Candid Conversations: The Role of Scripture in Today’s Challenges | Joyce Meyer

In this candid conversation with Joyce Meyer, we explore what the world needs most today. Joyce emphasizes the need for truth, as she discusses the deception prevalent in society and the importance of standing firm in God’s word. Watch as Joyce Meyer unpacks the vital role of Jesus and the Bible in navigating today’s challenges. – – – – – – – Follow Joyce: WEBSITE: https://joycemeyer.org FACEBOOK:   / joycemeyerministries   INSTAGRAM:   / joycemeyer   X (Formerly Twitter): https://www.x.com/JoyceMeyer/ – – – – – – – 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. #JoyceMeyer#EnjoyingEverydayLife

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all right Joyce let’s talk about the

world today and what it needs do we have

to we’re going to have a candid

conversation

on your your feelings of what the world

really needs most and there are so many

possibilities but what’s heavy on your

heart for the world today

well I could make this a

short day and just say the world needs

Jesus so true goodbye and I hope you

enjoyed the

show um let’s break it down into two

categories the well now we we can make

it one first of all the world needs

truth and uh there is so much deception

deception is the perfect deception but

the Bible says very plainly that in the

last

days look it up Matthew 24 that in the

last days deception will be great and

the devil is The Great Deceiver he’s he

lies he puts things in your head that

are not

true

he he lies to so many people

that everybody can believe something

that’s not true and if you don’t know

truth which is

only the word word of God Jesus said I

am the way the truth and the life no man

comes to the father but by me so Jesus

who is the word made

flesh is the truth and if like even

Ginger when I watch television very

often I I just say God thank you that I

know the the word because there are so

many things even that come on television

that are

just against the word of God and people

in the world just think there’s not a

thing wrong with them you know I mean

things that people used to be ashamed of

they aren’t even ashamed of anymore

they’re just like well yeah everybody

does it well you know just because

everybody does it right doesn’t make it

right and if if

people had any idea how many things they

believe that aren’t true they would be

amazed you know

now

Christians should know better

but even some Christians fall into that

deception and they begin to go along

with you know things that

really are not in the word and I think

sometimes because it’s

just it’s hard to stand up to people and

your friends and maybe take a chance on

losing your friends to to to stand with

God but God expects us to do that we

need to stand with God if we lost every

friend that we had

but in addition to that if a Christian

let’s just

say they do know the truth they stand up

for the truth I think what Christians

need more than anything is to die to

self and begin to

really live for Christ the Bible says in

Romans 8:29 that we are

predestined to be conformed to the image

of Jesus Christ and that means that the

Christian goal from the time they’re

born again is

to let the Holy Spirit work in their

life to change them to become more and

more like Jesus and Jesus said If any

man will come after me let him deny

himself and take up his cross and follow

me and the cross that we take up is

not disasters and Devastation and you

know every kind of bad thing that you

can imagine you know some people say oh

it’s just my cross to bear well the

cross that he wants us to Bear is to

live an unselfish life and you’re not

ever going to have a bigger challenge

than that because we all have a flesh

and we just want what we want when we

want it and we usually don’t act too

pretty when we don’t get it and God

wants us to trust him that if we don’t

get what we want that we know that he

still has our best interest in mind yeah

but I I think

overall if we’re going to talk about

this subject the main thing that people

need is to first of all we need to be

careful I mean the Bible says to live

carefully and to to be sober minded to

don’t just go along with everything that

comes along wrong you know but is this

right I mean is it really right

according to the word of God now people

who don’t believe in God don’t care you

know they don’t they don’t care about

the word of God because they don’t

believe in God you know the Bible says

in the Old Testament and it’s

prophecy about the days we’re living in

that the time will come when good will

be evil and evil will be good and that’s

really exactly what’s happening in today

I just as an

example I was watching a TV

program and you know sometimes you’re

watching them and they’re good and then

all of a sudden they get weird and so

you have to know when

to turn the thing off or get away from

it but in this

program all of a

sudden

something these people are being

questioned about something and

and they said well

we we have an open

marriage you know we we both have other

sexual partners and we’re okay with that

and uh so it was a police detective that

was questioning them and and

she kind of came across

like a little judgmental like well you

know like it wasn’t right yeah like like

it’s not right and this is what they

said and you have to pay atten to get

this according to today’s

standards and that’s the problem a

difficult phrase right there according

to today’s standards you judging us for

what we’re

doing is more wrong because because

you’re judging our right to do what we

please and what makes us happy and so

what’s happening in the world today is

people are doing just that they’re doing

whatever they please and whatever makes

them happy

and they actually think that that’s all

right you know

people people have they’ve got this

notion that well it’s my

right to have whatever I want well you

know it’s also your right to go to hell

I mean people say that oh I don’t

believe a loving God would send anybody

to Hell well God doesn’t send anybody to

hell he doesn’t but we can choose to go

you know a lot of people say I don’t

believe in Hell well the Bible believes

in it and here again you know I got to

go back to what the Bible says you’re

going to you’re going to live for

God receive Christ and live for God and

go to heaven when you die or you’re

going to ignore God all your life and

then you’re going to stand before him on

Judgment Day and he’s going

to yeah send you to the other place and

what what you said is that the the world

right now is facing a culture where it

is worse supposedly to judge and judging

isn’t the right word because we’re not

talking about making decisions about

people we’re talking about making

decisions about God’s word and sin well

making it so you love the people but

yeah but the action right is a different

thing so we should never judge people

but we are called upon by the word of

God to judge sin yes so where it’s wrong

to call something wrong I mean that that

is such a dangerous place for us to be

right but I I love that you distill it

down to what the world really needs is

truth yeah because there are so many

hurting broken confused people oh my

gosh and with the truth of God’s word

that you know that comes with the fact

that he loves them and has salvation and

a plan for them and it comes with

exactly it it comes with peace it

serving God is

comes with so many good things that our

world needs so desperately it’s just if

people just knew people PE the only

thing people think about when it comes

to being a Christian if they don’t want

to be one is well I can’t do everything

I want to do but the things that you

think you want to do are the things the

very things that are making you unhappy

and people think well if you’re a

Christian you can’t have any fun that’s

not true we have fun we just have good

clean fun we you know there there’s a

difference in Holiness and legalism and

I was just thinking this morning I need

to do a teaching about Holiness versus

legalism because legalism means you can

it it’s always what you can’t do what

you can’t do what you can’t do but

living a holy life there’s still a lot

of things you can do you just choose to

do them the right way you know and uh

people

just there’s so much confusion in the

world today people are so confused and

if you just and Jesus is the Hope in all

of it and the only hope the only hope

that people have and so I just would

really encourage people to not just

believe everything

that the world says or the government

says or you know I mean the government

can even make something

legal well it’s legal well it may be

legal but it might still be wrong you

know just because the world says it’s

legal to do something doesn’t mean the

Bible says it’s okay to do it it

definitely gives you a

burning need to pray to pray for

everything happening to pray for our

kids pray for our grandkids to pray

against that deception right and to pray

for the truth of Christ to Wi out yeah

every day people that are praying need

to pray that people will see what

real truth is what real truth is and you

know

today people would

you hear a lot well truth is

relative well relative to what relative

to me because I want to do

it you know truth is truth I mean there

can’t be one truth for you and one truth

for you and another Truth for you and

another Truth for me that’s not truth

you know that’s just I’m doing whatever

I want to do and calling it truth I mean

there can only really be one truth and

Jesus said I’m it I am the way not a way

among a bunch of ways are a truth among

a bunch of truth I am the way the truth

period

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