways to do it. And most of the time this new way dem that to use technology that can change fast-fast. Some of our older people can find it hard to learn how to use this technology dem. (Luke 5:39) Even if they know how to use technology, young people still get plenty strength and energy to do more work pass the older people dem. (Prov. 20:29) So, it good and it show love when older people train young people to do more for Jehovah.—Read Psalm 71:18.
4 People who get position or authority can find it hard to trust young people with work. Some can be scare that they will lose their position. Some can worry that the young people will not do the work good. And some can say, they not really get the time to train somebody. But, the young people too must be patient even when they not giving them more work to do yet.
Good-Good Thing Dem Inside the Bible
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Ecclesiastes
The Hebrew name Qo·heʹleth mean “Congregator; Assembler; Convener; Convoker.” This name just fit the work the king wor suppose to do in israel when he wor ruling over God people. (Ec 1:1, 12) He wor responsible to bring God people together for worship and help them to stay faithful to their true King and God. (1Ki 8:1-5, 41-43, 66) For that reason, the king that Jehovah use to look at to be good king, that the one who help his people to worship him. Any king who not do this one wor bad king. (2Ki 16:1-4; 18:1-6) Solomon that wor the congregator, and he work hard to bring the Israelites, the people that wor living among them and even foreigners together to worship to the temple. In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon help Jehovah people to stop running behind thing dem in the world that not get value, and focus on doing things for their God who they gave their life to. The name we using in our English Bible dem come from the way they translate the word Qo·heʹleth in the Greek Septuagint. They translate it as, Ek·kle·si·a·stesʹ (Ecclesiastes). It mean “somebody who part of the ecclesia (congregation; assembly).”
SEPTEMBER 29–OCTOBER 5
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE ECCLESIASTES 3-4
Make Your Marriage Strong
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How to Use Technology the Right Way
● When you use technology the right way it can benefit the marriage. For example, some husbands and wives can use it to check on each other during the day when they not together.
Jonathan say: “Just sending simple message like ‘I love you’ or ‘I thinking about you’ can do plenty good.”
● The But when we not use technology the right way it can spoil the marriage. For example, some people can spend more time using their phone or tablet more than the time they can spend with their husband or wife.
Julissa say: “I know sometime my husband can really want talk with me, but I can be busy on my phone.”
● Some people can say they able to be on their phone and still talk with their mate. But one sociologist they call Sherry Turkle say: “that one not true.” It clear that it not possible for somebody to do two things at the same time. She say to talk the true, “anytime we doing something and we add another thing to it, we will not be able to do the two things good.”
Sarah say: “I can enjoy lecturing with my husband when he not on his phone. But when he on his phone I can feel that he not want talk with me”
The point: The way you use technology can either improve your marriage or spoil it.
Keep “the Flame of Jah” Burning
12 How marry people can follow Aquila and Priscilla example? Think about the plenty different-different things you and your husband or wife can do together. It possible for yor to do this work them together instead of doing it by yourself? For example, Aquila and Priscilla use to preach together. You and your partner can plan to preach together too? Aquila and Priscilla also use to do their work together. Maybe you and your partner not get the same work, but you think it possible for yor to do the house work together? (Eccl. 4:9) Anytime you and your partner work together, yor will get the opportunity to talk with each other and feel that yor on the same team. Robert and Linda been marry for more than 50 years now. Robert say: “To talk the God fair truth, we not get plenty time to enjoy ourselves together. I can really feel happy when I washing the dishes and my wife come help me to wipe them, or when I working in the garden and she come work with me. When we do things together it can help us to get close to each other and our love can continue to get strong.”
13 But remember that when husband and wife together, it not always mean that they will get close to each other. One marry woman in Brazil say: “Today, we get plenty thing them that can make us busy. And because we living in the same house, it easy to start thinking that we spending time together. I learn that just being together that not all to it. But I also need to give my husband all my attention when we together.” See wetin Bruno and his wife, Tays do to give their attention to each other. He say: “When we spending time together, we can put our phone them down and enjoy the time with each other.”
