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<h1>Have You Been Swatting Flies? -&nbsp;Karen Hardin, Tulsa, OK - Jan 31, 2026</h1>
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<p class="subtitle"><strong>Flies in the Natural and the Spiritual</strong></p>
<p><strong>There are two kinds of flies: natural and spiritual.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What started out as swatting natural flies turned into swatting "spiritual flies"—annoyances meant to discourage us and make us come to a halt.</p>
<p class="subtitle" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Intruders in Our Home</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">An odd thing happened at my home recently.&nbsp;<em>We were inundated with flies.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At first, we thought perhaps the door had been left open, allowing flies trying to escape the unseasonable heat to the cooler air inside.&nbsp;<strong>But for every fly we killed, one or two more would appear.</strong>&nbsp;It was a seemingly never-ending barrage of annoyance. Their constant buzzing noise, flying around us, landing on food and counters. In one evening, we must have killed fifteen to twenty.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was with a sense of satisfaction and a smile when I killed what I thought was the last fly, only to walk into our bathroom and find another one buzzing around. And then it would start again the next day. That's when we realized that eggs must have been laid by one of the aggravating beasts, and we were now reaping the result.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All of this took place after my husband and I had just come off an excruciatingly busy schedule, launching a three-day revival in a large arena in our city.</p>
<p class="subtitle" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>When Spiritual Flies Swarm</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=33662" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ MORE</a></p>
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