Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit – Part 2 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

Hope, peace, joy…they’re all yours when you follow the Holy Spirit. Today on Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares on the importance of being sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

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.

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I’m Joyce Meyer, and I believe that god can heal you everywhere you hurt.
The main way the enemy speaks to us is by putting thoughts in our mind.
That’s why we definitely need to know the word because if you don’t know the word, you won’t recognize the lies of Satan.
Amen?
When you know the word, let’s say you’ve done something wrong and you’ve prayed, you’ve admitted it, You confessed it before god.
You’ve asked to be forgiven. And then tomorrow, you still feel guilty.
If you really know the word, you’ll know that that’s the devil trying to make you feel guilty because if the sin’s been forgiven, then there can’t be any guilt attached to it.
But if you don’t know the word, then you can just waste most of your time feeling guilty about stuff that god’s already forgotten.
Amen? I don’t I don’t mess with that anymore.
I spent years feeling guilty. I didn’t feel good if I didn’t feel bad.
When I first started experiencing peace, I was bored.
I was. I thought Young.
You know, you can get addicted to being upset.
Be intense.
If you and so the devil said to him, if you are the son of god, So the first thing he does is attack his identity.
Who do you think you are?
Order this stone to turn into a loaf of bread.
So what was the temptation here?
1, he attacked his identity, and 2, he tried to get him to move independently of god.
If you’re hungry, just tell that stone to become bread.
But that’s that’s not what god had told him to do.
We need to follow the leadership of god and not let the devil move us in the flesh to just do what we wanna do when we wanna do it.
Even sometimes when we’re there’s We could do something to get out of something, but maybe inside will you sense now god wants me to state even though this is a hard place, god wants me to stay here.
He he doesn’t want me to run from this.
And, you know, when Jesus was in the garden, one of the soldiers Peter got a sword whacked off his ear.
Jesus picked his ear up and put it back on his head.
And he said to Peter, don’t you know that if I wanted to, I could call 12 legions of angels 72,000 angels.
He said, I don’t have to do this, but if I do that, the will of god won’t be done.
So There’s times when I don’t have to put up with something. Hello?
There are times when you don’t have to put up with something, you can say, I’m putting up with you.
But is that what god wants? Come on.
I said, is that what god wants?
Is that gonna be the best for your children?
It’s so easy to run.
But David stood and confronted Goliath.
And Jesus went into that wilderness, and he confronted the devil.
And we don’t have to be afraid of the enemy because god’s given us power over him.
But wait a minute before you clap and cheer, If you’re gonna stay mad at people, it you might as don’t shout about your power because you just You threw it away?
This is why you we have so much available to us Jesus has provided for everything, but it’s time There’s one big word I wanna give you tonight.
Full surrender. Come on.
I mean, don’t look at me like a little dough at a new get you know, full surrender.
What do you have going on in your life that you know full well is against the word of god, but you just won’t give it up.
Because you said, well, I’ll probably go to heaven anyway.
Well, you may, but you may have a miserable trip.
I don’t know about you, but I wanna enjoy the journey. Oh, man.
And not only that. I love god.
And if we love him, we should obey him.
You know, we we think about Eve and she was deceived by the lies of Satan, in the garden.
And by the way, the devil has an especially hate for women.
And that’s proven all throughout history, and that’s because he He was told in the garden that a woman would bruise his head by giving birth to the savior.
And so he don’t like us.
And I bet he’s especially mad now that women are really rising up and being used by god.
But, you know, Eve Eve wasn’t deceived because she was evil or bad you know, why she was deceived because she loved god so much.
Then when Satan said to her, if you ate this, you’ll be like god.
Well, she wanted that was she wanted to be more like god.
She loved him. So she did what god had told her not to do, but the intent of her heart Do you know that most of the people that get really weird and often to a spirit of error are people who really love god.
And the devil takes advantage of that, and he starts telling them stuff that’s really not scriptural, and they start doing it.
And get into trouble? That’s right.
I don’t I don’t care if you’re quiet all night. Then the devil, like, okay.
Verse, whatever it is, The next one, 5.
Then the devil took him up on a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world at a moment time in the twinkling of an eye.
And he said to him, to you, I will give all of this power and authority and their glory, all of their magnificence, their them, their preeminence, their dignity, and their grace because it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whosoever I will.
Well, how did it get turned over to him in the garden?
