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Can I tell you something?

Staying straight with God is a full-time job.

I mean it actually is a full-time job.

Awake go sleepy Christian and rise from the dead.

Paul said in Ephesians, wake up, be on your guard, stay awake,

watch and pray. You know why? Because the devil is alive and well. I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and he

will do it for you. The danger of self-will. Luke 12-16. It's the same parable we just read, but I want to make a point here.

He told them a parable saying,

the land of a rich man was fertile and yielded plenty and he considered and debated within himself

what shall I do I have no place to gather my harvest I will do this I will pull down my

storehouses I will build bigger. I'll say to my soul,

just go have a good life. You've got enough now for many years. I will is a

statement that we need to be careful about.

Lucifer, Isaiah 14, once the angel in charge of worship.

And in Isaiah 14, verse 12,

it says, how have you fallen from heaven,

old light bringer and day star, son of the morning? How have you been cut heaven old light bringer and day star son of the morning?

How have you been cut down to the ground you who weakened and laid low the nations?

verse 13.

This is why Lucifer fell and became the creature that we know him to be today.

You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

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