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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 hurt
[Applause]
the first thing you must do
if you ever intend to have any freedom
over bondages
is you have to take 100 percent
responsibility
for where your life is at right now
[Applause]
what do you know how
you know how they’re I mean I’m this way
because my dad sexually abused me I’m
this way because my mother abandoned me
knew what he was doing and wouldn’t help
me
I’m this wave because my first husband
was a con man and a petty thief and he
ran around with other women I’m this way
because and I’m this way because and I’m
this way because
and you know what
the Lord finally put on my heart
that’s true
that’s true that’s that’s why you are
the way you are but don’t let it become
an excuse to stay that way
[Applause]
that’s such a good point
you are where you are
no matter who caused you
to be here
you are stuck with you and your life
and nobody else now God will help you
but nobody else
let’s put it like this a lot of people
may want to help you but you can’t
depend on somebody else coming along and
fixing your mess
and even people who want to come along
and help fix it they don’t want the full
job
they want other people
to do something for them
I’m going to tell you a quick little
story I didn’t really plan to do this
but
I only had one sibling he’s not alive
anymore
he’s nine years younger than me
and um
we both were abused in different ways he
wasn’t abused sexually but he was
definitely
grew up in a home where the father was
unpresent and whatever he did teach him
everything he taught him was wrong
he went into the Vietnam War when he was
17 and ended up in the jungles in
Vietnam and his sergeant
gave the guys drugs over there just to
keep them
I guess what he thought was saying
anyway my brother at the age of 17 got
addicted to drugs
and
it was a lifelong problem for him
alcohol prescription drugs
but the biggest thing that I always saw
about my brother was that he would never
take responsibility for anything
he got married he had a child he never
supported the child
when they came after him for child
support he would
work for people for cash so the
government couldn’t find that he was
working and take his check
we get him in treatment program after
treatment program and just when he’d
start to get a little better and they
would start to give him a little listen
to the word responsibility
then he’d decide that
well you know sis this is just not for
me
listen up to me so he lived with us for
four years and we tried to take care of
him helped him and if I said David get
up and go to work he’d get up and go to
work
if I said David did you do this and he
hadn’t done it he’d go do it but if
somebody didn’t tell him everything to
do
then he just didn’t do anything
so I Marvel
that the two of us grew up in the same
household
with the same types of problems and
very sad to say that
I guess about eight years ago he ended
up committing suicide
and
I’m at the age of 75 still preaching the
gospel all over the world now
I’m not saying something bad about him
and something good about me but I have
to believe that we both had the same
opportunity
otherwise God Is So grossly unfair
I mean if he just says well okay you can
make it
but you’re never going to get out of
bondage you know that okay you can make
it but no you’re going to stay in
bondage all your life the promises of
God are for whosoever will
whosoever will do what God tells them to
do can have what
they can have
gonna say it again
whosoever does what God tells them to do
can have whatsoever God says they can
have
are you getting it
I want you
when this conference is over
to go home and have a long meeting with
yourself
we’re always having meetings but the
person you need to meet with the most
sometimes is you
some of you have been running past
yourself for so long
avoiding yourself and avoiding facing
some truth
that you don’t even know where you’re at
anymore
you need to slow down get down with
yourself and say okay what am I doing
with my life
what am I doing with my life where am I
headed
with what I’m doing right now where am I
likely to end up in five years or ten
years
do I really want to end up in the
direction that I’m headed in
or do I want to make some changes now
come on say now
do I want to make some changes now you
know what the most dangerous word in the
English language is
tomorrow
you know when Pharaoh’s house was full
of frogs
frogs in the bed frogs in the oven
frogs everywhere
if they had a driveway there were frogs
in the driveway and when they pulled the
Chariot out it was crunch crunch crunch
frogs frogs imagine having frogs in your
bed
everywhere you couldn’t walk without
stepping on a frog
and Moses said
tell me when you want me to pray
for these to go away and I will pray and
they will go away
and Pharaoh obviously was missing
something on top because he said
tomorrow
now what kind of dumb do you have to be
if
not sleep with frogs tonight
just take that wherever you want to
[Applause]
you know come on ladies let me just take
a chance on making you mad
somebody some of you
may be living with somebody
that is frog frog double frog
and they don’t love you they’re using
you and you are so petrified of never
having anybody that you’re sticking with
something dumb come on get rid of the
Frog today
[Applause]
so now is the time for change in some of
your lives
I believe it
I could easily stand here and say thus
saith the Lord now is the time for
change I believe that there is an
anointing here today for people to make
decisions there’s a Grace here for God
to help you stick with those decisions
but it’s time to start doing the things
that you believe that God has told you
to do or stop doing the things he has
told you to stop doing it’s time to get
your life headed in the right direction
foreign
here’s a scripture that scares me a
little
in a right way I have a reverential fear
of this scripture
Romans 14 12.
