Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and will satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with resisting

the devil as we pick up in James chapter 4 verse 6 and now with today's message

here's pastor Chuck. But so many times we just are prone to sort of pass it off.

Well, I'm just irritable today.

I just feel miserable.

I'm just, you know, ready to chew up anybody.

Get some out of sorts.

I didn't get enough sleep last night or something, you know.

And we don't recognize it, hey, this is a real spiritual conflict.

This whole thing that I feel, this heaviness and all, is actually a satanic force, a power that's trying to defeat me.

Now if I fail to recognize it, I can just go on in this miserable way all day long.

But if I recognize, hey, this isn't of God, this isn't of God's spirit. This

isn't how God would have me to be? This is an attack of Satan against me, recognizing it, then I deal

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