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and it’s next to Impossible without the
grace of the Holy Spirit to believe that
God is pleased with us when we know full
well that we don’t do everything right
so that’s where faith kicks
in I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that
God can heal you everywhere you
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hurt well thank you for joining me today
on Enjoying Everyday Life and you know
that’s exactly what God wants you to do
but the subject I’m going to be talking
about actually today and for the next
couple of days if you don’t really have
this as a foundation in your life it
gets very very difficult to enjoy your
life I want to talk to you about the
free gift of
righteousness that comes to us through
our faith in Jesus Christ now
righteousness just simply means that
you’ve been made right with God if it’s
not in the biblical way of looking at
righteousness it’s not
about doing everything
right it’s about knowing who you are in
Christ who did everything right for us
and if we put our faith in him then God
because he wants to views us and sees
us as right with him so until you
know that you’re right with God you
suffer a lot of guilt condemnation and
usually live a lot under the law trying
to do everything right and that can
really wear you out I went through a lot
of years of that which I’m sure a lot of
you did too so the Bible actually says
in Isaiah 61 that we have a robe of
righteousness which is a covering says I
will greatly rejoice in the
Lord my soul shall exalt in my God you
see you see the joy that there and he’s
going to tell you
why for God has clothed me with the
garments of
Salvation he has covered me with the
robe of righteousness I like that let’s
think about that again I will greatly
rejoice and my soul shall exalt in my
God
because he has saved me and he’s put me
in right standing with him the word
salvation means to be delivered from
from your sin but it also means preserve
from harm from ruin or from loss and you
know the
more the more we believe what God says
the more we trust him the easier life
gets of course I’ve been doing this for
a long time and I started you know like
most people trying to trust God
but not really trusting God most of the
time or I would trust God a little but
have a backup plan you know in case God
didn’t come through and
um certain things like finan money was
really hard for me because I never
really had anybody to take care of me
when I was growing up and you know
because I was abused sexually in my
childhood I already felt really bad
about myself before I ever even got
started in a relationship with God so I
had a real tough time with really
getting a revelation that I was the
righteousness of God in Christ and um
but this
robe is a
covering and I want you to listen to
this it is impossible to defeat the
Devil unless you know who you are in
Christ and you’ll hear me say in Christ
a lot because it’s not about your do
it’s about your who and when we believe
in
Jesus as amazing as it sounds God
considers us to be in Christ and Christ
is in us and so he says when he died you
died when he was raised you was raised
so everything that Jesus went through
and
did it’s put to our credit because just
because of our faith in him I mean what
a change the New Testament was from the
Old Testament because they had to try to
follow all the laws that just kept
mushrooming and getting to be more and
more and more I think I heard the 10
commandments turned into 2200 laws or
something by the time they got done with
them and the Bible says that the whole
reason why God gave the law was to show
people that they couldn’t keep it so
they would
know that they needed help that they
needed a savior and then of course Jesus
came but a lot of the people still
didn’t want to believe in him and Paul
the Apostle Paul prayed and it’s
recorded in I think Philippians 3:9 he
says I pray that I might be found as in
him not having a righteousness of my
own that comes through works of the law
but the righteousness that only he can
give that comes through faith in Jesus
Christ now how many would rather have it
as a gift than to try to earn it all
your life I certainly would and then um
Ephesians 6 10-18 would be what you
would want to read if you wanted to get
the
whole concept here but it talks about
the armor that God has given us and it
is a gift from God protects us from the
enemy but we have to put it on and
that’s it’s all something in the
spiritual realm it’s not like you pick
up a natural piece of armor and put it
on your body but it’s it’s what you
believe and so Ephesians 6
11 says put on the whole armor of God
that you might be able to stand against
the schemes of the
devil so you see he is a
schemer and a
manipulator and a
trickster and a
liar
and he can even come as an angel of
Light he knows how to quote scripture
and our defense against him is to know
the word of God and to apply it when we
need it and to know who we are in Christ
it is impossible to defeat the
Devil Without and this particular piece
of armor is the breastplate of
