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DON"T GET RIPPED!



S.E.E.D. For Today___Influence 

 Scripture "We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth." Ephesians 4:14c NLT

 As we research the letter Paul wrote to the Ephesians we know that there were false prophets who were preaching another gospel and introducing various teachings that kept people tossed with doubts.  The enemy has taken the word of God in cunning and craftiness lying in wait to deceive as he did Eve. Don't get ripped by all the prophecies and messages that tantalize our flesh, as we throw our money at the feet of those who lure us by words that stroke our egos and declarations that feed our desires and predictions that validate our plans. The truth will set you free but at first it will indeed piss you off for it is for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness.

Example Influence is the capacity to have an effect on character development, power exerted
over the minds or behavior of someone or something, without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command. The power to shape policy or ensure favorable treatment from someone. In the slang it is ripped as under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

 Exercise Read Ephesians 4:11-16 Journal and Talk to God; Being under the influence is a term used to basically describe when someone is heavily intoxicated or high from substance use, it also relates to a term being ripped. When a person is ripped he or she is confused and their minds are full of many things and hard to determine truth, don't allow yourself to get ripped or tossed into a sea of doubt by believing in something that sounds like the truth. Study your word!

Devotion Lord I thank You for this day. I pray for a sober mind that I will not get ripped, influenced by the those who use the word of God to mislead others. I pray for an understanding of your word that I will be able to stand against all deceit of the enemy, he will always use your word to deceive your people and entice us by our own lust. I pray for the wisdom to rightly divide the word of truth. I pray that I will not allow other tools of influence as twitter, Facebook, and instagram to become my resource for scripture, but I will unplug set aside time for understanding and sobriety from sin in Jesus Name Amen.

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