14 But what if you and your partner can’t enjoy spending time together? Maybe two of yor not get interest in the same thing them or maybe yor can make each other vex when yor together. Wetin you can do? Think about the fire we talk about before. When you light fire, it can’t just get big like that. For it to get big, you need to keep putting wood on it. That the same way yor must try to spend small-small time together every day. Try to do something that two of yor can enjoy doing. And avoid thing them that will make yor to get vex with each other. (Jas. 3:18) When yor doing this thing them small-small, yor will see that yor love for each other will start getting thick again.
Keep “the Flame of Jah” Burning
3 For husband and wife to keep their love for each other strong, they must fight hard to make their friendship with Jehovah thick. How strong friendship with Jehovah can help marry people? When marry people take their friendship with Jehovah to be important, they will follow his advice. And it will help them to avoid and overcome any problems that will make their love for each other to get weak. (Read Ecclesiastes 4:12.) People who get strong friendship with Jehovah can also do their best to follow his example. They can try hard to get quality them that he can show, like to be kind, patient and to forgive. (Eph. 4:32–5:1) When marry people show this quality them, it can make it easy for their love to get strong. One sister name Lena, who been marry for more than 25 years, say, “It easy to love and respect someone who spiritual.”
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Love
“A Time to Love.” The only people who we can’t show love to that the people who Jehovah say, they not deserve love or those who continue to do bad. We can show love to everybody, but if somebody continue to show by their action that they hate God, then we can stop showing them love. Jehovah God and Jesus Christ love people who can do good and they hate those who can do bad. (Ps 45:7; Heb 1:9) People who really hate the true God, not deserve our love. No need for us to continue showing love to this kindna people dem. Because people who hate God will not accept his love. (Ps 139:21, 22; Isa 26:10) That why God hate them and he na set the time to destroy them.—Ps 21:8, 9; Ec 3:1, 8.
OCTOBER 6-12
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE ECCLESIASTES 5-6
How We Can Show Deep Respect for Our Great God
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Honor Jehovah by Showing Him Deep Respect
17 When we come to worship Jehovah, we must pay special attention to the way we show him honor and respect. Ecclesiastes 5:1 say, “Guard your feet whenever you go to the house of the true God,” Jehovah tell Moses and Joshua to take off their sandals because the place they wor standing wor holy. (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15) They do this one to show their honor and respect for Jehovah. The israelite priest dem wor suppose to wear linen drawers or under clothes “to cover the naked flesh.” (Ex. 28:42, 43) They wor to do this one so their nakedness can’t show when they go up on the alter to serve. The priest and all those in his family wor suppose to obey this law to show their honor and deep respect for Jehovah.
18 So, we too must show honor and deep respect in worship. To get honor and respect, we must be respectful. The respect and honor we show to other people must come from our heart and we must not pretend, because God can see in our heart. (1 Sam. 16:7; Prov. 21:2) Respect and honor must be part of us and we must show it in everything we do and say. Like the way we do things, our attitude, our friendship with other people, and even the way we feel about ourself. So, we must show respect all the time and in everything we say and do. Let remember what the apostle Paul say, when it come to the way we do things, behave, dress and look. He say: “In no way are we giving any cause for stumbling, that our ministry might not be found fault with; but in every way we recommend ourselves as God’s ministers.” (2 Cor. 6:3, 4) We “adorn the teaching of our Savior, God, in all things.”—Titus 2:10.
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Improve the Way You Can Pray By Studying the Bible
21 The way Jesus pray, show that he wor having deep respect and strong faith in God. For example, before he bring Lazarus back to life, “Jesus look up to heaven and say: “Father, I want tell you thank you because you na hear my prayer. I know you can always hear me.’” (John 11:41, 42) What about you? Your prayers can show that you get deep respect and faith in God? Study the prayer that Jesus teach his desciple dem, and you will see that the most important thing dem in that prayer that for Jehovah name to be holy, for his Kingdom to come, and for his will to happen. (Matt. 6:9, 10) So think about the way you can pray. Your prayers must show that you get interest in Jehovah Kingdom, in doing his will, and for his name to be holy.
