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I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that God
can heal you everywhere you
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hurt there’s only one attitude that a
Believer should have toward fear and
that is I will not
fear okay can you say that say I will
not fear I will not fear all right now
we’re going to do it one more time and
you’re going to say it like you really
mean
it uh you you don’t all still have it it
goes like this I will not
fear I will not fear okay we have to
understand that
fear first of all is a demonic spirit
it’s not from
God and
uh I think it’s the enemy’s
favorite tool and his tool
toolbox the sole purpose of which is to
keep us from making progress and going
forward fear’s whole design is to stop
you in your tracks or to drive you back
where you came
from instead
of you going forward and becoming all
that God wants you to be I’m sure that
you can remember times in your life when
you’ve been stopped by fear of some kind
now I want to say from the outset here
that we’ve been set free from Fear
there’s scripture after scripture after
scripture in the Bible that says we’ve
been set free from fear but being set
free from something now listen what I’m
going to say being set free from
something does not mean The
Disappearance of
it I want you to think about that being
set free from something does not
necessarily mean The Disappearance of it
in other words I think I might as well
just tell you that from time to time in
your life you’re always going to have
fear come against
you I’m sorry
but that’s true I believe that we’re
free from worry but that doesn’t mean
that worry will never present
itself and try to tempt us to worry but
just because worry tries to pay me a
visit that doesn’t mean I have to let it
in and invite it to stay all day
right and so I don’t know that was just
something that God gave me a few weeks
ago and I’ve been trying to say that in
my conferences that because I think it’s
important we think that being set free
from something means that we should
never have to deal with it
again and it really doesn’t mean that it
just means that now you you learn to
recognize it and you know you have
authority over it and so you have an
option then to either let it rule you or
to rule it I I’m I have been set free
from the effects of what my father did
to me by sexually abusing me for all the
years of my childhood I’ve been set free
from that but that doesn’t mean that I
never ever have to
confront any of the effects of that that
still try to visit me from time to time
even after all these years you know if
we would just get as determined as the
devil
is come on
yes I said the devil if we would just
get as determined as the devil is you
know some Christians when you say the
devil they’re like
e well I just might as well tell you
ahead of time we’re going to talk about
him a little bit this weekend because
one of the one of the worst conditions
we can be in is to not know that he’s
Alive and Well on Planet Earth and that
he is ultimately the source of all of
our
problems amen
I will not
fear until you make that
decision you’re more than likely
to have a lot of what God has for you
stolen by fear the word fear means to
take flight or to run away
from so when God says in the Bible fear
not he’s not telling us not to feel fear
he’s saying when you feel fear don’t
run when you feel fear confront it
and have that attitude I am not going to
live in fear has anybody in this
building found out that the enemy will
do to you whatever you will put up
with I said he will do to you whatever
you will put up with and some of you
just need to get a good Holy Ghost fire
in your
belly what I mean by that is way down
deep inside of you to just be determined
Jesus died for me to have a good life
and I am going to have a good
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life if anybody can be blessed then I
can be blessed because God is no
respector of
persons
amen I will not fear Romans
8:31 if God is for us who can be against
us who can be our foe if God is on our
side I want us to just take our time
tonight I’ve got quite a few scriptures
I’m going to have you look at and I I
instead of just running past these I
want you to think about that if God is
for
us
God if God is for us then what
difference does it make really who’s
against us because God is certainly
greater than anything or
anybody that could come against us and
you know I think that where we get into
trouble is we believe that God is for
other people but are we sure that he’s
for
us are you sure tonight that God is for
you
see one person over here are you sure
tonight that
God is for
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you now you know I’m sure some of you
got you think well I don’t know I
haven’t been too good lately well you
know he not far you because you’re good
he’s far you because he’s
good and because he knows The Human
