The devil tries to attack without being seen, so he hides himself in your mind. Joyce teaches you how to fight back.
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.
With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way.
i’ll be honest with you i think that
we owe it to jesus
to have the best life that we can
possibly have how many of you want your
children to have good lives
well i mean we know nothing about
parenting compared to what he does
so if we you know like i like to
surprise my kids and i was thinking the
other day
god loves to surprise us i mean he
jesus died so we can have an intimate
relationship with a father
not so we could all have some kind of
our own little brand of religion
and separate in all these little groups
and fight with each other that’s just
the silliest thing
and i love our conferences and other
conferences like this because we have
people here from every denomination that
you could imagine
and i can tell you when we get to heaven
there’s not going to be a baptist group
and a catholic group and a lutheran
group and
the weird pentecostals are not going to
be over here in another group
amen and so we need to learn what’s
important and the thing that’s important
is to learn to love the lord your god
with all your heart with all your soul
with all your mind
and all your strength you cannot have an
obedient life
without having an obedient thought life
so i’m going to say that again you
you’re not going to have an obedient
life
without first having an obedient thought
life
and i mean i was a christian for many
many many years and loved god and
couldn’t figure out why i just kept
having so many
problems and i didn’t understand
this stuff about the mind i just thought
that i couldn’t help what i thought
i can’t help what i think and i didn’t
have any idea that
i could cast down wrong thoughts or i
could shut my mind against
thoughts that i didn’t have to just
receive everything that fell into my
head and just take it as my own and
roll it over and over and over in my
mind
you know i share that my dad abused me
when i was young and you know still
after all these years sometimes just
out of nowhere i’ll find myself
thinking about some of the things that
he did to me
and you know the minute that i become
aware of what i’m thinking
i i just say no and i shut my mind to it
and don’t let it in there see the enemy
will
sneak up on you and try to
put stuff in your mind hoping that
you’ll take it as yours
and if we think about the wrong thing
it’s going to affect our moods
it’s going to affect our behavior it’s
going to affect our relationships with
other people
as the man thinks so does he
become proverbs 23 7. and no matter how
many times
you may or may not have heard teaching
on the mind
this is something that we need to hear
over
and over and over and over and over
between our thoughts and our words
those are two messages that we will
never get tired
of hearing amen you can choose your own
thoughts
you don’t have to just think whatever
falls in your head
i used to wake up in the morning and i
would think
oh i’m depressed so i would just get up
and be depressed all day
well now if a thought like that comes to
my head i will probably say out loud
i am not depressed and i’m not going to
spend this day being depressed
because the joy of the lord is my
strength now
we have the word of god so we can fight
the enemy with the word of god the word
of god is not just a
bunch of little black ink or white pages
it is
full of power and it is your weapon
against
satan
let him who has my word speak my
word faithfully i liked it last night
when john mcfadden was up here and
and he talked about his childhood and
all the pain he went through and then
he talked about how he got hold of the
battlefield of the mind and how he
started renewing his mind with the word
and he pulled this little book out of
his back pocket you got it right there
with you again right
called it’s called uh yeah thank you
secret power speaking god’s word out
loud i did write it by the way
and uh it’s called
and it’s little enough i mean he carries
it in his backpack
in his back pocket and it just it
thrills me that a man will carry that
around
in his back pocket you know why he
carries it because satan will attack his
mind
and he’ll begin to hear those old
messages
that he got from his parents you’re
nothing but trash
the people that you think love you are
going to leave you
they’re going to find out what you
really are well he knows now when that
happens
he knows how to fight and i want to help
you remember
tonight how to fight and that is
he pulls that out and he opens it up
to god loves him or who he is in christ
and he confesses those scriptures out
loud and the devil has to go away
i love it
and i don’t know if we’ve got any of the
little purple books left but if we do
you need to go out and get them and if
we’re out of them you can order it
online so second corinthians 10
4 and 5.
for the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal
they’re not physical weapons of flesh
and blood
but they are mighty before god for the
overthrow and the destruction
of strongholds now a stronghold is a
place where the enemy digs in and hides
himself
so he can attack
without being seen well this is talking
about
mental strongholds because verse 5 says
inasmuch as we refute arguments and
theories and reasonings
all processes of the mind that set
itself up against the true knowledge of
god and we lead
every what every what
every thought and purpose away captive
unto the obedience of christ the messiah
it is so plain he’s saying listen we
have
mental strongholds in our minds places
where the enemy has lied to us
and deceived us over a long period
of time and he hides himself in there
and then he begins to say things to you
never at a convenient time he begins to
say things to you
that if you just take them as yours and
you begin to believe them
it will derail the plan of god for your
life
and keep you from your destiny his
favorite thing is to tell you how no
good you are
and how all you do is make mistakes and
how your life is over
and you’re never going to get over your
past and nobody cares about you
and you’re not going to get the job and
you’re not going to get the raise and
you’ll never have a new car
everything with the devil is ever and
ever
it’s never going to change and it’s
always going to be that way
but with god everything can change when
you put your faith
in him so the weapons that we have
are first and foremost the word of god
the name of jesus and the blood
of jesus christ there’s power in all of
those the word
the name the blood i think sometimes
when you’re under mental attack you just
open your mouth and say jesus
jesus there’s power
in that name we hope you enjoyed this
teaching to get more from joyce
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