This program is made possible by the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

Let's go into another thing that I believe Satan tries to tempt us with.

When we find ourselves in the presence of worldly compromising people, Satan will tempt us

to be quiet about our commitment to God. Perhaps out of the fear of embarrassment or rejection, but the longer it goes on the more dangerous it becomes to us.

You know why?

Romans 116 says, for I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. We cannot be ashamed of being

Christians. Now I don't think it's our job to go out in the world and try to cram

Jesus down in everybody's throat. But neither do I think

that we need to be quiet about him. But a lot of Christians don't want to go

fishing, they want to go catching. If they don't get somebody in the hook right away, then they're going to throw in

the towel and give up.

Sometimes you've got to be willing to just be a Christian around somebody for a long period of time,

and maybe you can't say anything at all until they say to you

what's different about you? How can you have so much peace with all this stuff that's going on

at work? Trust me if you get out in the world

and you just be a believer,

don't compromise your faith

just to be part of a group that doesn't care anything

about you anyway. Satan has scored a victory when he is successful in presenting compromising Christians to the world.

Because then we hear the word hypocrite.

You're nothing but a hypocrite, and the world hates that. There's nothing more exciting to

...