So are you being used?
Have you thought about it?
I mean, is the enemy lying to you right now?
Are you being used by the enemy to discourage others or is the enemy
using thoughts in your mind to discourage you?
I mean, there's a lot of different ways I could go with this today,
But my point in what I'm sharing today is I is I really believe the
enemy is playing games with the body of Christ.
There's so much stuff out there that could play with your mind.
So much of the stuff that's on social media is absolutely fake.
So much of what's being distributed on social media is absolutely
fake.
So much of it is inundated with fear.
I am tired of fear.
God hasn't given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound
mind and I'm going forward.
How about you?
I'm not going to let the enemy stop me now.
I do have to readjust my thinking because that doesn't always manifest.
I mean, I have my moments in there where it's kind of bleak, you know,
and then I call a friend who I love or I talk to my husband or I call
someone else and say this is what's in my mind right now.
And then I realize, you know what?
The enemy has been using me.
He's been using my time.
He's been using my thought life.
Who's using you?
Is it YouTube?
What are you listening to on YouTube right now?
Really?
I mean, you really got to be careful what you're clicking through here
because there's so much garbage on there.
That's not even legit.
Is Netflix using you?
Are there things that God's told you to do but you're so busy with
episode 9?
I've been there.
Okay, if there's something really interesting, it's like, let's do
the next one, you know, but yet the Holy Spirit's trying to tell you
to go over here and do this.
Hmm.
Are you being used?
I love the Prophet Jeremiah.
Jeremiah, his life is truly amazing.
But let me, he had moments in there where he was being used.
He was discouraged, man.
Nobody was listening to him.
The Holy Spirit was trying to tell him something.
He was like, I don't think I want to do this and it got kind of bleak.
But you know, God provided a friend in his scribe Baruch and Baruch was
faithful to stand by Jeremiah.
Even when Jeremiah was given words that the Israeli people, the Jewish
people didn't want to hear that.
He kept writing it down anyway.
And they got mad at him.
Can you imagine you're thrown down in a well and you're just like, okay,
rot down there, Prophet, right?
What you're telling us is true, right?
He kept going and you know what he did?
He wrote it down.
He had a friend who helped him remember what God had said and they
made a record of it and then they made copies of it.
And the invading King that was coming in to destroy Israel got a hold of
one of those copies and said, who is this prophet?
It's written down this warning.
And this prophet is trying to tell his people, you're going to be invaded.
You're going to be attacked.
You don't want to listen to this necessarily.
I'm paraphrasing the land paraphrased version, right?
This this written down transcript, so impressed this other King that when
he invaded and he came in to destroy the people.
He spared Jeremiah.
Why?
Because Jeremiah was trying to tell his people the truth and his track
record was clear.
It was clearly written down what he was saying.
Thank God for a friend who came along at a time in Jeremiah's life.
When he was really under attack and he was being used really.
What I mean, when you think about it, are you being what's your distraction?
Is it the persecution?
You don't want to hear it anymore.
Is it, you know?
Oh, well, maybe if I maybe if I really say what the Bible says, somebody's
going to be offended.
Listen, they were friended offended by Jesus.
What you think you're going to get away with it?
You know, it's not you that people get offended by.
They just don't like seeing the scripture.
You know, I always go back to what does the Bible say?
Well, give me scripture for that.
Can you show me where that is in the word?
Because it's not really my opinion that matters.
Who am I?
I'm nobody.
Jesus is King. This Bible has been around for thousands of years. What? I get to change it now
because I don't like it or it offends my feelings? No. Guard your mind. Guard your thoughts. If you
don't, you're going to be used by the enemy. And oftentimes, guys, when you're right before
the breakthrough comes, that's when the enemy comes to try to lie to you the most.
You know, if you're not doing anything for the kingdom, why should the enemy waste time on you?
But when right before you step into destiny, right before you step into your best days,
right before you walk into purpose, you're going to have a little warfare.
But if you will stand strong, write it down, guard your heart, put yourself in the place
with others that are around you that will encourage you, speak life to you,
and will help you write it down, you can look back and say, God, you did preserve me.
And I wasn't played by the enemy. I wasn't played by the devil who tried to
steal and kill and destroy my life. No, I stayed steady and strong. And I
kept writing down what he said. And in the long run, God, you are my defender
and you are my protector. In the day and the hour that we're living in, God wants to preserve
he wants to protect, and he wants to empower you because your best days are right ahead of you.
Have a good day.