Feeling stressed? Joyce Meyer shares five ways to manage difficult moments on this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life.

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i believe that whatever

the word is preached on there’s power to

bring deliverance to people in that area

because there’s power in the world so

i’m expecting

bondages to be broken off of people in

this area and that doesn’t necessarily

mean that

just magically all your stress is going

to go away but something is going to

happen in you something’s going to be

broken and you’re going to receive a

revelation that you don’t have to live

that way anymore

matthew chapter 11 verse 28

come unto me all you who labor

and are heavy laden and overburdened

and i will cause you

to rest

i will ease relieve

and refresh your souls

sounds to me like

he’s saying i can teach you how to live

without stress

take my yoke upon you and learn of me

now

these two scriptures prove out what i’m

trying to say if we just read verse 28

it looks like all we need to do is come

to jesus and he’s going to make all this

happen

see come to me

if you’re laboring heavy laden

overburdened i’ll cause you to rest well

we would just like to take that part and

go

jesus

here i am do it

but then he says take my yoke upon you

and

learn of me

so learn of me what means okay i can

show you how to

have ease and relief and refreshment and

recreation but you’re gonna have to

watch how i live and you’re going to

have to follow me and learn to do things

the way that i do them

now

he uses this term yoke take my yoke upon

you which we are probably not as

familiar with so i actually have a a

picture that we’re going to put up that

we want to show you of what it means to

be yoked

with someone else now that is called a

yoke of oxen

and you see that they are connected

together

because if the two are pulling the load

it makes the load a lot simpler

and jesus is literally saying to us if

you will stay yoked to me

attached to me

i will pull with you through life

and it will make your load a lot

easier but now we want to understand

that jesus is saying

there’s another analogy to this and i

believe it’s stay so close to me

stay connected to me

stay with me in every situation and

watch closely and see how i would do

something and then you follow me

and in that way you will not be living

under stress all the time okay you can

take that away i wanted you to see what

that

was

a good prayer

a wonderful prayer is oh god teach me

your ways

the bible says that the israelites

saw the acts of god

but god taught moses his ways

see the israelites wanted miracles

many people want miracles oh god make

this go away

god changed this situation so there’s no

pressure on my life

but moses went deeper and i’m asking you

to go deeper and say god

whatever the circumstances do let them

do it but you teach me your ways you

teach me how to handle it the way you

would handle it

come on can we come up a little higher

i said last night i spent a large part

of my

life trying to change the people around

me if i didn’t like what dave did i

tried to change dave

you know you love all your kids but you

don’t always like all their

personalities and so

i had

kids that i loved but i frankly wasn’t

too crazy about their personalities

the one that i had the most trouble with

was just like me and so that was

that’s always a nightmare waiting to

happen and

um

so i was trying trying to change them

trying to change trying to change my

kids

trying to make my ministry growing try

and try and try and try and try

and uh it just wasn’t working

it wasn’t working at all and god didn’t

want to change everything around me and

i don’t want to upset you when i say

this but somebody needs to tell you god

doesn’t want to change everything around

you he wants to change you

i see i just feel drawn over here

boy if we can just get that through our

head god doesn’t want to change

so all my circumstances just suit me all

the time and life is cushy and good

he wants to change me

jesus

said follow me

he didn’t he didn’t mean follow me

around and let me make your life amazing

he meant watch me and learn how to do

what i do now

before i go any further with this

wonderful message

god inserted something in it this

morning that i believe is just

like a

a word from god for some people here

today and god dropped this in my heart

when i was sitting up here this morning

during worship i thought at first i was

just going to do an exhortation but then

i realized i needed to add it to my

teaching

uh

we’re going to look at psalm 32 for a

minute the first

five verses

and i want to talk to you for a minute

about guilt and condemnation

wasn’t part of my message but i feel

like god wants me to talk to you about

guilt and condemnation because i believe

that there are people here today that

you’re just like i used to be

you literally feel guilty

pretty much almost all the time

and

matter of fact you don’t feel right if

you don’t feel wrong

that’s the way i was

i grew up

feeling guilty because my father was

abusing me

