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I do what I do because I’ve seen God’s

power transform my own life and he will

do it for you the key to everything is

found in God’s word I’m Joyce Meyer and

I believe that God can heal you

everywhere you

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hurt Psalm 1031 17-18 but from

Everlasting to Everlasting the Lord’s

love is with those who fear Him

and his

righteousness with their children’s

children with those who keep his

Covenant and remember to obey his

precepts a covenant is an agreement

between two parties each party having

Privileges and

responsibilities God has promised us so

many

blessings and what he’s asked us to do

is to

love and Obey him

Jesus said if you love me you will obey

me and think that’s John

14:15 he did not

say if you obey me I will love

you see we read it wrong we’re not

buying God’s love through our

obedience we’re not buying special

favors with our

obedience we love God

first and the more you love God the more

you’re going to obey him so if you’re

having a problem with obedience why

don’t you just go study more about how

much God loves you and fall deeper and

deeper and deeper in love with God and

the more you love him the more you’re

going to have to do what’s right because

you just can’t stand not

to

amen instead of trying In the Flesh to

do things right just spend more time

with God

Noah had a covenant with

God the

um the Earth had been

flooded and when the flood

subsided God made a covenant with Noah

and there were things that he asked Noah

to do and they all were dietary laws

which wouldn’t make any sense to us and

he said I will put a rainbow in the sky

as a sign of this Covenant and we still

get to see that that rainbow okay but

there are different strokes for

different folks as they say

and Abraham comes along and God makes a

covenant with

him and the first thing he says to

Abraham in Genesis 12:1 through3 the

Lord said to Abram go from your country

your people and your father’s house to

the land that I will sh show you now why

did he have to get away from his family

because they were all Idol

worshippers and I want to tell you

sometimes the best thing you can do for

yourself is get away from

something

amen I’m going say that again sometimes

the best thing you can do for

yourself is get away from

something

and so and he told Abram if you’ll do

this I will make of you a great nation

number one number two I Will Bless

You number three I will make your name

great number four and you will be a

blessing and number

five I will bless those who bless

you and whoever curses you I will curse

I love every bit of that man all he had

to do was walk away from some wrong

stuff and God said I’m going to bless

you I’m going to make your name famous

I’m going to I’m going you’re going to

be so blessed that you’re going to be a

blessing to everybody you get around and

everybody who blesses you I’m going to

bless them because they bless you

wow that’s pretty good

stuff and then he said we’re going to

make a covenant

and that’s what I’m going to do I’m

going to do all those things I just read

to you and he said for

you I want you to obey my precepts

and as a sign of this

Covenant every male has to be

circumcised now I don’t know about you

but I’d much rather have a rainbow than

a

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circumcision how many how many of you

could use a rainbow right

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now well I’m sorry that may not be the

