We can’t take authority over the devil if we believe the lies he tells us. On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares scriptural truths to help you walk in the power and authority God has given you.
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this morning I want to start off by
talking to you about seven ways that the
devil deceives people
because you have to understand that the
devil is a liar
he’s the father of Lies
he doesn’t know how to do anything but
lie
and deception
means to believe a lie
so
if we were to say a person is deceived
that means that they’re believing
something that’s not true
but it has actually become their reality
because they believe it
do you realize that whatever you believe
becomes your reality even if it’s not
true at all you can believe that
somebody doesn’t like you
and you go through all the same
torment
that you would if somebody really didn’t
like you and maybe the person has never
had one bad thought about you
and then I maybe that I haven’t even
thought about you at all
okay
sometimes we think everybody’s thinking
about us all the time what we’re doing
and what we’re wearing you know a lot of
times they’re just you’re the last thing
on their mind
and so let me just pose this to you
today for you to take home and think
about
how many lies do you believe
I would venture to say that there’s not
one of us here in this room myself
included who doesn’t
still believe something
that’s not true
now will you just kind of Tuck that away
take it home with you
and when you have your time with God
start asking God to reveal to you lies
that you believe because every lie that
you believe represents something the
devil is stealing from you
that God wants you to have
you know we all have a little different
bent to our ministry those of us that
are called into Ministry and
besides seeing people
saved and helping hurting people all
over the world
I really really really want to see
people
I want Christians to be spiritually
mature
not stay babies their whole life
and I really want to see people
have what Jesus died for them to have
there’s nothing sadder than a a
Christian
with no victory
we need the victory
to make other people hungry and thirsty
for what we have and the Victory doesn’t
mean necessarily you have no problems
it’s more about do you let the problem
have you
so
we have to know
our enemy first Peter 5 8 says be alert
and of sober mind
see the mind is so important
think about what you’re thinking about
the next time you get depressed
take a moment and think about what
you’re thinking about
or the next time you the devil invites
you to a pity party and you’re sitting
around feeling sorry for yourself just
ask yourself now what have I been
thinking about what you’ve been thinking
about what you don’t have what people
don’t do for you
what you’re not
and you can turn that around by simply
thinking the way that God thinks
and the way he thinks is written
in this book this is your go-to
they
the more you know about this I am so
grateful
for what I know
and I’m 43 years into this so
naturally
I know quite a bit by now
but I got it the same way you’ll get it
one day at a time one year at a time
refusing to give up
just think five years from now what
you’ll know that you don’t know now
and the devil doesn’t want you to know
anything
he’ll do everything he can to keep you
from having any knowledge
your enemy the devil
prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour
okay say right now it’s not going to be
me
Satan was once a beautiful magnificent
archangel
he was in charge of worship matter of
fact it appears that his body was made
up of musical instruments
so every which way he turned he got a
different sound
Archangel there’s there’s a handful of
Archangels they’re above the other
angels
and he got so full of himself that
he rebelled against God
and he said I will lift my throne above
the Throne of God
well you know that doesn’t work
for the devil and it won’t work for any
of us
it’s God’s way
or no way
and so
long story short he ended up getting
kicked out of heaven with one-third of
the angels that were following him
and he’s been here on Earth
ever since
trying to get back at God
by trying to do harm to God’s children
you know as a parent
it hurts you worse to see your kids hurt
than it does if you hurt yourself
and so God has provided a way for us we
are not left without help and the thing
that we have to realize is we have been
given authority over the devil
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when God created Adam and Eve he gave
them Authority and put them in the
garden when they sinned they gave that
Authority back to the devil
he said to Jesus when Jesus would be in
tempted out in the wilderness those 40
days and 40 nights
he said these are mine and I’ll give
them to whomever I desire
well
he does have power here because Adam
gave it to him but Jesus stripped him of
that power
he took it away from him and he gave it
that Authority not power and he gave it
back to anyone who would believe
and so I love Luke 10 19 especially the
Amplified Bible
says behold which means look and see
I have given you power
and authority over all the power of the
enemy possesses
and the thing I want you to notice is
God’s saying to you I’ve not only given
you power but I’ve given you Authority
over all the power
the enemy possesses he didn’t say the
devil had Authority he says you have
power and authority the devil only has
power
when you have authority
it’s a wonderful thing but it does you
no good if you don’t use it
if you don’t exercise it and I think too
many people are just sitting around just
letting the devil just beat them up and
frustrate them and aggravate them and
steal from them and torment them and
they don’t even try to fight back you
know what you can’t win the war if you
don’t go to the battle
and fighting the devil is not like
you know always like
man I
when I first found out about heaven
Authority as a believer
back in the 70s
I mean I would scream at the Devil and
yell at the devil I rebuke you I rebuke
you and you know what
after years my rebuker was worn out and
the devil still had the upper hand
you know what it really means to resist
the devil and he will flee
this is what this is what I believe
I think it means when you have a problem
resisting the devil does not mean to
resist the problem it means to resist
acting like the devil why you got the
problem
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come on
I mean God told me that
years ago
stop trying to get rid of the problem
just stop acting like the devil
and see that’s what he wants we have a
problem so now we’re mad at everybody
and and we’re being hard to get along
with remember we’re being rude
non-loving and we don’t want to keep our
commitments because I’ve got problems
the thing to do when the devil’s coming
after you is do more right than you’ve
ever done before in your whole life
come on this is a super big secret that
Christians just don’t get Romans 12 21
solves the whole thing you overcome evil
with good
you understand that you overcome evil
with good you don’t hate your enemies
you buy them a present
do you get that
ooh
all right so deception deception
deception
one of the things the devil does is he
tells you lies about God all the time
he tries to make people doubt the
existence of God
tries to convince people that if there
were a God then all these bad things
wouldn’t be happening in the world
the devil tries to convince people that
they’re not created by God but in fact
there are the result of a cosmic
accident that occurred billions of years
ago and that’s our closest relative is
the ape
foreign
well it’s no wonderful people in the
world are discouraged
I mean would you rather think that
you’re the next best thing up from an
ape
are that God created you with his own
hand in your mother’s womb and he has a
plan and a purpose for you and he loves
you
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