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SEPTEMBA 1-7
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE SMART GUYS 29
No Believe Traditions An Tings Jehovah No Like
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Visions About Who Stay In Heaven
Millions of peopo stay like prisonas in chains cuz dey stuck to superstitions an dey sked of bad kine spirits. Dey try fo use good luck charms an magic potions fo proteck dem. But no need do dat cuz da Bible tell us, “Da One In Charge look all aroun all ova da world, fo find da peopo dat make up dea mind fo go all out fo him, fo him make dem come strong.” (2 Records 16:9) Jehovah God, who get way moa powa den Satan, goin proteck you if you trus Him.
Fo Jehovah proteck you, you gotta find out wat he like us do an den do um. Jalike da firs Christians in Efesus, dey wen burn up all dea kahuna kine books. (Jesus Guys 19:19, 20) Same fo us, fo Jehovah proteck you, you gotta throw away magic charms, magic books, an anyting else dat stay conneckted wit da demons.
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Stan Up Fo Da Truth About Death
13 If you not shua if one tradition or someting stay okay wit Jehovah, pray to him, an trus dat he goin give you da smarts you need. (Read um From James 1:5.) An den look up stuff in oua publications. If need, talk to da eldas in yoa local hui. Dey not goin tell you wat fo do, but dey can show you Bible truts fo help wit um. If you do all dis, az goin help you “figga wass good an wass no good,” so dat you can make one good choice.—Heb 5:14.
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I Goin “Live Da Way You Like Me Fo Live”
12 Traditions an tings dat no come from da Bible. Maybe guys in oua ohana, at work, an in skool try presha us fo celebrate holidays an traditions wit dem. How we can make shua fo no give in? Wen we look oua publications an see wea dese holidays wen come from, dat can help us. Wen we rememba wat da Bible tell about how come we no celebrate holidays, we can kno fo shua dat wat we do “make Da One In Charge stay good inside.” (Efe 5:10) Wen we trus Jehovah an da Bible, dat can help us fo no be sked of wat “odda peopo tink.”—Smart Guys 29:25.
Good Kine Tings
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“Love Dass Fo Real, An Do Good Kine Tings”
Wen you tell someting nice to yoa braddahs, mean um. Ery chance we get, we like tell oddas good kine stuff cuz dat goin “make um come mo strong inside.” (Efe 4:29) But we gotta really mean wat we say. If we tell nice tings an no really mean um, az like we bulai dem or we not telling dem wat dey need fo hea. (Smart Guys 29:5) We no like talk nice to somebody but den talk stink behind dea back an be hypocrite. Da aposal Paul neva fall fo dat trap an wuz one good exampo of how fo show love an tell nice tings to oddas. Wen da braddahs in Corint wen do good, he wen tell um nice tings an had mean um. (1 Cor 11:2) But wen he needed fo correck dem, he neva hold back an wen tell um in one clear way wat dey had fo do.—1 Cor 11:20-22.
SEPTEMBA 8-14
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE SMART GUYS 30
“No Let Me Come Pooa . . . No Give Me Moa Stuff Den I Need”
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Wat Kine Love Make Us Happy Fo Real Kine?
10 We all need money cuz it can proteck us. (Teacha 7:12) But you tink you can be happy fo real kine if you ony get da tings you need? Fo shua! (Read um Da Teacha 5:12.) Agur da son of Jakeh wen write, “no let me come pooa so I no mo notting, an no give me mo stuff den I need. Jus make me feel good wit enuff food.” Make sense how come he neva like come real pooa, cuz he tell he neva like get presha fo steal an give God one bad rep. But how come he neva like get moa stuff den he need? He tell, “No good I get eryting I like get, an den ack jalike I donno you, God, an tell, “Who Da One In Charge?!”” (Smart Guys 30:8, 9) You probly can tink of peopo who trus dea money moa den God.
11 Guys who love money no can make God happy. Jesus wen tell, “Nobody can work fo two bosses. He going hate one an love da odda, o he going stick to one an no respeck da odda one. If money is da mos importan ting in yoa life, you no can work fo God.” An dis anodda ting he wen tell about dat, “No work hard ony fo come rich an get plenny tings ova hea on earth. Da bugs an da rus can make um come rotten, an da steala guys going broke in an cockaroach um. Moa betta work hard an do tings fo God who stay in heaven. Wen you do dat, bugs an rus no can do notting to um, an da steala guys no can cockaroach um.”—Mat 6:19, 20, 24, NWT.
