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and I’ll tell you if you don’t have
anything going for you except being bold
enough to say I am never going to give
up you’ll end up getting the victory
I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that God
can heal you everywhere you hurt
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this month we have been celebrating 30
years of Joyce’s Ministry on television
sharing the gospel around the world and
thanking God for all that he has done
through it and thanks to the support of
so many people like you many people
everywhere have been helped and they’ve
learned to trust in the Lord and to
allow his word to change their lives
here’s a look at some of the people
who’ve experienced healing and
transformation I was really in
depression bad and I had a gun in my
mouth
and I was ready to kill myself and my
foot hit the remote in life in the word
came on
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Saturn recliner and turn on the TV and
lo and behold there is a woman named
Joyce Meyer preaching
next thing I know I’m scared to death
because she’s sitting here pointing at
the TV screen hey you lean back in your
recliner drinking that beer got out of
the recliner went to my mom’s room I
said Mom I need to talk to you I’m
freaking out I don’t know what’s going
on I told her I’m ready to change I
threw my stash of weed out and I sobered
up instantly I just locked myself in the
bedroom
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I couldn’t eat I couldn’t sleep so I
would watch television
Myers would come on one scripture when
she said nothing is impossible with the
Lord
I just hung on to that scripture and
then I started studying the Bible
because when you’re broken and you’re
seeing Joy’s talk on TV you feel like
someone is listening to you
you see me on the TV yes
I searched for other philosophies and
religions but nothing could fill me then
one morning I turned on the television
there’s this woman preaching she
encouraged me to seek God and know him
like she knows him I listened to her
programs and read the Bible for myself I
learned who Jesus is and when I did he
filled my emptiness I got introduced to
cocaine
then a heroine and then a crack and
within a matter of a couple of months I
went from being a nice little church
girl wife and mother
to being a crackhead a dope fiend and a
full-blown alcoholic and I would turn on
the TV I ran across Joyce Meyer she
became a part of my
this is not going to sound good she
became a part of my my hive routine it’s
just so crazy that God will meet you
right where you are
I pray that we would realize what a
precious treasure we have
in being able to turn the television on
and get the word turn the radio on and
get the word what a wonderful privilege
it is God that you’ve provided the word
in so many different formats
help us to always love your word to
receive your word to be respectful to
your word and I believe that there’s
power in the word
to change our lives to save our souls
and to help us stand up on our feet
a mighty host
doing great things for you
in Jesus name amen
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let your tests become your testimony
everybody likes the testimony
we overcome the Enemy by the blood of
the lamb and the word of Our Testimony
and it’s good to be able to testify to
the veracity and the truth
of God’s word
I love to be able to tell people what
God’s word has done in my life and I I
absolutely
love the word and I believe with all my
heart
that there’s power
in God’s word I think it’s they’re just
like little power pellets and
I didn’t get around to this in the
second teaching but if you say to me
today Joyce I really want to be healed
but I don’t other than asking God to
heal me is there anything else that I
need to do
and I can tell you two things that I
believe with all my heart
will make changes in your life
first of all
studying God’s word yourself
now we always hear read your Bible read
your Bible but I’m going to tell you
that I think you need to do more than
read I think you need to study
and there’s a difference
and a lot of times we read
out of obligation we’ll rush through a
couple of chapters
so we feel like we’ve done our Bible
reading for the day
many people try to read the Bible
through every year and I think that’s a
great habit but
if you read the whole Bible through
every year and you don’t really remember
anything that you learned
then doesn’t do you much good and I can
tell you that I believe God would rather
that you read
a couple of verses and actually get
something out of it
then to read five or six chapters every
day
I want to encourage you to start
approaching the word in a different way
I’m going to encourage you when you
approach the word of God when you go to
open it up
that you
act like it’s medicine
see when you go uh when you go to your
medicine cabinet at home if people still
have those
if you have a headache you don’t get a
Band-Aid out and put it on your head