righteousness which the breastplate
covers your heart so in your heart you
need to
know God loves you he’s never God will
never love you any more than he does at
this moment right now no matter how many
how much your behavior improves in the
future which it
will uh but you can’t buy God’s love
with good behavior and I like to say it
like this we we love him because he
first loved us and we want to and make
an effort to do what’s right because of
what he’s done for us not to get him to
do something for us so we need to always
come at I’m daily making an effort
because God loves me and I’m so thankful
for what he’s done for me but then when
we make
mistakes the really good news is is if
we admit those
mistakes his forgiveness is already
there he already paid for all of our
sins and so you might say the
forgiveness is already in the bank all
we have to do is receive that
forgiveness from God and when you get
the forgiveness then the guilt goes with
it he bore our sin and our guilt and
we’ll be talking about all of that more
for we wrestle not with flesh and
blood but against the rulers against the
authorities against the cosmic Powers
over this present Darkness against the
spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly
places so this would be so big if
people if all people knew this our war
is not with
people right right it’s with the devil
that’s right it’s not even with the
government it’s with the devil and now
the devil Works through people he works
through governments he works through
Nations so we have to be on our guard
and make sure that we have
discernment I pray very seldom does a
day go by that I don’t pray that God
will give me great discernment and
Discerning of spirits that Discerning of
spirit spirit is so you when you’re
around somebody you can tell if they’re
evil or if they’re good and sometimes
you can’t always even figure that out
it’s like you just kind of know
something’s wrong you don’t know what it
is
and you know we don’t want to be judgy
we don’t want to judge people and so
sometimes we stay around people longer
than we should but I would say at least
this we do want to believe the best of
people but when you get that
caution Uh something’s just not right
here at least at least you better open
your eyes a little bit wider and do a
little more praying and really watch and
pray so you don’t get taken in by
somebody that’s evil and I don’t have it
all written down here but in Ephesians 6
it talks about tightening the belt of
Truth when you’re in Trials I like that
it’s like okay you know the word but
when you get in a difficult time when
you get in a trial or tribulation you
need to tighten that up you need to
believe it even more because the
Temptation is
to think well that’s never going to
happen and you know sometimes God is not
as fast as we would like him to be he if
you’ve noticed he takes his time about
doing things in Mark chap 11 it says
that when we pray that we will get what
we asked for but it doesn’t say when
that’s right and now of course we’re not
going to get anything we ask for if it’s
not the will of God or if it’s sometimes
something we ask for is the will of God
but we’ve just totally got the wrong
timing right it’s like you have a you
have something in your heart that you
really feel you’re supposed to do or
that God has said he’s going to do for
you and it you know look at Abraham I
mean it was 20 years after the promise
part of that was his own fault because
he got involved and tried to take
matters into his own hands but David
King David was anointed to be king 20
years before he wore the crown right
Joseph was 13 years after his dream
before he ever saw it come to pass and
so it’s during that in between time you
know we get excited when we first feel
like God has shown us something he’s
going to do and of course when you see
it come to pass that’s exciting but we
got to make it through the middle and
that’s the part where most people lose
it is in the middle when it seems like
nothing’s happening and you’re getting
very tired of waiting and
then when you get in a weakened position
that’s when the devil loves to attack
over this past week and I just taught a
message called is the devil real because
a lot of people today have decided he’s
not real and I thought well I don’t know
who you think it is it’s aggravating you
all the time but you know trust me the
devil
is real and that we went through Luke 4
where Jesus was taken by the Holy Spirit
out into the Wilderness to be
tempted by the devil that seems like a
strange thing why in the world would the
Holy Spirit you know lead now the Holy
Spirit had just descended on Jesus right
after that he led him out into the
Wilderness to be tempted by the devil he
didn’t eat anything for 40 days and the
Bible says that when the 40 days was
over and he was hungry then the devil
began to lie to him and attack him and
so one of the things that we need to
keep in mind is that you do yourself a
favor if you don’t let yourself get too
tired because if you just push and push
and push until you’re
exhausted that’s a very good time for
