Believe the Word – Part 2 | Joyce Meyer

Knowing God’s Word and believing it are two different things. Learn how believing what God says is the catalyst for real change, on this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer.
“God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.”
― Joyce Meyer

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I’ll see you soon. You have authority, but you have to exercise that authority.
You have to believe that you have authority and walk in the world is someone who has authority.
Hold your head up. Don’t be afraid of everything that comes along.
Don’t worry about so many things, believe that God’s for you, that he’s in you and that You have power.
Luke 1019 says behold, I have given you power and authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and power over all the power the enemy possesses and nothing shall by any means harm you.
Now, that doesn’t mean that you can’t break a bone or fall down or, or hurt yourself in some way.
But it does mean that ultimately God will take care of you.
I mean, Paul said to live is Christ, to die, is gain.
So we don’t even have to be afraid of death because for a believer, death is just like going through a door into another realm because we’re, we’re eternal beings.
We’re gonna live forever with God. March 16. 17.
The Bible says, these signs will follow those who believe and these signs will accompany those who believe in my name.
They will drive out demons, they will speak in new tongues and it goes on and on and on.
They will lay their hands on the sick and they will get well, well, how much of that do we see going on today?
I mean, hardly any at all. People have given up on things like this.
You know, I still pray for the sick when I have an opportunity, I will lay my hands on a sick person and pray for them because I believe that the anointing that’s in a believer can drive out the sickness in somebody else.
And you need to believe that also pray for people that God will heal them.
Don’t let the devil take advantage of you.
These signs will follow those who believe, you know, not just those who believe in Jesus, but those who believe that these signs will follow them.
What do you believe about things like you said?
Well, I don’t, I don’t know, I don’t, I don’t believe in, I don’t believe in that.
Well, it’s sad that we’re not taught very much about these kinds of things and you can’t believe something.
If you’ve never heard it or taught about it, read the word and see what it says, study the word.
You have power over the enemy, but you have to exercise that power the Bible talks about rebuking the devil, binding the devil.

We need to realize that we have authority Bible says we have weapons for our warfare.
You know, there’s wars everywhere, wars in our mind, wars in the spirit, wars in nations, wars, in our emotions, wars in marriages, wars in families, but we have weapons.
Second Corinthians 10, 4 and five says the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.
We’re not, we’re not fighting a natural battle. We’re fighting a spiritual battle.
On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
A stronghold is a place where the enemy digs in and hides himself and tries to torment us from that particular place.
And one of the places he likes to hide in is get an area in our mind and get us believing something.
That’s absolutely not true. If you were listening yesterday, we were talking about how the Bible says that you’ll have what you believe, be it unto you, even as you believe.
Well, naturally the devil wants us to believe lies.
Let, let’s just say that the enemy has got you thinking nobody likes you.
Well, nobody likes me. Everybody rejects me.
Well, if that’s what you believe, you know what’s gonna happen, you’re gonna actually produce behavior that’s gonna cause people not to like you.
But God says that He loves you and you can have favor with him and he will give you favor with people.
So when the enemy tries to tell you, nobody likes you. You just say, well, that’s a lie.
And I’m gonna pray for God to give me favor with the right people in my life.
And you pray for God to give you right friends.
Not just any friends, but right friends don’t listen to the lies of Satan, but you will listen to the lies of the enemy if you don’t know the truth.
And the only way that you’re going to know the truth is to study this wonderful, amazing book, The Word of God, the Bible.
There’s so much power in the Word of God.
45 years, I’ve been studying the word You say, Oh my gosh, 45 years.
I wish that I had been studying that long.
Well, it start today, start today and start learning and start believing when you read, believe it, even if you don’t totally understand it.
Say God, I don’t totally understand this but give me understanding and I’m, I believe what you say, but you can’t get into reasoning and you can’t try to understand everything with your head.
You have to understand it with your heart.
We need to know the truth, we need to walk in our authority.
Hold your head up high and know who you are in Christ.
I’m a child of God and God’s power is in me and I am not gonna let the enemy walk all over me and rule my life.
I am gonna learn the word of God.
So when Satan lies to me, I will recognize those lies and I can cast them down In Luke chapter four.
The Bible says that Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit interesting Into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil, 40 days and 40 nights.
Now, God tempts no man.
But here Jesus was led into a place where he was going to be tempted because there were some tests that he needed to pass.
Not because God thought he might fail him. He already knew that he wouldn’t.
But the devil needed to know that Jesus is not gonna put up with his nonsense and he needs to know that from us too.
And the devil began to lie to Jesus.
And there are three separate occasions where he lied to him.
Jesus was hungry and he said, well, if you are the Son of God, then turn these stones into bread.
And Jesus said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
And then he took him up on a high hill and showed him all the kingdoms of the world.
And he said, if you’ll bow down and worship me, I think one translation says just once and I love that just once, lie just once, I’ll give you all of this.
Jesus didn’t want all that. He just wanted his relationship with God.
And so he once again said it is written and spoke the word to him.
Third time when Satan tempted him and lied to him, he said it is written in other words, Jesus talked back to the devil.
Now, I know some of you are probably thinking this lady has totally lost her mind.
I remember one woman saying, when I turned you on the first time you were saying, the devil said to Jesus and Jesus said to the devil, the devil said to Jesus and Jesus said to the devil.
And she said, I have to tell you the truth. I thought you were totally crazy.
Well, don’t take my word for it.
Look at Luke chapter four The 1st 11: verses and read them for yourself. It’s right there.
A lot of times people don’t talk about these things because they don’t know how to fully explain them.
I don’t have to fully understand this. I’m just gonna do what Jesus did.
And when the devil lies to me, I’m gonna quote the word back to him when he says God’s mad at you.
I’m gonna say no, he’s not because God has forgiven me.
I have repented and he is not mad at me. God is a God of mercy.
Well, Joyce, now you’ve messed up one. Too many times. It’s too late for you. It’s never too late.
It’s never too late for a new beginning.
It’s never too late for a fresh start, don’t listen to the lies of Satan.
The word is an offensive weapon.
You go after Satan with the word of God and he’s afraid of the word because he knows that there’s power in the word of God.
When I talk, just regular talk, talk about the weather, talk about the news, talk, talk, talk, there’s no power in that.
But when I’m sharing the word of God with you, there’s power in it.
And if you’re spiritually sharp at all, you know, there’s power in it because you can sense the power in it and you feel it working in your life, even as I’m speaking, I love in my conferences when there’s people there.
Yeah, I love it when there’s people there.
But I love looking at the people watching their faces.
I, I love watching how the word of God affects people and how you can see the change come over them as the word of God tears down the lies of Satan that they’ve been told people will cry, they laugh, the word of God changes us.
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