so then each of us will give an account
of himself to God
I think we need to have some scriptures
that give us some reverential fear
it’s part of what’s wrong with people
today they don’t have the proper
reverential fear of God
yes God is our friend but you can’t look
at God like your buddy that you just
hang out with that just understands you
and just you know whatever
no God is God he is almighty God and he
means what he says and when he says to
do something we better do it
and we need a little more than Hellfire
and brimstone preaching back that people
used to have years ago
so I was reading something the other day
that said today people think hell either
it doesn’t exist or that it’s it’s just
going to be a place that’s going to be
uncomfortable
it’s no wonder we got so many wimpy
Christians you got to have some
reverential fear of God you got you
don’t you don’t need to be afraid of God
he loves you he’s not going to hurt you
but he’s not to be messed around with
either
we get the kindness and the severity of
God Paul said
when the Holy Spirit comes to live in US
we have a guide and a companion
for the whole rest of our lives
but now get this
we have a companion that’s smarter than
we are
[Applause]
and he’s in US
to hopefully keep us going in the right
direction
so we can have the things that Jesus
died for us to have
they’re all Ours by right of inheritance
but God is not going to give
The Inheritance that he wants us to have
to a bunch of spoiled bratty babies
amen
thank you
any parent knows if you’ve got any kind
of a an inheritance to leave to your
children
you don’t go give a bunch of money to a
three-year-old
you put what they have with a trustee
until they’re old enough to get it well
the holy spirit is our trustee
[Applause]
and Jesus said he will reveal everything
to you that’s mine he will transmit it
to you he will he will make it work in
your life but it’s as we mature and grow
up in God
John 16 13 when he the spirit of truth
comes
he will guide you into all the truth but
please remember a lot of what God’s
going to have to show you is stuff about
you that you don’t want to see
I wonder
oh let’s just ask and see what we get
why not
how many of you are hard to get along
with
okay wow then
I guess you don’t have to wonder why you
don’t have many friends
how many of you are controllers you want
to be in control of everything
on the psychiatrist Couch today
okay now listen if we know that
we know see God showed me when I was
talking to him about changing Dave
he said you you’re just
hard to get along with
I remember when Dave finally said to me
one day he said you know what I’ve tried
to do this to please you and that to
please you and this to please you and no
matter what I do you still find some way
to be unhappy so guess what I’m done
trying
you can either get happy
or you can stay unhappy but you’re not
going to make me unhappy anymore
[Applause]
seriously have a meeting with yourself
be bold
what kind of a person am I come on god
let’s have a truth session am I selfish
or am I generous
do I
do I really enjoy giving
I found out a truth about me last week
at this age I found out something about
me
and I said to my daughter who then began
to laugh very loudly
covered about myself and she said I said
I don’t like to be uncomfortable
and she said really
you didn’t know that before
and I said no see I don’t like to be hot
and I don’t like to be cold I want it to
be just right
I like a good mattress
can’t do with a mattress it’s not good
and then I also realized that when I’m
not comfortable
I usually want to make sure everybody
knows I’m not comfortable
so if
I have a feeling that the next lesson is
going to be learn to be uncomfortable
and keep your mouth shut
how many of you think that
you maybe have a few more things to
learn about yourself
[Applause]
okay not
it’s not good to lie to a preacher
so I want to know how many of you are
going to go home and sometime within the
next week
you’re going to have that meeting with
yourself
all right
you know we can’t grow spiritually
without truth
but here again it’s just not some truth
you know we love it when God shows us
truth about somebody else
that don’t hurt
foreign
but it’s when he starts showing us
you know what it is your fault
there’s always things that other people
are doing wrong nobody’s saying that
you’re the only person in the building
that does anything wrong but here’s the
thing we can’t fix them
Only God Can the only person you can fix
is you
amen
and so I learned a long time ago if I
stay busy letting God work with me
then he’ll take care of the other people
in my life
and I don’t need to make them my private
Workshop
thing
speak the truth in love in all things
both in speech Our Lives expressing
truth
let us grow up in all things into him
following his example
who is the head that is Christ Jesus
funny example your clothes get too tight
