Would you like less conflict in your life? Today, Joyce Meyer discusses how to disagree agreeably and exchange conflict for God’s perfect peace on Enjoying Everyday Life.
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I can’t help it it’s just too hard but
but but
excuse me but you need to get rid of
your butt
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hello and welcome to today’s program I’m
so glad you’re here today I’m teaching
about how you can keep peace in your
life
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in I don’t want to miss it and I don’t
want you to miss it now here’s today’s
message
if there’s anything that the devil works
at really hard
is trying to keep us upset
make you mad
get you mad at somebody get you
frustrated
get you to worry Jesus said in John 14
27.
my peace
I leave with you
I give it to you I bequeathe it to you
one translation says
not as the world gives do I give to you
but my own special piece
see the world can be at peace when all
of its circumstances suited but we can
be at peace
when nothing is going right in our life
because we have a helper
we have somebody that we can ask to take
those problems and work them out for us
and I’m going to tell you a secret you
may not know this but you have
permission to enjoy your life while you
have a problem
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and a lot of people don’t know that they
think they’re obligated to worry about
their problems
but what you’re supposed to do is cast
your care on God
and trust that he’s taking care of your
problem
and go ahead and live the life that
Jesus Paid such a terrible price
for us to have
my peace I leave with you not as the
world gives do I give unto you but my
own special peace I now give unto you
but then in the Amplified Bible the
classic version it says this so stop
allowing yourselves
to be upset and Disturbed
stop allowing yourselves to be fearful
and intimidated
so Jesus has done his part
now we need to do our part
you say I can’t help it well that’s one
excuse you need to throw away tonight
I can’t help it it’s just too hard but
but but
excuse me but you need to get rid of
your butt
amen
all the time we’re like well I know I
should do this but I know I shouldn’t do
this but
I know I shouldn’t say this but
and we need to just stop all that
because nothing that God tells us to do
is too hard for us to do we just have to
really really want to how many of you
really
are serious about your relationship with
God
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I mean I hope so because if you’re not
you might as well go ahead and leave now
because
I don’t go out and do this
just
because I’m looking for something to do
I really want to see people
have what Jesus died for us to have
I want you to know who you are in Christ
have confidence be bold be strong
enjoy your life
and have the things that Jesus died for
you to have one of the things that Paul
said
that I really like is he said I am going
to take hold of those things for which
Christ Jesus died to take hold of me and
I love that statement
I am going to press on to take hold of
those things for which Christ Jesus died
to take hold of me are you enjoying the
things that Jesus died for you to have
he didn’t just die for us so we could
have a miserable life and then someday
go to heaven
there’s so much more to being born again
than just someday getting to go to
heaven that’s wonderful and I guess it
would be worth it if there was nothing
other than that but John 10 10 is very
clear the thief comes only to kill to
steal and destroy but Jesus said I came
that you might have and enjoy your life
and have it in abundance to the full
until it overflows
and Romans 14 17 says the kingdom of God
is not made in drank but it is
righteousness
peace and joy in the Holy Ghost
righteousness means that you know by the
blood of Christ you have been made right
with God
that your sins have been forgiven
you don’t have to live guilty and
condemned
when you know that you can have peace
and when you have peace you can have joy
so we’re going to work on these things
tonight together
and help everybody make a whole lot of
progress
when Dave and I began
our ministry five years I taught home
Bible studies that was
my
beginning years I didn’t know hardly
anything and
I would just learn things and teach them
to the people that were coming to the
Bible so there’s about 25 people every
Tuesday night
in my home and I was faithful of that
and I probably studied even harder for
that
than I need to now because I know more
now than I did then but then
I felt like I was supposed to stop those
Bible studies and I
went to work at a church a new church in
my city
and
they asked me to start a women’s Bible
study which I did and it grew very
rapidly and got very large it got to be
between four and five hundred ladies a
week coming to this meeting
and so then God really began to deal
with me that he was finished with me
there
thank you Lord
and that I was to take the ministry and
go north south east
and West and I had many confirmations
because I was petrified
to step out I had no money
I had no real qualifications I had
nobody to help me I had God
and nobody knew me north south east or
west so I kind of felt like Abraham when
God said
pack up your tent and go
but it didn’t tell him where to go
well that’s the way I felt the day I
walked out of my job
they didn’t take a big offering for me
and give me a bunch of money to start my
Ministry I left with a calculator and a
dented desk
to go north south east and west
so
I just did the only thing that I knew to
do
we lived in St Louis which we still live
there and so we started a meeting once a
month in North St Louis East St Louis
West St Louis and South St Louis
we went north south east and west
and I did thousands of meetings of 50
people and 70 people and 60 people and
boy if I ever got 100 people I thought I
