Stench or Shower

Your senses can cause consternation but the Word of God remains unchanged. Sometimes you are forced to deal with things like death, disease, despite, despair, revilement or rejection. When you do you are left with a rotten residue. All kinds of things can affect your emotions and some cause a stench more intense. Some things you can control and some you can’t but you can choose upon what you dwell and what you repel. Being reviled for example is like being sprayed by a skunk and despair is like swimming a pit of rancid junk. Rejection tempts you to move into dungeons dark and putrid cave, and death is always there like a nightmare snare, waiting to drag you off to its oppressive lair. All evil is somehow either dark or fetid and you have to avoid it and/or overcome it by dwelling in that which is bright and pure. For he who shares the odor of his own oppression is likened unto one who falls into a cesspool and then fails to take a shower. But God’s Word is the means to be clean and smell like a flower. Jesus said, “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.” And, “first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.” So if you want to be happy on the outside you have to get happy on the inside. If you want to overcome the darkness without you must get the light within. If you don’t want to spoil, you must be filled with the Spirit of Life. And the Lord said, “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” “And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.” We are called to “live by faith” and not by feelings, because emotions cause commotions. And thank God for feelings for they enhance life like steams with their ebb and flow. But it’s not good to try to build a house in the middle of a river. And so it is when you let your senses rule you become unstable and act a fool, but if you will abide in the Truth you will remain calm and cool. So live by faith and overcome from the inside out, enjoy life without a doubt.

John 15:3-4
3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
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Matt 23:26
26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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John 6:63-64
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
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Rom 10:17
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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1 John 5:4-5
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.
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Isa 26:3
3 You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
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Luke 6:46-49
46 "But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say? 47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."
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James 1:21-25
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
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John 8:31-32
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
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Rom 5:17
17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
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Rev 5:10
10 And have made us kings and priests to our God;
And we shall reign on the earth."
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1 Peter 2:9-10
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
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Heb 10:35-11:2
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

37 "For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him."

39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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