Condition and he sent us a savior and by
the way he knows that we’re growing that
we’re not where we need to be but thank
God we’re not where we’re used to
be at least if you’re here in the
building you’re likely to make some
progress tonight so congratulations you
showed up now God can do
something so how about if everybody says
God is for me God is for me Psalm 1186
the Lord is on my side I will not
fear I may feel fear but I won’t give
into it
now it’s impossible to live without fear
if you don’t know that God loves you and
so I’m going to pretend like you don’t
know anything at all about the Bible and
that all the people watching my TV don’t
know anything at all about the Bible and
I’m just going to teach you maybe some
things that are very basic and
foundational but it’s surprising for me
all the time to find out how many people
have never had anybody look them right
in the face and say God loves you
unconditionally matter of fact I’m about
to say something
shocking
God will never love you any more than he
does at this moment right
now see that’s kind of like
a a
halfhearted you and hey I get it because
you’re like but and here’s what people
think when I say that I get the same
reaction every place here’s what people
think
well surely when I
improve
see we think we can earn God’s
love if we can behave just a little bit
better but the truth is get this God is
not for
sale come on I said God is not for sale
you can only receive him by faith you
can’t buy him with good
works so we don’t do good works to get
God to love
us we strive to do good things because
he does love us and so the quicker the
sooner the more you believe that God
loves you just as much right now as you
could ever possibly be loved in your
whole life then knowing that
unconditional love is going to give you
the courage to confront fear and live
the life that God wants you to
live 1 John 4 16 was kind of a
life-changing scripture for
me it says we know we understand we
recognize and we are conscious
of by observation and by
experience and we believe and adhere to
and put Faith in and rely on the love
that God has for us now you know that’s
a lot of words here in the Amplified but
un taking a look at those words is what
makes this meaningful we know what does
it mean to know that God loves you it
means that first of all you recognize
when God’s at work in your life let me
tell you something God is doing so much
for us all the time and half the time
we’re just uncon we don’t even we don’t
we don’t know it’s God we think it’s
like circumstance or coincidence or boy
we’re lucky or you know I I I I don’t
like it when people say well you know
I’m just lucky or you’re just lucky you
know I don’t see that word in the Bible
and I you know it’s not a it’s not a
sinful word but I’d much rather say you
know we’re blessed God’s blessing us
than to say we’re lucky like it kind of
just we happen to be the one that it
happened to and who knows who it’s going
to happen to next you know
amen we recognize we’re conscious of by
observation and by
experience and we believe and adhere to
and put Faith in and rely on the love
that God has for us God is
love and he who dwells and continues in
love dwells and continues in God and God
dwells and continues in him so I believe
that God loves me not because I’m
necessarily lovable all the time because
honestly I know that I’m not lovable all
the time but hey I’m better than what I
used to be and I hope this time next
year I’ll be better than what I am right
now and you see God sees the end from
the
beginning come on he not only sees where
you’re at right now he sees where you’re
going to end up as you keep walking with
him and treat you accordingly perfect
love casts out fear perfect love casts
out fear 1 John
4:18 there’s no fear in
love how much fear do you still have in
your life fear of man the fear of lack
the fear of Abandonment the fear of
loneliness we’re going to talk about a
lot of these things tonight how much
fear do you still have in your
life however much is there
it’s because you or me or anybody else
you’re
lacking
knowledge about the love of God you may
believe God loves you but you maybe need
to believe it more and more and stronger
and
stronger amen you ought to practice go
look in the mirror and say God loves you
God loves you you stinker you God loves
you
come on did you ever pinch one of your
little kids on the cheek and say you
stinker you mama loves you anyway
well
amen I have a couple of great
grandchildren imagine that great
grandchildren woo and uh one of them’s
name is abriella man she is so cute
she’s got this springy black curls and
they just she’s only like N9 months old
and so she was over this morning well I
mean you know how can you do anything
with that but just want to love it and
hug it and kiss it and you know you just
you just like just telling her constant
oh you’re so cute you
swe I mean a kid can just turn an adult
into a blithering idiot you’re just
like and Dave was behaving the same
