Hello, I'm Creflo Dala, and this is the Creflo Dala Ministries podcast.

I want to thank you for joining us today, and I sincerely hope this word encourages you, builds your faith, and above all else, helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.

Enjoy the message.

Let's see, we got this session, and then then next week and we'll close this series up,

but we're continuing to talk about self-deception.

And one of the reasons why we continue to talk about self-deception is that all of us have been in the position

where we've been maybe deceived about something.

Self-deception is kind of tricky because we're often not aware of it when we're doing it.

I mean, that's how good we are with it.

We're not aware of self-deception while we're doing it. Why?

Because, you know, when you're self-deceived,

you think you're right, but you're wrong, but you think you're right, but you can't see it.

Okay? And as we grow in the Lord, and especially in the Word of God, we begin to develop above

self-deception's ability to blind us.

And so as Christian people, there are lots of things we have been deceived about, mainly because of what has come through the pulpit.

And then we bought it, and then it became religious in our lives and then we defended it.

And, you know, from that point on, how we listened to the word became a whole lot different.

And so lives are not really the way they are.

And from my study, especially in 2024 and up to now, as I read the New Testament, it appears to me that God is doing his best to try to get us to realize who we really are.

This word shocked me.

I don't know if it was on Friday or Saturday, but the Spirit of the Lord said to me, and when I say he said to me, this was really impressed in my heart.

He said, when you look at the word and when you look at me, Jesus, I want you to see the reflection of yourself.

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