had died and gone to heaven
and uh
don’t despise the day of Small
Beginnings
if you’re faithful if you want to be
used by God and you’re faithful in those
early little beginning years
eventually
things will grow
it always takes longer than we’d like it
to
but to be very honest with you that is
good
shooting stars usually fall down about
as fast as they went up
you got to have time to learn to grow
and to go through some things
come on I said to go through some things
because that’s how we gain experience
Hebrews 5 says that Jesus
gained experience through the things
that he suffered
and they equipped him to become the
author and the source of our salvation
I love that
I’m going to quote that again because it
says a mouthful
Jesus
learned
through the things that he suffered
and he gained experience
how many of you have some experiences
well if you cannot be bitter about them
then maybe God could just use them
to help somebody else
you might not have a Ministry like this
but we’ve all got a Pulpit it may be
your backyard defense it may be your
desk at work but we all have a Pulpit
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and if everybody who calls themselves a
Christian would just get out in the
world and act like one
not just in church but out in the world
where people are looking for Jesus you
may be the only Jesus they’ll ever see
and you can preach without ever opening
your mouth
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and so the experience that Jesus had
equipped him
and some of you don’t realize it right
now because you’re going through some
tough times but you’re getting equipment
you’re getting what you need
come on how many of you have ever asked
God to use you
well
honey it’s on
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see we say all these oh God
I surrender all
really
okay we’ll give that a try and see
how serious you are well give an extra
ten dollars in the offering well
I don’t know about that you know
we want to surrender the things we want
to surrender but
God wants to do such a deep work in
people and it is so needful at this hour
in history
the World by and large does not respect
us
and the reason why they don’t is because
so many people just put on a little
Christian jewelry and go to church and
carry their Bible around but they don’t
really live the life out in the world
where people need to see them
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and so when we started our ministry
north south east and west God spoke
something to my heart
and we’ve been very diligent to try to
obey that now
here’s some 40 years later or 37 years I
think so I’ve actually been in Minnesota
about 47 years
and um
he said I’m going to give you three
things to do and if you do them I’ll
bless your ministry
whatever you do do it with excellence
we serve an excellent God
and we should not be sloppy in any way
shape or form
if you’re going to do a job do it the
best that you can do it
amen
always be a person of integrity
that means tell do what you say you’re
going to do and then do it
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so many people they don’t keep their
word
I’ll call you next week and we’ll go to
lunch and you no more intend to call
them than
fly you’re just trying to get rid of
them
you know the story I mean the workmen
that don’t show up when they’re supposed
to and all that and
I mean the world has just gotten sold
sloppy
and he said Keep The Strife out of your
life
out of your marriage out of your home
and out of your ministry
he said well why would that be important
well because
God works where there’s peace
and you’ll you’ll see as we go through
tonight that
where the unity
there’s anointing
and if you don’t know what the anointing
is
my son is in his early 40s and he said a
lot of people my age don’t even know
what the anointing is
well it’s the presence and the power of
God on your life it’s what makes things
work
I can stand here and say all the right
things but if I had no anointing on my
life
you would all be so bored it would be
pathetic
why would people come as far as some of
you did and pay 15 to get into the
parking lot
just to hear some
ladies stand and talk
because it’s God’s anointing
that breaks the bondages off of Our
Lives
but if I if I want to have that
anointing on my life if you want to have
that anointing on your life and you want
what you do to be blessed
then
you have to learn how to live in peace
and in agreement
and let me say quickly you don’t have to
agree with everybody to live in
agreement
you can learn how to disagree agreeably
you you have a right to your opinion but
you don’t always have to give it
foreign
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I want to say that again you have a
right to your opinion and I should
respect your right to have your own
opinion
we’re not all alike we have different
personalities we come from different
backgrounds
we think differently sometimes even
about the same thing
but God expects us to get along
we’ve got to find a way to get along and
that’s only going to happen
through get ready for the word
humility
well
one person is a tiny bit happy
humility
of all the Christian virtues I think is
the hardest to come by and the hardest
to maintain
because there is nothing in our flesh
that wants to Humble itself we want to
be first we want to be in charge we want
to be right we want to have the last
word we don’t want anybody telling us
what to do
and that’s especially a problem today
I mean people don’t want don’t tell me
what to do
I mean we’ve even had people come to a
Christian Gathering like this and we’ll
have a section blocked off where we
don’t want people to sit and they’re
like I said where I want to
well just get out of here you ain’t
gonna learn nothing
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because you don’t even have a heart open
to learning anything if that’s your
attitude
Proverbs 14 30.