if you cut your finger you don’t stick
an aspirin in it
we know how to select different
medicines for what’s wrong with our
physical body
and so I’m just going to tell you that
if you’re angry and you’re having a hard
time forgiving somebody
reading scriptures about prosperity and
success are not gonna
help you with your problem
you know it’s interesting the books that
people buy
they
sadly people don’t buy enough of what
they need
they buy books that will help them get
what they want
but many times they’re not addressing
the problem that’s hindering them from
getting what they want
did you understand that so no matter how
many books you read on
how to be promoted in life
if you’re
really mad at somebody and you’re
disobeying God and you’re gossiping and
doing things like that
you don’t need to get the book on
promotion
that that’s not what you need
and
I know from being a writer
and you don’t know some of the books I’d
love to write and the titles that I
would love to put on them but I know
nobody would buy them
I mean I would love to write a book
called dying to self
yeah you clapped but you wouldn’t buy it
foreign
no you wouldn’t buy that and you know
you wouldn’t who’s going to send that to
somebody for a Christmas gift
you know
uh
but I can put a book out there on five
easy steps to success
and everybody’s going to grab it up
matter of fact it it aggravates me
even just trying to find a title to put
on a book
because the Publishers will tell you
every title has to have a promise in it
or nobody’s going to buy it
well you know I would like to write
books like the power that’s in the word
the name and the blood
and I actually have a book like that and
we used to sell it under that title
but now we’ve had to change it to I
don’t know
some
secret to some success or something you
know to oh God’s greatest gifts that’s
what they changed the title to and
sometimes I look and I’m like when did I
write that and I’m like
oh well that used to be but people
weren’t buying it anymore
you know we’re we’re getting to
wimpy in the church today
come on we we need to get down to it and
you need to know the power that’s in the
blood and the power that’s in the name
of Jesus and you need to know the power
of obedience and the power of
forgiveness and you know it doesn’t
really matter what we think or what we
feel if we don’t do what God says to do
we are not going to have the life
that he wants to give us and so
study the word of God like medicine if
you’re angry then look up everything you
can find on anger the dangers of anger
get yourself a concordance learn how to
do some digging and dig some stuff out
for yourself and don’t just want to get
everything because you press a button on
your mouse and everything pops up for
you
I think I I’m I’m appreciative of the
everything that’s on the
the net now because I can study so easy
but I tell you when I studied all this
stuff out that I teach you now I used to
have to get out 14 different books and
lay them all around me and dig and dig
and dig and it might take me two or
three days to get one of these messages
that I bring you now and I I’m thankful
for those days because the more effort
you put into something the more you’re
going to get out of it all right
did you hear that
let me say it again the more effort you
put into something the more you’re going
to get out of it
stop reading the Bible for quantity
just so you can feel proud of yourself
because you’ve got a lot in but learn
something
sometimes it’s actually good if you keep
a notebook and when you’ve read a
chapter in the Bible that you write down
the key things in there that you learn
let’s stop trying to just see how much
we can do thinking we’re impressing God
and let’s actually learn something amen
because here’s the thing
the word of God has inherent power in it
to heal
your soul
so if you’re wounded you’ve been hurt
you’ve been treated badly by somebody if
you have any kind of a hang up in your
life anything that you’re trying to get
over I believe that there’s two things
that you can do
that will bring healing to your life now
I think all this is necessary going to
the conferences going to church you get
a lot of pieces of the puzzle for your
life you hear things that help you
but it all has to come together
somewhere in a victory for you and I
think the place where that comes
together is when it’s you and God
your Bible
use two things you need you need to
study the word and you need time with
God
and the time with God
it’s not even so important what you do
during that time as it is that you give
him the time
because relationship cannot be
maintained without time
if you think you’re going to have a good
marriage never spend any time with the
person you’re married to you’re wrong if
you think you’re going to have good
relationship with your kids and never
have any time for them you’re wrong if
you think you’re going to have good
friends and never have any time for your
friends you’re wrong and if you think
you can have a good relationship with
