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 Blessed in the Mess.

Life is full of trials. God does not promise us a problem-free life,

but he does promise us to work everything out for our good if we love him.

God allows us to go through difficult times because they make us depend more upon him.

So when things aren't going our way, trust the Lord. He is good all the time and he will

ultimately work things out better than we can even imagine.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

You know, the devil was called Lucifer and he was one of the archangels, very beautiful,

but he had a problem with pride and he decided that he was

going to lift his throne above the throne of God and God said I'll show you what

you're going to get you got kicked out of heaven. And he took a third of the angels with him, which I guess proves that

angels have free will. And so the devil can only be in one place at one time, but he has a lot of little helpers.

They're called demons. I know, this is like, ee.

But... But see if Paul said I don't want you to be ignorant.

We need to be informed now I'm not big on just talking about the devil all the time and everything that happens is not the devil and you know every time you do something wrong it's not the devil that made

you do it but there are a lot of things that are the devil and the Bible says

that we wore not against flesh and blood.

Ephesion six, but against principalities and powers and wickedness in high places.

And all the stuff that's going on in the world today,

even though the enemy works through people,

it's the enemy that is behind it.

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