a calm and an undisturbed mind and heart
now just just get this
a calm and an undisturbed mind and heart
are the life and health of the body
you know how many people are sick just
because they’re mad
or how many people are sick just because
they worry all the time
85 percent of all illnesses the illness
is real but the root cause of it is
stress
and you can take all the pills you want
to take
but it’ll be just like playing that game
whack-a-mole if you ever saw that
you can knock it down one place and
it’ll pop up somewhere else
so I mean it is important to me that you
understand tonight that this is not just
a nice little message that I threw
together to come to Austin
and preach
but I want by the grace of God and the
help of the Holy Spirit to somehow get
you convinced that you
you gotta
have enough humility
to wait on God for things and not try to
make everything happen yourself did
did we ever see Jesus lose his peace
no
I mean he got accused of stuff all the
time he didn’t even answer people
whatever you think
why do we think that we have to try to
prove that we’re right all the time
you know being right is highly overrated
let’s trust God enough
to stay under his mighty hand
and let him exalt Us in due time and all
it takes sometimes is just to shut your
mouth
oh but that is so hard
when somebody accuses you of something
or they say something to you you don’t
like we have to defend ourselves
we have to convince you that we’re not
like that
you’ve got it wrong
we argue about so many things that just
don’t make any sense when I think now
about the things that Dave and I used to
argue about
you talk about stupid
I mean it was stupid on steroids
I mean I can I can remember us arguing
about who an actor was on TV
I always say Dave thought everybody was
Henry Fonda I don’t know if you know who
he is he’s long gone now so some of you
may have never heard of him but it would
make me so mad that is not Henry Fonda
yes it is no it’s not yes it is no he’s
not
you always think everybody’s Henry fund
and then he’d say you are you could
don’t say that word always you always
say I always and I don’t always foreign
how many of you agree that we argue over
stupid stuff don’t
doesn’t even make any sense
or
we’re going somewhere
and I think he should go a different way
to get there
and so that becomes a big thing
well why are you going that way
well why couldn’t I just be quiet and
let him go the way he wants to
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you know we just need to let the man
drive
just let him drive
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a man does not want to be told anything
when he’s behind the wheel of the car
he does not want to be told anything
aren’t you guys you like me now don’t
you guys see I’m helping you
[Applause]
well we’ll get around to some things for
you later
but I just want to lay this groundwork
so you see how silly it is
how useless it is when there’s such
serious things going on in the world
and when God so desperately needs us
to represent him
in a way that people are going to
respect and cannot deny
people can argue with you about
thousands of things but if you can get
out in the world and just walk in love
wow
didn’t Jesus say one new commandment I
give unto you that you love one another
just as I have loved you
well
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humility is required in order for us to
live in peace
Jesus loves a gentle quiet spirit
first Peter 3 3 and 4.
let not yours be merely external
adorning
with elaborate interweaving and nodding
of the hair of the wearing of jewelry or
the changes of clothes and that doesn’t
mean you shouldn’t wear jewelry or wear
clothes or fix your hair
laughs
what he’s saying is you spend so much
time on the outside
trying to impress each other
Now ladies just
I say this in a spirit of love so just
take it that way
if we spent as much time
getting ready spiritually
as we spend trying to look cute when we
go out
need I finish
I mean I don’t look like this when I get
up
I had to work on this a long time
now you got to wash the hair you gotta
you put on the makeup you gotta curl the
hair you got to comb the hair
you got to try on your clothes if you
don’t like them you got to put on
another set of clothes and you put on
another set of clothes and we look at it
every which way that we can look at it
and then there’s the other side of it
there’s the people that you look at them
and say did you not look in the mirror
this morning
but it’s all part of
how we’re going to represent God
and how we’re going to live before him
so
let yours not just be getting the
outside already
but verse 4 let it be the Inward
adorning and beauty of the Hidden person
of the heart
with The Incorruptible and unfading
charm of a gentle and a peaceful Spirit
which is not anxious or brought up
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but is very precious
in the sight of God
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enjoy your life while you have a problem
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