12 Plenny guys wen find dat wen dey live simpo, dey moa happy an dey get moa time fo do stuff fo Jehovah. Jack, who live in da United States, wen sell his big house an bizness so he could pionea wit his wife. He tell, “No wuz easy fo give up oua nice house an land we had in da country. But fo years I would come home all irraz cuz of problems at work. But my wife wuz one regula pionea an wuz always supa happy. She would tell me, “I get da bes boss eva!” An now dat I pionea too, we work fo da same Boss, Jehovah.”
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You Goin Be Happy If You Respeck Jehovah
◆ SMART GUYS 30:15, 16, NWT—Wat dese exampos show?
Dese tings show dat notting eva goin be enuff fo greedy peopo. Jus like one leech dat keep sucking blood, somebody who greedy always goin like moa money or powa. Same ting wit da Mahke Peopo Place, it no stop taking moa an moa mahke peopo. One wahine dat no can get hapai keep asking fo one bebe. (Da Start 30:1) Land dat no get watta suck up all da rain an den come dry again. An one fiyah dat burn up eryting in um, spread out fo burn moa tings. Dass jus like greedy peopo, dey no can get enuff. But da guys dat follow da smarts from da Bible no goin have dat problem.
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No Spen Money You No Moa—How You Can Do Dat
Save up money befoa you buy. Even if dat sound ol skool, one of da bes ways fo no get money problems iz fo save money befoa you buy someting. Wen you do dat you not goin get in debt an da problems dat come wit it, like paying high interest dat add on to wat you pay. Even da Bible tell dat ants stay “akamai” cuz dey “bring in dea food” fo save um fo laytas.—Smart Guys 6:6-8; 30:24, 25.
Stay Jehovah’s Guest Foeva!
18 Az good fo us tink about how we feel about money. Try ask, “I tink about money all da time an wat I can buy wit um? If I borrow money, I take long time fo pay um back cuz I tink da guy no need um? If I get money, dat make me feel like I betta den oddas? Az hard fo me share wit oddas? I tink dat if braddahs an sistahs get plenny money, az cuz dey love money moa den Jehovah? I radda hang out wit da guys who get plenny money, an not wit da guys who stay pooa, o wat?” Good fo us ask dese questions, cuz we wen get da invite from Jehovah fo be his guest. But we can ony be his guest if we make shua we no love money. If we do dat, Jehovah neva going bag from us!—Read um Fo Da Hebrew Peopo 13:5.
Good Kine Tings
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Da Tings Jehovah Wen Make Show He Akamai
11 Da rock badger, or rock hyrax, iz anodda pretty small animal dat can teach us someting importan. (Read um Smart Guys 30:26.) It kinda look like one big rabbit dat get short round ears an short legs. Dis animal live wea get plenny rocks. Cuz da rock badger can see real good, an get pukas an cracks in da rocks wea dey can hide, dose tings help proteck dem from animals dat like eat um. Az good fo dem live togedda wit odda rock badgers, an dat proteck dem from danger an help dem stay warm wintertime.
12 Wat we can learn from da rock badger? Dey always ready fo one attack from odda animals. Cuz dey can see real good, dey can spock dem coming, an proteck demselfs by staying close to da pukas an cracks fo hide. Same fo us, we gotta see da spiritual dangers in Satan’s world an proteck ouaselfs from um. Da aposal Peter wen warn Christians, “Watch out! Da Devil stay agains you. Dass why he stay go all ova da place jalike one wild lion, looking fo somebody fo him eat up.” (1 Pet 5:8) Wen Jesus wuz on eart, he wen watch out fo all da tings Satan wen do fo make him go agains Jehovah. (Mat 4:1-11) Jesus wuz one good exampo fo us!
