{"id":72601,"date":"2025-08-22T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=72601"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:01:56","slug":"blessings-and-curses-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/blessings-and-curses-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings and Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>After completing your daily reading, come back to chat with fellow Bible readers about any reflections you have on the proverbs, introduction, or questions from today.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessings and curses represent the outcomes that occur when life is lived according to wisdom or in folly. God\u2019s good and perfect character assures us that both His blessing (or favor) and His curse (or discipline) is for our flourishing. How we live and what we do matters, and walking according to wise principles is how we can extend God\u2019s blessing to others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reflection Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do these proverbs define blessings and curses? Write down any key words or ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When have you seen flourishing come on the other side of God\u2019s discipline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can your actions today reflect God\u2019s wisdom and extend His blessing to others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After completing your daily reading, come back to chat with fellow Bible readers about any reflections you have on the proverbs, introduction, or questions from today.&nbsp; Blessings and curses represent the outcomes that occur when life is lived according to wisdom or in folly. God\u2019s good and perfect character assures us that both His blessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-proverbs25"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[72593],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"<b>BLESSINGS AND CURSES<\/b><br><br \/>\r\n<p><em>After completing your daily reading, come back to chat with fellow Bible readers about any reflections you have on the proverbs, introduction, or questions from today.<\/em><\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>Blessings and curses represent the outcomes that occur when life is lived according to wisdom or in folly. God\u2019s good and perfect character assures us that both His blessing (or favor) and His curse (or discipline) is for our flourishing. How we live and what we do matters, and walking according to wise principles is how we can extend God\u2019s blessing to others.<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p><strong>Reflection Questions:<\/strong><\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>How do these proverbs define blessings and curses? Write down any key words or ideas.<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>When have you seen flourishing come on the other side of God\u2019s discipline?<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>How can your actions today reflect God\u2019s wisdom and extend His blessing to others?<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"5","scripture":"Proverbs 3:33, Proverbs 10:6-7, Proverbs 10:22, Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 28:27","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}