Don't be the devil's trash can.

Today I watched a recorded Joyce Meyers show.I  really like her. Some people don't and I find that either you  really like her or you really don't. I really do and I record her show. Today I picked a message from the bottom of the list and sat back to get my dose of Joyce. I love how God tells you exactly what you need to hear and I love how He uses anything to do it. It may be words from several friends, songs on your way to work, the daily bible reading or devotional, a DJ on the radio, on and on and on.Today the Lord did it by way of my prayer time with Him and through Joyce's show. Joyce said two things today that sat hard (in a good way) with me.

"Your mind is yours. Do not LET satan use it as his own personal trash can."

She talked about how we all have bad thoughts, even the most strong in our walk with the Lord. However, she continued, its what you do with it. She asked,

"How many of you dwell of your bad thoughts? When someone has done you wrong or you THINK they have? spoke ill of you? When you think bad of yourself? satan dumps a lot of trash in our minds or I should say, he does in mine!

She said when the devil dumps trash in your mind and tries to make you have a bad day, turn it around. Take out his trash, put in the gift of God's word and give satan a bad day!

Don't you just love that? I just love that God made ME powerful enough through HIM that I can actually affect satan's day!! That is just too cool! I can, through the power of Jesus, send satan pouting, screaming, and crying in the opposite direction!! I can do that by just taking that trash he is trying to dumb in my mind:

Why doesn't she like me?
Why does this stuff keep happening?
I wish I were pretty like her.
I want to be talented like that.
(add yours here)

and claim God's amazing promises, putting them in place of satan's trash! This will ultimately make the devil have a bad day! Can you picture him pouting?? I love that image!

By having a good day even if we have to really, really squint on some days to see the joy ( and we all have those days, right?) we make satan have a bad day.

Joyce then said " But you may say JOYCE, that is SO HARD to do!"

She replied

"You are anointed for hard."  God has anointed us for hard. I am anointed for hard. I am not pretending that I am not going to have pity party days. And I am not saying I am perfect or strong or anything like that!

I am not.

But I am anointed for hard. I am hard wired for tough. I am anointed and hard wired to give satan a bad day.

And I love that.
:)