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I do what I do because I’ve seen God’s
power transform my own life and he will
do it for you the key to everything is
found in God’s
word I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that
God can heal you everywhere you
hurt we’re doing a little Series this
weekend on the devil I know you’re all
happy about hearing about the devil
and uh some people don’t believe the
devil’s real but I’m sorry to tell you
that he is and uh if you don’t believe
that all you got to do is look around at
the world and see the condition it’s in
and it certainly isn’t
God that’s the creator of all the evil
that’s in the world and that’s the best
way I know how to put it that the world
today is full of
evil and evil people and we blame the
government and we blame
everything but behind it all is the
devil that doesn’t mean that people
aren’t responsible for what they do but
the devil will work through and use
anybody that he
can including Christians I don’t believe
he can possess a Christian because
they’re full of the Holy Spirit but he
certainly can oppress them how many of
you believe the devil’s ever used your
mouth
to
yeah I have to definitely say that he’s
been times when he’s used mine to hurt
people and to say things that were just
really downright stupid and so he’ll use
your attitude your
mouth certainly try to put all kinds of
wrong thoughts in your life because I
always like to say where your thoughts
go where the thoughts go the man
goes it’s just like you think about a
hot fudge Su long enough you probably go
to get one no matter what time it is no
matter how far you have to go it’s
amazing how our thoughts affect our
feelings and our
emotions and
so it’s very important that we realize
the Devil is a real
entity I am bounds said in his book The
Devil is a
person not a person like we are with the
human body but a person with a
personality a personality that’s very
evil
and the devil really is to be respected
don’t ever make fun of the
devil
or think that he’s just a big joke
because he has a lot of power but one
thing he does not have any longer
because Jesus took it away from him is
Authority we have authority and power
Luke 10:19
says
behold I have given you not I will give
you but I have given you power and
authority to tread on
serpents that’s the way he appeared to
Eve in the garden as a serpent To Tread
on serpents and
scorpions I’ve given you power over all
the power of the devil and nothing shall
by any means hurt you so you have power
and you have authority
but it’s up to you to use it and that’s
what we’re going to talk about this
morning we’re going to talk about being
a little more
aggressive not being so dull-headed and
just wait let the devil walk all over us
and do nothing about it but 1 Peter 5’8
says resist the devil at his
onset you don’t wait
until you’ve been a broken down mess for
3 months and then finally takes a
truckload to Christians to come pick you
up you resist the devil at his onset and
don’t feel sorry for yourself when you
have trouble that’s one of the best ways
to invite the enemy in in 1 Peter 5 8-10
it says that the same afflictions are
accomplished throughout the body of
Christ all around the world so whatever
kind of problem you’re
having there’s somebody that’s got to
worship problem than
you
amen and so um first scripture going to
read is revelation 16:15 out of the
Amplified classic
Bible and it basically says stay awake
and keep your clothes
on it’s an interesting scripture if you
don’t understand it spiritually you’re
got to go
huh he says behold I am going to come
like a
thief blessed happy to be envied is he
who stays awake alert and who guards his
clothes so that he may not be naked and
have the shame of being seen
exposed Now isn’t that an interesting
scripture what you know that doesn’t
mean to go sit in your closet with a
shotgun and guard your clothes all night
he’s not talking about these kind of
clothes he’s talking about spiritual
clothing maybe that’s a new thought for
you maybe you haven’t really
comprehended
that you have spiritual clothing but all
throughout the Bible it tells us to put
on some things and put off other things
and both of those terms put on and put
off are action words they require you to
do
something I’ve never yet gone in my
closet and had my clothes jump on my
body I’ve had to pick them out and put
them on and many
times
I don’t like what I put on I don’t look
good in it
or so I’ll take it off and I’ll put on
something else and trust me when I say
that there are many Christians going out
in the world
today dressed spiritually in things that
don’t look good on
them bad
attitudes
self-pity anger bitterness resentment
jealousy oh but we go to
church praise God as long as you go to
church and you got a cross hanging
around your neck and a big Bible then
everything’s okay well I hate disappoint
you but that’s not what God’s looking
for God sees the
heart and he sees what we do and the
Bible tells us over and over that Jesus
is coming soon and I don’t know how soon
is but every day that goes by it gets
sooner Paul thought he was coming back
in his day and we believe he’s coming
back in our day and I think every
generation believes he’s coming back in
their day but one of these days it’s
going to
happen and there are signs of the end
times and more and more of them are
being fulfilled
all the
time all you got to do is read Matthew
24 and you’ll
find a lot of the things that the Bible
says is going to
happen in the last days but God is
watching and he is a
rewarder of those who are
diligent and diligence means that you
don’t just do the right thing one
time but you do it over and over and
over and over and over you do it when
you feel like it you especially do it
when you don’t feel like
it I’m going to make a statement and I
want you to hear this when you do the
right
thing when you feel like doing the wrong
