Welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series,

Winning Life's Battles.

Our fight is not against people or circumstances. It's actually against the devil who is real.

But we will overcome if we choose to do things God's way. Love always wins. We overcome evil with good. Now here's

Joyce with today's teaching. I'm going to talk today about power and authority

because you have both.

You know, the devil has power, did you know that?

But he has no authority.

The only authority the devil has is what we give him through our lack of knowledge

or through passivity and laziness just not be being willing to do what we know we should do.

It's one thing to not know what to do.

It's another level to know what to do

and be too passive or lazy to do it. A passive person wants something good to happen to them and they're just

going to kind of sit around and wait to see if it does. We need to be actively

engaged. We talked last night about being a soldier in the Army of God and how no soldier when he's in service gets entangled in the affairs of the world and how a soldier is always on guard, especially in wartime.

They would never go to the front line battle and have a casual, passive, ho-hum attitude.

They're on guard, they're watching, they're sharp, they're quick to notice what's going on.

And we need to be the same way. We need to realize when there's something goofy going on in the spirit,

when we're getting some kind of weird thoughts that are not godly,

when we're having some kind of off emotions that are not godly,

and we need to just come against them instead of trying to just I wonder what this is all about

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