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Welcome to a podcast by opentheword.org where we provide Bible teaching and Biblical perspective on the rapid changes taking place in our society.

Episodes

137 | A Couple of Odd Facts About King David

April 21, 2025 • 6 mins
Hi my name is Dean Smith and in this podcast I want to discuss two odd fact about one of the Bible’s best known heroes, King David.
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136 | Great Tax Revolts of the Bible

April 7, 2025 • 12 mins
Taxes have been the.bane of man’s existence for thousands of years. In this podcast, I discuss two major tax revolts that took place in the Bible.
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135 | Pathways of the Heart

March 21, 2025 • 42 mins
In this Podcast Ian Byrd discusses the pathways of the heart. He talks about three pathways that lead us away from God and one pathway that leads us to God.
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134 | Coughing prayer versus joining a monastery or nunnery?

March 7, 2025 • 7 mins
In this podcast, I discuss whether believers should incorporate coughing prayer instead of joining a monastery or nunnery.
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133 | Bitten by Devils: Engaging the battle with fasting

February 24, 2025 • 14 mins
In this podcast, I discuss one the unheralded, but powerful weapons, that God has given believers in our battle against the demonic realm.
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132 | The Manifest Presence of God

February 7, 2025 • 11 mins
in this podcast, I want to talk about the manifest presence of God. My wife and I recently attended a conference on the Holy Spirit at our church. Yes, it was a full weekend of talking about the importance of the Holy Spirit. A strange thing happened at the conference.
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131 | Are You Vulnerable to Demonic Mind Games?

January 31, 2025 • 13 mins
With the growing interest in the demonic and occult in the west, In this podcast, we discuss an issue that could make you vulnerable to demonic attack, through 'mind games.'
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130 | Do You Have One of the Gifts of Healing?

January 17, 2025 • 15 mins
In this podcast, I discuss the gifts, yes that’s in the plural, gifts of healing. God does not want a handful of TV evangelists healing the sick, He wants an army of healers.
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129 | Three pieces of advice for those with the gift of prophecy

December 20, 2024 • 15 mins
To successfully move in the gift of prophecy, we need to be able to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit. In this podcast, I want to share three things that can lead to us delivering false prophetic words.
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128 | What is the Seer Anointing?

December 6, 2024 • 18 mins
In this podcast, I discuss the seer anointing, which is part of the Gift of prophecy, that the Holy Spirit has given to the church.
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127 | Did Kim Clement prophesy about Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency of America? And other related issues….

November 22, 2024 • 21 mins
This podcast discusses prophecies given by a now deceased prophet Kim Clement in 2007 on the rise of American billionaire, Donald Trump, to be president of the United States. Not only did he seem to predict that, but Clement said Trump would serve two terms.
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126 | Why do we see more demons in the New Testament than in the Old Testament?

November 8, 2024 • 17 mins
In this podcast, I discuss three reasons why we see so many more people being possessed by evil spirits in the New Testament than in the Old.
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125 | Shammah: David’s mighty warrior who stood his ground

October 22, 2024 • 10 mins
In this podcast, Wayne Johnston discusses one of his favorite Bible characters, Shammah. The man who defended a lentil patch.
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124 | Why did Jesus compare the Kingdom of God to an invasive weed?

October 8, 2024 • 9 mins
When Jesus discussed the Kingdom of God in the Gospels, He compared it to one of the Middle East's most invasive weeds. This comparison predicted the explosive growth of the church.
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123 | Eight Reasons why spiritual gifts are still for today! Part 2

September 9, 2024 • 14 mins
In this second of my two part series, I discuss the last three of my eight reasons why I believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit are intended for today. It seems that the Holy Spirit is manifesting His gifts even among those who don't believe in them.
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122 | Eight Reasons why spiritual gifts are still for today! Part 1

August 30, 2024 • 15 mins
Over the past couple of months, I have been doing a series on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the importance of spiritual gifts. It has attracted the attention of cessationists who don’t believe the spiritual gifts are for today. In this first of two podcasts, I discuss eight reasons why I believe the spiritual gifts are still for today.
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121 | The Holy Spirit: What is the purpose of the Gift of Tongues?

July 26, 2024 • 20 mins
By Dean Smith: In this podcast, I discuss one of the more controversial Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the gift of Tongues. Why does the Holy Spirit give this gift? What is its purpose?
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120 | The Holy Spirit: My Brief Encounter with the Gift of Faith

July 5, 2024 • 14 mins
By Dean Smith In this podcast, I discuss my very brief encounter with the gift of faith, one of the spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12.
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119 | The Greatest Hindrance to the Moving of the Holy Spirit in Your Life

June 21, 2024 • 17 mins
By Dean Smith In this podcast, I discuss what I believe is one of the greatest hindrances to the moving of the Holy Spirit in our personal lives and the church.
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118 | Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit?

May 31, 2024 • 20 mins
The Bible talks about a Second work of grace, after salvation, where believers are filled with the Holy Spirit. It through this Baptism of the Holy Spirit that we can be empowered like the early church.
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