If it's someone you live with who stokes your furnace, ask the Lord to bring a breaking - not of the other person - but of you.
This puts us on the road to overcoming evil with good and creates the possibility of God turning war into peace.
I can guarantee you that the more the Lord uses you, the more He will keep you broken...
Do you have Jesus in your home? Is the Bible an honored friend and prayer a daily privilege? Does love fill each room? If so, consider yourself wealthy. Because you are!
The devil and the flesh will afford us many opportunities to give angry retorts rather than soft answers. That's why someone wisely said, “Talk is cheap because the supply is greater than the demand.”
We must often hang in there through hope after praying for lost loved ones but seeing no positive evidence of change.
It's a lesson in humility I have never forgotten...
Since the Father has such a giving heart, He expects His sons and daughters to behave likewise and reveals an eternal principle that is at odds with the selfish thinking of the world. God tells us, in effect, to feed others so that we can be fat and to give drink to others so that our thirst can be quenched.
So the Wisdom of God - I call Him "Jesus"—describes the real "blessed" person who is to be envied. He or she will be found doing three things daily - listening, watching and waiting for the Lord's guidance and warnings that flow from the Scripture and are made real by the Spirit.
Now I knew that the context behind this text has "wisdom" doing the talking as if it were a person. And seeing that my new-found Savior Jesus was called "Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God" (I Cor. 1:24), I learned to see "I Jesus" every time I saw the words "I wisdom" in Proverbs.