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“What You Vow, Pay”
12 When you get baptize that just the beginning. After that you must try to keep your promise to God to stay faithful in serving him. For this reason, we need to think on this question dem: ‘How I na improve in my service to Jehovah from the time I get baptize? I still serving Jehovah with my whole heart? (Col. 3:23) I still praying, reading the Bible, going to meetings, and always taking part in field service? Or I na slow down in doing some of this thing dem?’ The apostle Peter tell us that for us to not be inactive in our service we must keep adding to our faith knowledge, endurance, and godly devotion.—Read 2 Peter 1:5-8.
Good-Good Thing Dem Inside the Bible
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Questions From Readers
Ecclesiastes 5:8 talking about the ruler who can treat the poor people bad and he can’t give them justice. He must remember that somebody seeing him, and that person get more power and authority pass him. In fact, maybe they get other people in the government that get position more that him. Sad to say, in human governments, all their rulers can be corrupt, and the common people just have to accept it and live with it.
But, I not care how bad things looking, we can get comfort from knowing that Jehovah eye on even the big-big people dem in human governments. We must pray to God and leave everything with him. (Ps. 55:22; Phil. 4:6, 7) We know that “the eyes of Jehovah are roving about through all the earth to show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him.”—2 Chron. 16:9.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 help us to understand the way human government looking; they always get somebody who get more authority pass their friend. But this verse also help us to see something more important, that Jehovah get power over all the government dem, yes, he get authority over the whole world. Now-now he ruling through his Son, Jesus Christ, the King for God Kingdom. The Almighty God who can see everything, like justice and he fair with people, and that just how his son looking.
OCTOBER 13-19
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE ECCLESIASTES 7-8
“Go to the House of Mourning”
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Mourning
A Time to Mourn. Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4 say that they get “time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to wail and a time to skip about.” With all the bad-bad thing dem human being going through, the Bible say that the wise person heart “in the house of mourning” instead of the house of enjoyment. (Ec 7:2, 4; compare Pr 14:13.) The wise person can make use of this opportunity to sympathize and comfort other people, instead going to the place where enjoyment eh. This one can help him to think about his own life and what to do to make is friendship strong with the person who made him.
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Help Other People when they under Stress
15 William, who wife die some years ago, say: “I can feel fine when other people talking about the good-good thing dem my wife use to do; it make me to know that people really use to love and respect my wife. This one been helping me and it can make me happy, because my wife wor too important to me and I really love her.” Bianca who husband die say: “It can comfort me when other people pray with me and read one or two Bible verse. I can feel fine when they talking about husband and when they listen to me talking about him.”
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“Weep With Those Who Weep”
16 Don’t overlook the power your prayer get, when you pray with and for our brother and sister dem who people na die from them. It can be hard to know what to say when you start praying, especially when your crying together. But when you pray with the person even in tears and beg Jehovah to help them, it can really encourage the person. Dalene say: “Sometime when the sister dem use to come comfort me, I can ask them to pray with me”. When they start praying, they can be finding it hard to know what to say and their voice can be shaking. But as they continue praying, their voice can be getting clear and the thing dem they can say can really touch my heart. Their strong faith, their love, and their care for me na really make my faith to be strong too.”
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“Weep With Those Who Weep”
17 Everybody can grief different-different way, so we must always be there for the person. Not just for the first few days when plenty friends and relative dem around, but also after some months when everybody na go back to their normal life. The Bible say “A true friend shows love at all times, and is a brother who is born for times of distress.” (Prov. 17:17) I not care how long it take for the person to grief, true Christians will always be there to comfort them.—Read 1 Thessalonians 3:7.
18 Remember that when somebody bereave they get plenty thing dem that can make them to start grieving again for their people who die. Thing dem like anniversary, certain kindna music, pictures, things they use to do together, or even certain scent or sound, or certain time in the year. People who their wife or husband na die can find it hard to do certain thing dem by theirself for the first time. Like going to assembly or the Memorial alone can be painful. One brother say: “I wor expecting my first anniversary after my wife die, to be too sorrowful, and for true it wor not easy. But some of my brother and sister dem plan to hold one small get together for me, so I can’t not be by myself.”
