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Prayer Request: Today's Scripture *July 8, 2009*
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Today's Scripture *July 8, 2009* (Jul 8, 2009)
Prayer Request:
Today's Scripture *July 8, 2009*
1 John 4: 1-2
Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God.
"Do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God."
Means that we shouldn't believe everything we hear just because someone says it is a message from God. There are many ways to test teachers to see if their message is truly from the Lord. One is to check to see if their words match what God says in the Bible. God will never say anything contrary to His Holy Word; the Bible. Other tests include their commitment to the body of believers (1 John 2:19 These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us.); their life-styles (1 John 3: 23-24 And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. Those who obey God’s commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he lives in us because the Spirit he gave us lives in us. ), the the fruit of their ministries (1 John 4:6 But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.) But the most important test of all, says John, is what they believe about Christ. Do they teach that Jesus is fully God and fully man? Our world is filled with voices claiming to speak for God. Give them these tests to see if they are indeed speaking God's Truth.
Thank You God for Your written Word to us. May we walk in it's Truth each day.
Help us to listen to the voices around us that do indeed speak for You.
May we test every teaching against Your Word and be students of the Bible ourselves.
In Your Name we pray, Amen..
Bless you!
April
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