The Devil tempts us to do nothing with our time. We stay up late, worrying about our life, we overeat, and now we’re mad and easily offended. Things have roots in our life. Start asking God to show you the roots of your problems. It could be that you need to go to bed on time.
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Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.
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another thing the devil tempts people to
do is to do nothing fruitful with their
time
just waste all your time in vain
pursuits
he tempts people to stay up late staring
at a television show they don’t like
are worrying about things they can’t do
anything about so then they miss out on
the sleep they need to be healthy
then they’re tired and they feel bad
physically
so they’re more easily led into
temptation then they overeat
because they don’t feel good so that
makes them mad because now they’re
gaining weight
now they get easily offended
come on things have roots in our life
we can’t just look at our life and say
how did i get in this mess
you start asking god to show you the
root of your problems
come on the root of your problems i’ve
got an example that i give that
i know that refrigerators are not like
this now but when i was a young
mom and my kids were little sometimes i
would open
the refrigerator and there would be a
bad smell in there
anybody ever had those like ew what is
that
and so you know move a few things around
maybe throw a few things away but
sometimes the stink would stay and
the only way i could really find out
what it was was to just take everything
apart
and really get down to the bottom where
the drain was at
and see what was going on and a lot of
times it was because something had
drained
there used to be a drain down the bottom
any of you people remember when there
was a you had to do it wasn’t it messy
you’d get down there with all that gunk
and boy you talk about stinking but sure
enough you cleaned that up
and it was good well what i usually
started out doing was i would spray
something in the refrigerator
or put some baking soda in there and i
tell you
we’ve got to stop just spraying
something on our lives and think it’s
going to take care of all the stink
we need to get down to the bottom of
what’s going on
you might be surprised how much better
your life would be if you just go to bed
at night and get some sleep
well i’m tired well does that give you a
right to be grouchy all day with
everybody else because you’re tired
you know what the answer to that is go
to bed
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you know there’s a lot of sickness in
the world today and a lot of sickness
and disease and one thing we should make
sure of
if we are sick let’s at least ask
ourselves
have i contributed to this because i’m
just not
taking care of myself
i don’t think you cared for that much
is it because i’m not sleeping i never
exercise
i live on sugar i drink a six pack of
soda pop every day
that’s full of sugar i never drink water
i’ve got way too much stress in my life
i’m worried all the time
if you can’t do anything about it then
by all means believe god for a miracle
but if there is something you can do you
may not like this but i can tell you
something
if we keep abusing ourselves god is not
going to just keep us happy
and healthy we need to start cooperating
with god
when i get up in the morning and i know
i got to go exercise again i mean
i heard my flesh say a couple of weeks
ago in the gym you know your flesh will
talk to you
i was i was down in the gym and i just
got off the treadmill and i was starting
to work out with my trainer
and i heard my flesh say am i going to
have to do this the rest of my life
so i answered it back yes you are
see you don’t have to let your flesh
push you around you can talk back to it
because the enemy works through our
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flesh
now here is a great scripture i don’t
know if you guys are ready for this but
wow this is a wild scripture
proverbs 18 9.
he who is loose and slack in his work
that means you’re lazy
not you
somebody who’s not here
he who is loose and slack in his work is
a is
a brother to him who is a destroyer
and he who does not use his endeavors to
heal himself
is a brother to him who commits suicide
have you ever seen that in the amplified
bible pastor tommy
so you know what they’re saying if you
don’t do what you need to do to take
care of yourself
then you’re basically killing your own
self
we need to learn how to respect the
temple of god
he lives in us and i’m not saying you
have to be a full-on
health nut or something like that but if
you’ll just start with just some simple
basic
things if i stood here and took a
servant and said how many don’t drink
enough water
hands would go up how many don’t get
enough sleep hands would go up
how many feet too much sugar hands would
go up how many of you feel bad most of
the time
hands would go up
well it’s connected and here again i’m
not saying that everybody who’s sick is
not taking care of themselves that is
not what i said
there’s a lot of different reasons for
it but i am just saying
that we god has got a work to do through
you
and he wants you to feel good he wants
you to have energy he wants you to have
enthusiasm he wants you to be
zealous for life he wants you to love
your life
god doesn’t want us to just get up every
day and drag ourselves around trying to
make it through the day
satan seeks to keep people passive
it doesn’t matter what we intend to do
that’s good as long as we never get
around to doing it
good intentions are not obedience i’m
going to clean the house
i’m going to get out of debt
i’m going to pray yep i’m going to get
back to church
when
c.s lewis said this and i thought this
was good
the more a christian feels
without acting the less he will be
able ever to act and in the long run the
less he will be able to feel
now it’s a mouthful so i explain it to
you
if i if i feel like that
i should or want to go do something but
then i don’t take any action to do it
every time i don’t take action
then the next time it gets harder to
take action and finally i’ll get to the
point where i don’t even feel like i
want to do it
passivity is probably and i don’t have a
lot of time to get into this but
passivity is probably one of the most
dangerous demonic forces that exists
you know why because god has given us a
free will
and a passive person waits for some
outside force to move him to do what’s
right
when you need to find the strength
within you which is the power of the
holy spirit
to go do what you believe god wants you
to do god i believe that i can do
whatever you want me to do
a person may feel like they want to
finish a project that’s been left undone
but they don’t take any action
well pretty soon if they keep that up
they won’t even care about the project
at all