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This program is made possible by

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the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

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And I just really encourage

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you when you have

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somebody that's hurt you and you're having a

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really hard time getting over it, start praying

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for the person. It doesn't have to be

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long. Just, God,

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I forgive them and I ask you to bless

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them and I pray for them.

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Pray they'll have a good day and, you

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know, I mean, nothing makes the enemy

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matter than that kind of

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stuff. I'm Joyce Meyer

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and I believe that God

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can heal you everywhere you hurt.

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Well, thank you for joining me today on

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Enjoying Everyday Life. And, you know, we do want

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to do that, don't we? We

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want to enjoy every day of our

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life. You know, since I've

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gotten a little bit older, I mean, just a little bit.

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Since I've gotten a little bit older, it's

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really important to me that I don't waste

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days. And the devil really

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likes us to waste our days. He likes to

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find ways to get us to just waste our

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time. And so we're going to do a couple

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of messages this week about the

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devil. Today I'm going to talk about how does

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the devil attack us. Now, you

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know, there's a lot of subjects that I would rather

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teach on other than the devil. That's

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just not, I'm sure you're thinking, oh boy, great, this

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is going to be good. But

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the problem is, is if we

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don't ever teach on things like that,

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people tend to forget when

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something's going on in their life that the devil

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is behind it. Even

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though he's working through a

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person, he'll work through

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anybody that he can. He'll work through somebody that's

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born again, somebody that's not. You

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know, a lot of times, sadly, we let the enemy

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use us and we don't even realize

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that that's what's going on. I

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mean, just by saying something to somebody that can

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really make them feel insecure or bad or

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whatever. I

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was really distressed when I had read

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that 50% of Christians don't believe the

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devil is real. Wow. 50%

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don't believe the devil is real. And I thought,

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well, what do you think is going on? You

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know, I mean, it's not. And then

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even among those who don't do, they don't realize

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that he is really... Of

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course, he's a spirit, so he doesn't have

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a body like we do. But it's not

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just an influence or an entity. The

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devil is actually real. And

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there's not only him, but he

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took a third of the angels with him when he got kicked

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out of heaven. And so, however many

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that is, that's a lot of them. And

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Jesus dealt with the devil all the time. He

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dealt with demons all the time. And so

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he's given us authority in this area. And

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I just find even for

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me, just studying the subject again made

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me realize how often even

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I forget, oh yeah, it's just the

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devil. Or even

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really remembering, you know, do any

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of you ever think stupid things?

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You know, and you just think, why

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am I thinking that? And

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then, but now I'm

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refreshed again, you know, that's just... The

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enemy just dropping that lie in my mind. So how

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does the devil attack us? First of all, we know

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that our minds are his favorite playground. The

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mind is the battlefield. There's

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a couple of great scriptures. I'm not going to read

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them both in detail. But

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in 2 Corinthians 10, 4, and 5, it

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says, the weapons of our warfare are

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not physical weapons. So if they're not physical,

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they must be spiritual. And you know, those

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weapons are things like praise and worship. Do

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you know that gratitude is a weapon against the

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enemy? He provokes

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us to try to complain,

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and God wants us

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to be thankful. in all

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things and deception. He tries to

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deceive us. It would be

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amazing just in this room here today and

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let alone all the wonderful people watching

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on your whatever thing you're watching it on, how

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many lies we believe

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and don't even realize that they're lies.

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Since you've gotten to know the word, haven't

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you realized, well, man, I believe that and that

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wasn't even true. Well, I

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find that there's still things that I'm learning.

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It's like, you

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know, we need to really compare what we

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believe to the word of God. So

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we know that what we're believing is

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true because his number

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one trick, if you

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wanna call it that, is to deceive people. And

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the greatest deception is he's not real.

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So that 50% of people

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are utterly deceived because if we think he's

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not real, then we'll never catch

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him at what he's doing. And so, and

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then it says with these weapons,

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which our greatest weapon is the word of God.

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We refute arguments and theories and reasonings and

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all these proud and lofty things that fall

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into our head that don't agree with the

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word of God. And then in Romans 12,

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it says that we should have our minds

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completely renewed and

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it's done with the word of God. Otherwise,

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we will never experience a good plan that

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God has for our life. You

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may hear about it, wish

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you had it, read about it, but

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you will not experience it if

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you don't learn how to think right. And then

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the next thing that

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he likes to use against us is our

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emotions. And so he starts with our mind

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because your thoughts affect your emotions. You

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know, you can be feeling

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perfectly fine and you can sit and think

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about something that somebody did to you recently.

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I mean, you weren't even thinking about it. You got

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over it. You know, you've done all this.