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Welcome to enjoying everyday life

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with New York Times best selling author, Joyce

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Meyer. On today's program,

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Joyce will be teaching from her series that

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Battlefield of the mind. Our

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thought life is the battlefield, where

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the enemy wants to overwhelm and control

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us. Whether it's worried, anger,

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fear, the devil will use our thoughts

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to try and rob us of the full and peaceful

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life Jesus sacrificed to give us.

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The battle is fierce, which is why it's

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important we renew our minds daily

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through God's work. Today, Joyce will

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share practical steps on how to fight the battle

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in our mind, replacing negative thoughts

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with confidence, peace, and security.

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Now here's Joyce with the series, Battlefield

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of the mind.

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Now there are times in our life and we just need

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to not talk about it anymore. Is

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anybody home out there in building Anybody

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watching my TV understand this?

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Maybe just maybe just

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maybe you could feel better if you just wouldn't

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talk about it anymore.

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Now

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something you drove two hundred miles and you think and

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I drove two hundred miles to hear her tell me that.

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Because

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see you can even come to a whole conference

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like this and you can get back in the car

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with all your Christian buddies you came with

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and you can discuss all your problems all

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the way home and you will not be in one

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better bit of condition when you get home than you were

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when you left. And

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only that some of you have already made your mind up

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when you go

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home. If that house is not cleaned

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up, like you told them kids and

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that husband to clean it up then you have

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already made your mind up when you

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walk in what you're gonna tell them.

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You know, see? The devil's already

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been working on your mind. I'll

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bet you when you get home that house is gonna be a mess.

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Because

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they just don't have any respect for you and you

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do all the work around here. And

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it would just be nice if you could go off for one

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weekend and come home and not have a

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mess. But you are probably gonna have a mess. And then

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he starts on you. And so this is what

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you're gonna say when you walk in. Come

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on now. See

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there you are, every one of you. And

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this is the kind of stuff the devil does was,

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he sets us up to get mad before

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anything ever happens. He

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sets us up to be in a

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rage before

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anything ever happens. When

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are we gonna learn to choose our own

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thoughts carefully and stop letting the devil

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use our brain as a garbage dump.

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Garbage in, garbage out.

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A stronghold is an area that is dominated

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by an enemy. If

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Satan dominate your attitude toward yourself,

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toward god, toward food, toward money,

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any area that he dominates your thinking,

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he is in control in that area.

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You don't have to eat a

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whole pound of fudge every time you

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take a bite of fudge. But

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the devil has told someone, well, I just can't eat

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one chocolate chip cookie. If I ever eat one, I've

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got to eat twelve. No,

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you don't. No, you don't. You

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do not. You have a spirit of self

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control and you can take a bite of a cookie.

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You can take two bites of a cookie. You can

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eat one cookie or you can eat no cookies

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because the spirit of God is dwelling

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in you. But

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the devil says, you

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can never quit smoking. You will never get

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off those drugs. You can

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never get over this problem. You'll never get over

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this addiction. You can

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never give up sugar. You can never lose weight.

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You will never be well. You'll never be healthy.

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You'll never have any money and nothing

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can help you if you don't

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start opening your mouth. And

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say in devil, you are a

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liar. And you are not

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gonna steal from me anymore. Yeah.

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You have a blood, bot inheritance. You

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are a joint heir with Jesus Christ.

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You are a child of God. You

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are the head and not the tail above and

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not beneath. God's got a good

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life plan for you and no matter where you're

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at right now, you don't have to

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stay there. You can make progress. John

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eight thirty one and thirty two says, If

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you continue in my word, then are you my disciples

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indeed and you will know the truth and the truth

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will make you

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free. The word

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of God is like a mirror. It

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says that in second Corinthians three eighteen. As

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we look into the word, it's like looking into a mirror.

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If you could just imagine if

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I had a big full length mirror up here,

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We're gonna just pretend like this Bible is a

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mirror.

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How many times a day does a

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woman go to the mirror to see if her hair looks alright.

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You know, you can have dirt all over your face and not

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even know it if you don't go look in the mirror. And

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then how embarrassed we feel and we think, oh, man,

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you mean, I've been running around looking like all day and didn't

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even know it. But we don't know what we look

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like until we look in the mirror. We

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don't know if our clothes look good or bad. We

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don't know if something's wrong. We don't know if a hair

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is right. We don't know if the the makeup's gone.

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We don't know. We don't know. Do we look in the mirror?

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And see, we don't really know what

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kind of lot lives, we're living until we look

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in the mirror of God's word. That's

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why you gotta be in the word all the time because

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It's easy to have a good attitude over

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here five years ago and then you slip

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back into a bad attitude. But if you're not

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regularly studying the word of God, you forget

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how important attitude is. And

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you know what what I'm teaching you tonight, doesn't have

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to be any brand new revelation you've never heard. I

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don't care if you've heard this five hundred times in the

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past. You're hearing it again tonight. You know why?

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Because sometimes we have to hear over

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and over and over

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and over and over again.

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And I don't know about you, but I need some good preaching

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on my mind. And if you don't wanna hear it, I'll just preach

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to myself. I

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look in here and I find out that

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I've been made right with God through the blood of Jesus.