the enemy to attack you you have to be
very careful careful when you have a lot
of other things coming against you to be
especially careful to watch for the
enemy if somebody has really hurt your
feelings and you’re wounded you have to
be very careful during those times
that’s time for a little extra prayer
and so it talks about tightening that
belt of Truth and then uh putting on the
breastplate of
righteousness and wearing your shoes of
peace which means that even in the most
difficult trial you
stay in peace the more we can stay in
the rest of God the happier we are and I
think sometimes it just takes a few
years of trying to do things
yourself until you finally just run out
of
yourself and realize that yeah you do
what you can do but there’s a lot of it
we can’t do and that’s the part that we
need to just say well God if you don’t
do this it’s never going to get done I
tried so hard to change myself and make
myself what the Bible seems to say that
we should be and I finally just told God
this is it if you want me any different
than what I am you’re going to have to
do something about it because I’m tired
of trying to change myself and so you
stay in peace put on the helmet of
salvation that means to learn to think
with the mind of Christ with the mind of
the spirit not that human mind that we
all have the mind of the flesh we need
to learn how to think like God thinks
and then it talks about wielding the
two-edged sword we have the word of God
it is that two-edged sword but the time
to pull it out and use
it is when the devil’s after you that’s
you know sitting in church and hearing
it and underlining it in your Bible is
great but you got to use it when the
enemy comes after you in Luke four when
Jesus was being tempted out in the
wilderness what was his weapon that he
used every single time it is
written and he quoted a scripture and
that was the end of it and so then it
says to cover everything over with
prayer
now what is righteousness and who is
righteous well righteousness is defined
as to be
right which is the opposite of being
wrong and
I don’t know about you but I don’t I
don’t like feeling wrong about myself I
don’t feel like I don’t like feeling
like I’ve done something wrong I don’t
like to feel like somebody else thinks
I’ve done something wrong we all want to
feel right and good and to feel that
we’re pleasing God and I love that
scripture that says this is my beloved
Son in whom I am well
pleased and he said
that two different times in the New
Testament and I think we’re to take that
personally and believe that God also
speaks that over us and
it’s next to Impossible without the
grace of the Holy Spirit to believe that
God is pleased with us when we know full
well that we don’t do everything right
so that’s where faith kicks in and says
well I believe it because you tell me to
believe it and because it’s a promise in
your
word uh it is figurative figuratively
used of power and
authority with God so knowing who you
are in Christ gives you power and
authority over the enemy without that
you don’t have it if you feel bad about
yourself the devil’s going to walk all
over you just he’ll just walk all over
you and believe me he will try to make
you feel bad about yourself two two of
The Temptations that Satan brought
against Jesus in that time in the
wilderness were a attacks on his
identity well if you are the Son of
God turn this Stone into a loaf of bread
so there were actually two different
temptations there one was to try to
prove who he was and the other was to
get him to move independently of God
don’t wait on God if you’re hungry just
do it
yourself and then the other one was he
said if you will just Bow Down and
Worship me once just
once the just once lie I hate that one I
hate well it’s only a little
thing I don’t like that one and I don’t
like everybody else does
it got to be careful for those three
three things you know the whole world
can do it but that doesn’t mean that
it’s right for you to do it but the
devil told him I will give you he took
him up on a high place so he could see
all the things in the world and he said
if you will bow down to me just once I
will give you all of this because it has
been turned over to me and I can give it
to whoever I will well who turned it
over to him not God Adam did when Adam
disobeyed Adam and Eve when they
disobeyed they gave the authority and
the power that God had given them to him
Jesus has redeemed us which means he’s
bought us back from the enemy and he has
restored that Authority and power to us
in Luke 10:19 the Bible says that God
has given us power and authority over
all the power the enemy possesses and I
love that it doesn’t say the devil has
Authority he does have power and we need
to respect that don’t never make jokes
about the devil because he’s not funny
believe me and if you if you look at him
in a light-hearted manner that’s a good
way to open a door so you respect his
power but you know that he has no
authority to use
it and so you take authority and you can
do that in the name of Jesus so it
denotes
freedom and it signifies being just and
