When life has shut down on you and all your hopes have been burned up, now you

pray for real. Dr. Tony Evans says when the Lord lets us fall there's nowhere

else to look but up. God knows if he doesn't allow stuff to happen we'll never do

business with him. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans. Author, speaker,

senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the

Urban Alternative. Every time we let the devil get the upper hand in our lives we

surrender a little bit of territory that doesn't belong to him but today Dr. Evans

points out it's not too late to turn those defeats into victories. Let's join

him as he explains. All of us go through extensive lengths to protect ourselves

from theft. We have lots on our doors and our windows to protect ourselves from

theft. We have alarm systems to warn us of uninvited guest because we are

concerned about theft. Their neighborhood watch groups because we are concerned

that what we have is not illegitimately removed from us. Not only is this an

issue in the physical realm related to jewelry and clothes and technology and

TVs and cameras and computers and a multitude of other things that might be

stolen from our premises it is also true in the spiritual realm. You ought to be

concerned about theft because the Bible says in John 10, 10 that the enemy

comes to steal, kill and destroy. Many of us have been robbed. We've been robbed

of our peace because we're always in turmoil. We've been robbed of our joy because

we're always discouraged. Many have been robbed of their purpose because they

don't know why they're here, what they're here for, where they've been or where

they're going. Others have been robbed of their resources because they live in

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