way it

goes and the circumcision is really just

cutting away of

Flesh and it was

a a way

of

showing under the New Covenant that God

wanted us to walk in the spirit and not

in the flesh

thank God we don’t have

to do what he had to do although most

male babies are circumcised because it’s

healthy but the the the circumcision

that we have is a circumcision of the

heart where we’re walking in the spirit

not in the

flesh but I just I thought that was

pretty good you know that not everybody

gets the same

thing

God saved us by his

grace and gave us the Holy Spirit to

help us walk in obedience to

him we don’t even have to try to do it

by oursel he gives us all the help that

we

need we’re not perfect in our

performance but we can have a perfect

heart toward

God that’s what God is looking for the

eyes of God Ro to and fro across the

Earth looking for someone whose heart is

perfect to him in whom he might show

himself

strong and so a person with a perfect

heart just you want to do everything

that God wants you to do so bad you can

just hardly stand

it and that desire to please God causes

you to study it causes you to pray it

causes you to want to do everything that

the word tells you to do and you don’t

read the Bible out of obligation and you

don’t spend time with God out of

obligation and you don’t give out of

obligation you do those things because

you love

God I

remember I remember my brother saying to

me one time many many many years ago he

said why do you why do you give all that

money to the

church and I looked at him and I said

I’m not giving it to the church I’m

giving it to God it never one time

occurred to me that I was giving it to

the church or a person I always knew I

was giving it to God in obedience to

him and we need you need to realize that

when you give you’re not giving your

money to a man or a woman or a a person

or a building you God’s putting it

through their hands but you’re giving it

to God and I might even go so far as to

say if the person that you give it

through misuses it that still won’t keep

you from being blessed if you have in

mind that you’re giving it to

God

so we’re not perfect in our

performance but we can have a perfect

heart toward

God and the Holy Spirit through the

word will help us be transformed into

God’s image from glory to glory to glory

we have been predestined to be

transformed into the image of

Christ can I say something you may be

the only Jesus your neighbor will ever

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see now I am just in a pitiful shape

here because I’m down to 11 minutes and

I haven’t even started my

message so I have an eight-point

message and here’s number

one I do this all the time it’s

pathetic so I’m just going to tell you

some of the blessings that are

yours

and tell tell you that you need to

start just pressing in a little bit and

letting the devil know that you’re not

going to do without them

amen first thing that God has given us

is the Forgiveness of our

sins

now that is so amazing

wonderful it

just gets me so excited when I

think that he not only forgives our

sins but he forgets

them forgets

them and and moves them as far as the

East is from the West which nobody can

figure that

out but he forgets

them and I I just saw in Isa Isaiah

43:25 I’ve read that hundreds of times

but I never saw

this it says I even I am he who blots

out and cancels your transgressions for

my own

sake he doesn’t even do it for us he

does it for

himself I might have to think on that

some more but you know it thrilled me

because I’ve been teaching people for

years now you don’t forgive other people

for them do yourself a favor and forgive

am and then I run across this and he

says for my own

sake God doesn’t want anything between

us he doesn’t want anything between you

and him he wants it to be good and clear

and pure and he wants you to be

comfortable and there’s so many

scriptures in the Bible that talk

about the Forgiveness of God but you

know one of the things I think that we

make a mistake about is I don’t think we

know how to

receive I think we read some of this

stuff and we just don’t know how to

receive so I want you just to take 30

seconds and I want you to close your

eyes and sit real quietly and inside in

your heart I want you just to think over

and over all of my sins are

forgiven

go

okay we’ll say that’s 30 seconds

now this is just a little trick I’m

teaching you today I think if you use

this at home it’ll really be a blessing

to you because I do think that we we got

this stuff in our head but we don’t take

time to just sit in the presence of God

and receive it how many of you think I

might be right stay tuned for a candid

conversation with

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Joyce well Joyce you just had an

