You will face battles every single day, the question is, have you prepared yourself for the battle. Your mind is the battlefield, have you girded the loins of your mind today?

The Koathites were not better than the other sons, they just had a different set of duties to perform. The same holds true today, spiritually speaking the Koathites are the pastors and teachers. Pastors are not elevated above any of the other members of the body of Christ. Pastors just have a different set of responsibilities and duties to perform. The Gershonites and the Meari-ites also have their own set of responsibilities and duties to perform, an in like manner, so do all of the other members of the body of Christ. Or to be more specific to a local assembly, all of the members of any given congregation all have their own specific set of duties to perform to keep the work moving forward.

A neutral attitude to God that is as dangerous as hostility. It is condemned as a rejection of God’s love and of the needs of others.

In the midst of your biggest failures, the Lord wants to comfort you and to let you know that he is not finished with you yet.

Baptists do not celebrate lent because it is not Biblical. You will not find any mention of Jews or Christians observing an annual period of 40 days of fasting and abstinence preceding the festival of the Passover, yet most of the “Christian” world observes a 40 day period called Lent, which precedes Easter Sunday. 

Some say that Baptists should participate in Lent for a number of reasons. I will give you three of the reasons that they cite, and give you the reasons that they are incorrect

If your spirit is not clean, you cannot correctly testify of the Lord

Once you let something into your life it is hard to get it back out. It may start as a crack in the porcelain, but it can quickly turn into a flood.

The scriptures will give you everything that you are looking for:

Law - Converts the Soul

Testimonies - gives wisdom to the simple

Statutes - Rejoices the heart

Commandments - gives you enlightenment

Fear of the Lord - cleans you up

Big Tech censoring the news is not our biggest concern.

The government censoring free speech is not our biggest concern.

Our biggest concern is the desire for us to censor the truth of God’s Word from our own hearts and minds.

Spiritual Disciplines for every believer

1. Praying - continuously

2. Reading the Bible - daily

3. Memorizing Scripture - often

4. Walking in the Spirit - constantly

If you exercise these three things that he's given you, the Spirit of power and Spirit of love, the spirit of a sound mind, and Cast off the Spirit of fear, then you too will be able to say fear is not a factor for me.

Don't let the world and the circumstances and everything else going on and all the turmoil and everything else. Don't allow that stuff to put you in a box. Don't let that stuff to put you into a place where you're living in fear. You don't have to live in fear.

It's a choice that you make. You can live in the Spirit of power and the Spirit of love and the Spirit of a sound mind. And you can cast off that fear.