13 One way we can watch out fo dangers iz fo use da spiritual kine protection Jehovah give us. We do dis wen we study da Bible an go to all da meetings. (Luk 4:4; Heb 10:24, 25) An jus like how da rock badger stay close wit odda rock badgers, we gotta stay close wit oua braddahs an sistahs fo build each odda up. (Rome 1:12) By using all da tings Jehovah give fo proteck us, we goin feel like David, who wen write, “Da One In Charge, he make shua notting bad happen to me, jalike he one solid rock mountain an one strong wall. He jalike one big solid rock, fo me go by him fo hide me.”—Songs 18:2.
SEPTEMBA 15-21
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE SMART GUYS 31
Wat We Can Learn From Wat One Maddah Teach Her Son
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Teach Yoa Kids Wass Good An Bad
Teach wass good an bad about sex. You gotta warn yoa kids about da bad stuff. (1 Fo Da Corint Peopo 6:18; From James 1:14, 15) But mos times da Bible shows dat sex iz one gif from Jehovah, not one trap from Satan. (Smart Guys 5:18, 19; Da Love Song 1:2) If you tell yoa teens ony da dangers, you might give dem da wrong idea dat sex iz ony bad. One young wahine from France name Corrina tell, “My parents wen talk so much about pilau kine sex, dat wen make me tink sex wuz bad.”
Make shua yoa kids kno wass good an wass bad about sex. One maddah in Mexico name Nadia tell, “Someting I always try make clea to my kids iz dat sex iz someting good an natural an Jehovah wen give um to us fo enjoy wen we married. It can make us happy or give us pilikia, all depend on how we use um.”
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Talk To Yoa Kids About Alcohol
Talk about alcohol wit yoa kids. Mark, one faddah in Britain tell, “Kids can have hahd time undastan alcohol. I wen ask my 8 year ol boy if he wen tink drinking alcohol wuz right or wrong. I wen keep um relax an neva presha him, an dis wen help him open up an tell me wat he tink.”
Goin be good fo yoa kids if you talk about alcohol moa den jus one time. Depend on how ol yoa kid stay, you can bring up alcohol wen you talk to dem about odda tings in life, like wen you teach dem about sex an how fo drive safe.
Be one exampo. Kids are like sponges cuz dey soak up da tings aroun dem, an studies wen show dat how parents ack effeck dea kids da mos. Cuz a dat, if da firs ting you do wen you stress out iz drink alcohol fo calm down, yoa kid goin tink dat alcohol iz da ansa fo hando stress. So be one good exampo fo dem, an make shua you use alcohol in one good kine way.
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Teach Yoa Kids Fo Be Humbo
Help yoa kids see az good fo give. Show yoa kid dat az tru dat “da guy dat give, he stay mo betta inside den da guy dat get.” (Jesus Guys 20:35) Maybe you can make one lis wit dem of peopo dat need help wit shopping, need one ride, or get someting fo fix. Take yoa kid wit you wen you help oddas wit dese tings. An let um see how happy you feel wen you help oddas. Da bestes way fo teach yoa kids fo be humbo, iz by da tings dat you do.—Bible trut: Luke 6:38.
Good Kine Tings
How Husbans Can Show Love An Respeck Fo Dea Wife
16 Tell her how much she mean to you. One husban who love an respeck his wife build her up an make her feel good about herself. One way he do dis iz fo rememba fo mahalo her fo all dat she do fo help him az his wife. (Col 3:15) Wen one husban tell his wife wat he love about her, she goin feel his love an respeck, an feel safe.—Smart Guys 31:28.
SEPTEMBA 22-28
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE DA TEACHA 1-2
Keep Training Da Nex Generation
w17.01-E 27-28 ¶3-4
“Pick Peopo Dat You Can Trus, An Den, Put Dem In Charge A All Dat Stuff”
3 We love da work we do fo Jehovah. An plenny of us like keep on doin dat work fo long az can. But sad fo say, wen peopo get olda, dey no can do az much az dey did befoa. (Teacha 1:4) Dis can make um hahd fo Jehovah’s peopo. Today, da preaching work keep growing an Jehovah’s hui iz using new technology fo reach az many peopo az can. But sometimes can be hahd fo olda ones learn dese new ways fo do um. (Luk 5:39) Az dey get olda, az normal fo peopo no feel az strong an have da same energy az befoa. (Smart Guys 20:29) Dass why az good fo olda ones train da younga ones fo take kea moa kuleana in Jehovah’s hui.—Read um Songs Fo God 71:18.