way and
uh see we’re God’s
children are you awake in the building
like we are God’s children he loves us
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unconditionally well Philippians 4:6
says be anxious for nothing but in
everything by prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving let your request be
made known to God sometimes it’s easier
to read that scripture than to do what
it says but we can do what it says we
give the enemy access through fear we
give God Access by faith so while
there’s plenty of reasons in this world
to be anxious we have Godly tools to
keep our peace Ginger is joining me
today to discuss the questions that
you’ve sent in about anxiety yeah we’ve
got some good questions I bet you had
plenty of them too there there are so
many different areas in our lives that
anxiety can creep in and I’ll tell you
our enemy just loves that because he can
really have a field day so there’s some
great specific things uh this is Felicia
from Michigan I have to retake a test
that I failed what’s the best way to ask
Jesus to relieve me from intense anxiety
of failing again that fear of failure is
a big one and especially when you’ve
experienced it yeah it is I think that
what she all anybody can do is the best
they can do and so I encourage her to
just discuss that in that way with Jesus
all I can do is do my best and that I’m
asking you to make up the difference I
don’t want to fail this test again I’m
not going to worry about failing it I’m
going to trust God trust you God that
I’m going to pass it and you know of
course I’m big on confession I believe
that we can prophesy our own future if
it’s word based and so I would encourage
her to say you know especially if she’s
got some time I don’t know if she’s
going to take this test like the next
day after she wrote this question in but
you you can say I believe I’m going to
pass my test I believe God’s going to
give me the grace to pass this test you
know I think that we do get a lot of
what we believe and that’s why Satan
wants us to believe his lies and fear he
wants us to be afraid and uh
anxiety I I like to put it like this
anxiety is more than just worry anxiety
is spending
today trying to figure out about
tomorrow’s problems and God really wants
us to be present where we’re
at that’s something that I’m really
trying to practice and it is a challenge
for me because I’m a planner and a
thinker and if
we God gives us enough Grace and Mana
for one day and so naturally if I’ve got
a conference tomorrow I’m going to spend
some time studying today far tomorrow
but I’m not going to worry about
tomorrow or be concerned about it
because if I look at tomorrow today I
can feel like nothing’s going to work
but that’s because I don’t have
tomorrow’s Grace yet today yeah when I
get to tomorrow then I may feel totally
different about it because God will give
me the grace for tomorrow yeah and so
often we miss what God has for us today
that’s right while we’re doing that but
when you talk about studying and
preparing for tomorrow you can’t do that
if your mind is so
um on the edge of failure already so
yeah I I think that’s really good idea
do your best um Lynn says how do I
conquer anxiety if I don’t know what’s
causing it because you know people do
have anxious thoughts and really don’t
even know why well I don’t know if she’s
talking about like a medical type of
anxiety where she
just feels anxious but if she’s if she’s
talking about uh
just anxiety over a situation I
think people are probably going to worry
no matter what we say
until they finally get it through their
head it’s not doing them any
goodh there’s not one person that could
tell me that they have ever solved any
problem by worrying about it so you
don’t solve it by knowing necessar it’s
a total waste of time why yeah yeah and
listen to the definition of worry to
torment oneself with disturbing
thoughts to feel uneasy anxious or
troubled to torment with annoyances
cares and anxieties so it’s self-
torment and surely we’ve got something
better to do than to torment oursel yeah
the other thing that will finally get us
to the point where we don’t worry is
when you’ve had enough experience with
God I’ll tell you the truth Ginger some
of these things
that you know we might say
we might say them based on 30 years
experience with God where a new believer
that’s known Christ for a month they
haven’t had an opportunity to see what
God can do in their life and so here
again all you can do is the best you can
do and you don’t instead of trying so
hard trust more mhm trade your trying
for trusting yeah because trying is is
just works of the flesh it’s us trying
to do what only God can do yeah and so
I’ve traded a lot of my trying for
trusting and I get a lot further doing
that than I do trying to work it out
myself that is so good and that’s
probably the answer to this next
question Janine says how do I stop my
anxiety from trying to fix everything
and everyone who cannot relate to that
