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Trust God and enter his rest

and believe that if we're obedient

and do what God tells us to do, that he'll do what we can't do.

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you heard. Well, thank you so much for joining me today on enjoying everyday life.

And you know, I believe that the only way we can really enjoy our life is if we have Jesus Christ in our life

and if we learn how to follow his word, which means to obey him.

And today I'm going to teach about obedience, which literally means study the word and then do what the word tells you to do.

You know, we have an enemy, Satan, the devil, and he has a large group of what we call

demons. When he fell from heaven or was kicked out of heaven, he took a third of the angels with him

and they became wicked and evil just like he is. Now, the devil is very active in the world

today and he is behind all the evil. That doesn't mean that

people are not responsible for allowing him to work through them, but he is the

source of it and we need to know how to deal with the source of our problems

and not just always be plucking off the fruit and leaving the root.

And in James chapter 4, verse 7, there's a wonderful scripture.

It says, submit yourself to God, resist the devil, and he will flee.

So anyone who thinks that they're going to get rid of the devil while

disobeying God is deceived. It just won't happen. Now I'm sure there are things

that we're all disobeying God in and we don't even realize that we are because we're constantly learning.

But purpose disobedience is a very dangerous thing.

And I'm just wondering as I'm talking to you, and I want you to think it over, especially maybe

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