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ask God
to deal with you
I dare you to ask God to prune you
if you want you can ask him to start
with the little ones
I’m Joyce Meyer I’ve seen God’s power
transform my own life and he
for you
to bear fruit good fruit there’s a
little something that has to happen
and it’s called pruning
pruning now
some crazy wild branches just need a
little
they just need a little clip
if you don’t know what pruning is it
means that
when a tree starts to get it’s going
this way and then all of a sudden some
Branch wants to go that way
it can ruin the looks of the whole thing
so you prune those off
pruning takes away dead stuff
our stuff that’s going in the wrong
direction
and the Bible says that
he’s the vine we’re the branches
and every branch in him that does not
bear fruit
he prunes takes away cuts off every
branch that does bear fruit
he prunes
so that it Bears richer and more
excellent fruit so it seems to me like
the pruning thing is a fact of life we
can’t get away from it
you’re pruned if you don’t bear fruit
and if you do bear fruit God says oh
good I’ve got somebody I can work with
we’re going to help them bear more fruit
so sometimes as God’s dealing with us it
just takes a little
a little adjustment
but
for some of us
there’s a bigger job that has to be done
my husband had a tree in our front yard
pruned back one time
I mean I knew I you know I knew it
needed to be done but when I came home
from work
I was so mad when I saw that tree
because it just
was down to almost nothing
come on do you feel like you’ve been cut
down to almost nothing
and he said just be patient my husband
has a lot of that I don’t have as much
of it as he does
just be patient and you’ll see
next year
well I didn’t want a pretty tree next
year I wanted a pretty tree right now
how many of you know that’s our problem
we don’t want anything next year
or in five years
we want it right now
well God doesn’t work that way
sometimes he
prunes us back
like for example they say
like say a peach tree
a good farmer
are up
a peach orchard grower
if they’re really good
the first year of the tree
Bears a little tiny fruit they go and
pluck It Off
the next year it’s a little bit bigger
they pluck that off too
and if they’ll be patient
and not let it actually bear fruit the
first few years
then
it will come around
and bear fruit like no other tree
come on now some of your you’re where
I’m at you’re
you’re with me
you know when God called me to teach I
thought for sure I’d roll out of bed the
next morning and go to the world
I felt like God said you’re going to go
all over the world and teach my word
well I didn’t know
I didn’t know that meant like years from
now
see a lot of us God has called us to do
something but we don’t want to settle
down and let him prepare us
come on I’m talking to somebody
when God put something in your heart you
see the end of it you see it like
wow
but it’s going to start out like a
little tiny fuzzy peach popping out on a
tree and God’s going to come along and
pull that baby off and say not yet
well sure enough next year we had a
gorgeous tree
in the front yard
and God loves us so much
that he will kick things out from under
us that have become props to us
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when I had my little Women’s Bible group
at the church that I was at and I had my
little Thursday morning meeting in I had
my little leadership team and there were
12 ladies and I just thought they all
just loved me they you know they just
love me they’re farmy they’ll back me up
and you know a time came when
one of them decided that she wanted my
job
she felt like God told her that she
should be doing the teaching instead of
me
and she started talking to a bunch of
the others
before you know it
they were all fine and fault with me and
ended up gossiping about me and telling
some lies and turned against me and it
was one of the hardest things that I
have ever ever ever gone through in my
life but can I tell you something if I
wouldn’t have gone through that I
wouldn’t be here today
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you know why because I trusted them too
much
I had too much of my confidence in them
and God loves you enough
now please don’t misunderstand I’m
getting ready to say but God loves you
enough that he will let something happen
in your life
that will hurt you for a period of time
because it’s intended to make you a
better person in the long run
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it took me three years to get over that
it hurt me so bad
but I’ll tell you what
I got used to being by myself
and going to God for what I needed
putting my trust in him and I learned
some wisdom about
getting too entrenched with people
come on we need people people are
wonderful we need our friends but
there’s a trust that belongs only to God
and when you start giving it to somebody
else
it’s going to come back and bite you
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Jesus came to
declare the favorable year of the Lord
the day of the Vengeance and the
retribution of our God don’t you love
that God is your Vindicator
come on God is your Vindicator
and when anybody has treated you wrong
if you will treat them right
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oh Lord
oh help me Jesus
come on
do you know how hard it is to be nice to
somebody that you know has been talking
about you behind your back
that’s when I need those big pruning
shears
it is true that no one likes the idea of
being pruned Joy shared how we should
all be asking God to prune us whenever
necessary well that is a very brave
prayer but it’s one that brings so much
growth to our lives now I’ll tell you I
know I’ve asked this prayer before and
it’s kind of painful sometimes but I
continue to do it because I’ve seen all
the good that God’s pruning does in my
life God will not only prune those
negative things that are hurting us
he’ll also prune those unnecessary
things you know all those things that
keep us so busy that our wheels are just
turning and we aren’t as effective as we
should be pruning is a very good thing
and I pray that for myself and I
encourage you to pray it and ask God to