well you’re never eating too much we
know that
your metabolism has gone Haywire
the cleaners shrunk your clothes
surely the cleaners shrunk your clothes
truth is armor
when you start walking in the truth
being truthful with yourself especially
is what I’m talking about today
when you start really walking in truth
it gives you
an armor against the devil
the Bible says that the belt of Truth is
one of the pieces of armor
that God has given us now we know that’s
talking about the word of God
but the word of God must be applied to
our lives
and so
in Ephesians 6 it says that when you’re
having problems
you are to tighten the belt of Truth
tighten it in other words if you’re
going through something tough
you better hang on to what’s in here
like you have never hung on before
and I’ve learned something about
problems
short-term problems are much easier to
deal with than long
long
very long
problems or when you get over one
and another one comes right back
and you get over another one
and another one comes right back
anybody here feel like you’ve just had a
train of problems lately
[Applause]
well I’ve had some stuff going on too
let me tell you
and I’ve had to hang on
we got time for one more I have 10 of
these today by the way
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Psalm 51 6 says behold you desire truth
in the innermost being
so what’s our job for today we’re going
to be honest with ourselves about
ourself
right
and you know what we’re going to learn
how to say I want you to learn how to
say this without mumbling
I was wrong
and I’m sorry
you mumbled
you did okay on the I was wrong but you
went to a low mumble
come on
I was wrong
and I’m sorry
that can save marriages
[Applause]
it can endear you to people
you will be absolutely amazed how much
better people will like you
if you start taking responsibility for
the things you do wrong and stop trying
to push everything off on somebody else
[Applause]
the second key to breakthrough
pray of course
because you’re going to need a lot of
help with this one so you want to pray
first
because the next key to break through is
stop feeling sorry for yourself
okay
self-pity
and they will invite you to a pity party
and you decide to go
you’ve been there every day for the last
20 years you know it’s miserable party
but you go again
I mean who would want to sit in a dark
room all day and cry and think about how
bad off you are
what could you find to do that would be
any more fun than that
I used to have such a problem with
self-pity
well I was abused I didn’t get to go to
college
Dave’s out playing golf again today
on and on and on
and I’m sure you’ve heard me say this
but as I was growing up in God and he
had given me a Ministry and I was
wanting that to grow
I still wasted a lot of my time yes I
said wasted a lot of my time
say I’m sorry for myself
if a meeting wasn’t big enough I felt
sorry for myself
if I wanted an opportunity to do
something and the opportunity went to
somebody else I’d feel sorry for myself
how many of you want to see the power of
God flowing through your life
well then today you have to give up pity
self-pity you know why it’s a problem
because it’s idolatry
it causes us to turn in on ourselves
and everything is about how I feel what
I want what I’m not getting what people
aren’t doing for me what I’ve missed out
on in life
what we should be doing is counting our
blessings
not looking at all the stuff that
somebody has not done for us
let me read you Deuteronomy 7 1-2
when the Lord your God brings you into
the land which you are entering to
possess
and has cleared away many nations before
you
the hittite the gervicite the Amorite
the Canaanite the parasite the hivite
and the Jefferson jebusites
and we’ve all got our own diets
The Grouchy neighbor rights the bad boss
sites the aching back ice whatever we’ve
all got them
not not now listen to this when the Lord
your God gives them over to you and you
defeat them then you shall utterly
destroy them you shall not make a
covenant or a treaty with them nor shall
you show them Mercy or compassion now
I want to apply this to this thing about
self-pity but you can apply it to lots
of different things
I knew that God had told me about
self-pity I knew I needed to stop doing
it
and I fully intended to obey God
but sometimes
I just wanted to have
just one cup of coffee with pity
before I had to not feel sorry for
myself and act happy all day
I just wanted a little bit of time
and God led me to this scripture
said you can’t
you can’t have pity on pity
you can’t have compassion on pity you
can’t let it stay around for two seconds
you have to utterly defeat it and
destroy it
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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
yeah
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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