Finding it hard to stay healthy during quarantine? Joyce was LIVE on Facebook last week to encourage you in the importance of taking care of both your physical and spiritual health.
you’re live mommy hi everybody thanks
for joining us today for this little
face book time together and I know
sometimes it takes people just a few
minutes to get hooked in so I thought I
would tell you something funny that I
did last week it didn’t feel very funny
when I did it but it’s funny to talk
about it I had a day where my stomach
was feeling a little bit upset and so
sometimes when that’s the case I’ll put
a couple of drops of peppermint in my
water peppermint oil and it really helps
to settle it down well I did that last
week and the I wanted to put my contact
lens in and I didn’t even think about
washing my hands because I already
touched the outside of the bottle and it
didn’t even occur to me that I might
have peppermint oil on my fingers but I
did and so when I put the contact in I
felt like my eyeball was freezing and
then water started running out of my
eyes and it was not a very pleasant
experience so let me just say that I
don’t recommend putting peppermint oil
on your fingers before and you put your
contact lens in well you may be able to
tell that I’m in what looks like a gym
and it is the gym that I have at home
and I know you don’t all have a gym at
home but a lot of you go out to a gym on
a regular basis to exercise and I was
just thinking about you this morning I
thought boy you haven’t been able to go
for five weeks now you’re probably
really really missing it and believe it
or not if you exercise on a regular
basis then you do miss it when you don’t
get to do it but I just wanted to
encourage you that even if you don’t
have one one weight on one piece of
equipment at home to still do the things
that you can do because when you’re in a
situation like this where were in this
quarantines that you
it’s it’s easy to get down emotionally
and exercise actually helps you to keep
from being depressed or discouraged and
it gives you energy by I don’t know
about you but if I sit around too much
which we’re all inclined to do right now
the more I sit the worse I feel so one
of the things that I do is I’ll go or
walk up and down my steps a few times
and that that helps me are I’ll just
take a five minute walk around my house
and just go everywhere that I can around
the house or sometimes I’ll do some core
exercises just I just have to get moving
I’ll do planks or wall sets and you may
not even know what those things are but
the point is is to do whatever you can
do so you keep moving because one of the
things that I heard a few years ago that
I really like is that the more you move
the more you can move and the less you
move the less you can move and that’s
really important to me because I’m a
little bit older than some of you are
I’m not old but I’m aging every year and
I’ve been working on now for 14 years
but my husband isn’t working out for 55
years for those of you that have seen
Dave that helps you understand how he
looks so good and has such a flat tummy
and doesn’t look his age they will be 80
this year and I may be looks 65 and so
he tried for years to get me to work out
and I just didn’t told him I didn’t have
the time didn’t have the time but you
know what the bottom line is is we do
have the time to do what we really want
to do we all have the same amount of
time so it just depends on how we divide
it up as to what we’re going to do with
it
but I really wanted to encourage you
during this time don’t don’t use the
they get an excuse to gain a bunch of
weight you know a lot of people are
called it the quarantine 15 it’s like
they’re planning to gain 15 pounds
during this time and you do really have
to be careful how you set your mind in a
time like this because you can start
thinking well you know I’ll just gain
weight you can actually plan on gaining
weight but you know don’t be in a
situation where when this is over then
you then you feel bad about yourself
because you have gained a bunch of
weight and I it’s going to take you two
to three times longer to lose it than it
did to gain it I know there’s a great
temptation when you’re just sitting and
you have a lot of time on your hands to
to eat just for something to do or to
eat for comfort but you can also set
your mind not to do that
or if you need to snack on something you
know you can get raw carrots or celery
you know radishes or things like that
green pepper I keep a bag of things like
that in the refrigerator and sometimes
if I just feel like I need to chew on
something I’ll go get a little bag of
those and crunch I don’t wanna I’m
working on a book or doing whatever you
know I might be doing I really want you
to take care of yourself you know a lot
of you may think well I don’t have time
to take care of myself I’m too busy
taking care of other people
but the truth is is if you don’t take
care of yourself you will get to the
point where you don’t we can’t take care
of other people and so things like
exercising and taking the time to eat
right you know a lot of people think
they can’t eat right they can’t afford
it or it’s too hard to fix those kinds
of
their foods but here again let me tell
you something you’re worth it you’re
worth a little bit of extra money to get
