Word for Today: Try Every Spirit…Especially the ones that are sent to try you, “5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.” (1 John 4:5 & 6, BSB)

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test them against the pure, unadulerated, mitigating word of Almighty God, Creator of all things seen and unseen.

1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,…4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

(1 john 4:1, 2 & 4, Berean Study Bible)

…8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.…

(2 Corinthians 12:8-10, Berean Study Bible)