19 Remember that when somebody bereave they need encouragement all the time, not just on special occasion. Junia say: “Most of the time the support and help your friend dem can show everyday apart from the anniversary day that it can really help. This small-small love and help really important and they can comfort you.” That true, we not able to stop the person from grieving all together or replace their love one, but we can comfort them by looking for ways to do things to help them. (1 John 3:18) Gaby say: “I really grateful to Jehovah for the elder dem who show me love and wor with me when I wor going through all this hard time. They really made me to feel that Jehovah love me.”
Good-Good Thing Dem Inside the Bible
“By This All Will Know That You Are My Disciples”
18 Sometime, we can want go make peace with our brother or sister who make us vex. But first, we must ask ourselves some question them like: ‘I know every thing that happen?’ (Prov. 18:13) ‘I wonder the person not mean it?’ (Eccl. 7:20) ‘I na make this same type of mistake before?’ (Eccl. 7:21, 22) ‘If I try to talk with the person about it, it will make the problem to get worse?’ (Read Proverbs 26:20.) When we take time to think on this question them, it will help us to show more love and just forget about what happen.
OCTOBER 20-26
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE ECCLESIASTES 9-10
How I must See the Problem Dem I Facing?
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Never get “Enraged Against Jehovah”
20 Put the blame the place it suppose to be. Why we must do this one? Sometime, some of this problem dem in our life can come from ourself. When it happen to us we must blame ourself. (Gal. 6:7) Don’t try to blame Jehovah for the problem dem. Why it will not be good for us to blame Jehovah? Think about this example: The people who fix car, make it in the way that it can run on high speed. So imagine one driver in the car and he running bad way. He not following the speed limit they put on the road and he reach to one deep curve and make accident. You think he can blame the people dem who fix the car, for the accident? No! that same way, Jehovah made us with free will. But he na also show us how to use it to make good decisions. So why we must blame our Creator for our own mistake dem?
21 That true, that not all the problem dem that can happen to us can be our fault. Some of them can happen because of things we no expecting (Eccl. 9:11) But we must never forget that the main person who causing all this wickedness and suffering that Satan the Devil. (1 John 5:19; Rev. 12:9) That he the one our enemy, that not Jehovah!—1 Pet. 5:8.
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Jehovah Value His Servant Dem Who Humble
10 When we humble, we can make life easy for ourself. To talk the truth, we all can see things in life that not correct or that not fair. King Solomon say: “I have seen servants on horseback but princes walking on foot just like servants.” (Eccl. 10:7) People who really know how to do things and can work hard, can’t get the honor and respect they deserve. But people who just know small thing, that them people can honor more. Even with all that one, Solomon tell us that it better for us to accept life the way it looking, then for us to be worrying over all the thing dem that not correct. (Eccl. 6:9) If we humble, it can be easy for us to accept life they way we see it, and not they way we think it must be.
w11 10/15 8 ¶1-2
You benefiting from the things you choose to enjoy yourself with?
IN the Bible, we can see plenty places where it tell us that Jehovah want us to not just live but to enjoy our life. For example, Psalm 104:14, 15 say that Jehovah making “food to go forth from the earth, and wine that makes the heart of mortal man rejoice, to make the face shine with oil, and bread that sustains the very heart of mortal man.” Yes, Jehovah made everything we need to live. He make oil, wine and plants that can grow and bear seeds and fruits. But wine can also ‘make the heart rejoice.’ This one mean, It can’t only benefit the body but it can also make us happy. (Eccl. 9:7; 10:19) Yes, Jehovah want us to be happy, and our heart to be fill with “good cheer.”—Acts 14:16, 17.
2 So it not bad for us to take time to look at the “birds” and the “flowers in the bush” or enjoy some other thing dem that can make us feel fine and enjoy our life. (Matt. 6:26, 28; Ps. 8:3, 4) Good life that “gift from God.” (Eccl. 3:12, 13) When we see the time we take to enjoy ourself to be part of that gift, it will help us to use it in the way that will make Jehovah happy.