4 Sometimes not easy fo braddahs wit kuleana fo give work to younga braddahs. Some braddahs feel sad wen dey tink about giving up kuleana dat dey love an stay spesho to dem. Maybe dey worry dat not goin be done right if dey not in charge. Or dey feel like dey no moa time fo train oddas. Same time, da younga guys gotta learn fo wait fo get moa kuleana.
Good Kine Tings
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Jehovah Like You Guys Be Happy
Solomon wuz one of da richest an mos powaful guys eva, an he wanted fo tes someting out. He wen tink, “I goin try tes dis! I goin see wat make me feel good inside.” (Teacha 2:1-10) So Solomon wen build fancy kine houses, gardens an parks, an he wen do wateva he like. Wen Solomon wen look back at eryting he wen do, dose tings wen make him happy? He wen tell, “No make sense all dat—jalike I stay chase da wind! I no mo notting unda da sun dat goin las!” (Teacha 2:11) You goin learn from wat Solomon wen do?
SEPTEMBA 29–OCTOBA 5
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE DA TEACHA 3-4
Make Yoa Three Strand Rope Moa Strong
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How Fo Make Shua Dat Technology Not Da Mos Importan Ting
● Technology can be good fo yoa marriage if you use um da right way. Like some husbans an wifes use um fo talk to each odda tru da day wen dey not togedda.
“Jus one text message dat say “I love you” or “I tinking about you” can mean plenny.”—Jonathan.
● If we use technology too much, it can be bad fo oua marriage. Like some peopo always on dea phones or tablets, an dat take away da time dey can spen wit dea odda half.
“Garenz had some times I wuz using my phone wen my husban probly wanted fo talk to me.”—Julissa.
● Some peopo tell dat dey can lissen good an talk story wit dea odda half an same time use dea phone or tablet. Sherry Turkle, one sociologist, tell peopo no can do dat. Some peopo tink being able fo multitask iz one good ting, but az not. She tell, da moa tings we try fo do same time, da moa worse we do um.”
“I like fo talk wit my husband, but not wen he tryin fo multitask. Wen he do dis, it make me feel like he no kea about me.”—Sarah.
Da bottom line: how you use technology can eidda help or hurt yoa marriage.
Keep “Da Flame Of Jah” Strong
12 How couples can copy Aquila an Priscilla? Try tink about all da tings dat you an yoa odda half gotta do. You can do some of dose tings togedda instead of by yoaself? Aquila an Priscilla wen preach togedda. You can make plans fo do dat togedda o wat? Dey even wen work togedda. Even if you no moa da same job, you can work around da house togedda o wat? (Teacha 4:9) Wen you help each odda get someting done dass jalike you one team an you get moa chance fo talk. Robert an Linda stay married fo ova 50 years. He tell: “To tell you da trut, we no moa plenny time fo go play. But wen I wash da dishes an my wife wipe um o wen I stay pull weeds an she come out fo help dat make me real happy. Doing tings togedda make us moa close an oua love come moa strong.”
13 Rememba, jus cuz you around each odda all da time no mean you goin come moa tight wit each odda. One wife in Brazil tell: “Nowadays, cuz we stay so busy, easy fo tink we spending time togedda jus cuz we living in da same house. I wen learn you gotta do moa den jus be togedda. Da odda ting I gotta do is give my odda half da attention he need.” Look how Bruno an his wife, Tays, make shua dey give each odda attention. He tell: “Wen we spend time togedda we put away oua phones an enjoy each oddas company.”
14 Wat if you an yoa odda half no like spend time togedda? You no like do da same tings o you come all irraz wit each odda. Wat you can do? Rememba da campfire we wen talk about earlia. Da ting no jus burn hot right away. Gotta feed um slowly, keep putting bigga an bigga pieces of wood each time. Same ting wit spending litto bit time togedda ery day. Try do someting you both like, not someting you might fight about. ( Jam 3:18) Wen you start wit small tings, you get chance fo see yoa love get moa strong.
