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STRANGE WOMAN 2


 Text : Proverbs 2:16 KJV 


 *To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;* 


Today, we shall be looking at some of the operations of the strange woman and how to wriggle out of it.


Remember that essentially, the strange woman is actually a representation of anything or anyone that is capable of luring you away from your God-given destiny. The characteristics of the strange woman include:


1.) *Flattery:* One thing that is closely associated with the strange woman's operation is Flattery. Prov. 2:16, 7:5  6:24


Flattery is excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour. 


A child of God should not give flattery and it is wisdom to know when you are being flattered.


 *Don't have an exaggerated or inflated worth of yourself.* 


2.) *She's everywhere* : Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner.Pro 7:12 ISV. 


When Jesus resisted the devil's temptation the first time, the devil didn't give up, he tempted Him two more times.


That you were able to resist the strange woman's ploy once doesn't mean she won't try again. You must keep resisting.


Note that the devil has stationed different distractions at every juncture of your life. Jesus overcame through the word, you will overcome through the word too.

So, it's a question of how much of His words you have kept in your heart.


Psalms 119:11 says *Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.* 


Proverbs 7:1-5 say *My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.* 

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.


It's not so much about the amount of the words you know, it's how much of what you know and kept.


 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. 

Revelation  1:3.



 *BIBLE READING* :


Proverbs 7:4-27.


 *PRAYER FOCUS* 


1. Father,  give me wisdom and grace to run from strange women and whatever she stands for.


2.) Lord, give me the grace to keep your words in my heart so I may not sin against you.



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