With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way.
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i realize that some of you have some
probably very very serious
problems
you might have sick loved ones you might
be raising a special needs child
maybe you’ve lost your job your marriage
might be in trouble
maybe you’ve
have physical pain that you have to deal
with on a regular basis
and so when i talk about things like
i’ve talked about this weekend that
might seem super simple
like
eating better and getting some exercise
and
making sure you have some kind of a
bedtime it may seem really foolish to
those of you that are
having such deep problems but i want to
tell you there’s a lot of different
kinds of stress
and the more different kinds of stress
that you have the worse your stress is
going to be
and to be honest this was one of the
things that really really helped me
years ago when i was just practically
falling apart
and i just could not seem to get it
through my head
that my problem was stress
because to me that meant that my life
was falling apart are that i couldn’t
handle life my mother had dealt with
mental illness in her life and
just from being around that i couldn’t
i just couldn’t seem to face
that
to me that meant that i was having a
mental issue and that i didn’t know how
to deal with life and so
when i started reading books on stress
i had my eyes opened to the fact that
there’s such a thing called thermal
stress that means when you go in and out
of heat and air conditioning that puts a
stress on your body now that doesn’t
mean that you know
you should avoid heat and air
conditioning i’m just trying to show you
that there’s many things that put stress
on our body worry puts stress on your
body there’s financial stress there’s
relationship stress
there is um nutritional stress
which means that you just don’t have the
right amount
of different things in your body i mean
you can be missing one electrolyte and
it just absolutely
messed you up
mentally and so i’ve done a lot of study
on nutrition
in my journey of healing
i had to go at it in a lot of different
ways and i continued to work the whole
time i didn’t like have a nervous
breakdown or anything but my body was
just
falling apart i was just having all
kinds of problems and a lot of times
when you’re having a lot of problems
that nobody can seem to find an answer
for it is stress whether you want to
admit it or not
it is stress and
you can do a lot about alleviating
stress besides just take medicine and
i’m not against taking medicine if
that’s what you need to do but in
addition to that
you have to find other ways to stop
abusing yourself otherwise it’s just
going to require more and more and more
of some kind of chemical to keep you up
and going so when i say eat better and
exercise and
go to bed at night you know a lot of
times what people do and i think you’ll
agree with me when they have a problem
instead of sleeping they stay awake and
worry
instead of eating better
that’s when they turn to junk food
and all the stuff that’s comfort food
and it makes things even worse and the
last thing they want to do when they’re
hurting emotionally or mentally is
go to the gym and work out and so we
have a tendency to take whatever is
stressing us and then add all these
other stressors on top of it and then
all together it just creates a huge
problem so in sharing with you that you
need to make a commitment to have
boundaries on your eating and have
boundaries on your bedtime
and
drink water and things like that i’m not
in any way trying to make light of your
problems and act like i don’t understand
what you’re going through i’m telling
you that i had huge problems and it i
mean i was trying to recover from being
sexually abused for about 15 years so
i know what you’re dealing with if
you’ve got issues but i’m telling you
that i had to apply all of these things
in my life to get to the point where i
really felt super i don’t want to just
feel good enough to barely drag myself
through every day i have set my heart
that i am going to have zeal enthusiasm
passion and energy come on
zeal enthusiasm passion and energy i
want to be passionate about life and i
want to be enthusiastic about every
single day of my life
amen
and so
please believe me when i say that this
is a package
and you need to
participate in all of it now
the bigger your problem
the more time you need to spend with god
the less time you think you have to
spend with god the more time you need to
spend
with god
and spending time with god may be
something that you hear about all the
time but for some reason it’s something
that people have a very difficult time
actually plugging into their schedule
and really being committed to doing it
on a regular basis day after day after
day after day how many of you would say
that satan really fights you hard about
your time with god
you can find all kinds of other things
for you to do so time with god is just
what it is it’s just time with god and i
don’t think it matters so much what you
do with that time as it does that you
honor him
by setting aside the time because in
doing that you’re saying god i cannot do
life right without you
so i’m here to let you know that i need
you and i need your help today in every
single thing
that i do
i like to get my day started with time
with god some people tell me that’s hard
for them they’re not early morning
people to be honest even if even if you
start with two minutes at least before
you do anything else say something to
god
because he is the most important person
for you to talk to and
i prefer that you do it before you ever
get out of bed
lord help me
because no matter how much of a holy
plan i have for myself when i put my
feet on the floor i become another
creature and i need you
to help me
study the word
don’t do it as an obligation
do it because you’re wise
the word of god is instructions for us
on how we can be happy happy happy happy
happy peaceful and victorious so why
would we not want to learn how to do
that
time with god is extremely important
let’s look at psalm 27 verses 4 through
6.
