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The first thing you should do when something's changing in your life,

whether you like it or not, is change your mind about the change.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Like I said, we don't want to be devil-minded all the time, but we can't forget either that he really is the source of all of our problems. Now, that he works through people

and he works through people,

and he works through circumstances.

But the bottom line is,

is that even though people do have a responsibility

not to give place to the devil and let him use them,

it's still, when you come to the bottom line,

it's the devil that's causing the problems.

And until we learn how to deal with him, we're never going to get consistently happy.

But what I love about this story in Luke, you go through all, all of it from Luke 1 to verse 13,

after he had finished.

So verse 13 says, and when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until another

opportune time came along.

So the devil had no intention of ever leaving Jesus alone.

Jesus won that battle.

And then immediately after that, he started his public ministry.

Come on, if you want to do anything for God,

don't think the devil is going to roll out a red carpet for you,

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