experience where you were not able to do

everything that you wanted to do how

about anything fair enough to say and we

do have times like that in life that we

we’re just whether it’s physically or

for other reasons not able to do what we

really want to do what we’re used to

doing um you know it may be because of

age or an injury or just a situation A

circumstance so we’re just going to have

a real good talk on how do you deal with

that because it it’s not easy easy when

the world seems to be going on and

you’re kind of stopped for a little bit

well you know Ginger everything really

boils down to

attitude it’s like you can take an

attitude this is going to drive me crazy

or you can say I’m going to take this

one day at a time and just in case

there’s people watching that don’t know

what my situation was just real quick I

had a minor back surgery on April the

24th

uh was supposed to be a two- week

recovery got a blood CL clot at the

surgery site got in all kinds of pain

had to go back in the next day and have

a second surgery that did some damage to

some of the nerves in my right leg so I

was two weeks in the rehab hospital

getting some strength back in my right

leg when I went home of course it still

wasn’t totally strong but it was getting

a little bit better each day however in

the process of that

I fell and broke my left leg by the

ankle yeah and so I really couldn’t do

anything I couldn’t walk on either leg

and so I couldn’t uh I had to wear one

of these big boots that come up to your

knee and they told me they said we have

three colors gray gray and gray so I

said well I guess I’ll take the gray and

uh so I really

couldn’t was having a hard time wearing

my regular clothes and

I I it it was just well you had a lot

time that you couldn’t put any weight on

it you couldn’t do anything long yeah I

was in a wheelchair for quite a while

and then of course I know there are

people who in wheelchairs all the time

and so I’m not saying that for pity’s

sake I’m just saying that it really put

a halt on my life yeah and it lasted I’d

say a total

of I mean

I’m good now still got a little pain in

my foot little weakness in my leg but

not much so I’m getting back to normal

I’m now obviously out and doing things

but uh for almost 3

months I said I went to three places the

chair the recliner the toilet and the

bed and that literally yeah was it

that’s hard I did take advantage of the

time and I wrote a good book called

don’t overthink it which is not

available yet so don’t call us an as

fart it won’t be out for a couple years

but

I couple things one I really from the

beginning told the Lord I I want to do

what I teach other people to do in

situations like this it was very

important to me that I behave the way

that I would tell somebody else to

behave in that situation

so right from the very beginning I set

myself to believe that all things work

together for good to those who love God

and are called according to his purpose

and I mean I I didn’t get into the why I

think people not that you can’t ask God

why he doesn’t get mad if you ask him

why but usually all you do is confuse

yourself because you

don’t you don’t always get answers or

sometimes you think you got an answer

and then it turns out not to be the

answer there are times when God will

tell you why but I didn’t get into

thinking you know did I do something

wrong that caus this that I open a door

for the devil now I did ask God if I did

something that opened the door please

show me but I don’t believe even going

on digging Expeditions because you just

get yourself in trouble doing that

and I just decided I had to take it one

day at a time and not you know when you

let your mind start going to oh man 12

weeks I mean they told me I’d have to

wear in this boot 12 weeks I mean I

counted up how many days that what it

was like oh my gosh that’s almost a 100

days what am I going to do and of course

we had to cancel some conferences which

I hate disappointing people and I hate

not being able to do what couldn’t do

what you wanted to do and felt called to

do yeah what said to do and uh

uh it it was just it was a challenging

situation but I was so blessed my family

pitched in and helped I mean I really

for quite a while couldn’t be by myself

at all I had to have somebody with with

me 24/7 because I had to have helped

going to the bathroom and all kinds of

stuff and so my family have four grown

children and uh um daughter-in-laws and

my husband and they they actually took

shifts 4our shifts and somebody stayed

with me all the time and one of my

daughters stayed with me all the time at

night and then she didn’t stay during

the day and we had a lot of laughs I

mean I watched a lot of good movies I

read books

I I refuse to get into feeling sorry for

myself it’s just all those things are so

tempting but they don’t do any good at

all and I know there are people watching

today that have much worse situations

than what I’m talking about but

attitude attitude attitude attitude it

really makes all the difference in the

world so when when you really had that

realization I am not going to be able to

do these things that I normally do that

I feel like like God wanted me to

do how did you begin to process that in

a different way because it it is it’s a

big change for anyone to go through that

where from one day to the next well

things are different now it’s all it’s

all in your thinking your thinking is

what develops your attitude and you know

I always say that when something changes

es if you don’t like the change the

first thing you need to do is change

your mind about the change M yeah in

other words let’s just say that we make

a decision here at work and uh not

everybody likes it well it’s going to

happen anyway and so they might as well

change their mind about the change we’re

making and then it can be pleasant for

them right but anything you know

something changes on your job whatever

they move you to another office you

don’t want to be in or sure you know

there’s there’s all kinds of things that

happen in our lives that we don’t like