Adam gave the power that god had given him to the enemy.
And if you read that and understand it, don’t think for one minute that the devil can’t make a wicked man rich.
Prostability is no sign of spiritual maturity.
I am in.
The devil can give people stuff, but he can’t make you happy.
He can’t give you peace. He can’t give you joy.
You know, your life is like a blip. Yep.
On gravestones, let’s say I lived to be a 100.
I was born in 1943, so let’s say it says, here lies Joyce Meyer.
Born 1943 died 2043. Dash died 2043.
The only thing that really matters is what happened in the dash.
And so I wanna ask you, what are you doing with your dash?
And that’s about I mean, I can’t believe that I’m eighty.
I can’t believe that I look back at my life, and I think I’ve given birth to 4 kids.
I’ve had a miscarriage. I’ve had 12 grandchildren. I preached all over the world.
I made 67 mission trips out of the country. Been married today for 57 years.
It’s just I’m like and I don’t know how much is left in my dash, but I know what I’m gonna do with it.
Come on.
I I want you to wake up tonight.
If you’re living in some kind of sin and you know that you are, you know that what you’re doing is wrong.
Get it straightened out before your dash is over because eternity is a long, long How long is forever?
Wow. Is it worth staying mad at somebody?
Is it worth it? Of course not.
So I think that’s interesting. You see the the devil can give people stuff.
And then I love this in verse 7.
Therefore, the devil says, if you will do homage to and worship me just once, It will all be yours.
The just one slide. It’s just just one time. It won’t hurt.
It won’t hurt just this one time. Everybody else does it.
Well, you ain’t everybody else.
Were supposed to be separated.
Sanctified means set apart for god’s use.
Holy and set apart for god’s use. This is my glass right here.
And I’m supposed to be the only one that uses it.
This is set apart for me. For these little lips right here.
This is my Kleenex box. That needs to be shined up.
You understand what I mean. You belong to god.
You are not your own. You were bought with a price.
The precious blood of Jesus Christ.
You don’t get to just do whatever you wanna do whenever you wanna do it.
I mean, you can if you want to, but you will pay a price for it.
And many of you are paying a price.
Well, Jesus had his stuff together.
He replied to Satan and said, get behind me, Satan. Hit the road.
It is written. You shall do homage to and worship the lord your god and him only shall you serve.
Then he took him to Jerusalem, set him on a gable of the temple and said, if you are the son of god, cast yourself down from here because he will give his angels charge over you.
Now what? He he can even quote scripture. The devil knows the Bible.
He can quote scripture. And Jesus replied, you shall not tempt test or try the lord your god.
And I love this part.
When the devil had ended the complete cycle of temptation, he temporarily left him to wait for a more opportune time.
So guess what? Truth be told. He’s never gonna completely leave you alone.
I know that’s not very good news, but the Bible says you gotta fight the good fight of faith.
Remember, we’re just in the dash.
So what if you never get what you want?
It won’t last that long. And the day will come when you’ll have everything you could have possibly ever wanted.
You can put up with a little something now if you have to.
The thing that the devil loves more than anything is passive Christian, somebody who just Well, god will protect me.
Well, we work in tandem with god. We work in partnership with god.
I bought this book and read it, and I don’t call my office Monday and ask what the name of this book was.
If you wanna know, you write it down now.
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And this is What great evangelicals believed about the Holy Spirit from 1850 to 1930?
That interested me because there’s so many different opinions and theories about all this.
There’s 24 different great men of god that talking here about what they believe about the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, being filled with the spirit, baptized in the Holy Spirit.
And shocking, I know, but they don’t all agree.
There’s probably at least 8 different, very strong and reasonable sounding opinions.
Some say that when you’re born again, you receive The fullness of the Holy Spirit.
Some say it’s a second blessing that you get later after you’re born again.
I’ve always said when you’re born again, You have the Holy Spirit.
I don’t think that’s the problem. The problem is does the Holy Spirit have you?
And after reading all this and I’ve come to the conclusion, at this point, could change my mind later.
You know, we do change our mind. The more we learn.
That I believe when you’re born again, you do receive the full power of the Holy Spirit because you could you know, if you get the Holy Spirit, you don’t mean, you get the holy spirit.
He doesn’t come in slices. But until you’re ready to yield our surrender.
Come on. We’re going somewhere.