Keep “Da Flame Of Jah” Strong
3 Fo keep “da flame of Jah” strong, both da husband an wife gotta work hard fo stay tight wit Jehovah. How dat goin help dea marriage? Wen being frens wit Jehovah matta to dem, one couple like lissen him an dat goin help dem stay away from an get thru tings dat can make dea love fo each odda cool down. (Read um Da Teacha 4:12.) Spiritual kine peopo work hard fo copy Jehovah an get betta at showing qualities He get—like make nice, be patient, an let each odda go. (Efe 4:32–5:1 Wen one couple show dis kine qualities goin make um moa easy fo dea love grow. One sistah name Lena dat stay married fo ova 25 years tell, “moa easy fo love an respeck somebody dat stay spiritual.”
Good Kine Tings
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Keep Worshipping Jehovah Wen Get One Ban
14 Be keaful about da info you give to oddas. Wen get one ban, we gotta kno wen iz “one time fo no talk.” (Teacha 3:7) We gotta proteck importan info like, names of oua braddahs an sistahs, wea we meet, how we preach, an how we get oua spiritual food. We no goin tell dis kine stuff to da govament guys, or even oua ohana an frenz in oua country or odda countries. If we not keaful an tell dese tings, we put oua braddahs in danger.—Read um Songs Fo God 39:1
OCTOBA 6-12
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE DA TEACHA 5-6
How We Show Plenny Respeck Fo Oua God
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Show Jehovah Respeck By Da Way We Ack
17 We gotta really tink about showing respeck wen we worship Jehovah. Da Teacha 5:1 tell, “wise up how you ack wen you go da Temple Fo God.” Moses an Joshua had fo take off dea slippas wen dey wuz in one spesho place. (Egypt 3:5; Josh 5:15) Dey had fo do dis fo show respeck. Da Israel pries guys had fo wea “linen cloth fo cova up . . . eryting from da wais to da thigh.” (Egypt 28:42, 43) So dat paht of da body wuz cova up wen dey wuz working at da altar. Erybody in da pries ohana had fo do dis fo show respeck fo Jehovah.
18 Cuz we worship Jehovah, we should show respeck in eryting we do in oua life. Az moa den jus fo show, but should come from oua heart. (1 Sam 16:7; Smart Guys 21:2) If it come from oua heart, goin affeck da way we tink, ack, how we deal wit oddas, an even da way we tink an feel about ouaselfs. We should show respeck all da time an wit eryting we say an do. Da aposal Paul wen say, “Da way us guys live, us no like trip peopo up an make um fall down fo nobody talk bad bout da tings we do fo God. But eryting us guys do, cuz we God worka guys, we like show dat us da fo real kine worka guys fo God.” (2 Cor 6:3, 4) So we like make shua we show respeck wit wat we wea, how we ack, an how we look. Wen we do dat, den “wen peopo tink bout wat us guys teach, all da kine stuff us teach goin look real good.”—Titus 2:10.
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Bible Study Help Make Yoa Prayas Moa Betta
21 Jesus wen pray wit plenny respeck an fait. Jalike da time befoa he wen bring Lazarus back to life, he wen “look up to da sky an tell, “Faddah, mahalo plenny dat you lissen me. I know fo shua you erytime lissen me.”” (John 11:41, 42) Yoa prayas show da same kine respeck an fait? If you look at Jesus sampo praya, you goin see dat some of da importan tings he wen pray fo wuz fo peopo show plenny respeck fo Jehovah’s name, dat God’s Govament rule ova da eart, an dat tings happen on da eart da way God like um. (Mat 6:9, 10, NWT) You pray lidat? Yoa prayas should show dat dese tings stay importan to you.
You Ready Fo Give Yoa Life To Jehovah?
5 How you give yoa life to Jehovah? You promise him in prayer you going ony worship him, an wat he like going be da mos importan ting in yoa life. You promising Jehovah you going keep loving him “wit eryting inside, wit how you feel, wit how you tink, an wit all yoa powa.” (Mar 12:30) You give yoa life to Jehovah wen you by yoaself so az ony between you an him. But wen you get baptize, dass diffren, az in front odda peopo showing erybody you wen give yoa life to Jehovah. Giving yoa life to Jehovah is one spesho promise, so you should try yoa bes fo keep dat promise, an Jehovah expeck you fo do dat too.—Teacha 5:4, 5.
