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I’m Joyce Meyer I’ve seen God’s power
he will do it for you
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are you willing to take a risk when you
need to
you know God has an amazing plan for
your life
but in order to actually experience it
you may have to take a risk and step out
in faith and trust God
I want to encourage you with some
practical steps that will help you do
that later in the program
risk taking and following God into the
unknown is something I’m very familiar
with in my own life and Ministry it’s
how we got started and how we continue
to walk in God’s will to this very day
this year our ministry is celebrating 30
years of broadcasting the gospel on TV
and we’ve seen so many people’s lives
transformed by the power of God’s word
today Ginger is with me and we’re going
to talk about taking risks
you know I can’t imagine what it must
have felt like for you and for Dave 30
years ago but before you had this
foresight you know what God was going to
do through all of it to think about
going on television I mean what a huge
hurdle and a risk to take how did that
kind of come about that you thought okay
we’re going to do this thing well it’s
very interesting because I was just
doing my various meetings around
town here I did as I said God told me to
go north south east and west so I did I
went to North St Louis South St Louis
East St Louis and West St Louis I had a
meeting
once a month in each one of those places
and um
one day Dave came home and he said I
bought a television camera today
and I I said what and he said yeah I
just felt like that God showed me that
once you do these teachings that they’re
lost forever and that we need to capture
them
and so I got a little bit aggravated
because it cost
a fair amount of money and we didn’t
have
any money to waste cash later and they
wouldn’t have a bunch of extra cash
laying around but he just really felt
strongly that it was God and so we
didn’t even have a camera operator that
really had ever operated a camera we
just grabbed a guy and
thought he could do it and he started
filming them and it was just a few weeks
after that I was getting ready to go to
the office and Dave said come in here I
need to talk to you he was in the
bathroom getting ready and I said I
don’t have time now I got to get to the
office I’ve got
you know I’ve got meetings or whatever
and he said no I need to talk to you now
and so I came in and you could tell he’d
been crying and I said what in the world
is wrong he said
God wants us to go on television
and I said what and he said God wants us
to go on television and he said
and I you know first of all how are we
going to afford that and he said that
was my first question is how are we
going to afford that and he said God
showed me a hand on a water faucet and
he said you’re doing what you’re doing
now because I’ve got it turned up this
far
and if I want you to do more then all I
got to do is turn it up further yeah and
so that was all that Dave needed and I
was just on board right away well we
didn’t have the money to go on
television and so we took a guess that
we would need five hundred thousand
dollars to go on television to buy
equipment and to go on you know a few
stations and so we wrote Our
mailing list which at that time was not
that huge you know and exactly five
hundred thousand dollars came in wow and
uh we didn’t Ginger we didn’t even know
we needed a TV producer I don’t know
what we thought we were going to do just
I guess film all this stuff and send it
to stations and so yeah but we had had a
man who had applied several months
before that
as a TV producer and I thought well why
did he apply here we don’t need we
didn’t even do TV and we remembered him
and so we called him back in and he
became our first TV producer and some of
those shows in the beginning I think
were pretty
said our very first set you know like
we’re on a set now and it’s so beautiful
but our very first set
we were in a
a ballroom hotel room and it was very
small it wasn’t very big at all and we
had though I remember there were some of
the ceiling tiles were hanging loose in
the ceiling and we had one camera
and um
we had we had a blue shower curtain
behind us as a backdrop can you imagine
so if you needed to clean up you needed
to clean that you could and uh
our son David was operating the camera
and he’d never operated the camera
before so uh
how in the world it worked is beyond me
but you know what God doesn’t
bless us because everything looks
perfect in polished it is so true he He
blesses you stepping out in faith yeah
and
it really doesn’t
the thing that makes something
successful is God’s anointing it’s not
how polished it looks and God had
anointed me to teach and he obviously
now was anointing us to go on television
what I what I love about this story is
all the lessons that I can learn through
it because you know as a as a television
professional I would be like you can’t
do that yeah right you know
that’s not how it works and I love that
God had a bigger better plan can you
imagine we didn’t even know we needed a
producer yeah I mean we literally
did not know what we were doing we were
just I did stepping out yeah in faith
but you were risking it you took some
big risks that’s why today when people
want to know
my plan for how I did this and what was
my plan for how I did that I mean the
only thing I know to tell them is I just
followed the Holy Spirit I just when I
felt like he was saying to do something
I did it and I learned pretty quick that
once you were over your head it didn’t
