Negative self-talk is one of the most dangerous things we can do. Start to change what you say about yourself and watch God start moving on your behalf. – – – – – – –
and i want you to go home from here and
i i want you to pray that god will help
you
to never say one more negative thing
about yourself out of your own mouth
that is one of the absolute worst things
that you can do
is say things like i’m stupid i’m dumb i
can never do anything right
i’m fat i’m ugly i mean i’m this i’m
that
and i’m going to tell you a story
connecting this to spiritual warfare
and this actually really happened to me
i’m not
adding to it nor do i intend to take
anything away from it
god had been teaching me about
righteousness and i knew better than
to do what i’m getting ready to tell you
that i did
you know to do something in ignorance is
one thing to know better and then do it
that’s a dangerous thing because god
gives you a special grace
when you lack knowledge or you’re
ignorant but once you have knowledge
you’re responsible for what you know
so you’re not going to go home and get
by with as much as you did before you
came here
you thought you came here for
entertainment well guess what
you’re going to have a greater
responsibility before god
when you go home and now that you know
stuff
the devil will test you and he’ll be
right there
are you with me
so
i had i had a new baby who is now
going to be 40 in december
and so that’s how long ago this has been
and god was teaching me and had been
teaching me just what i’m trying to
teach you
some of you know this many of you don’t
and the ones who do know it need to hear
it again
including me and so dave and i had an
argument that morning
i was sitting at the kitchen table and i
was feeding the baby and
we had some kind of an argument and of
course he was telling me it was my fault
and i didn’t want to take which probably
was but i didn’t want to take
responsibility for it
and so when he left to go to work i’m
sitting there with my baby
feeding him and i i started saying out
loud
that’s right it’s all me i can’t ever do
anything right
i’m just a big mess
just stupid
no good and i felt
i mean i could almost say i could see it
but i didn’t see it with my natural eyes
an evil presence
coming across the room at me
and it put the fear of god in me
and i started saying as fast and loud as
i could
i am the righteousness of god in christ
i am the righteousness of god in christ
i am the righteousness of god in christ
and the more i said it the more i felt
that presence back off
and leave the room
we’ve got to be careful about our words
come on we hear these messages all the
time the power of life and death is in
the tongue
those who indulge it will eat the fruit
of it we can open doors for the devil
through saying stupid things about
ourselves about our futures about our
lives about our families
so i really am encouraging you when you
go home
say about yourself what god says about
you
don’t say what the devil whispers in
your ear
you are not stupid you are not dumb you
are not a total
failure you have gifts and talents
and the wisdom of god is in you and god
loves you
and god is for you
come on
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i mean if you just knew you have angels
with you
i was in phoenix teaching once and
a woman came and
got this message to me through somebody
she said
my husband is an unbeliever and this is
not something that he would ever come to
but
he loves me very much and so he
surprised me and brought me for my
birthday
and he stayed in the conference with me
and she said during one of the sessions
i noticed that he was shaking
and crying and i said what’s wrong with
you and he’s
don’t you see him don’t you see him
she said what are you talking about he
said all those
big all those big men in the white suits
that are up there with joyce are they
the choir who are they
and what he saw was when i left my chair
and i came over to stand behind the
pulpit with my bible
he saw this group of huge men
all dressed in white suits making like a
semi-circle
around me
this is an unbeliever and he says when
she
opened up her mouth and lifted that
bible up
they all pulled these huge swords out of
their sheet
and stood with it like this
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we need to believe more in the
supernatural
we need to believe what we don’t see
with our own eyes
we get we need to get back to realizing
that god is the god of miracles
that demons try to
occupy our minds and they try to mess
with our lives
but we can bind them and we can resist
them
and we can cast them out you know why
because we have authority as believers
in jesus christ