thing that’s one of the most powerful
things you can
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do I’m going to say it again when you
choose to do the right
thing when you feel like doing the wrong
thing it’s one of the most powerful
things that you can
do God may want you to be the aggressor
and go and make peace with somebody who
has hurt you and
really everything in you says they
should be the one coming to
you but you know in your heart that God
wants you to be the aggressor and go
make peace the Bible says when you bring
your gift to the altar if your brother
has ought against you you go to
him and make peace then come
back and bring your gift to the altar
well that’s not an easy thing to
do
but if we will just do what God tells us
to
do it’s amazing how good things will
work
out in our life I don’t know why we are
so stinking
stubborn but it sure takes us a long
time to realize that God was right after
all
right oh and by the way he won’t change
his mind and do it your
way no matter how long you wait to do it
his way he’s not going to change his
mind
and do it your way so the Bible says for
example put on Jesus
Christ put on
love clothe yourselves with
Mercy kind feelings and a lowly
opinion of
yourself put on
humility put off the old man put on the
new man and put on the full armor of God
and I’ll tell you in a minute what that
is but
what you say well how do I do that well
the way it works for me is I I think
about
it I spend time with God every morning
before I do anything else and I highly
recommend
it now you might say well I’m just not a
morning person well if you can only give
it two
minutes some way somehow start your say
your day with God if all you can say is
good morning morning
Lord I love
you some
people do better at night at night I’m
done I can’t do anything but lay down
somewhere so mornings I’m I’m sharper in
the morning so it’s better for me Dave
and I both do that and I’m glad that I
have a husband that spends time seeking
God every day it’s uh
it’s a wonderful thing and you might say
well I wish I had that well you know
don’t be jealous
just do what you should do and let God
take care of the rest but no matter how
many times a week you go to church if
you don’t ever spend any personal time
with God that’s the place where
everything that you hear kind of comes
together and starts to make sense for
you
and if you told me I have time to either
watch your TV program in the morning or
spend 30 minutes with God I’d tell you
to spend time with God as much as I want
you to watch the program it’s just very
important to put God first in your life
and one of the ways you do that is by
putting him
first in your time and so when I spend
that time with God I think about things
like this I think
about walking in love that day and who
I’m going to be around and how I might
show them love this is the way you put
these things on you make a
plan you plan ahead of time if somebody
hurts my feelings I’m going to forgive
them if
uh if somebody does something that they
shouldn’t do I’m going to be
merciful you see we don’t just have to
wait and see what happens we can
plan does anybody understand
me you you just take 10 15 minutes in
the morning and you think about these
things I put on Christ which means you
put on his nature you put on his
behavior Jesus I want to be like you I
want to represent you we are his
representatives in the earth and for
many people you are the only Jesus
they’re going to
see and so that cross you are around
your
neck all that does is tell them to watch
your beh
Behavior go ahead stick a bumper sticker
on your car and then
speed and make dirty signs at them when
you they do something you don’t like and
then expect them to believe that your
Christianity has any
value you see that’s the problem today
you know we yell I’m a Christian I’m a
Christian and then we don’t act like it
and so the world doesn’t respect us and
you can’t blame them
and really by and large the church today
doesn’t have the
respect that it should have and it’s
because we don’t act the
way that we
should you got to think
about God I don’t I don’t want to be
hoty and proud today I you know the
first thing that happens when you think
too highly of yourself is you start
thinking too lowly of other
people
if you think too much of yourself you’ll
think too little of others there’s
nothing that aggravates me worse than to
see a spiritual
leader mistreat
people underneath
them we always make sure when we’re out
in these venues that we’re good to the
people in the back that work in these
Arenas we’re friendly with them good to
them many times we give them books or
the guys will take of something to eat
and over and over and over and over
again we hear there’s nobody that comes
here that treats people any better than
you do well that’s the kind of report we
should be
having about our
Behavior your friends should say things
like nobody makes me feel any better
than you do you know when you’re with
somebody they may not remember
everything you said but I’ll tell you
what they will remember how you made
them feel
and if you make people feel
valuable that’s what they need because
the devil is really busy trying to make
people feel
worthless we said last
night we know the devil’s real at least
I know he’s real and uh we already know
he’s going to lose he’s fighting a
battle that Jesus is already won we’re
just walking it
out
and
the Bible says
that you got to believe that God
is and that he is a
rewarder of those who diligently seek
him and so you see I personally believe
that you taken the time to be here many
of you last night you’ll be here all day
today some way somehow in your life
there’ll be a reward for that God will
make this time up to you and there will
be something that you’ll handle better
in this next week than you would have if
you wouldn’t have been here and it’ll
save you some trouble that you would
have
had
amen