be gentle as much as possible and you
will because he’s a gentleman and he
loves you so much
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life
you know there are a lot of stressors
and difficult things that people go
through and we had a wonderful
opportunity recently to visit a place
where people were really struggling but
there was an incredible peace in this
place this was right on the border of
the United States and Mexico it was in
Tijuana Mexico and it’s a place where
many many people are fleeing from danger
but I think as you watch this you’ll not
only see how you’re making a difference
in their life but you will see how God
can work in your own life in
circumstances that you never imagined he
could help with
what would you do to protect your family
what would you do to safeguard the lives
of your children well today we are at a
very special place where people have
been through tremendous trauma but their
courage and their tenacity and their
hope in difficult times is nothing short
of encouraging this is a place where
many many migrants are fleeing violence
in their own home countries from all
around the world literally and coming
here hoping for safety in a better
future what we are able to do is meet
the needs at this place at this time we
can’t fix all the problems this is not a
political issue this is about a huge
influx of people who now have nothing
but the clothes on their back they don’t
have fresh water they don’t have food
for their families they don’t have
medical care but what we can do is come
in with the hope of Christ and provide
those things so Hand of Hope our
Outreach arm working with many other
wonderful organizations is here doing
just that today they have three good
meals they have clean water and they are
getting Medical Care and their stories
will Amaze you
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there are drug cartels we have a food
business and they wanted our money when
we said no they started sending pictures
of our four-year-old daughter saying
they were going to kill us and take her
for themselves
my daughter used to love painting going
to school and playing with her friends
but now she’s very sad and it’s hard to
get her to eat but at least we are safe
now here in this place
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I am a single mom and I have five kids I
had to leave three of them at home with
my parents because of the threats it’s
so difficult that I can’t be with my
other children I pray every night that
God helps me make a home somewhere and I
can be with all my children again
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were you afraid for your life all the
time if they weren’t happy with what you
were doing what would happen well it was
awful because they took me everywhere
they they went one time when the leader
um his best friend got shot in the head
and I went and he told me help him and I
was like I can’t do anything and he put
out his gun but he was mad and I thought
I was gonna die that day but
I’m here now so
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adios
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my wife and I didn’t know how we were
going to do what God called us to do but
God has taught me to have faith that he
will provide for us
right now we have about 1500 people from
all over the world that have a place to
sleep and are being fed but there’s a
lot of people outside just waiting for
their turn to get in
thank you
when I first met Pastor Gustavo there’s
basically no nobody helping him he was
working three jobs his wife working two
jobs just so they could just trying to
meet the needs meet the needs you know
feeding one meal a day if they could as
much as they could Rice and Beans really
simple and put it put it put a roof over
their heads give them a place to sleep
and I knew this is way bigger this is
way more than Bethel Global Response can
do the only way to to actually help is
to have this collaborative approach
where the body of Christ comes in its
fullness and so water Mission Mercy
Chef’s coming in and helping with the
with the food Bethel gold response Hand
of Hope you guys were the first ones to
really say yes we’re going to Champion
that and pour resources into it time
effort and thousands of families
literally thousands of families have
come through here
and encounter Jesus it’s transforming
their lives it’s transforming their
families lives these little kids are
encountering hope for the first time
um you can’t put a price on that we
can’t we can’t
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walk us through just quickly what people
will receive when they come they first
go and get triage and from there they
will go on to the doctors and we have
some pediatricians we have a
chiropractor we have nurses two dentists
which is amazing because they’re doing
fillings cleaning wow a girl came
through yesterday and she was just in
the worst pain and we were able to
extract the teeth clean it up get her
started on antibiotics and so many
different things we have psychiatrists
here which I would think with the trauma
that people are coming here with that
would be hugely beneficial very
beneficial and what you’re seeing right
behind us the prayer area the prayer is
a huge part of that oh my goodness
yesterday we had 30 salvations and
amongst that we had four people who
walked out of here healed in different
ways wow we can’t necessarily change
someone’s whole life but we can meet in
a meet get need and we can share the
love of God and the gospel and it’s huge
so it’s been it’s been wonderful and the
people are so thankful
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you know there is nothing better in this
world nothing that warms your heart more
than putting a smile on a child’s face
than helping people when God opens the
door for you to do so so don’t sit back
thinking that you can’t accomplish
anything major in the world one smile on
one child’s face is something major and
you can do it through your special gift
to Joyce Meyer Ministries it provides
food and water and medical care and love
all over the world just like in this
situation and so many others so please
go to our website give us a call today
