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Summary: Knowing your purpose makes a difference

I Was Made For This!

2 Kings 2:19-22 ,Matthew 5:13

“The people of the city said to Elisha, “Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive.” “Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’ ” And the water has remained pure to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.”

2 Kings 2:19-22 NIV

““You are the salt of the earth.

Matthew 5:13 NIV

Salt has played a critical role in food preparation for thousands of years .. yet in the last few decades, salt has been made somewhat of a villain as its been associated with high blood pressure, hypertension and heart disease.

But I’ve discovered that salt has had some benefits connected to it.

Salt is used from birth to death to transport cells that function and operate in the body

85% of the water in your body carry’s better salt than that in the sea

Medically, it was antiseptic used to heal open wounds if you’ve been burned or whatever the case

To make it more practical:

Salt is used as seasoning to enlighten that which is bland

Used for preservation

Was used to make one thirsty... to realize something was missing out if their system.

So when you put that all together imagine what Jesus was saying in Matthew 5:13

YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH

Watch this.. he didn’t say “Like salt” “will become salt”

But in the state you are in right now, YOU ARE THE SALT

(IOW) in a Bland situation I got flavor! When you’re in a situation that’s trying to burn you up and make you feel like you lost all you got… you’ve got in you the power to persevere

Im talking to some people listening to me where people know all your history and can’t understand why you haven’t lost your mind yet after all the stuff you’ve been through

They don’t know its a preservative in you!

Because I’m salt, I realize I’m instinctively thirsty for something. So while others are satisfied with what they have, there is a hungry and thirst in me that there is more to me that what I’ve tapped into .

If I’m salt.then metaohorally speaking, anything impure or unlearn has to change when it comes in contact with me because of the contents in me.

Which means if you got a negative spirit and bad attitude and you take the risk of coming around me I’m an atmosphere shifter!

Listen, I’m Salt but I’m NOT SALTY! I’m not bitter by anything that has happened to me in my life because God allowed me to go through it and the reason why you couldn’t tell is because I’ve learned to get flavor out of a bad situation! So others who don’t operate on the same level of sodium as me always want to look at my life and say stuff like IF I WAS YOU… well newsflash, YOU AIN T ME!! You can’t tell me how to respond if you sent be through anything , YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IM MADE OF!

Cause I’m salt I was made to persevere over hell, trouble, and any situation I face…

Because God gifted me, I take a licking and keep on ticking so please don’t feel sorry for me or bad cause I remind myself everyday I get up..NO WEAPON!!

You shaking your own head and still trippin over what you’ve survived and overcame and the enemy is mad cause the situation of life made you better and now that you on the other side and have survived 100% of your worst days, you can to the field to declare IM STILL STANDING cause if GOD BE FOR ME….

In 2 Kings 2 something strange has taken place.. real quick.. Elisha has received the double portion anointing he has asked for from Elijah. And as soon as he steps into the double portion, he’s got a problem.. please hear me..

Whenever God gives you an anointing, please don’t think you won’t be faced and presented with problems.

But God allows problems just so he can who you your double portion!

If you were just operating on one level soon as you got hit you would have fell out dead, but because you have a stronger anointing on you, what whipped out weaker people, you’re able to swing through it and let the enemy know if that’s all you got I’ve been through worst !

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