Sometimes we can’t see our own shortcomings. On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer, learn how to improve your relationships through the power of God’s Word!
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one of the things that i had to learn
and it came
it started coming really early in my
life because i don’t think you can make
progress without this is to learn how to
be honest with yourself about yourself
hmm
ouch ouch
john 8 31-32
if you continue in my word then are you
my disciples indeed
and you will know the truth
and the truth will
make you
free
now
it’s not just hearing the truth that
makes us free it’s
applying the truth
that we hear
and
i don’t know how much you’re aware of
this or not aware of this but
people are so deceived
there’s it’s amazing how many things
that people believe that just aren’t
true at all
but the sad thing is if you believe it
then it’s true for
you one example maybe you’ve messed up
in life and
the devil’s got you deceived into
thinking that now you’re always going to
have to have an inferior life
lie
that’s a lie
because god says that he will
take even the fragments of your life and
do something amazing with them
god doesn’t waste even our pain god will
take even our pain and get used out of
it if we give it to him
there’s nothing that is unredeemable by
god
god can he is the redeemer and he can
redeem anything that’s why no person
here tonight or watching by tv you do
not have to have fear in your life that
is too late for you that you’ve done too
much wrong that there’s no hope for you
you do not have to live in fear because
god is the redeemer he has brought us
back with the blood of christ and
everything in our life can be bought
back worked over and turned into
something good
did you hear that
god can take the worst thing that you
could possibly imagine and somehow or
another he throws a few of his own
ingredients in there and it turns out to
be a miracle
but all you got to do is give it to him
just give it to him here god i’ve made
this huge mess and i’m sorry i can’t do
anything about it i i’m just giving it
to you and he won’t throw it back at you
he’ll take it and show himself to be god
in your life
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we need to be set free from deception
satan is the great deceiver we have
blind spots in our life just like you
have blind spots in your side mirrors on
your car your rear view mirrors
that’s why you got more than one mirror
you’ve got this mirror you’ve got that
mirror you’ve got that mirror because
there’s blind spots you’ve got to look
everywhere
and we need to go to god and say god i
want to learn how to be honest with me
about me
it’s a scary thought isn’t it
that it’s not the truth about somebody
else that will set me free it’s the
truth about me that will set me free
and we don’t mind hearing truth about
somebody else i’m sure you’ve already
thought of a whole long list of people
that you wish were here this weekend
man if so and so just wouldn’t have
backed out this was just what they
needed and
you know you’re thinking of four people
you could call tomorrow and get them to
come amen well bring them anyway that’s
good but
the point is i’m here and you’re here
and god’s got something to say
to us
i just really
encourage you to learn how to be honest
with yourself about
yourself it’s great for us to know our
our strong points but we also need to be
well acquainted with our weaknesses not
unto condemnation it’s not about
condemnation it’s about honesty and
getting things out in the open because
the only things that satan has power
over are things that are hidden in the
dark when we get things out into the
light they lose their power
amen
you don’t have to have things hidden in
the dark whether it’s just satan uses
them to torment you you can get them out
in the open bring them out into the
light expose them to god he knows all
about him anyway and say god i own up to
this i take responsibility for it and i
want to be set free
jeremiah 17 verse 9 let’s take a look at
this scripture
the heart is deceitful above all things
and it is exceedingly perverse and
corrupt and severely and mortally sick
who can know and perceive and understand
and be acquainted with his own heart
and mind
other words
we all of us including me we have ideas
about ourselves that sometimes are a
little bit lofty and uh
god i’m gonna find me somebody that’s in
agreement and i’m just going to preach
to them
let’s put it like this
do you think that maybe occasionally you
think you know a little more than you
really do
you know what i’ve decided nobody knows
anything until they’re at least 40.
now listen
now wait
before all you young people want to
throw something at me listen
and then when you’re 40
here’s the first sign that you’re
learning something because when you’re
about 40 you begin to think i don’t know
a thing
and that’s the first sign of any
intelligence
when you can say you know what i really
just don’t know a thing
i am just a lost mess without god
and that’s the first sign that there’s a
little bit of intelligent life in us
that maybe now we’ve got a teachable
spirit and god can teach us something
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it’s a scary thing really when you think
about
and this is something we should pray
every day i think we should pray god
help me not to be deceived
could we begin to pray that already god
help me not to be deceived and if there
are any areas in my life where i am
deceived then reveal them to me reveal
truth to me because i don’t want to be
deceived and i especially don’t want to
be deceived about myself
help me not to think more highly of
myself than i ought to
help me not to mistreat people and not
even know that i did it
help me not to be so selfish and full of
myself
that there’s people all around me with
needs and i’m just totally oblivious to
their needs because i’m so full of me
help me not to blame all of my issues on
somebody else
help me not to sit around my house in
deception feeling sorry for myself when
the truth is i am so blessed that i
don’t even hardly know which end is up
can i tell you the truth just go ahead
and
and just get ready for this download i’m
about to give you
there’s no reason for anybody
in this room tonight
to ever
feel sorry for yourself
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you know why because you got hope
you may have a bad situation but you’ve
got jesus and you’ve got hope and
there’s answers
and i would say even for people watching
by tv i know some of you have got
terrible messes in your life and it’s
not that i don’t have any empathy i do
but i had to learn this from god you can
be pitiful or you can be powerful joyce
but you’re not going to be both so you
can take your pick
and everything that was wrong in my life
was somebody else’s fault it was dave’s
fault if dave wouldn’t do this then i’d
be happy and if the kids would do that
then i’d be happy and blame and it’s not
my fault it’s not my fault
until god decided to show me some truth
he showed me what it was like to live in
the house with me
and i cried for three days
i’m telling you the truth
i still remember the exact spot that i
was at in the house when god showed me
that dave wasn’t the problem that i was
he said you’re manipulative you’re
controlling you’re hard to get along
with you’re full of self-pity
yeah i didn’t feel so good about myself
that day
but it helped me get from where i was
to where i am
see here’s the thing
back here in my childhood i had the test
as a young woman in my 20s and 30s i had
the monies
but i hadn’t gotten them together yet to
have a testimony
so i want to know if anybody here is
going to make it through the monies
and get to the point where you’ve got a
great testimony that’s going to
encourage other people that the power of
god is real in their lives
and that there’s a great life available
for them
amen amen amen
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i’ve been thinking a lot about obadiah
chapter 1 verse 3 lately because it
simply says the pride of your heart hath
deceived you
oh
that’s stinking pride thinking more
highly of ourselves than we ought to and
anytime we do that we automatically look
down on other people
i’m not going to listen to you you don’t
know as much as me
why don’t you quit talking so i can tell
you what the way things really are
come on you you got it right
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