yeah I feel like the world’s on my
shoulders yeah I uh I’m
a
I’m a I like to help people and I like
to solve problems and if I don’t have
one I’ll be happy to try to solve yours
and you just you just have to learn that
that is just not what God wants you to
do he wants us to trust him now
sometimes God will give you something to
do but that’s different than you just
doing something on your own right you
know because you want to be doing
something I mean a lot of times when I
pray
God shows me something to do but if God
has shown me to do it he’s going to give
me the grace to do it and I’ll be able
to do it with ease and it will work yeah
when I’m in works of the
flesh the Bible talks a lot about works
of the flesh especially in Galatians and
that’s me trying to do what only God can
do and it always ends up in one thing
and that is frustration yeah I used to
put it when I was first learning this 40
years ago I a sign on my refrigerator
that said works of the flesh equal
frustration and so she’s probably
frustrated a lot because she’s trying to
figure out all these things and solve
all these things and we have to
understand we’re not God we’re not
called to be God we’re not called to be
Jesus we’re not called to be the Holy
Spirit and we can do more damage by
doing that it’s not my job to deliver
people it’s my job to encourage them
it’s my job to comfort them it’s not
even really my job to give them advice
unless they come to me for it and then I
don’t need to be trying to give them
advice that I’m really not sure about
sometimes you’re better off to tell
somebody you know what I just don’t know
yeah okay here’s a question um my mind
is full of painful memories that give me
anxiety how can I live with them and not
feel anxious well I think one of the
best things to do is to just not allow
your mind to go there my dad sexually
abused me for many years and I’ll be
very honest with you
I could leave this TV studio today and I
could go home and sit down and start
thinking about what he did to me and I
could get myself really upset but I just
if my mind ever starts to go in that
direction sometimes I’ll even say out
loud okay Joyce don’t go there just
don’t go there been there done that
don’t go there once in a while I’ll have
a bad dream about my dad about some of
the things that he did to me and I’m
almost tempted when I wake up in the
morning to start getting conf confused
over why I would still be dreaming
things like that I won’t even do that
you know I don’t I’m not responsible for
what right happens to me when I’m
sleeping and I just
pray God if there’s something I need to
learn out of this show me if it’s just
the devil trying to aggravate me then
take care of him he’s help me I’m not
going to try to do this on my own yeah
that’s another big trust area then it is
all of this really when you get down to
worry and anxiety and what’s going to
solve it it’s it’s not just going to
church it’s it’s not just reading a
chapter in your Bible every day so you
can check it off on your calendar it’s
trust in
God and understanding
that you can’t solve your problems now
in
Ephesians it’s talking about spiritual
warfare and it says having done all all
the crisis demands stand firmly in your
place so obviously if there is something
we can do we should do it but if I don’t
know what to do yeah it’s not going to
do me any good to just keep trying this
and trying that and trying something
else or maybe calling a bunch of my
friends who don’t aren’t even running
their own lives well and asking them
what I should do we go to God and we ask
him to show us what to do to give us
understanding and Revelation and we wait
on him to do that and guess what you can
still enjoy your life in the midst of
waiting to get those answers and I think
that’s so important because it’s very
practical right I mean you’re talking
about your own real
experiences and not allowing your mind
to dwell on those things that do provoke
anxiety and and how to ask God to help
you in very practical ways and the Bible
says to cast down wrong
imaginations and so we can choose what
we think on yeah we don’t have to think
on something just because it comes to
our mind of course Satan’s going to
bring you every garbage thought and
every tormenting thought that he can but
we soon as I realize that I’m thinking
something that’s going to make me
unhappy or take me in a wrong direction
I just stop it and I think on something
else yeah and those memories can be so
painful I can uh Sabrina from Texas
asked this I get anxious in almost every
social situation and have trouble
communicating because of this I find
myself not even listening to what others
are saying because I’m too focused on
what they are thinking about me how can
I break this pattern study
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in oursel and who we are in
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Peace 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