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0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.Guarding Against the Enemy's Entry Points 0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle.0:54 I'm Michelle Humphreys. I am Naina Keegan. We are so grateful you, are watching our broadcast today because it's gonna be an important show. Today, we're gonna be talking about the different entry1:06 points that the enemy uses to come against us. And this is so important because, you know, when we can learn and know and understand what his, you know, how1:18 he reaches us and how he infiltrates and what little cracks he sneaks in, then we can put up our guards against that. We can resist him at the onset like the Bible says, and and and1:30 watch out for these snares and these traps that he is continually setting for us.1:35 And And it's always so subtle. Right? I mean, the devil does not come to us with a pitchfork and his horns, and he he comes as an angel of light. Right?1:47 Exactly.1:48 He he twists all these little things and make it sound Make1:51 you angry, offended, you know?1:53 Well, just think about what he did with Adam and Eve, you know? Mhmm. Did God really say that? There's a lot of ifs involved in what in how the devil likes to tempt us and torment us. Is did he2:05 really if you know, do you really think that's a sin? Because the Bible is so antiquated and old and, you know, God doesn't mean that for now. You know, there's those kind of things all the time and, you know,2:16 there's so many different ways. 1 of them that I think is so important is is harboring anger. If you are if he can cause you to get in anger and strife,2:28 the bible says a house divided cannot stand. Where there is strife, there is every kind of evil. So the the the recognize if you're someone who's2:40 easily angered and you can get your spirit all stirred up over nothing really, you know, you gotta get before the Lord and ask the Lord to just to help you with that anger because he will.2:52 Because the devil wants you keyed up in anger and having all of this division and all of this strife. And again, that's where every kind of evil is lurking. And so that is 1 of the3:04 entry points that that the devil uses. It's so3:08 true. Offense. Mhmm. You know, the Bible says that offenses are going to happen. They're going to happen to you. Everybody is gonna be offended. If you have breath in your body, you're probably3:19 going to be offended, but it says not to not to grasp hold of those. It says woe to those who keep and hold on to those offenses. And recently,3:32 I heard a mama talking about her mom, so in front of her child, and she said she's crazy talking3:44 about her mama in front of her grandchild. This this this grandmother's grandchild is hearing it coming from the mother. Right? And so I didn't say3:55 anything then, but I pulled her aside and I said, I heard you say that your mother was crazy. This young man needs to hear that his4:07 grandmother is awesome, not crazy. And you are gonna need her to speak into his life whether you agree with her or not. You have apparently4:19 taken your offenses, and here's where I was going with the story. The Bible says that if you take in an offense and you hold it, it becomes a root of4:31 bitterness and it defiles many. Mhmm. It defiles many. So her root of bitterness is defiling her little boy.4:43 And and, you know, and she said, yeah. I hadn't thought about that. You know? And God can shift it around and turn it around. And, my mom, she never talks bad about anybody. I mean, ever4:55 ever. So we were not filed by anything she said. She absolutely thought everybody was great, even people that we shouldn't be talking to. You know? Honestly,5:07 she she was not super she well, she for sure was not judgmental. I will tell you that because we had some characters in our household. When I look back, I think it's only the grace of5:19 God that we're all okay. Right? But she thought they were great. And so we really had kind of the opposite of what this this young lady was saying in front of her grand of, in front of her5:31 child. But truly, an entry point for the devil is offense. And when you get offended and you get angry and you get this bitterness5:43 inside, you're not just hurting yourself. You pray for your family every day? Well let me tell you, if you are praying for your family every day or your prodigal child every day, and yet when you talk to5:55 them, you're still yapping about your offense. When God told you in the Bible, you're gonna get offended and you say, well, you have no idea what they did to me. It doesn't6:07 seem to matter. It doesn't seem to matter. Jesus said, forgive them because they don't understand what they're doing, and I am sure that these people don't understand what they're doing because if they did,6:19 then they would recognize it, repent, and turn and come and tell you sorry. But maybe they're never gonna tell you sorry, and you still have to be okay with that and forgive and forgive and forgive.6:31 Well, the the thing about it is that is a such a bait of Satan. And when we know that, when we know that this is what he he comes after, if he knows that you're like, okay, here it comes, like, you know, do you ever6:43 just feel like when someone's walking in the room, they're coming in with a chip, they're coming in like with a a fence, they're you can see it on them, you just know6:52 You can feel it coming off of them.6:53 You can feel it coming off them. We've said that so many times. And and it's like, it's already like the setup is started. Like the devil is going to see if you're gonna take that bait, if you're gonna lose7:05 your peace. You know, we you