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let your conversation be in line with

your prayer do you know how many of our

own prayers we kill

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we negate

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

Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can

heal you everywhere you hurt

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I just want to tell you when we’re

talking about worry that one of the

things you can do when you’re worried is

just really get it get some good worship

music on and

get into God’s presence and get your

mind off of the stuff that’s tormenting

you

you know when I stopped we were talking

about how worry

is the fruit of pride

and I’m going to try to just start with

that again

my husband has something that he says

which I think is good when you have a

problem

do your responsibility but cast your

care

and a lot of people a lot of people do

the opposite they

worry and don’t do the responsibility

how many people if they have a problem

just quit doing everything they should

do that’s right they don’t go to church

they don’t keep their commitments they

you know

murmur and complain and get on the phone

and talk to everybody they can about

their problem and so

there’s no problem that God can’t solve

no problem he can he can solve any

problem now

sometimes just to be honest

we all need to be honest with ourselves

if we want to get help

sometimes especially let’s take like

finances

you know it’s there’s probably just a

tremendous amount of pressure to

not ever have enough money

but

a lot of that we create ourselves by

overspending

and sometimes if you’ve made a big

enough mess yourself

it might take you a little while longer

to get out of it because if God just

comes and rescues us every time we act

foolish

then we won’t learn anything and Dave

and I had some very lean years

financially

but I will tell you that not once were

we not able to pay a bill

so I do believe that God will always

meet your need he may not meet all your

wants right away

but he will meet your needs

and as I said worry is the fruit of

Pride it’s us trying to figure out what

we can do to solve our own problem and

God wants us to always be leaning on him

and so

what are some of the things that you can

do

because we’re not we’re not real good at

just sitting around doing nothing and I

think people think to wait on God means

to just sit and do absolutely nothing

but that’s not really true it’s to do

what you can do

but trust God to do the things you can’t

do for example if you need a job

well don’t just sit in your house and

pray for God to get you a job

your part is to actively and

aggressively

look for a job

put in applications call paid every day

every day every day show yourself

faithful and maybe you’re looking for a

certain kind of job but you might have

to take

you might have to humble yourself enough

to say God I’ll do any kind of job until

you help me get the job that I want

I’ve heard people say well I’m not going

to take a job until I get one that is

really good use of my skills well that’s

not humility either we need to be

willing to do anything we need to do to

support ourselves and our families while

we’re waiting on God to bring the right

thing into our life

so you when you are having a problem you

can we’ve said this already but pray

keep a good confession

let your conversation be in line with

your prayer

oh

come on let’s say that again

let your conversation be in line with

your prayer do you know how many of our

own prayers we kill

we negate because we pray for one thing

and then we get on the phone and say the

opposite

I will go out to lunch with somebody and

even if they ask you well I heard you

had a problem tell me about it it’s not

that you can’t tell them about it but

you can also say but I’ve prayed about

it and I really believe that God is

working on it and that he’s going to

solve it and he’s going to bring the

answer at the right time and you can

also say I don’t know how he’s going to

do it but God is going to work something

good out of this

how many of you really believe that God

does work good where Satan what Satan

meant for harm God intends for good and

there is a scripture that tells us that

we should remind God

of his word

I have set Watchmen upon your walls o

Jerusalem who will never hold their

peace day or night

you who are his servants and by your

prayers put the Lord in remembrance of

his promises and keep not silent

now why would God want us to do that

because there again it shows faith

you know we’re just we’re not we’re not

being rude or

is that well you said you’d do this and

it’s not happening but you’re saying God

you said

and I believe it you said that you would

take care of this you said that I didn’t

have to worry and I believe that you

will do that one of the reasons to know

the word is so you can confess the word

of God out loud and one of the

ministries of the holy spirit that I

like says is the Amplified Bible that he

brings things to our remembrance

when we need to know them

and I think one of the things that the

Holy Spirit brings up in us when we’re

in specific situations is scriptures

that go along with that situation and

the more you confess the word

the more the enemy is going to want to

get out of your space because he just

doesn’t want to hear it

another thing you can do is stay

positive

stay positive

express your thankfulness for all that

God does do and has done instead of just