Good-Good Thing Dem Inside the Bible
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Gossip, Slander
Gossip can turn to slander or talking wicked-wicked lie to spoil other people name. And this kindna behavior can be bad for the person who doing it. The thing Ecclesiastes 10:12-14 say, that true: “The lips of the stupid one swallow him up. The start of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end afterward of his mouth is calamitous madness. And the foolish one speaks many words.”
That true that not all the time gossip can be bad, but if we not careful we can start talking thing dem that can spoil other people name. This kindna attitude not good. It can make people to feel bad and it can always cause serious problem. Whether we mean it or not, talking things that can spoil other people name can put us in bad book with God. Because one of the thing dem God hate, that talking things just to bring problem between people. (Pr 6:16-19) The Greek word for “slanderer” or “accuser” that di·aʹbo·los. They also use this word in the Bible as title for Satan “the Devil,” who talk wicked-wicked lie about God to spoil his name. (Joh 8:44; Re 12:9, 10; Ge 3:2-5) So it clear that this bad attitude come from Satan.
OCTOBER 27–NOVEMBER 2
GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE ECCLESIASTES 11-12
Take Care of Yourself and Enjoy Life
g 3/15 13 ¶6-7
Cold breeze and Sunshine That Real Medicine or “Antibiotics”?
The Sunlight get some thing dem inside it that can kill germs and bacterials. The Journal of Hospital Infection say: “most of the bacterial dem that can cause sickness that can spread in the air, can’t survive under sunlight.”
So how you can make good use of this thing dem? It good for you to go outside and spend sometime under the sun and enjoy the cold breeze. This one will benefit your body.
Value the Life God Give Us
6 The Bible that not book that can tell us about what to eat and how to take care of our health. But it tell us plenty things about how Jehovah feel about these thing them. For example, he encourage us to not do anything that will damage our body. (Eccl. 11:10) The Bible say we must not eat over plus or drink too much because it can damage our health and even kill us. (Prov. 23:20) Jehovah expect us to control ourselves when we thinking about what to eat and drink and how much to eat and drink.—1 Cor. 6:12; 9:25.
7 We can show that we value life by thinking good-good before we make decisions. (Ps. 119:99, 100; read Proverbs 2:11.) For example, we must think good-good about what we will eat. If we like certain food but we know that it can make us sick, we must not eat it. We can also show that we wise if we try to always exercise, get enough sleep and keep our body and house clean.
Do What You Learn From the Bible
2 We who serving Jehovah, we happy people. Why? We get plenty reasons, but one important one that because we can read the Bible every day and try to do what we learn.—Read James 1:22-25.
3 We get plenty different-different ways we can benefit when we do what we learn from the Bible. And that one important way here we can make Jehovah happy. When we know that we making Jehovah happy, it can make us happy too. (Eccl. 12:13) When we do what we read from the Bible, it can make us to get strong friendship with our family members and our brother and sister them. And maybe that what happening in your life. Also, it can help us to avoid plenty problems that people who not obey Jehovah can face. We can agree with what King David say. After singing about Jehovah law, direction, and judgments in one song, he end it by saying: “In keeping them, there is a large reward.”—Ps. 19:7-11.
Good-Good Thing Dem Inside the Bible
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Inspiration
The Bible get plenty example that show that the men dem God use to write the Bible, wor not robot that he just program to write the thing he wor saying. The Bible tell us that “God-breathed” or he use one angel to give the Revelation to the apostle John through “signs.” And John “bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, even to all the things he saw.” (Re 1:1, 2) It wor “by inspiration [that mean, “in spirit”]” that John “came to be in the Lord’s day” and he tell John say: “What you see write in a scroll.” (Re 1:10, 11) So, God saw that it wor good to allow the Bible writer dem to use their own mind to think and choose the words they will use to explain the thing dem they see in the visions. (Hab 2:2) But he not just leave them like that, he use his spirit to guide them so that the thing dem they will write will not only be correct and true, but also in line with what he want. (Pr 30:5, 6) Ecclesiastes 12:9, 10, help us to see the effort each of this men dem make. They think good-good, do deep study and put everything in order so they can write “delightful words and the writing of correct words of truth.”—Compare Lu 1:1-4.