and do what you can
thank you
we’re winking
it’s good job
you are here on a regular basis how do
you see people responding to the love
that they receive you have such a
revolving door of people here that
people arrive every day they actually
arrive on the hour every hour and so
there’s always a constant need and just
to be able to have this many doctors as
medical team that affirm them that God
has not left them God has not forgotten
them it instills a lot of peace and a
lot of Hope and the stories will just
break your heart yes I mean what what
people will sacrifice for their love of
their families I myself didn’t have like
a good concept of what was actually
happened on the ground it wasn’t until I
was I came here started visiting every
month sat with the people started
actually hearing their stories the
one-on-one the testimonies of the pain
the suffering of them leaving their
place being in this being here on a
trajectory somewhere else just looking
for peace and hope so this is this isn’t
a political statement by any means this
is being able to reach out your hand to
help your brother to help your sister
when they’re in time of need and so
that’s what we want to do is just want
to help families in need yeah
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thank you
what did it feel like for you to have to
leave everything behind and flee for
your lives
very sad we lost everything
you don’t think something like this is
going to happen to you and then it does
I thought they were going to kill me
pressure on
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yes
and if you don’t do what they tell you
they’ll go to your home and kill your
family
why did you want to come here and how
has it helped your family
because we didn’t have any resources no
money and the pastor he’s a good person
he supported us
he gives us food and a place to sleep
he’s a very good person
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There’s real desperation here I’ve
talked to so many people who said if I
didn’t leave right then I knew that I
would lose someone I loved so the best
way to respond to that is in real love
that’s really the only thing that can
counteract that kind of evil in the
world it’s so amazing how even just a
word a hug a smile a word of
encouragement will just turn their
situation around a lot of these people
are living in situations that are pretty
hopeless they’re living they’re carrying
trauma and so when you have a group of
people coming in to hold them up and to
also give them a word of encouragement
Award of Hope and to be able to say what
God is saying like he’s here he’s in
this place he’s loving on these people
he’s caring for them we thank you for
the protection of this precious animals
we thank you that you have brought them
here let’s talk about the importance of
clean water yes before there was Clean
safe water available here we were told
there were a lot of sick children is
that accurate yes there was a lot of
sick children before they put in the
water filtration system through water
Mission yeah yeah they were able to get
the 10 000 gallons of water filtration
in here to be able to just drink some
clean water to wash your clothes to
bathe in that so yes there was a lot
more sickness here prior to the water
filtration system
thank you
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Pastor that is working in here he told
us that they didn’t have any good water
source so people used to drink water
from the pipe and and that’s what it
isn’t safe that water brings bacteria
virus and parasites so they get sick
very often they had many children who
got sick and so we collect the water it
goes through these filters and then when
the water is clean it is sent to this
big tank that is over here and this tank
fits another neighborhood that is over
there probably 300 people that lives in
the other neighborhood this system works
in in the sense clean water to everyone
yeah and this is of course a passion for
you for water Mission and you’re making
a difference all around and it’s
wonderful for us at Joyce Meyer
Ministries hand of hope to be able to
connect with you and do this together so
that we can serve even more people what
I know is that it’s been great to be
together and and the impact we are
having together is so so bigger
um
it means so much to us at hand of hope
to be able to partner with people like
you with water Mission with all these
different people who are coming in and
doing their part how would you encourage
now all those viewers at home who are
watching and are thinking what is my
part Pastor Gustavo says it like this
he says well these people are passing
through my country through my city
then that’s an opportunity for them to
encounter Jesus while they pass through
here and we as the larger body of Christ
really just get to come around and wrap
our arms around him and kind of that
Aaron and Moses kind of moment of I
can’t do what Pastor Gustavo does but I
can hold his arms up just for a little
bit longer for him to continue to pour
out and serve these people
and every person that makes it possible
for this ministry to keep moving forward
and may God bless you and multiply back
to you everything you are doing for us
here in this place
you know God says he is near to the
Brokenhearted and he is very close in
this place because there are a lot of
broken hearts but God is working in
amazing ways and you are here with us as
a partner with Joyce Meyer Ministries if
you have not been a part of something
like this and you would like to join a
great big family doing so much to help
so many people please do what you can
right now a special gift to all of our
Hand of Hope outreaches will not only
help in situations like this but it will
help people everywhere people who are
hungry people who are thirsty people who
are hurting and people who just need to
hear the word of God we do that every
day through Joyce’s teaching so please
be a partner if you’re not just join us
and say I would love to come with you
and do these things thank you for being
the arms that wrap around the
Brokenhearted here in Tijuana and all
over the world
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