and you know last night I talked about
some things that were hard to talk about
but I know that I obeyed God so
therefore some no matter what kind
of hoopla I might get from it
I know I obeyed God and so therefore
somewhere along the
way there’ll be a reward for that
God always rewards obedience and many
times the harder that obedience
is the greater the reward now some of
the rewards that we’re going to receive
will come when we get to heaven some of
them will come
here but I personally am really looking
forward to heaven
I mean the Bible tells us some things
about it it doesn’t tell us a lot I wish
it told us more but it sure is
apparently a pretty place and
uh Jesus said something about mansions
and I like that I
like I hope I get a big one that I can
help decorate and uh I like that idea of
you know Jewels everywhere I like
sparkly stuff and pretty stuff and and
uh hope I get to do a seminar with Moses
and Paul and Peter you know get to
preach to somebody with few famous
people but um we should spend now
preparing for
there
amen listen even if you live to be a 100
that’s like a grain of sand on all the
beaches in the world compared to
Eternity you got to think about this if
you’re here today and you’ve not
surrendered your life to Christ yet or
if you’re watching by television and
you haven’t surrendered your life to
Christ you’re still trying to live your
own life your own way why don’t you let
today be the wisest day of your life do
the smartest thing you can ever do
repent from your sins turn away from a
life of sin and tell God I’m yours you
do with me what you want
to let me tell
you people who think there’s no God are
going to be very
surprised in the end and I always say if
I spend my whole life believing all this
and I turned out to be wrong I still
haven’t lost anything I’ve been happy
while I’ve been here but if you on the
other hand spend your life not believing
and you’re
wrong you in a lot of
trouble amen cuz then there’s no time to
fix
it so just remember
that you know maybe in order to obey God
you got to lose a few
friends you know if you’re going to be a
god pleaser then you can’t be a man
pleaser and sometimes when you don’t
please people then they don’t want
anything to do with you so let’s just
say you lost a few friends well you know
that’s much better than losing your
soul
amen and I’m really encouraging you we
we’re living in dangerous times and I
feel a real urgency in my spirit to
encourage people to make a deeper
commitment than
ever and start really being obedient to
God you know don’t don’t compromise and
think that well it’s just a little bit
and everybody else does it you know one
time I was murmuring to God because I
felt like there were other preachers
that I knew that seemed to do things
that God wouldn’t let me do and I was
like well why is it that you know you
tell me I can’t do this you know I can’t
do that you know I can’t see this movie
and they go and I can’t do this and I
can’t do that and he he just simply said
look you’ve asked me for a lot do you
want it or
[Applause]
not and I decided I did so I’ve had to
make a few sacrifices along the
way in Ephesians 6 talks about putting
on the full armor of God it’s armor that
God supplies but it’s up to us to put it
on and uh Ephesians 6
10-18 are certainly worth your study it
says to put on righteousness now what
does that mean it means to know who you
are in Christ in Christ know who you are
in Christ and understand that your who
is different than your
do I don’t do everything right but I am
still right with with God because I
believe in
Jesus the Bible says that in 2
Corinthians 5:21 he that knew no sin
became sin that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him now that
ought to make you feel
good to be right with God because the
devil is always trying to tell you
what’s wrong with
you how many of you know you wake up in
the morning and if you’re listening to
him the first thing he wants to remind
you of is everything he did wrong the
day
before amen and when you’re he loves
those times when you’re not fully
awake so he can try to get a jump on
your brain before you get a a chance and
you got to learn how to fight back and
say
no like I said last night I got up one
morning last week and I could tell I had
a little case of the grouchies I was
about to I was just on the border of
feeling sorry for myself but you know
what I’ve been there and done that and
it doesn’t do any good
and uh I just said
no if I remember I said it out loud
nope not going there and I started
thanking God for everything that I could
think of that I was blessed with you got
to fight you got to fight the good fight
of
Faith amen got to stir yourself up get a
little more aggressive that’s why you
need to go to things like this where you
you’re you get stirred up you know
you’re going to have a better week next
week than you would have if you wouldn’t
have been here but then you’ll need to
go get
fed another
time somewhere
else righteousness you got to wear it
it’s a breastplate protect your heart
knowing who you are in Christ then it
says tighten the belt of truth I like
that the the truth is the word of God so
when you’re when you’re in
battle when you’re
being attacked it says tighten that belt
of Truth in other words hang on to it
more than ever
before when you’re when the word doesn’t
seem to be working for you that’s when
the enemy is going to try to tell you
it’s not true but that’s where you need
to be smarter than him and say it is
true it is true it is true I believe it
I believe
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Peace the Mind actually is the
battlefield that’s where we win or lose
the war with Satan he said all he gets
to
say rest of the day is M you start
asking God to heal you and he will
restore it’s the God of all comfort and
I am so grateful that I know how to call
on
God
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