healthy stuff you’re worth it to take
some time to work out you’re worth it to
take some time to maybe prepare foods
that take you a little bit longer to
prepare invest in yourself because the
world needs you you know what you may
not think so but you are important to
what God is doing in the earth and every
single one of us were so unique and God
created every one of us for a purpose
and you have a purpose and I just feel
like there’s some people watching today
you need to know that right now you may
be feeling so useless and I get it you
know I’m used to working and working
hard and you know I could start thinking
of bummer you know I’m not accomplishing
anything today but you’re not you’re not
useless God has a plan for you and a
purpose for you and hey you know what
this will be over it’s not going to last
forever and we’re getting closer all the
time to being able to get back to normal
everyday life and so I started working
out 14 years ago and I take a couple of
funny stories about it I was sitting on
a boat one day and I had my legs propped
up and I the back of my leg was itching
and so I started to scratch it and I
felt a lump back there you know that oh
my gosh I haven’t got a tumor in my leg
I didn’t understand what it was and then
I I felt the back of my other leg and I
had the same thing there and then we all
got to be laughs because I realized
it was a muscle I’ve actually been
working out long enough to get a muscle
and I can tell you when I first started
working out I got so sore I mean I was
so sore I always said I had to fall on
the toilet and pray to be able to get up
but after a while you know if you do it
regularly after a while you’re going to
start looking better you’ll I didn’t
actually lose any weight because I was
gaining muscle which weighs more than
fat does and I but I did lose like
almost two inches in my hip area and
there’s no woman alive that wouldn’t
love to lose two inches in their hip and
so I’m just really encouraging you to
keep moving during this period of time
just don’t just sit and sit and sit hey
the weather’s starting to get nice and
now you can go outside and take a walk
and you don’t have to walk five miles
and say you walk just just go out and
walk as long as you feel like walking
get out the sunshine wave it a few
neighbors and just do what you can to
you know right now we let’s don’t use
the excuse I can’t do everything I want
to do as an excuse to do nothing I’ve
always found out in life that whatever I
do is better than doing nothing and
that’s really I first started working
out I use the excuse all the time I
don’t have time I don’t have time and I
finally felt like God put it on my heart
you know if you do five minutes it’s
better than doing nothing
and I started with just doing a little
bit and then pretty soon I wanted to do
more I wanted to do more and Here I am
14 years later still doing it and I
really think it’s one of the reasons why
at the age of almost 77 I’m still doing
so much and doing conferences and
writing books and you know have an
energy to do things every day and so I
want to really encourage you too
set your mind on what you really want
things to be like when this is over and
started investing in those things right
now
I think I said this before but I’m gonna
say it again don’t use food as your
comfort during this time of loneliness
you know one of the things that really
helps your health and it will help you
not to eat so much is to drink lots of
water they say to drink one half in
ounces to drink half of your body water
weight you know so if you weigh a
hundred we drink 50 ounces of water a
day and I know some of you think well I
might drown if I tried to do that but
you know try to drink as much as you
possibly can so many people say I don’t
like water I don’t know how you can’t
like water if you don’t like water
it’s probably because you’re just not
used to drinking it and there’s so many
other things available today that are
easy to grab that we’ve gotten a bad
habit of grabbing a soda or something
else that’s not good for us instead of
drinking a good clean water and just
remember there’s a lot of people that
need you and you really need to take
care of yourself so you can be able to
help take care of them now in addition
to our physical health even more
important is our spiritual health and
this is a time when you really need to
spend time in the word talk to God about
everything you know that’s what prayer
is prayer is is talking to God let’s
don’t over spiritualize it so much that
we think it’s something hard to do just
talk to God talk to him about the way
you feel you know talk to him about what
you need help with pray for other people
and just you know make sure that you
stay in the Word of God that you spend
time reading I’ve written one hundred
and forty books really you’ve got one of
them in your house I hope you can go
get out from wherever you put it and
read it or if you’ve read it you can
read it again or whatever you want to
read just make sure you read something
that’s going to build you up and make
you feel better and then I wanted to
talk to those of you today then maybe
have never received Jesus Christ as your
Savior yeah I was talking to a friend
this morning in his his dad died
recently of a heart attack actually