Good Kine Tings
How Fo Hando Wen Tings Not Fair
1 JESUS wen tell one story about one widow dat wen keep asking one judge fo help her cuz somebody wuz treating her bad. Garanz Jesus guys wen undastan dat story cuz plenny times dey had fo deal wit tings dat no wuz fair. (Luk 18:1-5) Us too can undastan how she wen feel, cuz sometime in oua life, we all wen go tru someting dat no wuz fair.
2 Plenny peopo in da world today look down on oddas, no stay nice, an ony tink about demself, so no shock us wen tings happen dat no stay fair. (Teacha 5:8) But maybe throw us off fo tink oua braddahs or sistahs goin treat us bad. Dey no try fo treat us bad, but cuz dey not perfeck, it can happen. We can learn plenny from Jesus an how he wen hando wen da guys dat go agains him treat him bad. If we can hando wen da guys who go agains us no treat us fair, den fo shua we can hang in dea wen oua braddahs an sistahs no treat us fair. How Jehovah feel wen peopo no treat us fair, inside or outside da local hui? He kea wen dat happen?
OCTOBA 13-19
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE DA TEACHA 7-8
“Mo Betta Go Visit One House Wea Da Peopo Make One Funeral”
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Sad Cuz Somebody Mahke
One Time Fo Be Sad Cuz Somebody Mahke. Da Teacha 3:1, 4 tell dat get “one time fo cry an one time fo laugh, one time fo stay sad inside an one time fo dance.” Cuz erybody gotta deal wit death, da Bible tell dat somebody dass akamai goin go “one house wea da peopo make one funeral” radda den da “house wea dey make one party.” (Teacha 7:2, 4; check out Smart Guys 14:13.) So wen somebody mahke, da akamai person no go party an skip da chance fo be dea fo oddas an show dey kea. Wen he do dis, it goin help him rememba dat life iz spesho an dat he need God in his life.
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Help Oddas Hando Stress
15 William’s wife wen mahke few years ago an he tell, “Mean plenny to me wen oddas talk about tings dey rememba about my wife. Dat show me dat odda peopo wen love an respeck her. Wen peopo do dis, dat help plenny. It make me feel good deep inside cuz my wife wuz so spesho to me an one big paht of my life.” Bianca, who wen lose her husband, tell, “I feel real good wen oddas pray wit me an share scripchas wit me. It help wen dey talk about my husband an wen dey lissen to me talk about him.”
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“Wen Dey Cry, You Cry Wit Um”
16 Wen you pray wit somebody or fo somebody dat wen lose one loved one, no eva tink az one mynah ting fo do. Even if az hahd fo tell how you feel in one praya, an you choke up an cry, wen you pray from yoa heart, dat goin help dem deal wit how sad dey feel. Dalene tell, “Sometimes wen sistahs come visit me fo try make me feel betta, I ask dem if dey like say one praya. Plenny times wen dey start fo pray, dey get hahd time talk. But pretty soon dea voice get stronga an dey say one praya from da heart. Dea strong fait, dea love, an how much dey kea fo me, make my fait moa strong.”
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“Wen Dey Cry, You Cry Wit Um”
17 Erybody hando tings diffren wen somebody dey love mahke. So try always be dea fo dem, not jus da firs few days, wen plenny frenz an family stay dea fo help, but ova time wen oddas go back to dea regula life. Smart Guys 17:17 tell, “You get one fren, an he get love an aloha fo you all da time. You get one braddah, an he dea fo help you wen you need um cuz get trouble.” We need fo be dea fo dose who stay sad an soa fo az long az dey need us.—Read um 1 Fo Da Tessalonika Peopo 3:7.
18 Rememba dat tings can come up an trigger sad feelings at any time. Dose tings can be anniversaries, songs, pichas, tings dey wen do, or one smell, sound, or time of year. Wen somebody lose dea odda half, it can be real hahd fo dem do someting by demself fo da firs time, like go one big kine meeting or one meeting fo rememba. One braddah wen tell, “I knew dat my firs wedding anniversary wuz goin be supa rough, an it wuz hahd. But some braddahs an sistahs wen plan one small get togedda so dat I wuz wit my close frenz an not alone.”
