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Ron Spencer in his prayer is speaking to Satan and repeating a false story to try to build his own faith against Satan. The story Ron is referring to is fiction and Satan knows it. What excuse is there in this day of information at our fingertips to not be like the Bereans. Acts 17:10-11 (HCSB) As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea. On arrival, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and '''examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so'''.  
Ron Spencer in his prayer is speaking to Satan and repeating a false story to try to build his own faith against Satan. The story Ron is referring to is fiction and Satan knows it. What excuse is there in this day of information at our fingertips to not be like the Bereans. Acts 17:10-11 (HCSB) ''As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea. On arrival, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and '''examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so'''''.  




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Here are three true ways to increase your faith.
Here are three true ways to increase your faith.


1) Romans 10:17 (AMP) So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).   
1) Romans 10:17 (AMP) ''So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).''  


2) James 1:22 (AMP) But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth].
2) James 1:22 (AMP) ''But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth].''
 
3) 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (AMP) Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];


3) 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (AMP) ''Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];
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