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MGD: Healing for Bitter Waters - 2
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Shalom, and I bless money to you all, and you're
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onely welcome to today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion.
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This is Sarahma and rebels jabbing from having shapel international mercy,
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and it's our privilege to be facilitating today's edition. Please
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let us share a word of prayer. Father, thank you
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for the wonderful privilege to gather together at your feet
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to listen to your word. Please open our eyes and
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let us see wonderful things out of your word in
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Jesus my toned. Amen. Now let us take our confession
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from Josho chapter one, verse eight. Josho Chapter one, verse eight.
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This book of the Law shall not depart out of
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my mouth, but I shall meditate in it to day
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and night, that I may observe to do according to
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all that is written in it. For then I'll make
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my way prosperous, and then I'll have good success. Amen.
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Today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion has been titled
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Healing for Better Waterest Part two Healing for Better Watests
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Part two. The subtitle is Divine Instractions and Godly Counsel.
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Our Bible reading texts shall be taken from second Kings,
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Chapter two, verse nineteen to twenty two. Second Kings, Chapter two,
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verse nineteen to twenty two. I read some men from
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Jericho went to Elisha and said, as you know, sir,
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this is a fine city, but the water is bad
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and it causes miscarriages. Put some salt in a new
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bowl and bring it to me, he ordered, and they
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brought it to him, and he went to the spring
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through the salt in the water, and said, this is
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what the Lord says. I make this water pure, and
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it will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages. And
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that water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha
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said it would be Amen. Healing for Better Waters, Part two.
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Healing for Better Waters, Part two. Divine instractions and Godly Counsel.
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Divine Instructions and Godly Counsel. Have you heard the saying
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that life is not perfect? I'm sure you have. Maybe
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you've had a variant of it, something meant to suggest
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that you cannot possibly seek to have all around pleasantness.
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We hear words like this so often that we begin
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to use them as cushions for our quiet, hard breaks.
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We tell ourselves that every good marriage must have a
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hidden misery, every good job must break your health, or
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every family must carry a secret cross. Over time, we
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learn to live with things that were never meant to
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be tolerated. We settle for a life that looks good
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on the outside, while something vital is dying on the inside.
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This was the exact tragedy of Jericho in our Bible
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reading today. The leaders of the city came to the
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prophet Elisha with a strange confession. They said the city
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was pleasant and situated in a fine location, but the
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water was bad, causing the ground to be barren and
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the women to miscarry. Think about that picture for a moment.
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Jericho looked thriving to a visitor passing through. The buildings
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were standing and located in prime places, yet beneath the surface,
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the very source of life, it's water, was carrying death.
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For years, the people had simply managed the problem. They
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built a fine city on top of a better spring.
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Everything changed the day they decided to stop accommodating the case.
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They saw Elisha, a man sent by God, and they
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brought their hidden trouble into the light. Alisha did not
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give them a political strategy or a temporary He asked
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for a new bowl filled with salt, went straight to
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the source of the spring and threw it in. God
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touched the spring at its root, and the scriptures recorded
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that the water was healed from that day forward. Elijah
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was clearly a man who knew what to do about
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their unique situation. Brothers, sometimes the better water in our
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lives ling us simply because we have learned to live
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with them. We assume nothing can change, so we stop
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asking for help. But God often places in our path
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wise counselors, spiritual leaders, trusted mentors, and even skilled professionals
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who carried the insight with desperately need. He uses human
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instruments to bring his restoration to our sources. And so, beloved,
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let us stop making peace with subtle distraction. Do not
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let a better spring room what God is trying to
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build in your home, your health, your mind, or your
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spiritual life. Rich old, seek godly counsel and bring the
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root of the problem to the Lord. The God who
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healed the waters of Jericho is still in the business
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of making booking things or Amen. Now, let us take
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our memories from Second Kings chapter two, verse twenty two.
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Second Kings, Chapter two, verse twenty two, and that water
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has been pure ever since just as Elisha said it
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would be, and that water has been pure ever since,
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just as Elisha said it would be. Amen. Now let
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us pray helps me. Father, forgive us for settling for
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places of bitterness and convincing ourselves that pain is our
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only option. You see the areas of our lives that
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look fine on the outside, that are broken at the source.
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Today we bring our headen beddings to you. Grant us
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the wisom to seek help and the humility to receive
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godly counsel. Go to the very root of our struggles, Lord,
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and bring complete healing. Turn our bearing places into grounds
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of fruitfulness and peace. We ask this in Jesus Mighty
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name aided man be love it. Thank you for being
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a part of today's episode of the Morning Gloried Devotion.
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Stay tuned to Radio ACI today for more spirit feel
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content throughout the day and until we come your way
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tomorrow morning. At the same time, please have a blessed day. Amen.