focusing on the problem you know

attitude is so important and your

attitude belongs to you

and it’s something that nobody can take

away from you

if you want to have a good attitude

there is no amount of trouble and no

person and not even any devil that can

take that good attitude away from you

I forget not exactly what his name was

but there was a man that was in the

concentration camps in the Holocaust and

he made that statement you can take

everything else away from me but you

can’t take away my good attitude if I

decide to have one so you can have a big

problem with a good attitude

and it’ll make that problem shrink

or you can have a little problem with a

bad attitude and it just blows it out of

proportion and so I love the word hope

we should always be hopeful hope is the

anchor of our soul and what that means

is Hope keeps me

anchored I don’t get all emotionally

frustrated and upset and start doing all

kinds of things in the flesh

hope is a positive expectation

that God is about to do something good

in your life

so why not when you have a problem

instead of worrying about it

why not every morning the first thing

you say when you get up is something

good is going to happen in my life today

now there are certain things that we

tend to worry about more than others

probably we should go through hearing

different ones if you have different

things

for people who have children

a lot of times it’s your children

but it is amazing

and many of us would have this testimony

if you’ve all if you’re old enough to

already have raised your children

you most of you would testify like me

that all the worrying that you did was

for nothing

because they all turned out okay

amen sometimes kids just have to go

through a rough patch and sometimes you

have to you know we want them to do what

we tell them to do

but did you do that did I do that

we would love them to

do what we tell them because we’ve

already been through it and we know

right but they have to learn it for

themselves and so all of you watching

with children that you’re worried about

pray

and trust God

you may have to wait five years or ten

years but I believe that when we pray

for our children that God hears our

prayers and don’t ever stop praying I

prayed for my father’s salvation for

probably

40 years not every day but on and off on

and off and I remember the last time

that I prayed for his salvation I got a

little bold and I said Lord

he’s given me the privilege of

ministering all over the Earth

and thousands of people get saved

through our ministry

and I think it would be

a shame

if my own father

went to hell while I’m leading other

people to Christ so I’m asking you

as a personal favor to me

to save my father

and you know it wasn’t very long after

that

and my mom called me and said your dad’s

been crying for three weeks he wants you

to come over he wants to talk to you

and so God was convicting him and

sometimes you have to get a little bold

in your prayers don’t wait pray wimpy

prayers you know I don’t like that so

many people say God if you’ll just do

this and if you’ll just do that

well I’ll tell you God is able to do

more than just

he does exceedingly abundantly above and

beyond and I love Hebrews 4 15 and 16

that we have a high priest who

understands our weaknesses and our

infirmities because he’s been tempted in

all points just like we have let us then

therefore

because he understands

let us come boldly

don’t pray wimpy little

well God if you’ll just do this for me I

won’t ever ask you for anything else

well that’s kind of that’s a shame

I mean I always say I’m a little

spiritual Pig I’m gonna anything

that God says anybody can have I want

some of it

amen don’t you want everything that God

can give you there is nothing wrong with

you praying for God to give you

extravagant blessings in your life if

you’re ready to do with them what God

wants you to do with them foreign

God wants us to prosper he wants us to

be blessed not just so we can just be

selfish and self-centered but so we can

help and bless a lot of people

there are so many people that are

hurting and one of the ways to draw them

to God is through random acts of

kindness

and the more you have the more you’re

able to do that for people

be patient while you wait

and that means to act like a Christian

while you wait

patience is not waiting it’s how you act

while you’re waiting and here again

when you’re worried it tends to make you

kind of Grouchy so sometimes we act

worse

when we’re waiting and those are times

to act better don’t be jealous envious

or resentful

of other people

who are not having the problems that you

have

I remember one time one of my sons got

in trouble and uh I had a party I had to

go to

and

I was surrounded by people that were

talking about how great their kids were

doing and I mean I went in another room

and just cried and cried you know it was

just like it was so hard for me

here I’m having this awful

feeling what if what if he doesn’t make

it what if what if what if

the devil’s favorite question you know

what if and

being around all these other people

whose kids were doing great

sometimes that’s even a test

God will set us up in a position like

this to see if we can be happy for them

while we’re waiting for God to do the

same thing for us

amen now I really want you to trust God

more than he ever had before

so I want to share a few scriptures with

you about what the Bible says about

being able to do that

first of all

in First Corinthians 10 13.

