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Try the spirits!

Gerry

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Romans 7:21: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me."

When we do good, satan gets riled and will do anything possible to disrupt, and sow discord, and disharmony. This confounds and causes confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33: "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints."

But even though it is discouraging and draining we must not be weary in well doing. We must keep our focus and do the calling God has called us to do.

Today my PM box was filled with a mix of good wishes and the opposite. I was greatly discouraged, because I looked at the negative. But after much counsel I was able to refocus on the positive. I know there will always be those who will, for one reason or another oppose everything I say or try to do, but for those who look to me for support, I will be here to do what I can.

I will continue to post scripture and I will tell everyone, never to listen to me or anyone else, but rather listen to God, and weigh everything said against the written Word of God!

1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Try them against the written Word of God, and you will know them by thier fruits.

Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
 

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Originally posted by altya
Gerry you taught me that it takes only a moment to be kind, but the result can last a lifetime. - Thanks

Glory to God Alta! This is something I needed so much to hear this morning and it is a lesson that comes straight from the heart of Jesus. It an awesome thing the Love of Christ teaches us and how quickly we tend to forget. Regretably the opposite is also true. Often a moment of unkindness can have a lifelong detrimental effect.

May God help us all to remember that words can be cold as steel and can not only rob us of our joy, but can kill a spirit as surely as a bullet can kill a body, whereas words of love can create life.

Thanks for you words of light and life!
 
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