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I look in here and I find out that I don't have

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to live under condemnation because my sins

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can all be forgiven through repentance and

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confession. Man, you gotta

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love your bible. You

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gotta love your word. You

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need to have a good library of teaching

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tape and Christian books and CDs

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and videos and that needs to

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be a regular part of your daily discipline.

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In some way, shape or form, you

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need to feed yourself the word of God

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just like you feed yourself food. If

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we would go to the same trouble and lay out

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the same amount of money to get the word of

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God that we do a hamburger or a hotdog,

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we'd be a lot better off. Some

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people wanted to come, but they wouldn't drive two hours

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to get here. But I'll tell you what, you get to want

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a hot fudge son to bad enough. You'll drive all over

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town. I

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just get tired of this lazy attitude that

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people have.

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But here I am, I just

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dare you to bless me. Go

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to Luke chapter four.

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Well, you gotta be hungry for the word of God

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and hungry for more of God in your life.

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Don't be lukewarm and don't ever

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be spiritually satisfied to

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the point where you don't want any more of God.

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Look for verse one, then Jesus, full of

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and control by the holy spirit. Returned

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from the Jordan and was led in by the

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holy spirit. For

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during forty days in the wilderness where he

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was tempted, tested and tried exceedingly by

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the devil, And during

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that time, he ate nothing. And

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when those days were completed, he was

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very hungry now. Here's what I want

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you to see before I go any further. First

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of all, Jesus was

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following the holy spirit when Satan

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attacked him. There's

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two times when the devil will come after you.

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When you're doing something right and when

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you're doing something wrong, And

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it's kinda hard sometimes to figure out which it is.

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So I always start by saying, God, if I'm doing

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something wrong, if I've opened up a door, please show me.

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But a long time, I got overthinking that

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every time I had some kind of problem in

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my it meant that I didn't have enough faith

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or I'd open a door for the devil. Satan

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attacks the righteous. The Bible says the righteous

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will be persecuted. Jesus

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was following the holy spirit and

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Satan attacking. Also,

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please notice that Satan waited until

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Jesus was weak and tired before

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he attacked him. Come

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on church. If you didn't watch my TV

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program this morning, you should have. Because

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I was talking about how important it is for

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Christians to have balance in their life and

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to get the right amount of rest. And

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it's important for your health, but

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it's also important just because

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you will not be able to stand

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against the lies of the devil. If your mind

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and your body and your emotions are

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so worn out that you can hardly stand it.

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And I tell you all the stress that people live under

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day is demonically induced. No

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one of us should have to be in a position where

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somebody can find us seven days

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a week,

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twenty four hours a day.

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We really should not be in a position where

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if we leave to go

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run a half an hour errand and we

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forgot our cellphone that we get in a

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panic. Or

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when we get up at three o'clock in the morning to go to

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the bathroom, we check our email. Don't

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have any more time for that, but you get my point.

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I'm also writing a new book, working

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on it right now, No, no exact

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one I'm gonna call it yet, but it's about how to have

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a lifetime of health for your body and

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your soul. We gotta teach people

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how to take care of themselves. People

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you need to take care of yourself. Your

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body is the house you live in, and

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if you destroy it, then you have to leave.

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You can't go somewhere and order another one.

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You get one shot at this and if you destroy

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this when you're out, And

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not only that, your body as a believer

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is the temple of the Holy Ghost. God lives

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in you and he wants to work through you.

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And and if you destroy your health and

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you destroy your body, then he can't do

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anything through you either. So you're cheating yourself,

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you're cheating him, you're cheating the people

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around you that God wants to use you to bless.

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And I've come to the conclusion, I believe there's a connection.

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Maybe not for everybody, but I think a lot of people

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don't take good care of themselves because they got a

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bad attitude toward themselves. They don't they don't think

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they're worthy of doing the things that

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they need to do to take care of themselves properly.

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Some of you think that all your good parts to work,

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work, work, work, work, work all the time

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because you grew up in an atmosphere where the only

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time people were happy with you is when you were working

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and producing. And the devil's got you

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convinced that to enjoy your life

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is carnal and a sin. Well, you

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need to go read John ten ten because Jesus

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said I came that you might have and enjoy

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your life and have an in abundance to the

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full until it overflows. So

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you know what? I'm working tonight, but

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I'm enjoying this. A

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man? Jesus

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was following the holy spirit when the devil attacked.

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Satan attacked him when

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he was weak and tired. Now

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the first thing the devil did and

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I love this. The first thing the

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devil did was he tried to make

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Jesus question who he was.

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Watch this. Then the devil

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said to him, verse three. If

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you are the son of God, The

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devil will ever send you all, if you're saved,

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then why do you act that way?

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Well, if God loves you, why

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do you have these problems? Okay?

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You know what he's doing? He's attacking your

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identity. He's attacking who

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you are in Christ because he know

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that he can steal your confidence he's

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got your life. You

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need to know that you're a child of God, You

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need to know that through the blood of Jesus, you've been

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made right with God. You

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need to know that you have an anointing. And

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you need to be willing to say so anytime

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the devil attacks your thoughts. He

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not only tried to get him to question his identity,

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He also tried to get Jesus to

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take action that was not God inspired.

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And boy, did we ever deal with them? Watch

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this. Then the devil said to him,

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if you are the son of God, then

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order this stone to turn into a loafer

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bran. How

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many times in our life are we tempted

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to get into what the bible calls works

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of the flesh.

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