Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times Best Selling Author, Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Battlefield of the Mind.

Our Thought Life is the Battlefield, where the enemy wants to overwhelm and control us.

Whether it's worry, anger, fear, the devil will use our thoughts to try and rob us of the full and peaceful life

Jesus sacrificed to give us.

The battle is fierce, which is why it's important we renew our minds daily through God's Word.

Today, Joyce will share practical steps on how to fight the battle in our mind, replacing negative thoughts with confidence, peace, and security.

Now here's Joyce with the series, Battlefield of the Mind.

Alright, last night we were talking about the strongholds that Satan tries to build in our minds.

Number 423 says, guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life.

That gives us a responsibility, it doesn't say somebody else will guard my heart.

It says, you guard your heart with all diligence over and over and over and over.

For out of your heart flows the issues of life.

In other words, if you want to have the real life that Jesus died to give you, then you have to be very careful about your thoughts and your attitude.

Satan seeks to build strongholds in our minds, that's an area where he dominates our thinking.

He deceives us through wrong thinking.

We're supposed to pull down those strongholds, we have weapons, we're in a war, we have weapons.

The weapons are not natural weapons, you can't defeat the enemy by choking them, you can't defeat the devil by tying them up, by putting them in jail.

All the weapons that we have that are effective against the devil are weapons you cannot see.

Spiritual things are things that are real, but you cannot see them.

Some of those weapons are the Word of God.

We talked extensively last night about how when the devil lies to you, you need to open your mouth and you need to quote him a scripture.

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