know, how do you overcome? You you know, like you gonna you're gonna go speak life, you speak peace, you speak the opposite, you don't take that bait. And the devil knows that7:17 when you don't fall for it time and time and time and time again, then eventually he's gonna leave you alone. That button doesn't work anymore. That button is broken. You know, he pushes that same old button.7:29 And we have to know that as Christians, people are watching us. People, you know, do you wanna be the the the guy who's, you know, just leaving church but cussing out somebody driving in your7:40 lane or that pulled out in front of you? You know, are you gonna be the 1 who leaves church and shows up to breakfast and is yelling at the waiter? You know, how are you? You know, are if if7:52 somebody was gonna arrest you for being a Christian, would they have enough evidence to convict you? That's how we have to be. We have to be so sold out to the Lord and watch everything. Yeah. Watch our8:04 speech. Watch who's watching us. You never know. And, you know, if you're if you're professing to be a Christian, and then they see you living all crazy and and getting mad and cussing and throwing down and8:16 throwing a fit, you know, and are you are you what what are what kind of example are you being for like your children or for anybody else who's around you? God is calling you to a8:28 higher standard. That is enough. We are men and women of God and it's time that we start acting like it and that we leave this anger and this offense out gone, done. We make a8:39 decision right now. We're not gonna pick this up anymore, and we're gonna talk more about that in just a minute. We'll be right back.8:46 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus, and that is saving power of Jesus Christ.8:58 When you donate to Grace Grace ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the9:09 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus. Give today by logging9:21 on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road9:33 number 1 22, Magnolia, Texas 7 7 3 5 4. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today.9:45 Give now.Overcoming Anxiety and Fear 9:49 Welcome back. We are talking about entry points that the devil gets in and into our lives, and it turns everything upside down.10:00 So we wanna make sure that we stop, and we are aware of his schemes and how he tries to get in. And 1 of the entry points that I have noticed is people10:12 some people have you ever noticed some people walk in anxiety, and it is like a loop. You know, it's like the same thing over and over, and they get in this10:24 loop. And the Bible says, instead of that, be anxious for nothing. In everything, through prayer and petition, make your request10:36 known to God, and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. So we know that when we begin10:48 to feel anxious, and I believe that that's just a state of humankind, you are at some point, whether you're given to it, some people are super prone to anxiety and some people are not, and11:00 and but we all have it to to varying degrees. So what we have to do is when we begin to get in that loop, the what ifs, is sometimes you what I have asked my children when they begin to get an11:12 anxiety is I'll say, can you identify your prevailing thought? Can you identify? Because I feel like if we can identify what that is and what that loop is, we can get11:24 to the root of what the devil is trying to scare us with and cause us all this this anxiety with, and we can pray it out. And so just ask yourself that question. What11:36 is at the root of why I feel so anxious and why I keep going through the same loop? And and and and pray just like the Bible says, Pray11:48 and and call upon the Lord. And, you know, when you have anxiety, you have a spirit of depression. You have oppression, and and and the Bible says to and this is exactly what you12:00 don't feel like doing when you're depressed or anxious or anything like that. You don't feel like praising the Lord, but that's why the Bible says that I will bring the sacrifice of12:11 praise into the house of the Lord. So it is sometimes I will tell you when I start praising the Lord I say to the Lord, I you know my heart already so I know12:23 I'm not telling you anything that you don't know, but I am not feeling this. But as I begin to praise the Lord that that the Bible says put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.12:36 Lift up your voice to God. Just call upon the Lord. Praise the Lord, and and that heaviness begins to fall off, and God will begin to speak to you. And so that is12:48 1 of the biggest entry points to me is just that loop of anxiety that the devil wants us to live in.12:54 You know, again, the devil is is the Bible describes him basically as 2 things. 1 is the accuser of the brethren13:03 Yeah.13:03 And the other 1 is the slanderer. Both are words that mean liar. So he comes with these lies. And I remember when, I used to have so much anxiety really before I13:15 was saved, and I 1 of the the big anxiety was really about my health. I I really just thought I literally had these symptoms. I thought I was dying of13:25 everything. When I first met you.13:27 It it was just Yeah.13:28 You would so worry about every little health thing.13:30 It was just like lying symptoms all the time and all of that that would pop out of nowhere. And I remember, going to doctors to find out what these symptoms were,13:42 and they were crazy symptoms, and doctors could not find anything wrong with me. And then finally had a doctor tell me I had anxiety, and I was like, what? He doesn't know what he's talking about.13:54 You know, it's like, just tell me