matter how much deeper you went that’s
you know it didn’t take me long to get
over my head I mean if God didn’t send
the money in
yeah we weren’t going to do it because
we didn’t have like this big overflow
right and uh so I think Dave went on
um
I remember one of the first stations we
went on was WGN out of Chicago and uh
that was the most expensive one and the
biggest one and then we were on a couple
of
smaller ones and we were only on once a
week and so the first week the show
aired we got 125 calls and I’ll tell you
what I thought I had died and gone to
heaven I don’t know how many orders we
got because we always offered our our
resources our teaching back then
cassette tapes and um
then a company called us that actually
bought TV time
and up until then Dave had always bought
all of our radio time he he negotiated
he didn’t know what he was doing either
but you know he would just keep sending
people our programs until he’d wear them
down and they’d finally let me go on
radio so when we went on television we
were on 100 radio stations and we were
doing good and we we had talked men now
we’re finally going to be able to just
slow down a little bit and you know not
have to work quite so hard and then
instead of that God ramps it up to
another whole lot don’t you love the way
God does that when you think you’re in a
comfortable place right God will ask you
to take the next the next step of risk
right and it can be so hard so when you
look now 30 years from that point and
you see really literally all over the
world that this program is available
that God is using this teaching to touch
so many lives in over a hundred
languages I I just want to hear what
what you think like is your mind still
blown by what he has done well to be
honest
when Dave and I sit and talk about it I
almost feel like somebody’s doing it
that I know it’s like I don’t I feel so
normal and just me that you know
I I mean I know I’m doing it
but
you know I’ll leave here and go home and
yeah have dinner and one of my kids is
coming in town and
you know it’ll just be but then this
weekend we have a conference and but we
were on once a week and
one day where we’re going to a
conference and I said to Dave I said
let’s go on television every day
and that’s not normally something Dave
would do I said we’ve got enough weekly
programs now that we can yeah you know
go on every day let’s just see how it
works and he said okay I mean Ginger
from the minute we went on every day our
ministry grew
like
three times as big as it was every year
we were running I mean to keep up I
don’t even know how to tell you how hard
Dave and I worked in those early years I
look back at my schedule and I think how
am I even alive I mean we just
it was just and and we did everything I
mean Dave and I we we would drive places
he would we had this little bubble
trailer that we’d
pull behind our car with the resources
in it or the van we bought a van for
sixteen hundred dollars that had rusted
wheel wells and we would just go to
places where we could drive and
eventually we’d go to places where we
could fly when we got a big enough
people watching in an area and you know
first it was just like
places we could drive to like Kansas
city and places in Illinois and places
like that and it just
just got a little bigger a little bigger
a little bigger a little bigger a little
bigger I mean I can literally say and I
mean this David I did not know what we
were doing but God did yeah and
I don’t know how many people live like
this anymore but
back then all we knew was faith
you know just yeah follow the Holy
Spirit step out in faith
and I mean God made it work it just it
just worked and people came and
people started supporting us and and uh
I’m still just amazed and you know just
just to show the impact of television
and you’ll remember this because you
were with us we went to well we’ve been
to India nine times into Africa I mean
we’ve been all over the world and every
place we would go we would have really
big crowds because of TV and we went to
Papua New Guinea and uh
we were going to the meeting
driving and we didn’t see any people
and I thought oh my gosh nobody’s going
to be I remember that so well nobody
nobody’s coming nobody’s going to be
there where are they and we got there
and they were all there in the arena
yeah it’s driving through the town it
was driving through the town it deserted
deserted yeah and there was like 650 000
people at that meeting and so those are
some of my man that has to push favorite
memories to to just think that God gave
me the privilege
to teach
that many people and I tell you I’ve
done a little bit of everything I’ve
taught in every at a meeting in every
kind of place and every kind of hotel
room and ballroom and I mean I’ve had
650 000 but I’ve had nine people at a
meeting and you know it’s just
yeah it’s just been it’s been amazing
and it’s been wonderful and Dave and I
talk all the time about
the beginning days and how thankful we
are and how blessed we feel like we are
and yeah well when when you look at some
of the things that God does
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um
out of faithfulness I mean that that
really is what it is you you give God
what you have you you are willing to
take a step right and and God takes it
and he multiplies it in incredible ways
just a couple things
um this is an email that says I want to
say thank you Joyce God used you to save
my life and she was talking about a time
that she was had determined to take her
own life and turned on the television
and there was you talking about grief