one thing if i ask of the lord
i love this most important thing he’s
saying one thing if i ask of the lord
and that will i seek
inquire for and insistently require
that i might dwell in the house of the
lord in his presence all the days of my
life
to behold and gaze upon the beauty
the sweet attractiveness the delightful
loveliness of the lord and to meditate
consider and inquire
in his temple
for in the day of trouble
he will hide me in his shelter
in the secret place of his tent he will
hide me
he will set me high upon
a rock
and now shall my head be lifted up above
mine enemies round about me and in his
tent i will offer sacrifices and shouts
of joy i will sing yes i will sing
praises to the lord
so here’s david telling us
let me tell you how to help yourself in
trouble
seek the lord
one thing is more important than
anything else
that you might dwell in the presence of
the lord and behold his beauty all the
days of your life
then shall my head be lifted up
when
then after i’ve spent time with god
shall my head be lifted up above mine
enemies round about me
don’t go running around asking everybody
else what you should do about your
problems before you go to god
go to him first
ask god get advice from him honor him
and then if he wants to speak to you
through another person he will
but when we run to people and we leave
god out it offends him you know why
because he is a jealous god he’s jealous
of
your affections
toward him
i want to talk to you today some about
emotional
and mental overload
eliminating mental stress proverbs 14
30.
a calm and an undisturbed mind and heart
boy doesn’t that sound good a calm and
an undisturbed mind and heart
are the life and the health of the body
but envy jealousy and wrath are like
rottenness
to your bones
is it possible that some of you have
problem with your bones
because you’ve worried yourself almost
to death
a calm and undisturbed mind and heart
will make you feel better it will keep
you healthier
can i suggest to you that you stop
thinking everything to death
rotating your mind around and around and
around it what am i going to do what am
i going to do what am i going to do what
am i going to do
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amen anything other than a calm and an
undisturbed mind
creates stress well i just can’t help it
johnny i just get upset now see that’s
the first thing you got to stop saying
you got to stop saying you can’t help it
please understand there’s nothing in the
word that god ever tells us to do or not
to do that he won’t give us the ability
to do
wouldn’t it be foolish for god to tell
us do this or don’t do that and then
stand back and laugh at us because we
couldn’t do it
if god says that we should have a calm
and an undisturbed mind and heart then
we can have a calm and undisturbed mind
and heart we can learn how to do it and
god will help us do that you’re never
going to have anything there’s never
going to be any change in any of our
lives if we don’t believe that we can
have those changes in our lives
and we don’t tackle all of our problems
at one time the holy spirit brings up
one thing and we work with the holy
spirit on that until there’s freedom in
that area and i don’t know it might take
a year
but the the thing that’s important is
that you’re making progress
that you’re not just staying in the same
place repeating the same dumb thing over
and over and over the whole rest of your
life at least get to the point where you
say i’ve been there done that i didn’t
enjoy it and i’m not going to go back
and do it again
right
well i can’t help it joyce i just worry
well yeah actually you can because god
says not to worry
and to cast our care on him and it’s all
about trust if we trust god more than we
trust ourselves then we can stop
worrying
i said
if we trust god
see when we worry
we’re saying i’m gonna find a way to
solve my problem
i think that i am pretty smart and if i
think about this a long time then i can
come up with a way to solve my problem
is that not what we’re doing
i believe that i can figure out a plan
here to get myself out of this mess well
what we need to do is say god i am not
smart enough to run my own life
and in all probability it’s my fault
that i’m in this mess to start with
i’m pretty sure i’ve probably done some
dumb thing and don’t even know what i
did
and so god i need your help i need your
wisdom you show me what to do because i
can’t do it
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teachings i believe god will use these
to help you in your everyday life i’ll
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