what's wrong with me and give me give me an antibiotic, and I'm going home to be fine.14:02 I did not know. That only word.14:04 I did not have God in my life, and the absence of God just brings so much fear. But God's perfect love casts out all fear. I remember 1 time, finally, I decided I was gonna go talk to a14:15 counselor. And I literally am telling her that I had a fear of dying, which you know without Jesus, when you don't have Jesus in your life, of course that's going to be a14:27 fear. And I'm literally telling her this, and she says to me, so are you suicidal? I'm like, I just told you that I have an unhealthy fear of14:39 dying. And so it's like, okay, none of this is working, like nothing, what is it? And I just remember like, I was so desperate for something, and and what is it14:51 that, you know, why I don't know why I have to live my life like this. And Yeah. And I remember, you know, I had fear has torment, and anxiety has torment, and this is definitely an entry place that15:03 the devil uses. And I was told when I was a little girl and everything I went through with my home life before I got to go live with my grandmother, was that the devil was after me since I was a little girl because of15:15 the call on my life, which of course meant nothing to me at the time. I didn't even know what that meant. But the very things, you know, that I would have such fear about, you know, like flying and speaking in public,15:26 and now we go all over the world and we have a TV show, which, you know, so just see what the devil tries to do and hold you back from. But what what all I know is that I was15:38 able to overcome and still that is what the devil tries to bring on me and I recognize that. And I can cast it down because I see that that's what he tries, and15:50 it's not true. And I did have a doctor. I had a neighbor that was a doctor way back when I lived in Illinois. And he said to me 1 day, I was really good friends with his wife, and he said, you know,16:02 Nina, the vast majority of people die of natural causes. And there was something that he said about that to me that switched. It's like, you know, I16:13 do everything I think I know to do to stay healthy, so I'm gonna walk in that. I I like something, like, started to switch in me. And, you know, at about the same time, I started to, you know, really just just16:25 kinda search for the Lord, and a a lot of things started changing after that. But God's perfect love casts out all fear. So sometimes, maybe you haven't been loved, you haven't felt loved, you haven't felt loved growing16:37 up, you've you've maybe had relationships of people who were supposed to love you, marriages that broke up and things. And so you feel unloved, and you feel like that that brings16:49 fear on your life, like you cannot trust anybody. And having been someone who's been there, I'm telling you, you can trust the Lord. You can trust him, and his love is so perfect. He made you. He17:01 loves you. He doesn't want you to fear. That is in the bible 365 times. That's 1 for every day. It's so important to the Lord that we don't get a hold of fear and anxiety and let17:13 it wreck our lives. You know, God wants you to be free, and he sent his son Jesus to die, to take those chains for you, and and and take that17:25 fear on the cross for you so you can be set free. So we are gonna talk more about that when we come right back. God wants you free today. Stay tuned.17:34 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.17:46 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the17:58 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus. Give today by logging18:10 on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road,18:21 number 122, Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today.18:33 Give now.The Power of Forgiveness 18:37 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. We are talking about entry points that the devil comes in and tries to destroy your life, turn it upside down. And 1 of those points18:49 and I mean, I think it has to be maybe the number 1 point. And I'm I I hate to bring it up again, but honestly, it is an entry point. If you are harboring unforgiveness,19:01 I I don't see how you can move forward. Because the Bible says unless we forgive, we cannot be forgiven. Yes. You might be blood bought, but you can be stuck. You can be stuck because you19:13 will not release. You will not do what the Lord did for you, which was forgive you of all of your sins, and you will not do that for someone else. And certainly, they did19:24 not put you on a cross and nail you to it and and mock you like what happened to Jesus. So nothing like that has ever happened to us, and he said forgive them because19:36 they don't understand what they're doing, so we should be able to do it again. And I will tell you, there are people that have passed through my life that when it comes time to take communion, I19:48 always go over, Lord, I choose to forgive them, they star in my communion time with the Lord because there are certain people that just get under my20:00 skin. Sometimes you have to keep dealing with them, but other times, they're in your past. Sometimes people who are in your past can be so difficult. I mean, I have people from 3020:12 years ago sometimes that I that they'll pop up and I'll think, oh, I thought I forgave that. But that's an entry point. We don't want to have any kind of unforgiveness. Don't you agree with that? It's so20:24 true, and it's so it it seems like that is that is a20:27 big 1. And I'm telling you, if you work in ministry or if you're in church, you know, some of the some of the the biggest things, some of the biggest times you're gonna get hurt are gonna be the people that you thought20:38 were godly people. Getting hurt in church, getting hurt in ministry is almost a guarantee because and I'm telling you, you know, we have to, like, break off the20:49 notions or the preconceived notions that you think that everybody is going to behave in a certain manner.20:56 And they're all at different levels with the Lord.20:58 Yeah. And so we have to and it's so hard, and it's not we have to just forgive and and and and know that when we don't, it is like you drinking poison and21:10 expecting that to hurt the other person. You know, so many times they're living their life over there and not even realizing. And over and over again, it's it's it's the, the devil bringing up those21:22 offenses because the Bible says, how many times should you forgive? 