which is what she was suffering from at
that point and she said I could not
believe what just happened that God gave
me this message and saved my life and
and just so many different emails people
who were talking about how every morning
spending that time with you has got
gotten them into the word of God it’s
their morning time with God and Joyce
and that it’s just blessed their life
and made such a difference and just
story after story after Story like well
I’m blessed that’s all I know how to say
I don’t know why God picked me
because in the natural I wouldn’t think
that I would be the person that would be
well I wasn’t qualified to do it you
know that’s I mean I didn’t have the
education I didn’t
I remember one girl said I don’t think
you’ve got the personality
but well even the Bible even says about
Jesus that the anointing qualified him
so it’s God’s hand on you right that
qualifies you to do literally anything
that God asks you to do and you know
everybody’s not asked to go on worldwide
TV but every person’s part is equally
important
the people who help me the our camera
people
who clean the building I mean everybody
everybody’s part is equal and it takes
all of us working together
and I think one of the keys is keeping
The Strife out we were talking today you
and I about
how well everybody here gets along not
that we never have any bumps in the road
because we do but we always deal with it
because you God’s anointing rests where
there’s peace and so we really try to be
obedient
be peaceful be forgiving walk in love
and I don’t want to ever be teaching
somebody something that I’m not living
yeah well and just gratitude for God for
what he has done and what you were
saying about how every person has a part
in this ministry it’s the same way for
everyone who’s watching right now for
those people who are teaching a Bible
study with 10 people or teaching a
Sunday school class with three-year-olds
right you know God Honors that he honors
that sacrifice that they do and
um does congratulations it really is
amazing 30 years is an incredible thing
and and we want to support those other
people now right we’re taking their own
risks right who are like God what do you
want me to do and how can I step out and
so would you would you pray for those
people I’m going to do that you know you
maybe you’re not trying to step out into
some kind of ministry opportunity but
you know maybe you’ve had some kind of a
loss in your life and you’re having to
start over and you’re
you don’t know how to do that you don’t
know how to
take that kind of a risk or maybe you’re
thinking about taking a job in another
city and that’s going to be a risk you
don’t really know how to do that I mean
there’s always it just seems like
opportunity always comes with taking
some kind of a risk that you’re just not
sure about until you take it and so I’m
going to pray for you father I pray for
all of our viewers
that are placed in their life where they
need to take a risk in order to go to
the next level
and I pray that you would help them
not be foolish but to be brave and
courageous and if they really believe
they’re hearing from you to take those
Steps of Faith one step at a time and if
that step works then take another and
another and another
help them understand that our Journeys
are not always fast like we’d like them
to be that they usually take longer than
we thought they would and they may be
harder than we thought they would be but
it’s very worth it in the end when you
see the Victory and you see what God can
do through somebody who will step out in
faith and do what he asks them to do so
I bless you in the name of Jesus and I
pray that you would be all God wants you
to be do all he wants you to do and have
all that he wants you to have in Jesus
name amen
anybody who’s not ever willing to risk
will never do very much
in this world
and in all probability you’ll end up
being quite bored
with your life
taking a step of faith is stepping out
to do something when you
don’t know how it will be provided for
that you believe with all your heart
that is what God has told you to do I’ll
give you one example from my life
when God started putting it in my heart
to teach a Bible study a home Bible
study
I had a full-time job and I made as much
money as Dave did I had a really good
job and
we didn’t have any money pressure and
but I I didn’t know the Bible very well
and so I needed to study and I didn’t
really have time to study with having a
full-time job and
three children so
God started putting it on my heart to
quit my job
but I was not an irresponsible person
and that just didn’t make any sense to
me because I could get out the
calculator and figure out that our bills
were more than our income would be
if I didn’t work
and so
I did what we do so often I kind of
bargained with God and I quit my
full-time job and got a part-time job
come on do you ever try to obey God
part-time
part way well I don’t want to I don’t
want to do that but how about if I do
this
that way I’m still obeying you but I’ve
still got a backup plan
come on maybe God is wanting some of you
to let go of your backup plan
and trust him completely
so I got fired from my part-time job
and
I was not the kind of person that got
fired
from a job I mean I was a good worker
and I mean it was just ridiculous I mean
I could not do anything right
at that job everything I touched broke
down
and I mean it was just crazy so it
became obvious that God had
completely blocked my way and that he
meant
that I was to lay down that job and
trust him
well to be honest back then I was just