I I love that because when we’re
Justified which we are in Christ it
means that we have been made just as if
we never
sinned I tell you got to think about
that a long time for that to sink in you
know we get a lot of
information in information is everywhere
you can get 12 sermons in one day if you
know how to dial in the right stuff but
information has to become
Revelation before it really does you any
good that’s why sometimes we need to
stick with one
thing for a long time I would I felt so
bad about myself that really getting a
revelation on the fact that God loved me
was very challenging chenging I mean I
had to meditate on and think
about that God loved me for over a year
before it finally just sunk in and once
you get it as a revelation nobody can
ever take it away from you there’s
there’s no trouble that comes your way
there’s
no anything that can happen to you that
will get you to say well God don’t you
love
me you know if you ever hear yourself
saying that when you’ve got trouble then
you know that you still need more re
ation in the area of how much God loves
you just imagine if he if you had one
one
child which one of us would be willing
to let that child suffer the way Jesus
suffered for a bunch of people who
didn’t even know him and didn’t
care you know it would be like this is a
terrible example but it would be like me
giving up my child’s life to save all
the ants in the
world you it’s like I mean what he did
for us is absolutely amazing and so the
word just or Justified means to be right
to be acquitted declared not
guilty so I just want to speak that over
you today and everybody watching the
program if you have received Christ as
your savior and you have your faith in
him then I pronounce you not guilty in
the name of Jesus
amen and I can just kind of see the
shackles falling off of some people
watching by TV because maybe all you’ve
ever heard all your life is what’s wrong
with you but I’m telling you today that
God sees what’s right with you he has
made you right with him through your
faith in Christ and then the resulting
fruit of that is no condemnation not
guilty and you can have confidence and
boldness when you know who you are in
Christ you can step out and try new
things because you don’t even have to be
afraid of failure it’s like big deal you
know if you try something it doesn’t
work that doesn’t mean you’re a
failure it just mean what you tried
failed and so now you know not to do
that again and you can go and do
something else you have to have
confidence in God not yourself but
confidence in him if you’re ever going
to
do
anything beyond just
exist here on the earth justification
and righteousness and this is an
important
transition will be seen in right
living so I’m not in any way saying that
we don’t make an effort in the Holy
Spirit I want to clarify that because
it’s not a fleshly humanistic works of
the flesh effort
but we ask the Holy Spirit help me do
what’s right today help me represent
Jesus as well we’re ambassadors for
Christ help me get along with people
help me love people help me walk in the
fruit of the spirit so we lean on him
but we don’t do any of that because we
have to to get God to love us that’s
right you see God gives us righteousness
so we can produce right
Behavior I always say and I got an
understanding of this a long time ago
God never expects us to do anything if
he doesn’t give us the equipment that we
need to do it
with wouldn’t it be foolish if one of
you was a TV editor if we just put you
in a room with no equipment and said
edit Joyce’s
program I mean that would be like how
frustrating and foolish would that be
every one of you who has a job you’re
given the equipment that you
need to do that job
well God gives us righteousness
so we can behave right otherwise there
would never be any hope of us ever
behaving good and in uh the New
Testament it says to work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling so I
like to say he works it in and he helps
us work it out and the work it out
doesn’t mean work for it it means to
work with the Holy Spirit to let what
God has put in
you change your soul the renewal of the
mind you learn to think different you
learn not to live by your feelings you
learn to use your will to choose the
will of God and I know I’m saying a lot
in a short period of time but thank God
for books and listening again and again
you know if you’re recording this
program you can listen to it 20 times
till you get it so that’s good and
uh we H he gives us everything that we
need
to do what he’s asking us to do so I can
get up every day and and yes I try to do
what’s right but I’m not trying to do
what’s right to get God to love me I’m
doing it because he loves me and I love
him so much for what he’s done for me we
love you but more importantly God loves
you and he will never stop loving you so
learn how to receive that and start to
enjoy the life that Jesus died to give
you
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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 mine 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