19 Rememba dat no need be one spesho time fo encourage dem. Junia tell, “Iz so good fo have somebody try help or spen time wit me even if no moa one spesho anniversary. Wen peopo do dat, it mean so much to me an help me plenny.” Even tho we no can take away all dea pain or how dey feel alone sometimes, we can comfort dem by doin tings fo dem. (1 From John 3:18) Gaby tell, “I supa tankful to Jehovah fo da eldas dat wen help me tru eryting. Cuz of da love dey wen show me, I wen feel like Jehovah wuz hugging me.”
Good Kine Tings
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“Den Erybody Goin Know You My Guys”
18 We always gotta go up to one braddah or sistah dat wen offend us? Befoa we do dat, iz good fo ask ouaself dese questions: “I kno da whole story?” (Smart Guys 18:13) “Maybe dey neva mean fo hurt me?” (Teacha 7:20) “I eva wen make da same mistake?” (Teacha 7:21, 22) “If I go talk to da person, I goin make da problem moa worse?” (Read um Smart Guys 26:20.) Wen we take time fo tink about dese kine questions, maybe we goin see da ting fo do iz show love fo oua braddah an lettum go.
OCTOBA 20-26
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE DA TEACHA 9-10
Tings Fo Tink About Wen We Get Problems
w13-E 8/15 14 ¶20-21
Neva “Come Huhu An Tell Dat [Jehovah] Get Da Blame”
20 Kno who fo blame. How come we should do dat? Cuz maybe we da one dat wen cause some of oua problems. If dass tru, we gotta own up to dat. (Gal 6:7) No would make sense fo blame Jehovah. How come? Tink about dis exampo, one guy get one car dat can go supa fas. He drive um real fas pass da speed limit an wen he make one turn, he crash. He can blame da car mayka fo da accident? No ways! Same ting, Jehovah wen make us so we can choose fo ouaself wat fo do. But he tell us how fo make good choices too. So how we can blame Jehovah fo wen we jam up?
21 But not all oua problems come from wen we make mistakes or do someting wrong. Sometimes we get problems cuz “tings you no expeck can happen to anybody at any time.” (Teacha 9:11, NWT) We gotta rememba dat Satan iz da main reason get pilikia in da world. (1 From John 5:19; Jesus Show 12:9, NWT) He da bad guy, not Jehovah!—1 Pet 5:8.
w19.09-E 5 ¶10
Humbo Peopo Stay Spesho To Jehovah
10 All us see tings in life dat no seem fair or dass not right. But wen we humbo, it can make oua life moa betta. King Solomon wuz real akamai an he tell, “I wen see da slave guys ride horse, an da prince guys walk aroun jalike dey slaves.” (Teacha 10:7) Guys dat do tings real good no always get da respeck dey deserve. An sometimes guys who no do tings real good get moa respeck. But Solomon help us fo see az betta fo accept wass happening, radda den keep tinking about how tings no stay fair. (Teacha 6:9) If we humbo we goin be happy wit how oua life stay, even if tings not fair.
w11-E 10/15 8 ¶1-2
Iz Da Tings You Do Fo Fun Good Fo You?
DA BIBLE make um clea dat Jehovah like us fo have good fun. Songs Fo God 104:14, 15 tell dat Jehovah “make food come outa da groun . . . grape fo da wine dat make um feel good inside, an da olive fo da oil dat make dea face look nice, an da wheat fo da bread dat make um stay strong.” Jehovah da one dat give us da tings we need fo live. He make da plants grow so we can have bread, oil, an wine fo eat an drink. An we no need wine, but it can make us “feel good inside.” (Teacha 9:7; 10:19) Can tell Jehovah like us be happy.—Jesus Guys 14:16, 17.
2 So we no need feel bad wen we take time fo “look da birds” an “look da flowas dat grow wild” or fo have good fun doin odda tings dat build us up an make us feel betta. (Mat 6:26, 28; NWT, Songs 8:3, 4) One happy an healty life iz “one present from God.” (Teacha 3:12, 13) Paht of dat present, iz da time we use fo do tings fo fun. So we should use um in one way dat make God happy.
