Soul Food
Soul Food
TDV: Get Behind Me, Satan (EP 2)
Have you ever received well-meaning advice that didn't sit right with your spirit? Bishop Joshua tackles the challenging subject of identifying Satan's voice, particularly when it comes through those closest to us—our family members, spouses, parents, or trusted friends.
The episode also features a moving testimony of transformation from someone who once stood on a subway platform contemplating suicide.
Don't miss this essential teaching on spiritual discernment that will help you navigate life's complex decisions with greater clarity. Whether you're facing important choices or supporting loved ones through theirs, learning to distinguish God's voice from counterfeit guidance is crucial for your spiritual journey. Subscribe to Soul Food Podcast today and feed your spirit with truth that transforms!
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SPEAKER_05:Hello there friends, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. May the Lord Jesus bless your life. Once again, together with our series, The Voice. The voice of the devil, the voice of Satan. We all want to hear the voice of God. But many times you do not identify the voice of the devil. Especially when it comes to somebody closer to you. Like Emad, Father, husband, wife, Sandora, your own mother, your own father. Or your closest friend. You see that in the days of Jesus, Satan used many people to talk to him, especially the religious people. But also people that were close to Jesus, like Peter himself. Peter used to be with Jesus to wait for seven. Remember they were on the mountain for the night video for the prayer. Peter was there, even though he slept. But Peter was there. He saw many miracles throughout of Jesus' ministry. But one day, here on Matthew 16, 22, then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, rebuke Jesus, say, Far be it from you, Lord, this shall not happen to you. He was referring to the cross because Jesus had said he would die on the cross. But Jesus turned to Peter and he said, Get behind me, Satan. You are an offense to me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of man. So in that moment, Jesus identified not the voice of Peter, but the voice of Satan. Because he did not say, get behind me, Peter. Because he understood that Peter was using, I mean Satan was using Peter's mouth. That's why he spoke directly to Satan. Get behind me. That voice sounded like a good suggestion to Jesus. Far be it from you, it shall not happen to you. Like to escape from the call the cross. It sounds like Peter tried to spare Jesus' life. But how can you spare someone's life going against the will of God, the plan of God? Be careful with these good suggestions, good options, good proposals, because they come when you most need them. And they say, Why not? I have here this way to make this vast money, but they don't say what is the catch. After you make this money like corruption, right? You are gonna go to jail. This illegal business, this toxic relationship. Be careful if it just suggestions because at the end of the day, it brings more trouble. Don't hear the voice of the devil. Identify. The message today is that identifies, identify the voice that is speaking to you. Tomorrow again, we are going to be back here talking about the voice of the devil, the voice of Satan. God bless you. Bye-bye.
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SPEAKER_04:No, it's made from love, and they can ever stand in my way. I made a vow to love through it all. We are one, and no one has the right to tear my love down. Even when my strength is lost, I'll praise you, and even when I have no song, I'll praise you, and even when it's hard to find the words louder, then I'll sing your praise. No matter what the people say, I'm gonna love you anyway. You are my life, I can't let go. Even if I falsified until I get it right. You are my life, I can't let go. Even if I disagree, you can put it all on me. You are my life, I can't let go. I can't let go.
SPEAKER_02:I saw a lot of arguments in my in my family. Um my father in the um my father had a problem with uh alcohol, with smoking. Uh, there's a lot of arguments. My parents were almost divorced four times. Uh they almost got to the point of divorce. Uh there were uh plates thrown through the house at times for arguments between my mother and my father. Um so any number of those situations were affecting myself, uh, causing me to feel depressed, to feel down, to feel like no one understood me. When I first started coming to church, we came with my uh mom. She saw the program on television, and during shortly after we started participating, I saw some changes in my mother's life. And I was going to more to fulfill, you know, being there with her, sharing in time with her, and just to be company with her. But in my own life, I was going through uh depression, I was going through suicidal thoughts, uh, I had nightmares during the night when I did sleep, and when I could not sleep, it would be two to three hours at the most of rest every night. Um I had I remember standing in front of the subway train, thinking about jumping off the platform and just ending my life because no one understood me. At least I felt that no one understood me and that I'd the world would be better off if I was just gone, no one would miss me, and my problems would be over. I thank God that I did not jump off that platform that day. I was already in church and I wasn't taking things seriously when I was participating in the services. I knew the pastor by name. You know, we would we would shake hands after the service, every single service. I was in the youth group, but I wasn't taking things seriously with God. I wasn't putting what I was being taught into practice. I felt like I needed to start taking my life seriously with God. I had heard a lot of things, I had done a lot of, you know, purposes of faith in the church, things to, you know, participating on Fridays of the Strong Prayers, etc. And, you know, I would see maybe a thing here, a blessing here, a change here, but nothing ever was significant. So I don't recall a specific moment where I decided um I'm going to change, but I do remember that it was listening to this and actually doing it, actually listening and obeying what was taught. That's where I started to see a change. It was during a fast of Daniel, where we were sacrificing, and the fast of Daniel had ended. But I extended my time. I did a little extra. I went more time past that. I decided that I was going to put into practice what I was being taught. To read the Bible, I'm gonna read the Bible then. To seek the Holy Spirit, I'm gonna seek the Holy Spirit. To do a fast, to do a purpose, to do uh a different chain of prayer in the church, I'm gonna do it. I persevered, I surrendered a lot of things from my life, I gave up a lot of things. I stopped swearing. One big issue in my life was a lot of swear words. I made the conscious decision I'm not going to swear anymore, and I changed. So the day that I received the Holy Spirit, I was expecting to have a weird sensation, some kind of feeling, some kind of emotion, something overwhelming. You know, I didn't feel anything like that. I felt normal, but I had this confidence inside me. Something inside me was telling me that I was different, that I could trust that the Holy Spirit was with me already. And so my life has been different. People that come around me, even at work, strangers that I don't meet, I don't know from anywhere, they they notice a peace around me when they come close to me. I no longer swear, I no longer have anger issues, I'm no longer depressed, I'm able to sleep throughout the night. Sometimes I even sleep too much. I've been blessed, but more than anything, it's the reassurance that the Holy Spirit is inside me.
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