Are you ready for anything? Are you prepared, no matter what the difficulty is? Do you believe you can do all things through Christ? Be encouraged as Joyce remind us that as we stay strong with God, we will have the victory!

Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.

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.

all right proverbs 18 14.

great scripture the strong spirit of a

man

will sustain him in bodily pain

and trouble but a weak and a broken

spirit

who can raise it up or who can bear it

if we stay strong spiritually then

really no matter what comes against

us we will make it through

that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy

that doesn’t mean there’s going to be no

pain involved

but truly truly we can

do all things through christ

who is our strength yes you can

make it through whatever you’re going

through right now

and you know what you can get so strong

in spirit

that you can be going through really

really difficult things

and while you are you’re still reaching

out and helping other people

and they don’t even know what you’re

going through

[Applause]

did you hear me we don’t have to be the

kind of people

that every time we have a problem we

fall apart

we can be strong in the lord and in the

power

of his might but it’s going to take some

maintenance

some regular doing of what we should be

doing

not just waiting until all of a sudden

we feel like we’re falling apart

and quick quick trying to get to where

we need to be

ephesians chapter 6 is a chapter in the

bible about

how to defeat the devil and we all love

those kinds of messages everybody likes

to

think that they’ve got the power and

they can defeat the enemy

and in ephesians 6 11 through 18

it teaches us about putting on the full

armor of god and putting on peace and

you know all the different facets of

armor that we can put on which causes us

to be victorious

against the enemy but verse 10 is one

that we might not pay as much attention

to as we should

and that precedes all the others and it

simply says

be strong in the lord

be strong to your youness union or your

oneness

or your fellowship with him

draw your strength from him that

strength which his

boundless light provides

so the first thing to realize today

before we go even further is whatever

strength you hope to have in life

it’s got to be in god

he is our strength he doesn’t just

give us strength he is

our strength and the minute that you

have

any sign of difficulty even before you

have difficulty

every day pray early god give me the

strength today

to deal with whatever i need to deal

with because i believe that i can do

all things through christ who is my

strength and i like what the amplified

bible says

about that scripture it says i’m ready

for anything

i’m equal to anything through him who

infuses

inner strength into me let’s be the kind

of people

that are ready for anything we don’t

even know what it is yet

but we’re ready for whatever comes our

way and we already know we’re going to

have the victory before we ever have the

problem

what does it mean to be more than a

conqueror

i believe that’s what it means that you

are so convinced in spirit

of who you are in christ

that you already know you’re going to

win the battle before the battle ever

even comes your way

see not one of us in this building today

knows exactly what

our future holds we don’t know what’s

going to happen this afternoon tonight

tomorrow we trust god

but we don’t know we don’t know what we

may be called upon to endure

or to go through and we need to be

strong-minded we need to be strong

mentally

we need to be strong in god we need to

be we need to stay strong

in spirit because the world needs to see

a body of people that are stable

that are not just up and down and all

over the place depending on what their

circumstances are

they need to see a smile on our face

when we’ve got the same kind of problems

that they have

god doesn’t guarantee us faith in god

relationship with god doesn’t guarantee

us that we’re not going to have

problems it doesn’t mean that we’re not

going to deal with some of the same

things that other people deal with

but it does mean that there is a place

in him

paul said it was his determined purpose

to know him and the power of his

resurrection

that lifted him out from among the dead

even while he was in the body he didn’t

say i’m believing to never have a

problem

he said i’m believing that when i have

problems i can rise above it

you know the apostle paul went through a

lot of things and the whole time he did

he still ministered to other people

amen david went through a time

which if we think about this for a

minute it’s found in first samuel

chapter 30.

