To Stand Before God

Pastor Phil: Proverbs says: Guard your heart with all diligence because out of it are all the issues of life. If we’ve got a positive attitude, we’ll have a positive mindset. But you can’t have a positive attitude if your spirit has been wounded, if it’s been negative and unhealed. I’ve watched people go through their whole life with this unhealed, wounded soul and they’re infecting everybody else around them. Another way that a spirit gets wounded is by poison — a poisonous spirit. Like it says in Psalms: the poison of asps is under their tongue. I don’t know if you’ve ever been with a person — they start talking to you and they give you an attitude. I mean, you walk away and you’re like: what about that person who did that to them? Or else you get a letter and you open it up and some of them start:  “dear brother in the Lord…” Well, I know this is going to be a bad one! It’s got like all sorts of poison. You feel the poison in it trying to get at you to change your attitude, change your spirit. And again, it’s about just keeping our spirit clean from being poisoned with other people’s bad attitudes.

Joyce: And we need to be very careful that we’re not putting poison into other people’s spirits, too, by telling things we don’t need to tell, and innuendos and suggestions that we don’t need to make because that’s a big responsibility. I don’t want to have to stand before God and have him ask me, “why did you poison people’s spirits?”  I want to be putting good things into people. We’re going to take a break and we’re going to be right back. When we return, we’re going to introduce you to a couple who lost their children but held on to God and found the healing they so desperately needed. You’ll find out how that happened right after this.

Woman: When I was a little girl, my parents used to fight all the time. I’d go to this field and just be alone. I remember one day when I was so sad, I sat there and as clear as clear can be, I heard God say, “hold on, help is on the way.”

Joyce Meyer Online – I think that’s one of the real keys to this.  I think you’re right. I think witnessing so much becomes me being able to share what Jesus did for me to overcome what you’re going through, when you talk about language.