Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word 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 tries to overwhelm and control us.

If we let our thoughts go in a wrong direction, our actions follow.

Whether it's worry, insecurity, anger, or fear, the enemy uses our thoughts to try and rob

us of the peaceful and fulfilling life Jesus' sacrifice to provide for us.

The battle is fierce, and that's why it's important we renew our mind daily through God's

word.

In this series, Joyce will share practical steps about how

to fight the battle in our mind and replace negative thoughts with confidence, peace, and security.

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

All right, last night where we're talking about the strongholds that Satan tries to

build in our minds.

Proverbs 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.

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 area where he dominates our thinking.

He deceives us through wrong thinking.

We're supposed to pull down those strongholds.

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