Flying Through Proverbs 21 Eagles Wing Podcast - Proverbs 21 AMP

Eagles Wing Podcast – Proverbs 21: God weighs the heart
Hosted by Deuce Brandt

In this episode of the Eagles Wing Podcast, hosted by Deuce Brandt, we explore Proverbs 21 in the Amplified Bible and what it teaches about God’s sovereignty, our motives, and authentic righteousness. Deuce highlights how the Lord directs even a king’s heart, weighs our intentions behind every action, and values doing righteousness and justice more than sacrifice or outward religious performance. He also emphasizes the danger of pride, deceitful gain, and a crooked way of life, contrasting them with the straight path of the pure whose conduct is right before God.​

The episode digs into practical wisdom on diligence, generosity to the poor, guarding your mouth, and avoiding contentious, strife-filled relationships that drain peace. Deuce explains how ignoring the cry of the poor leads to our own prayers going unheard, why chasing pleasure leads to poverty, and how the righteous choose to give instead of greedily coveting all day long. He closes by reminding listeners that no human wisdom or strategy can prevail against the Lord, and that while we prepare “the horse for the day of battle,” true deliverance and victory belong to God.​

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Hello and welcome to the Eagles Wing Podcast. This is your host, Deuce Brennett. Today we are in Proverbs chapter 21 in the Amplified Bible. The king's heart is in the head of the Lord, as are the watercourses. He turns it whichever way he wills. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries his heart, tries the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Haughtiness of eyes and a proud heart, even the tillage of the wicked or the lamp of joy to them, whoever it may be, are sin in the eyes of God. The thoughts of the steadily diligent tend only to pleasantness, and everyone who is impatient and hasty hastens only to want. Securing treasures by a living tongue, by a lying tongue, is a vapor driven to and fro. Those who seek them seek death. The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, because they refuse to do justice. The way of the guilty is exceedingly crooked, but as for the pure, he works, his work is right, and his conduct is straight. Conduct is straight. It is better to dwell in a corner of a house top on a flat oriental roof, exposed to all kinds of weather, than the house shared with a nagging, quarrelsome, and fault-finding woman. The soul or life of the wicked caves and seeks evil. His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes. When the scoffer is punished, the fool gets the lesson in being wise. But men of godly wisdom and good sense learn by being instructed. The uncompromisingly righteous man constantly well the house of the considers well the house of the wicked, how the wicked are cast down to ruin. Whoever stops his ear at the cry of the poor will cry at himself and not be heard. A gift in secret pacifies and turns away anger, and a bribe in the lap, strong wrath. When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, the upright, in right standing with God. But to the evildoers it is dismay, calamity and ruin. A man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the spirits of the dead. He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil will not be rich. The wicked became a ransom for the uncompromisingly righteous, and the treacherous for the upright, because the wicked themselves fall into the traps and pits they have dug for the good. It is better to dwell in a desert land than with a contentious woman with and with vexation. There are precious treasures and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but this but a self-confident and foolish man swallows it up and wastes it. He who earnestly seeks after and craves righteousness, mercy, and loving kindness will find life in addition to righteousness, uprightness, and right standing with God and honor. A man scales the city walls of a mighty of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust. He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from trouble. The proud and haughty man, scoffers his name, deals and acts with overbearing pride. The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. He covets greedily all the day long, but the uncompromisingly righteous gives and does not withhold. The sacrifices of the wicked is extinct is extrem exceedingly disgusting and abhorrent to the Lord. How much more when it comes when it bring when he brings it with evil intention? A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears attentively will endure and go unchallenged. A wicked man puts on the bold, unfeeling face of guilt, but as per the upright, he considers, directs, and establishes the way with the confidence of integrity. There is no human wisdom or understanding or counsel that can prevail against the Lord. The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance and victory are of the Lord. So this chapter in Proverbs, you know, it goes over a lot of different things. But I want to I want to talk about there's this idea in chat in verse 2, it says, every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the heart. Well, this matter here is it's it's we make up plans, and we think that our way is always right. We you know, we hold ourselves to our intentions, but oftentimes we look at you know, we we look at others, we don't hold them to their intention, we hold them to their result. And so one of the things that we we should do is hold ourselves to the results and check our motives and to see if there's anything deceitful inside of us. It also talks about whoever stops his ears to the cry of the poor will cry himself and not be heard. The the reality is sometimes we're gonna need help. And so if someone is there that there and they need your help, reach out and if you're able to, help them because one day you may need help, you may be in that position, and you would want to be blessed and and and helped. Then then there's also some information about relationships in here. It is better to dwell in a desert land than with a contentious woman and with vexation. So great, great proverbs in today's chapter. And so I'm gonna leave it with that. This is going to be the end of this proverb for the Eagle's Wing podcast. This is your host, Deuce Brent. I pray that you have skillful and godly wisdom.