Until you’re ready to surrender See, if you look in on the day of pentecost, when the Spirit was poured out, It says on when the day acts 2124, when the day of penny cost had fully come, they were all together in one place, when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which was separated and settled on each one of them.
And they were all filled, diffused throughout their souls.
Now I want you to see that diffuse throughout their souls.
You have if you’re born again, you have the holy spirit in your spirit.
But when you are if you wanna be filled with the Holy Spirit, you have to let him have control of your soul, and that’s your mind, your will, and your emotions.
You you have to let him fill you completely, not just keep him kinda off in this one little room that you go to when you have an emergency.
We live an emergency. And I look back at my own life, and I say I was baptized in the Holy Spirit when I am in 1976.
There was a move of god going on basically all over the earth.
1000 and thousands of people were being baptized in the Holy Spirit.
But If I really wanna be the the doctrineally correct, which, believe it or not, I do try to be.
I had the Holy Spirit.
And I don’t think I just had a little bit of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit only had a little bit of me.
And so Half of these guys say what I’m saying now that you receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, but You can lose some of that.
If you don’t the Holy Spirit never leaves you, he’s there to abide, but you can lose the full power of the Holy Spirit by living the wrong way.
So I’m asking you to make a decision tonight Do you what’s more important to you?
To do what you wanna do when you wanna do it, to say what you wanna say when you wanna say it, to think what you wanna think when you wanna think it.
To watch stuff, it. You know, you shouldn’t be watching. Listen to stuff.
You know, you shouldn’t be listening to.
Gossip and classic dirty jokes and what, you know, whatever you whatever.
Or do you want to have the full power of the Holy Ghost in your life.
I’m gonna tell you something.
I sure don’t mean this to sound anyway, but just I’m trying to tell you the truth.
I believe that I carry an anointing on my life.
That’s the only thing that helps people. It’s not my great speaking ability.
It’s god’s anointing. But I pay a price to keep that.
And I spend a lot of time with myself because sometimes you just you just can’t get involved in all of it.
You know, it’s just I mean, the devil will get you.
How easy is it to start gossiping about people when you sit with other people all the time who gossip?
How easy is it to start murmuring and grumbling and complaining about every little inconvenience if all you hang out with is other grumblers and murmurers Come on.
How easy is it to compromise just a little if all you hang out with is people who always compromise just a little.
And I’ve got some good, godly friends, but I like to hang out with positive people I like to hang out with generous people because I’m a giver.
Come on. Which do you want?
Do you want this temporary self will, or would you be willing to walk away from anything I’m calling people to decision tonight.
Would you be willing to walk away from anything If god put his finger on it and said, you know that that’s wrong.
Would you be willing to walk away from all your friends, if god showed you they were all poisoning your life and keeping you from god.
In order to have the full power of the Holy Spirit in your life, I have got to have I cannot do with any less.
And we need the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
And some of them say they left with the early church, and some of them say they didn’t.
You know what I think people do? I think people make a doctrine out of their own experience.
However, they got something. That’s how everybody’s supposed to get it.
Or if they didn’t get it at all, then nobody’s supposed to have it.
You know, the Holy Spirit is like the wind.
You don’t know where it’s coming or where it’s going, but you sure know when it’s been there.
The Holy Spirit does different things in different ways and different people’s lives.
And we gotta just let him have his way.
You say, well, what about this speaking in tongues thing? Well, okay. What about it?
People have fought more over that. And it’s the last gift on the list.
And whole denominations have split and parted ways over that.
Well, I speak in tongues, but if you don’t want to, I can love you anyway.
You know, some of them say god doesn’t give everybody that gifts.
Mhmm. Let let me tell you something.
I know some Christians that are meaner than snakes that speak in tongues.
And I know some people that I believe are godly and full of the holy ghost that don’t speak in tongues.
So Get off it.
I mean, just get off I mean, I want everything god will give me, so I beg them to give me I opened my mouth.
I tried. I, y’all, did everything.
Because if anybody can have anything, I want it.
I’m a spiritual hog.
You know you know what’s getting most people?
They want to be religiously respectable.
And it’s our deadly respectability that’s keeping the power out of the church.
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The mind actually is the battlefield.
That’s where we win or lose the war with Satan. He said all he gets to say. Hello?
Today’s mine. You start asking god to heal you, and he will restore.
It’s the god of all comfort, and I am so grateful that I know how to call on