Good Kine Tings
it-E “Gossip, Bulai” ¶4, 8
Gossip, Bulai
Gossip can end up az bulais, an dass real bad fo da one dat tell da bulais. Da Teacha 10:12-14 give us one warning about how we talk, “But da stupid guy mout make him come wipe out. Wen da stupid guy start fo talk, he talk stupid kine. Bumbye he goin tell bad kine stuff an pupule kine stuff. An da stupid guy talk plenny.”
Sometimes gossip iz jus talking about oddas, but it can come bulais or head dat way. But bulais iz always bad an always hurts oddas an causes trouble. Some peopo tell bulais fo try hurt oddas an some no do um fo dat. Eidda way, da bulaia go agains God, cuz one of da tings God hates iz wen oddas “make braddahs go beef each odda.” (Smart Guys 6:16-19) Da Greek word fo somebody dat “bulai” or “poin finga” is di·aʹbo·los. Da Bible also use da word fo da title of Satan “da Devil,” da one dat bulai da mos about God. (John 8:44; Jesus Show 12:9, 10, NWT; Start 3:2-5) Dis really show wea all bulais an talkin bad about oddas come from.
OCTOBA 27–NOVEMBA 2
TREASURES FROM DA BIBLE DA TEACHA 11-12
Stay Healty An Enjoy Life
g 3/15-E 13 ¶6-7
Iz Fresh Air An Sunshine Natural “Medicine”?
Sunlight can naturally kill germs. Da Journal of Hospital Infection tell dat “sunlight can kill mos of da microbes dat pass tru da air an make peopo sick.”
How you can use dis fo help you? Go outside wea you can breathe some fresh air an get some sun but no stay out too long. If you do dis, it can be good fo you.
w23.02-E 21 ¶6-7
Treasure Life — One Gif From God
6 Da Bible not one healt-kea book an it no give one lis of tings fo eat, but it show wat Jehovah tink iz good fo oua healt. He no like us do tings fo jam up oua body. (Teacha 11:10) Eating too much an drinking too much can put yoa life in danger, an da Bible tell fo no do dat. (Smart Guys 23:20) Jehovah expeck us fo be able fo control how much we eat an drink an wat we choose fo we eat an drink.—1 Cor 6:12; 9:25, NWT.
7 We can show Jehovah we tankful fo da gif of life by tinking an choosing wass good fo us. (Songs 119:99, 100; read um Smart Guys 2:11) One way iz wen we choose wass good fo us eat. If we like fo eat someting but we kno it goin make us sick, den we not goin eat um. We show we kea about oua healt by making shua fo get enuff sleep, get regular exercise, taking kea oua bodies an keeping um clean, an keeping oua house clean.
“Da Tings God Tell . . . Gotta Do Um!”
2 Jehovah’s peopo stay happy. How come? Get plenny reasons, but one importan one iz dat we read da Bible on da regula an try oua bes fo do wat we learn.—Read um From James 1:22-25.
3 Get some good tings dat happen wen we do wat God tell. Fo exampo, wen we do wat we learn from da Bible, we make Jehovah happy, an dat make us happy too. (Teacha 12:13) An wen we follow wat God tell inside da Bible, oua relationships wit oua ohana an da local hui come moa betta. Dass probly tru fo you aah? Not ony dat, we stay away from da plenny problems peopo get wen dey no lissen an do wat Jehovah tell. Az jalike wat King David sed. Afta singing about Jehovah’s rules, how He tell fo live, an judge, David wen figga, “Da peopo dat make shua dey do wat Da One In Charge tell, He make shua plenny good tings happen to dem.”—Songs 19:7-11.
Good Kine Tings
Can Trus da Bible, O Wat?
Da Bible tell dat az one book dat get “da tings dat stay true.” (Da Teacha 12:10) It talk about tings dat wen happen fo real an da peopo dat was dea. (Read um Luke 1:3; 3:1, 2.) Wen da Bible tell one story, tell wat wen happen, who wen happen to, wen had happen, an wea had happen. Cuz of dat, is supa clear fo know wat really wen happen.