Words that heal the bonesProverbs 16:16-24Length: Standard

1 Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

• Read
• Reread
• Retell

2 Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

1. What does this passage show me about God?

   • What does this passage say gracious words do, and what does it value above gold?

2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

   • Whose health have your words damaged, and whose have they built up?

3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

   • What gracious word will you speak this week, to whom, and on what day?

4. Who will I tell?

   • Who around you is starved of a kind word?

3 Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).