the Bible says that there’s no

temptation

that can come against us that’s not

common to man

in other words don’t get in a little

self-pity corner

and think poor me

I’m getting picked on while everybody

else has got a great life

let me tell you something no matter how

bad of a problem you have somebody else

is having a worse problem

and we all have our share if not today

wait a few days and I’m not saying that

as a negative it’s just that

we live in a world we live in a real

world

where there are things that just don’t

always go away

that we should go

and it says

that nothing has come upon you

that is beyond human resistance

I love that so we need to get that

through our heads I I can make it

through this

that’s what you want to tell yourself

when it starts this is going to end well

I can make it through this

God gives me Treasures out of Dark

Places

and I can do whatever I need to do

through Christ who is my strength God

this doesn’t feel good but help me act

right

help me act like a Christian

and God can be trusted

not to let you be tempted beyond your

ability

to resist it

so when you start thinking I can’t take

this I can’t take it I can’t take it

you might as well just stop and say God

I can take whatever comes because you

are not going to bring more on me than

what I can bear

how many things have you thought in the

past

I I’m not going to make it through this

you’re still here

I mean I can look at different ones of

you that I know and remember times when

you went through really really I mean

hard difficult things and we walk

through them with you and here you are

with a smile on your face just loving

God and don’t you know that it just

infuriates the devil when he throws his

biggest problem at you and you come out

stronger in your relationship with God

than you were when you went in

he will always

also provide the way out

the means of Escape

to a landing place

so we have God’s promise that no matter

what happens he will always provide a

way out

Matthew 6 25-34

a lot of verses there I’d like you to

read them later

but it says

I tell you stop being perpetually uneasy

anxious and worried about your life what

you’re going to eat or drink or about

your body what you’re going to put on

is life not greater in quality than food

and the body and far above and more

excellent than clothing now you know

these are real basic things and so we

think I don’t worry about what I’m going

to wear I don’t worry about what I’m

going to eat now there are people in the

world that do have to worry about those

kind of things

but to me this is just basically saying

don’t worry about anything

I’m going to take care of all of your

needs and then it gives a couple of

really good examples look at the birds

and sometimes it’s not a bad idea

go out on your deck or in your yard and

just

see if you can find a bird sitting on a

branch having a nervous breakdown

I mean we need to think about this

there are millions probably billions of

birds in the world and God feeds every

one of them

how does he do that I don’t know

but he does

he finds a way

he puts a worm somewhere or somebody

throws bread off their porch or I mean

but that’s pretty amazing when you think

about it billions of birds

and he gives that example and he says

are you not worth more than they are

how many of you think you’re worth more

than a bird

come on even if you’ve got a really bad

attitude about yourself you can give me

that I’m more important than a bird

and then he talks about how beautiful

flowers are and that you know lilies are

more beautiful than the finest thing

that Solomon had on and he said these

flowers are here today and gone tomorrow

and I take such good care of them how

much better care

will I take of you so don’t be worried

and anxious saying

and I like to stop there when I use this

scripture because what’s in our heart

comes out of our mouth

and so if we have wrong things in our

heart

we are ultimately going to have wrong

things come out

of our mouth

you know when we worry and worry and

we’re in think and think and think

what’s behind it is we want to know

we we may believe God’s going to solve

our problem we want to know when and how

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and do you know that the thing that got

even trouble was wanting to know

so sooner or later we have to trust God

enough

to get around to

not having to know

what God’s going to do but just being

satisfied to know him

and to know that he loves us

first John 4 18 perfect love casts out

fear if you know how much God loves you

then you start there and you know that

because he loves you he will take care

of you

I want to assure every single one of you

everyone

watching from home

everybody here God loves you more than

you can even imagine we God loves us so

much we don’t even know how to think

about it

and the Bible says that he loved us even

when we were still yet in sin

worry causes so many problems

but God is so faithful Deuteronomy 31 8

it is the Lord who goes before you

he will march with you

he will not fail you

or let you go or forsake you

let there be no cowardice or flinching

but fear not

need to become broken in spirit

depressed dismayed

and unnerved

with alarm

my three-year-old grandson

and his mother’s such a good mother and

she’s teaching him little short

scriptures and little short sayings and

um

and she he does them and he sends them

to me on

my phone

and I got one the other day it said

don’t worry

be happy

that’s all

[Laughter]

I thought man that’s a whole sermon you

know I mean what else is there don’t

worry

be happy

that’s all you really have to do to have

a great life

just don’t worry and be happy now let me

say again

I understand that some of you are going

through some really really tough things

and there may be some of us that aren’t

right now I’m not going through anything

in particular that’s tough

but I have in my life and

May again

we can’t get this idea that because

we’re Christians and we love God that

that means we get to escape

every situation in the world the Bible

says Jesus said in the world there will

be tribulation

but cheer up

so we need to laugh the laugh of faith

and we need to laugh as often as we can

and don’t think when you have a problem

that that automatically means you have

to be miserable

guess what you can have a problem and

it’s okay to still go ahead and enjoy

your life

and I really think sometimes we get this

feeling well it just wouldn’t be right

to enjoy myself while I have this

problem going on

well actually it would probably get rid

of the problem quicker

if you did go ahead and like and enjoy

your life because if the devil can’t

make you miserable

then you might as well go try and bother

somebody else

and so

there’s so much to be said about worry

and I’ve only been able to say a little

bit but I hope what I have said has

helped you and encouraged you

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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

thank you

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

thank you