during this time so they couldn’t have a
funeral they couldn’t have a memorial
nothing which is really just a very
different experience but he was saying I
don’t know anybody could not believe in
Jesus because he said I could feel the
comfort that he gave me during that
period of time and I told him I said I
think a lot of people don’t believe in
God because maybe they’ve had some bad
things happen to them and they don’t
they start trying to figure them out and
they get confused and think well if
there really was a God or if he really
was good then how could this have
possibly happened
you know there are many things hidden in
God that we are not meant to understand
what God wants us to do is trust him
beyond reason I used to be a person that
was so I was always trying to figure
everything out and I couldn’t be settled
till I thought I had it figured out and
then finally I realized that if I was as
smart as God I wouldn’t need any he
knows things that we don’t know and the
thing is is no matter what kind of a bad
thing happens to you you can trust him
to work it out for good the thing may
not be good but God can work it out for
good and you know receiving Christ as
your Savior is really really easy all
you need to do is be willing to turn
away from sin admit that you have been a
sinner and be willing to turn away from
a sinful lifestyle and learn how to live
the kind of life that Jesus died for us
to have which really I know people think
well I don’t you know if
new that I’ll have to give up all my fun
and I’ll have to do this and that and
something else you know something being
born again and having Christ as your
Savior and having peace and joy and
knowing that you’re right with God is so
much more fun than going out every
weekend and getting drunk and having a
heavy hangover the next day and I’ve
tried both ways of living I’ve tried the
wrong way a long long time ago but I’ve
had the privilege now serving God for
over 45 years and I can tell you that it
is absolutely wonderful and I’m sure
that you want to know that you’re going
to go to heaven when your time here on
earth is up and so I’m going to pray
with you today for those of you who want
to receive Christ as your Savior and
then we’re going to offer you a free
download about how you can really get to
know Jesus it’s got some things in it
about how to get your new life started
with him and you know please if you’re
not born again
don’t go one more day without Christ in
your life and you might not even
understand that tournament born again
but you are a spirit you have a soul and
you live in a body and when you’re born
again Jesus comes to live inside of your
spirit and inside you you feel alive
once again and and you feel clean I
remember as a nine-year-old child when I
received Christ I felt like I had a bath
on the inside I just felt like cleansed
and you know you don’t need to carry
that heaviness and that weight of sin
and feel guilty all the time Jesus died
so you could be free from all of that
and so maybe you’ve never received
Christ as your Savior or maybe you’ve
tried to live for God at some time and
you you fell back into sin and now the
devil’s got you convinced that God will
never take you back but that’s not true
and you can renew your commitment to him
today or you know what I think a lot of
people today they go to church and they
have a love for God but they’re not
living for God and they think that going
to church is the only thing they need
but Jesus didn’t die so we can all just
have our own church group he died so we
might have a wonderful life and an
intimate relationship with God through
him and I know that there are many of
you watching today that you are
spiritually hungry you’re lonely you
feel empty inside so I’m going to pray
with those of you that want to receive
Christ right now so let’s pray and then
I’ll tell you a little bit more about
this download that you can get father
God you can repeat this after me if you
will
father God I’m a sinner and I’m sorry
for the way I’ve lived and I want to
receive you as my savior and my lord
today forgive my sins and come and live
on the inside of me and make me a brand
new person I believe that you’re God I
believe you died for me I believe that
you rose from the dead and that you’re
alive now I give myself to you and I
receive you right now and I believe I’m
saved
I believe you love me and I’m on my way
to heaven and I want you to teach me how
to live for you and now I’m sure some of
you think why I didn’t feel anything at
all well it’s not about feeling it’s
about what the Word of God says
and I can guarantee you that you are
going to notice a change in your life
you’re gonna feel more peace you’re just
going to feel lighter and the download
we have as you go to Joyce Meyer dot
o-r-g slash how to know Jesus please get
online and get that download it’s gonna
really help you or you can call our
phone number and we have people
answering the phones that will be glad
to answer any questions you have or to
talk to you further about what we were
talking about today about receiving
Christ thank you so much for joining us
we love you we care about you and we’re
going to be here for you online on a
regular basis until we can get back
together again in person have a great
rest of the day