God and never have any time for God
you’re wrong the one person
that you better make time for Above All
Else Is God and I’m talking regular time
you don’t need to make a law out of it
yeah I’m not going to stand here and say
every day you need to spend two hours
with God but it’s not a bad idea to be
honest and I I’m afraid to start my day
without spending some time with God
I mean I’m just afraid of myself I don’t
trust myself enough
to get out among people and act like a
Christian if I have not I mean I’m
telling you the truth I don’t I need God
in my life I cannot keep this under
control if I don’t have God’s help
is everybody home now how many of you
will admit that spending regular quality
time with God is one of the hardest
things in the world to discipline
yourself too okay so why do we think
that is
because the devil knows
if you ever get with God
and you get serious about it
that something amazing is going to
happen in your life
so if you want to know how to be healed
that’s it the word is the medicine you
need to heal a sick soul
and time with God
is the other thing that you need now you
spend time at the doctor
you spend time at the drugstore
you stand in line and wait to get
prescriptions
you take the whole thing if it don’t
work you go get it refilled
come on
and if that don’t work you’ll go get it
refilled again
and so we take time with all this other
stuff and we need to now start taking
time with God because that’s what’s
going to make the difference in your
life and I’ll be I’ll tell you the
absolute truth
I’m so glad you came to this conference
but if you said to me Joyce I can either
come to your conference or I can spend
an hour with God but I can’t do both I’d
probably tell you go spend an hour with
God
as much as I love you being here I think
he can do more for you than I can
and you need to know that okay now
I’ve said that
do you agree with me
how many of you understand what I’m
worried
about
anyone so
if I were you when you open up your
Bible I did this this morning
father I’m reading this by faith
and I believe that there’s power in this
word
and that as it goes into me
it’s going to heal me
it’s going to change me
it’s going to enable me to go out in the
world and act the way that you want me
to act in other words don’t just read it
mix your faith with it
believe that there’s power in it every
single day there’s power in here I’m not
just reading
I’m taking life into myself that’s going
to help me overcome every problem that I
have
life sometimes can get tough
anybody agree with that all right
nobody ever ends up with a testimony how
many of you love hearing a good
testimony
nobody ever has a testimony
if they haven’t had a test
and so we’re going to be tested
and not only will the enemy try to test
us
the God himself will test us
David even prayed for God to test him
I don’t pray that prayer real often but
you know I mean David prayed oh God try
me test me see if there’s any wicked
thing in me
wow that’s nerve
we love to hear
great testimonies
but if we don’t pass our tests
we’ll never have a testimony
some of you wonder why you keep going
around and around the same Mountain all
the time all the time
was a little something you need to know
about God
you never flunk out in his school
you just keep getting to take the same
test over and over and over until you
pass them
amen and then even after you pass them
occasionally you’ll get a little
refresher course
just to check and see if you’re still
where you need to be in that subject
well we love to hear and read about Noah
Joseph Abraham Moses Moses Daniel Ruth
Esther Peter Paul
but would you have wanted to have been
them
oh most wow
must be great to have Joyce’s life
oh honey
well we won’t yeah yes I have a great
life but
you don’t do this and not pay a price
to do it amen
would we you know we thought oh I man
most awesome Paul wrote two-thirds in
the New Testament wow
man
Moses parted the Red Sea wow
none of these people were making their
own choices in life
they each had a plan that was suddenly
interrupted by God
maybe some of you have plans
and God’s been trying to interrupt them
and you’re not letting him
and so things are not going so well for
you
because you know when God decides to get
in the middle of something
foreign
come on now
most people have an invisible sign
hanging on their life God can see it but
other people can’t says do not disturb
those are signs you can hang on Hotel
doors but you don’t get to put one on
your life if you’re going to hang out
with God you better get ready to get
interrupted you’re going to have a good
plan every day but that doesn’t mean
you’re going to get to do what you
planned because if God needs you you’ve
got to be on call
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I’m sure Esther had a plan for her life
and it probably wasn’t
to take a chance on getting killed
by doing things that you normally don’t
get by with
these people were placed in situations
that they’d never encountered
you know when God asks you to do