yeah and but there’s nothing you can do

about it it’s something that’s out of

your control well I couldn’t Unbreak my

leg and I couldn’t undo the you know the

damage that had been done to my leg I

had to give it time to heal and yeah do

the therapy and do the exercises and you

know that’s not always fun because

doesn’t feel

you a lot of people they said it’s

amazing how many people won’t do their

exercises and they just never really get

over the damage that was done to

themselves and so I encourage anybody

watching if you’ve had some kind of D

damage or an injury and they’re telling

you to do physical therapy you need to

do it and it may not be easy but it’s

easier than staying in that same

situation your whole life and so really

the the whole thing no

matter how you go about it is it’s in

your thinking yeah and it’s in your

attitude and you know I had a couple

days where I started to feel kind of

like and then but I would just say

nope I’m not going there yeah I’m not

doing it I’ve lived my life like that in

the past and it doesn’t help it doesn’t

make the time go by faster yeah and

people people don’t want to hear it you

know they really it’s not that people

don’t have empathy for you but they

nobody wants to hear somebody complain

all the time and Grumble all the time we

all have to course correct yeah it was

interesting because um you had shared

some of the story and um then a couple

days after called me and said right

after I said what a great attitude I had

I started having you know the glimpses

of not such a good attitude and but you

made me feel better about life in

general but you you had to see it and

and course correct make a decision what

am I going to do different so the

devil the devil loves it when you give a

testimony about a victory yeah to try to

take it away from me yes and the very

next day I had two different attacks on

my mind of starting to feel sorry for

myself and I had to say out loud no I am

not going to go there yeah so how do we

help someone in in our life someone

who’s a friend someone in the family in

our church who is now at a point where

they’re perhaps isolated can’t do what

they used to do um how can we be an

encouragement what what things are

important well like I said my family

helping me I think when when you know

somebody who can’t do things for

themselves get

practical put a little bit of action to

your empathy

you know the Bible says that Jesus was

moved with compassion and so people that

are like that really good he didn’t

stand still with it yeah he you compa

real compassion yeah you know it’s one

thing to just feel a little sorry for

somebody but when you have real

compassion on somebody you’re going to

help them yeah and so ask them what you

can do for them is there something I can

do for you you know if they’re if they

can’t go out I mean I had people cooking

for me I got lots of flowers I got lots

of people praying for me pray for people

let people know I’m praying for you I

had somebody text me just this morning

and said I’m still praying for you every

day how are things going well I believe

that it wasn’t just my decision to have

a good attitude I think that people

praying for me was what gave me the

strength to have that good attitude we

we don’t do anything apart from God

apart from me you can do nothing and so

it yes there is a decision involved but

you can’t do it just on decision you

have to pray that God will help you and

you need to give him the credit and give

him the glory and I know that I couldn’t

have done that without God because I’m a

very active person I don’t like to

be not be able to do what I want to do

and I had all kinds all kinds of people

telling me what to do yeah don’t do this

don’t do that careful don’t do this

don’t do that and I’m like you know how

many doctors am I going to have and they

weren’t all real doctors so you know it

was Dr Dave and you know and

uh you know it Ginger there’s no point

in fighting something that you can’t do

anything about yeah yeah because for

some people what we’re talking about

will be a permanent change right

something that is has shifted in their

life in their health and and um there’s

an adjustment to be made because it it’s

not going to be the way that it was

before so so often we frustrate

ourselves trying to get rid of something

that only God can do anything about or

trying to get something we don’t have

that only God can give us and so we

really need to learn like Paul said I’ve

learned how to be

content whether I’m OB based or

abounding whether I like my

circumstances or I don’t I’ve learned to

be content and I think he learned it

probably by doing it the wrong way and

seeing how miserable it made him and

then realizing that he could still have

joy in every situation but he had to

have the right attitude in order to be

able to do that yeah any final

encouragement for someone who might be

having a hard time with that right now

well trust God that you’re going to get

better and better every day and I don’t

think anybody has to just say well you

know this is my life in life and I’m

never going to get any better you you

can always believe that you can get

better because God is a miracle working

God and ask God what you can do to be a

blessing to other people while you’re in

that situation just remember one day at

a

time don’t take it all in big you know

chunks just look at it one day at a time

and God gives us our daily bread give us

this day our daily bread doesn’t just

mean what we’re going to eat it’s

talking about what we we need for every

day yeah sometimes getting better means

seeing the goodness of God where you are

yeah amen thank you very much you’re

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the Mind actually is the battlefield

that’s where we win or lose the war with

Satan he said all he gets to

say rest of the day is mine you start

asking God to heal you and he will

restore it’s the God of all comfort and

I am so grateful that I know how to call

on

God

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