i’m not going to turn there i’ll just

tell you the story but

david and his men i guess had been off

to some kind of battle and they came

home to

ziklag and you know when you’ve already

been in a battle and

you come home you don’t want to come

home to some big disappointment

i mean even at the end of a day’s work

you don’t want to come home to

some big disappointment you want to come

home and rest and relax so they’d been

fighting a battle and they came home and

they found out

that their enemies the amalekites had

raided

their city and burned the whole thing

with fire

and had taken the women and the children

captive and david even found out that

his own wife had been taken

captive and so not only did they have

this disappointment to deal with

the loss of their family the loss of

their city but now all the men

turned against david they blamed him

because their families had been killed

and i love what the bible says in verse

six just think about what david was

going to at this point

and it says and david was greatly

distressed for the men spoke of stoning

him

because the souls of them all were

bitterly grieved each man for his sons

and daughters

and david what did david do david

encouraged and

strengthened himself in the lord his

god

the minute that we have problems we

don’t need to go to the phone we need to

go to the throne

whatever you need to do whatever you’re

facing right now and some of you are

going through some really difficult

things

whatever it is that you’re facing right

now i want to tell you

you can do it

you have got what it takes

come on you have got what it takes

i said you can do it

you have got what it takes

come on we got to get rid of this weak

wimpy pitiful

pathetic it’s too much for me kind of

attitude

god is on your side you are more than a

conqueror

you are a warrior you have authority

over the enemy

and i’m telling you that you can

do whatever you need to do

through christ who is your strength

the moment and i have to practice this

the moment

that you hear any kind of i can’t

the mind is the battlefield satan puts

thought in our mind

and if he can get us to believe them

then we’re already on our way out

i can’t the minute you hear that you

need to open your mouth and say i can do

whatever i need to do

through christ who is my strength

you know there’s something that nobody

can do for you but you

and that’s refused to give up god can’t

do that for you

your pastor can’t do that for you your

friends can’t do that for you

only you can find that place in you

that says i’m not quitting and i’m not

giving up

i don’t care how many times i have to

keep doing what’s right until i get a

result

i am not going to stop doing what’s

right

i say sometimes you may have to treat

somebody right for a long time that’s

not treating

you right before you see a change in

them

but don’t give up don’t we all love

isaiah 40 29-31

he gives power to the faint and the

weary

to him who has no might he increases his

strength

causing it to multiply and making it to

abound

even young men shall faint and be weary

and selected young men shall feebly

stumble and fall exhausted

but they that wait upon the lord

see you love that scripture what are you

doing here today you’ve taken

time out of your weekend to come

and wait on the lord you’re just you

being here is saying god i need you

i don’t want to face next week without

you i hope you’re not here today

just to put in your weekly time with god

but you came

because you wanted to be strong in

spirit you wanted to hear the word

you wanted to be in this corporate

fellowship

[Music]

i don’t know if you have any idea how

blessed you are just to be able to come

to a place like this and just sit here

just sit here i told some of the people

with me this morning you know

being able to come and just sit in a

church service like i did this morning

is something i don’t get to do very

often because usually i’m not just doing

the teaching i’m running the whole

service

and so it’s a different kind of a

situation when you’re doing that

because you’re you’re thinking you’re

praying you’re you’re preparing

you’re planning and i so enjoyed just

being here this morning

see you don’t you don’t realize maybe

how blessed you are

it doesn’t matter whether you think you

got a word

from god or not just be

blessed to just be here and just soak up

god’s anointing

and soak up his presence you know why

it’s making you

strong for the things that are ahead you

never waste your time in the house of

god you

never waste your time when you hear the

word

[Music]

the day that wait upon the lord shall

renew their strength

they shall mount up with wings as eagles

they shall run and not be weary

they shall walk and they shall not faint

[Applause]

amen this is a real thing

and then the bible even says in isaiah

41 that when you’re going through

terrible things

you don’t have to fear because i’m with

you

isaiah 41 10 fear not there’s nothing to

fear i’m with you

don’t look around you in terror and be

dismayed for i am your god

i will strengthen you

and even an extra promise i will harden

you to difficulties

in other words every time you go through

something what doesn’t kill you makes

you stronger

come on

how many times do we say well god this

is just gonna kill me i just can’t do

this god

and yet you’re still here and you know

what you’re stronger than you were

before