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Warning:  Before you read this post, please understand my position.  I am writing this from a position of spiritual warfare.

Does it bother anyone other than me that there are so many cancer, depression, and other disease commercials on television?    There is one depression commercial that some pharmaceutical company broadcasts that repeats this phrase over and over again:  My depression … my depression … my depression.   Each time I hear it I am rebuking it in my own mind, “I don’t have depression!”

Then everywhere you turn there is something about cancer.   Before I get hate mail about being insensitive — I’m not.  I lost both of my parents to that horrible disease.   But I don’t associate myself with it and I don’t like it being flashed before my eyes on a daily basis.   I usually try to block my ears and eyes when these commercials fill the air.   Why?

When feeling disturbed in my spirit about this, I was reminded of the scriptures and story in Genesis 30.

Jacob had served his father-in-law, Laban, for many years.  He was ready to head back to his homeland, but for his wages Laban agreed to give Jacob every spotted and speckled sheep/goat as well as dark-colored lambs (Genesis 30:31).

Laban was dishonest and removed all of the spotted, speckled, streaked, and dark animals from the flock and gave them to his sons (Genesis 30:34).

God gave Jacob wisdom and this is what Jacob did to increase his flock:

Genesis 30:37-43
Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
  Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.  Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals.  Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.  In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

What was set before the animal’s eyes was exactly what they produced!

Remember the children’s song with the lyrics, “Oh be careful little eyes what you see” …

There is power in what we see, hear, and say.   Yes, we should guard all of the doorways into our spirit, soul, and body.

If God’s Word is what we read throughout the day and if we choose to focus on the Lord — what fruit will be produced in our lives?

What are you viewing today?  What is seeping into your very soul by seemingly innocent choices?

Satan never plays fair and he takes advantage of us anyway he can.

Be careful little eyes what you see …

Be careful little ears what you hear …

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