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Poisons, according to the Advanced English Dictionary, are substances which cause injury, illness or death to a living organism.

Poisons could prove really injurious or deadly even when taken in the the littlest quantity.

Relating it to the spirit world, poisons are substances which cause injury, illness or death to one’s spiritual life even in the smallest quantity.

Most spiritual content comes e in form of messages (preaching) that we give our hearts to, as well as the books we read.

There are many messages and spiritual books today but not all are good for our spiritual health as Christians.

The devil knows he might not be able to poison our minds as members of the Church from outside the Church, so he tries to get us from within the body of Christ through the use of varieties of false doctrines and wrong books.

The Bible calls those books, teachings and those behind it “WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHING. ”

These books and teachings do not come alone, they are accompanied by verses from the Bible to confuse and poison the minds of believers.

They may contain a higher percentage of Bible verses and then a little percentage of spiritual poisons, yet, that little droplet of spiritual poison is enough to destroy one spiritually.

The devil knows you will not believe lies easily, so he inserts some real Bible verses in it.

Take a look at the temptation of Jesus.

Truly, the Bible tells us to listen to counsels but it did not say any counsel. It specified that it must be “WISE COUNSELS”. [Proverbs 1 vs 5]

There are lots of counsels today, some of which go against God’s written words.

We must be careful of the things we give our hearts and ears to.

How can you know the wise counsels?

The Bible says in Proverbs 1 vs 5, “….. a MAN of UNDERSTANDING shall attain unto wise counsels. ”

To be able to know and discern the wise counsels from the poisonous ones, one must be a man of understanding and a man of understanding is a man who has been taught the scriptures through the help of the Spirit of Wisdom which is the HOLY SPIRIT.

Many seek shortcuts in life, but only few are ready to learn first-hand from the Bible.

Those seeking shortcuts end up polluting their minds, while those who go through the true way get their minds so built up that it can never be shaken by any poison or storm.

We must all learn to take time out to intentionally study our Bibles in other to know that which is and which is not.