something telling him well I’ve never
done that before that don’t
that don’t bother God
when he asked me to start teaching a
Bible study where I worked I didn’t know
anything about teaching
I went to my pastor
that time I was in the Lutheran Church
and I said if somebody I didn’t want to
tell him it was me but I said if
somebody were going to teach a Bible
study
what would be a good place to start and
he said oh the book of John’s always a
good place
and I said and what would they use to
study and he suggested a Thompson Chain
reference Bible
so I got a Bible and a Thompson Chain
reference Bible and a Concordance
and started teaching
a group of 12 people all that worked for
me I was an office manager didn’t have
enough sense to realize if I invited
them to a Bible study they would be
afraid not to come
so I thought I was having great success
I invited 12 people and they all come
well they were afraid they’d get fired
if they didn’t
I didn’t know that
but I thought oh this is working
and I look back now and I think what in
God’s name was wrong with me that I
actually thought that I could teach the
Bible well see sometimes if you’re going
to hang out with God you got to just
have enough guts that sometimes you just
are on the edge of stupid
you know I mean I quit a full-time job
to study for this great worldwide
Ministry that I thought I was going to
have
at the time all I had was
three kids a husband and a mine that
didn’t work half the time
I mean I was a mess
whatever would have made me think
that I could teach but I was just doing
what I felt like God was telling me to
do and you know what when he asked me to
teach this Bible study I said I don’t
know how to do that and you know the
next thing I heard I know you don’t but
I do
so I got my Bible John chapter 1 verse
1. I wish I could remember what I said
to those first 12 people
see some of you are waiting to feel
ready
well God I just don’t feel ready I just
don’t feel like the time is right
well can I tell you a secret you better
hope you never feel ready
I didn’t feel ready when I got up here
today you never feel ready it’s called
faith
you step out and hope that God shows up
because you know if he doesn’t show up
you’re going to be a mess
so they were placed in situations they’d
never encountered
and in the natural we’re not equipped to
handle
they were alone many times in their pain
in their tragedy misunderstood
and criticized
in these men and women we see things
like the death of loved ones persecution
of the righteous famine prison
rejection abandonment abuse Injustice
misunderstanding
how many of you still want to be used by
God
why where’s the hands
I saw one that went about like this
you know I’m going to tell you the truth
they had to be willing to die they had
to learn to love unlovely people
have long suffering impatience
get criticized and accused long periods
of waiting for God’s Deliverance
but we also see in the lives of these
people that great fruit was produced and
that God used them in amazing ways he
used Esther to save a whole nation one
little young girl in her 20s
because she was willing to lay aside her
plan and step out and do what she felt
like God was telling her to do now I
know all of you are not called into
full-time Ministry but I can tell you
this affects every single person because
there’s not a person in this room that
God doesn’t challenge you and ask you to
do things that you feel like are more
than what you can handle I don’t care if
it’s nothing other than talking to your
next door neighbor about Jesus
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nobody gets a testimony
without a test
if you’re going to hang out with God
endurance
the word endurance
a Bible word endurance
is a must we have to learn how to endure
how to not run away from hard things
we have to learn that the only way to
get through is to go through
amen
and so I have my own little definition
for endurance and I like it
I believe that endurance means to
Outlast the devil
in other words however long you want to
aggravate me
that’s just how long I’m going to stick
with God and not quit and not give up
you go ahead and wear yourself out
trying to wear me out but I am not going
to give up
amen and I’ll tell you if you don’t have
anything going for you except being
bullheaded enough to say I am never
going to give up you’ll end up getting
the victory
I’ve got a sign in my office that says
never never never give up
I almost brought it this weekend just to
show you
don’t give up be not weary and well
doing for in due season you shall reap
if you faint not and that scripture is
for every single person here we all get
tired of it
we all get tired of waiting we all get
tired of the devil picking on us
we all get tired of the stuff that
happens to us
but only the ones that refuse to give up
are the ones that will come out
and be part of the group that Parts the
Red Sea and does the kind of things that
these guys did men and women come on
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