70 times 7 a day. They owe me that it that is a lot of forgiveness. And it's not because that person is constantly21:33 doing something to you, but it's because the devil brings it up. Yes. 70 times 7 a day. I've said this before, sometimes I have to borrow from tomorrow because it is a hard 1. It is.21:45 It is so hard. You know, over and over again in my life, there's been so many different opportunities. And for me, I've been hurt so many different ways, and I know you have too. And it's like, you can you can21:57 either, you know, sit there and feel sorry for yourself or get on that or get that anger in you and that unforgiveness. And let me tell you, it is hard. Because even when you're declaring, I forgive them, Lord, help me22:09 forgive them, I forgive them, I ask you to bless them. You know, it's it's it's you have to keep saying that until you mean it. And that doesn't mean you go back to any kind of abuse. You don't go back to that. You22:21 because the Bible says, what does darkness have to do with light? Don't be, don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers. You know, that you are set apart. It says you are in the world but22:33 not of the world. We don't have to be part of that. We don't have to pick it up, go back, be abused more. We're not doormats. But we need to, in our own, to keep peace in22:45 ourselves, to not block the blessings that the Lord wants to do in our own lives. We have to forgive. And sometimes those hurts are just screaming louder than you're wanting to forgive. Yeah.22:57 But it is so, so, so very important because, again, we, why, if you willingly are knowing that you harboring these things is blocking, it's23:09 basically clogging the conduit for which you are to receive the blessings from the Lord. And so as hard as it is, we have to say it over and over again. And sometimes, like, if the if we're23:21 if we're in the midst of something like that, I will find myself going, oh, they did this and this and, like, but Lord, I forgive them. It's like this thing. And I'm catching myself and trying23:30 And we go back and forth and and we'll we'll say, tell me that in, you know, 20 minutes.23:35 You can tell me the same speech back because it is not it is it is not easy sometimes, especially when you are working in ministry because the devil hates you if you're working in ministry. And, you know,23:47 for all we all love and know Jesus. The devil hates you and wants in whatever way he can to get through those entry points and to bring that fear, to bring that anger, to bring that23:58 strife, to bring unforgiveness, to bring all of these things into your life because he doesn't want you walking forth in in in ministry and and, you know, portraying Jesus and speaking the word and24:10 having a blessed life. So we recognize at the onset, we cast it down. We every day submit to God, seek him, ask him to order every step you24:22 take. Ask him to forgive you and to show you and to pluck anything out of your heart that is not of him. And ask him to just just show you what he would do in that situation.24:34 And when you see things through the eyes of Jesus and what he would do and the things he has forgiven you of, it makes it so much easier. Because, again, who's gonna cast the first stone? Exactly.24:46 Jesus isn't throwing stones at us. So so, Michelle, do you wanna pray?24:50 Yes. I do. And I I wanna pray especially for those maybe prodigals who got hurt in church or people who used to be in ministry. I want you to really remember that25:02 that is where the devil got in, and this is how your life got off track. And the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. So let's just pray right now. Father, we thank you right now, god, for, for25:14 your ability to undo what the devil has done in our lives because we are your people. We are the the sheep of your pasture, and you are a great shepherd. And so we pray, god, that25:26 all around the world, you will go and get those who have fallen away because of some offense, some entry point where they allowed the devil to get a foothold. And God we pray that you bring them back25:38 into your sheepfold, and God you are going to do a great work, and they're gonna be mightier than they've ever been25:46 Yes.25:46 Through the spirit of the Holy God. In Jesus' name we pray.25:51 Amen. Amen. Thank you. That was powerful. I feel like like there's somebody named Ronald that you are saying that you have just been hurt too much and you cannot forgive, and I'm telling you,26:02 you can. Give it all to the Lord. He's got a plan and a purpose for your life. It's time to give it up now. You hearing your name right now is showing you that God's got you and it's all gonna be okay. Amen.26:14 So, we love you all. If you can head on over to our website, you can find out all about us. We wanna hear from you. 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