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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode is: “LESSONS FROM A SPIDER”

I want to start with a question today? How many of you if you found a spider in a loaf of bread would eat the bread? I don’t think many would say yes. But some that are really hungry would say yes. Often satan is compared to a spider. He has placed webs of deceit in the bread of the word. Some of the new translations cannot be trusted. They are missing verses and meanings of others have been changed to support the new all roads lead to heaven lie.

We would say that the loaf of bread is going to be tossed out with the garbage. What if the spider had spread venom on the bread? Well, satan’s lies is poison to our spirit. Some of the translations need to be tossed out with the trash. I say this to warn you to be careful. I always compare everything to the King James Version. If I feel it means the same thing then I feel like that verse is acceptable. I compare on a verse by verse basis.

Satan is the father of lies and we often compare a liar to one that spins a web. The poor insect that gets caught in the web has no idea what is coming its way. The spider doesn’t kill its prey all at once. It will kill it slowly over time. Satan doesn’t come at us full force, he comes at us a little at a time. Maybe with a watered-down bible. Then he will make you think that this little thing or that little thing won’t matter. Afterall, God’s grace is sufficient. Don’t think the enemy doesn’t know the word of God.  He will keep coming at us a little at a time until he has us in a desperate situation.

We have to be on guard constantly for his small attacks. The word says it’s the little foxes that spoil the vine. We are looking for him to come at us as a roaring lion with a big attack. When he is working on the little things. Like getting us to say we will pray tomorrow and go on to bed. We may decide to skip our bible reading today because we are so busy. The next thing you know it has been a week since we picked up the bible or prayed with any real enthusiasm and devotion. It’s the little things that add up.

Prov 30:24-28 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

From these five verses we could do a study that would give us a lot of wisdom. After all Proverbs is the book of wisdom. I want to briefly touch on each but keep mostly to my original topic of the spider.

Ants are colonies of many, they communicate well with each other and work as one. They prepare for winter in the summer. Just as we are to prepare in this life for our eternity. Will it be eternal life or eternal death. As ants work together, we are to band together and try to help others prepare for eternal life.

Conies are rabbit-like creatures with shorter ears than rabbits. They build their dens in rock for protection. It is their fortress, like God is our rock and fortress. They are protected from predators and storms. Just as God protects us from the enemy and storms of life.

The Locust goes in bands. There is evidence of where they have been because the leaves are dead and brown. We as Christian’s need to stick together. There needs to be evidence that we have been somewhere. Unlike the locust that leaves behind death, we can bring life to people.

Prov 30:28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

Spiders can be anywhere from a pitiful shack of a house to a king’s palace. They are so small that most don’t even notice them. Until the evidence of cobwebs starts to show up. Then we know a spider has been in our house.

One time for about two weeks I would sweep down all the webs on my porch. Every morning when I went out to go to work, I would walk through new webs spread across the opening of the porch. I would look around and not see any spiders. Because they go back in a crevice and hide until they feel the vibrations of something being caught in the web. I went out in the dark and found it spinning a web. I killed the spider and didn’t have any more webs.

We need to be like the spider in the sense that it is determined to keep building even if someone tears down what we have built. It travels by swinging on it’s web. It is safe to say that what comes out of the spider gets it where it wants to go. Can we be like that and be determined to keep working on building the kingdom of God even if someone else is trying to undo all that we have done.

Spiders know when something is caught by the vibrations of it’s web. We need to be in tune to the Holy Ghost inside of us and have enough discernment to know when the enemy has entered the room. Have you ever met someone that you could feel evil around them, so much so that it smother you?

People don’t wake up one day and say, “I think I am going to be evil.” It is a process of being bit by the poison of satan over and over again. As a spider kills its prey in the web little by little, satan slowly kills the persons desire for good. He slowly posses them with evil until in some cases they are too far gone to ever yield to God calling them to be saved. It is so very sad when people allow their evil to overtake them to the point that they think they are God and will not yield.

In summary, we need to be like these four little creatures. Prepare like the ant. Work now because there will come a day when the work ceases. As the conies hide in the rock we need to hide in Jesus. Make sure that we make Jesus who is our fortress our dwelling place. He is our rock and foundation. We need to band together, we can do more if we work toward a common goal together. People will be able to see where we have been.

When we think of the spider, we remember that even though satan is often compared to the spider, it has good qualities too. It is determined to keep building even in the face of adversity. It is what is in the spider that gets it where it wants to go. Just like God’s spirit in us will get us where we want to go. We need to have more discernment in the body of Christ. We need to be so in tune with the Holy Ghost that we can sense the enemy. Because he will not only let us sense the evil but tell us what to do in every situation.

I hope the next time you see a spider that you think about how they are determined. I hope it reminds you to pray for discernment. I definitely hope it is not in your loaf of bread.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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