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Seasoned with Salt

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt. —Colossians 4:6 Scripture reading: James 3

Salt has three properties: first, it stings; second, it heals; and third, it preserves. In the same way, your words by the Spirit are filled with grace, yet they cut to the heart, and they bring preservation. We must be very careful to be salty. God’s Word will not return void; it will accomplish, and it will prosper (Isa. 55:11)—but our mouths must be clean and our desire wholly for God.
How true we have to be! You are seasoned with salt. It is inspiring! It is conviction! Thus the Holy Spirit writes on the fleshly tablets of the temple of the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:3). O Lord, enlarge our sense of Your presence in the temple so that we may discern the Lord’s body in our midst.
Amen

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Consolation out of Affliction

If we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation….Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2 Corinthians 1:6
Scripture reading: Isaiah 51:9–16

These consolations (relief, comfort) come out of deprivation (lack), affliction (anguish), and endurance (long suffering ). “Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead” (2 Cor. 1:9).
I pray to God that He may never find us “kick[ing] against the goads” (Acts 9:5). We may have to go through  testing; divine healing, purity of heart, baptism in the Holy Spirit and in fire—we are tested for these truths. We will not be without testing. But the   glory will rise. We go down into trials also to be sustained and brought out for the glory of God. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom. 8:31). “For our light affliction (anguish), which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17). Oh, the joy of being worthy of suffering! How will I stand the glory that will be after? Amen

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Yielding to God’s Plan

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. —2 Corinthians 1:5

Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12–27

Chastening brings or places  upon us fruits unto holiness. It is in these dark places where we see no help that we cry out to God. He will deliver us so that we can help the tempted. It was said of Jesus that He was “in all points tempted as we are” (Heb. 4:15). Where did He receive strength to comfort us? It was at the end of “vehement cries and tears” (Heb. 5:7)
God takes us to a place of need, and before we are barely aware of it, we are full of consolation toward the needy.
We are members of one another. When God’s breath is upon us and we are quickened by the Holy Spirit, we can pour into each other wonderful ministries of grace and helpfulness. Amen

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The Flood Tide of Revival

Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? —Psalm 85:6
Scripture reading: Psalm 85:7–86:13

Wherever He went, multitudes followed Him, because He lived, moved, breathed, clothed, and filled by Spirit of God. He was God; the Spirit of God rested upon Him it was the anointing that was drapped over Him like a coat shinning bright. Jesus came to impart to us the Spirit of holiness and truth that the Word embodies.
God must do something to increase, like a revival to revive all we touch within us and outside of us. A flood tide with a deluge behind it.
God increase in us we must be triumphant for souls to be born into a new relationship with heaven. Jesus had all divine authority and all divine  power,  He left it for us. We must preach truth, holiness, and purity “in the inward parts” (Ps. 51:6). Thirst for more of God. Amen

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Resist the Devil

Often we realize that certain trials in our lives are the work of the enemy, and we cry out to God to rebuke him and alter circumstances for us. However, God’s Word tells us to rebuke the enemy ourselves. In James 4:7 we are told, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” The authority over the devil is ours. The responsibility is ours. If we’ll resist the devil, he will flee from us. The Bible doesn’t say, “Get somebody else to resist the devil for you”; it says we are to resist the devil. Too many of us sit idly by, waiting for Jesus to do something when we are the ones who are supposed to resist the devil. Why? Because we have the authority to! (We always want somebody else to do what we’re supposed to do.)
Of course we’re always going to have spiritual babies, and we ought to carry them on our faith, but some of us ought to grow up enough to be able to help look after the babies and not leave it up to the pastor to do everything. Amen

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SWBC

Monday morning  praise, a full day of worship and Word.

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How to Deal With Demons

We’ve got to depend on the Spirit of God to know when demons are present and to know how to deal with them. We’re helpless without both the Spirit and the Word. Don’t just be a Word person without the Spirit, and don’t just be a Spirit person without the Word. Many try to act on the Word of God without the Spirit of God. You’ve got to have both of them. The Spirit and the Word agree.
You can be released from oppression to your body and your mind. You can exercise spiritual authority over others as long as they are in your presence. You can take authority over all unseen forces. If you learn how to exercise spiritual authority like this, it will work in your home as well. Amen

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