trusting God for my kids shoes and
we were forty dollars a month short I’m
paying our bills and so it wasn’t like
this huge sum of money that we needed
but we needed a little bit of extra
money to come in miraculously every
single month from somewhere
and so
I took that step of Faith to do that
and you know sometimes we think well we
take a big step of faith that boy God is
just going to load in the reward and the
blessings right away I mean look at this
sacrifice I made and I can’t wait to see
what God’s going to do for me tomorrow
well for six years
for six years
we had to believe God literally when you
hear people say I was believing God for
my socks and underwear I was believing
God for my socks and underwear I don’t
think
that anybody will ever do anything of
any magnitude without getting some tests
and so you step out
and boy you’ve put your foot in it
and now you’re there and you know it’s
tough when you’re in the middle of
something and you don’t know how to go
forward and you can’t go backwards
because you’ve left everything there’s
nothing back there to go back to and you
can’t get to where you want to be and
you’re just stuck there waiting for God
to do what only God can do
but it brings you so close to God
when all you have to depend on is him so
if you want to live dangerously and you
want to have an adventurous life I don’t
think there’s any life that’s more
adventurous than just following the
leadership of the Holy Spirit
and I can tell you you may not like
every place he takes you but you won’t
be bored if you follow the leadership of
the Holy Spirit you will not be bored
because he is one creative guy that
comes up with more things than what you
can even possibly imagine
amen
and so
Satan tries to attack Us in so many
different ways and one of the areas
where Satan attacks us more than
anything else
is in how we feel about ourselves
now just very seriously I want to tell
you that a lot of people’s problems
more than anything else your problem is
you just don’t like yourself
and a lot of people that don’t like
themselves don’t even know they don’t
like themselves
and they blame everything on everybody
else
well if you wouldn’t do this I’d be
happy and if you would do that I’d be
happy and if you didn’t do this I’d be
happy
you know if you can get happy with who
you are
and happy yourself then you can spend
your life making somebody happy rather
than being mad at them because they’re
not making you happy
somewhere along the way get in touch
with how you feel about yourself
do you like yourself
do you love yourself
do you respect yourself
because here’s the bottom line what you
believe about yourself is much more
important than what anybody else
believes about you
come on what you believe about yourself
is much more important than what anybody
else believes about you
and if you know who you are in Christ
then you don’t have to live as a people
pleaser
Satan regularly attacks our worth in
value
you know when Jesus was being tempted in
the wilderness
the account is in Luke chapter four
different times Satan said to him well
if you are the son of God
well if you are a child of God then why
do you have these problems well if God
loves you then why hasn’t he answered
your prayers he’s always trying to
attack our worth and our value and keep
get us thinking that God doesn’t love us
and David said is there still anyone
left to the house of Saul
that I might show him kindness for
Jonathan’s sake what we need to see out
of that is God is saying is there
anybody that I can show kindness to for
Jesus sake
God’s not good to us because we deserve
it because we don’t
but he’s good to us because Jesus
deserves it and we believe in him and
we’re joint heirs with him and he said
everything the father has is mine and
everything that’s mine I’m giving it to
you
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and now there was a servant of the House
of Saul whose name was ziba and they
called him to David and the King said to
him are you zuba and he said I am your
servant
and the King said is there still someone
of the House of Saul that I may show the
kindness of God to him and ziba said to
the king there is still a son of
Jonathan but he is crippled in his feet
and the King said well where is he and
ziba said he’s in the house of maker the
son of Amiel at lodibar
then King David sent and brought him
from the house of maker
the son of Amiel at Lodi bar
and mephibosheth the son of Jonathan boy
these people had some names didn’t they
came to David and fell on his face
and paid homage and David said
mephibosheth and he answered behold I am
your servant now you got to watch this
and David said to him don’t fear for I
will show you kindness for the sake of
your father Jonathan and I will restore
to you all the land of Saul your father
and you shall eat at my table always and
he paid homage and said what is your
servant that you should show regard for
such a dead dog as I am
now we see the real problem
it was his own poor self-image
that kept him from going to the Palace
boldly going in and saying
I am King Saul’s grandson
Jonathan is my father
and I have rights
how many of you because you have a poor
self-image
never go boldly to the throne
come boldly to the throne the Bible says
but God if you’ll just do this and if
you’ll just do that try to keep that
phrase out of your prayers
because the word just means just enough
to barely get by
but God if you’ll just help me tonight I
don’t want you to just help me tonight I
need help every single moment of every
single day
thank you
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