and

i just took it on with me into life and

so

i always felt guilty even after i

confessed my sins i still felt guilty

and

there’s nothing more stressful and i

want you to listen to me there is

nothing more stressful

than going around with that burden of

something’s wrong with me

why can’t i do things right

this vague feeling that god’s mad at you

that he’s not satisfied with you

and i believe that

no matter what else i teach you this is

what i felt like i saw this no matter

what else i teach you about

how to manage stress

if you don’t get this point first

then

everything else in life will just do you

in because when we’re already feeling so

beat down and so bad about ourselves

because we can’t do everything just

right then anything else that comes

along just puts us over the edge

god gave me an example one time of a

pressure cooker and

i don’t know i don’t know that people

use them as much as they did when i was

growing up but my mother had a pressure

cooker and i’ll tell you what that was a

fierce pot

because when she put stuff in that you

put this lid on and you seal it and you

can’t get it off and it’s got this

little jiggle thing on top and

steam shoots out at the top every once

in a while it the more the stuff cooks

inside the faster the thing moves and it

it’s just like i remember my mother

saying all the time don’t touch it don’t

touch it don’t touch it

and um

i used to be like that pressure cooker

i would have all this stuff going on

inside me

and no matter how spiritual i looked or

how many times a week i went to church

or

i still had all this stuff going on

inside me what’s wrong with me why can’t

i do everything right

anybody does anybody know what i’m

talking about you’re looking too

innocent for me

[Applause]

and um

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so i was always exploding

i always say i got along with everybody

until somebody came home and then it was

i don’t even know what i talk about i

mean i got

[Applause]

i mean i could just explode over the

simplest little things because i just

felt so stressed out all the time

and i thought it was my circumstances

but honestly

a large majority of it was what was

going on in me so then if anybody would

just

touch me in any way that any

circumstance would touch me i would

explode well i was like that pressure

cooker

and so i just want to tell you that this

has to change before we go any further

and i don’t want you to leave here today

and go keep repeating the same thing

over and over and over look at me and

let me tell you something you are an

imperfect human being and so am i and

that is exactly why jesus came for us

and there is not one of us here that’s

ever going to do everything right not

even one

day

not even one day

we’ve all sinned our way right to the

meeting this morning

[Applause]

we were sinning on our way

i mean if you

you know

the bible talks about sinning and

thought word and deep well i can’t say

that all my thoughts have been beautiful

so far today

but thank god i know how to cast them

down now

all right psalm 32. i just this is for

somebody somebody bunch of somebody

somebody watching tv let’s get this

psalm 32 verse 1 blessed happy fortunate

to be envied is he who has forgiveness

of his transgressions continually

exercised upon him

whose sin is covered

blessed happy fortunate to be envied is

the man to whom the lord imputes no

iniquity

and in whose spirit there is no deceit

when i kept silent

before i confessed my bones wasted away

through my groaning all day long

for day and night your hand of

displeasure was heavy upon me my

moisture was turned into the drought of

summer salah pause and calmly think

about that

are you ready for this verse five i

acknowledged my sin to you and my

iniquity i did not hide i said i will

confess my transgressions to the lord

continually unfolding the past until all

is told

then you instantly forgave me

the guilt and the iniquity of my sin

pause and calmly think about that

you instantly forgave me

not just the sin don’t miss it the guilt

the guilt

let me ask you a question if god’s

removed our sin what is there to still

feel guilty about

you do not have to live under

condemnation

i don’t know i think sometimes we think

it’s religious to hate ourselves

well i’m just a no good

now listen you you need to put on the

robe of righteousness

and lift your head up and know that

you’re the head and not the tail god

loves you you’re above and not beneath

you’re anointed by god

amen

you’ve got what somebody else in this

world needs

you’re not ever going

to get rid of the burdens of stress in

your life if you don’t start

by having a right attitude toward

yourself

inside

so if you don’t like yourself

then you best come to terms with it

because everywhere you go the rest of

your life there you are

and if you can’t get along with you

everything else is going to be rough

amen did somebody need that i invite you

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will use these to help you in your

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