Bearing Fruit During Hard Times-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

Looking for encouragement during difficult times? In this full sermon, Joyce Meyer teaches how to bear spiritual fruit, even when life is challenging. Discover how to stay rooted in God’s word, maintain peace under pressure, and grow in faith no matter your circumstances. – – – – – – – 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

I do what I do because I’ve seen God’s

power transform my own life and he will

do it for you the key to everything is

found in God’s

word I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that

God can heal you everywhere you

hurt this morning I want to talk to you

about bearing fruit in hard

times you know it’s not hard to be nice

when everything’s going pretty good for

you when you’re feeling good you don’t

have any big problems you just got a

nice raise that work you get to go

shopping tomorrow or you’re going on

vacation next week it’s it’s not hard to

be nice to people during those times but

it gets a lot more difficult when

everything in your

life seems like it’s going wrong and it

has been going in that direction for

quite a while

yep

amen and I firmly believe that one of

the things that the Holy Spirit wants to

work with us

on and it takes

time I doubt that there’s anybody in the

room including myself that’s perfected

this if my husband was here he probably

has I have never seen a human being as

steady and

stable as that man is he does not care

what people think of him he’s not going

to worry about what they think of him

he’s he’s just stable I don’t care

what’s going on he’s just the same where

I was always

like you know I mean if things were good

I was yeah praise the Lord

goad yoyo Christianity up when our

circumstances are up and down when

they’re down and I’m telling you what it

is

exhausting is it not it just is

absolutely exhausting because then we’re

almost like a puppet and Satan’s got the

strings and so all he has to do to throw

us in the toilet that day is to just

come up with some something we don’t

like and boy we’re just right down there

with

it and I you you have to get to the

point where you don’t want to live like

that anymore and you’re not going to

live like that anymore and you and you

have to get to the

point and you have to get to the point

where you you stop waiting for your

circumstances to change and you decide

God you change

me that’s what has to change not your

circumstances Jesus said in the world

you will have

tribulation cheer

up I have overcome the

world Amen

John 16:27 he said my peace I leave with

you stop allowing yourselves to be upset

and Disturbed John 16:33 he said in the

world you will have tribulation cheer up

I’ve overcome the world so I say the way

that you went against the devil is the

onew knockout punch stay calm and be

happy yeah but we don’t feel like

it I have a book for

that it’s called living beyond your

feelings in other words you can have

feelings but you can’t let them have you

if we keep letting our feelings rule our

Behavior then the devil has just got us

on the run all the

time Jeremiah

17 beginning in verse

5 thus says the Lord

cursed is the man who trusts in and

relies on

mankind making weak faulty human flesh

his

strength and whose mind and heart turn

away from the Lord for he will be like a

shrub in the desert and shall not see

Prosperity when it comes but he will

live in the Rocky places of the

Wilderness in an uninhabited salt land

so looks to me like those who put the

trust in people the

world even today you know it’s like well

they need to do something about

that who is

they they need to fix everything and we

don’t even know who they

are we are

they amen we’re the

they that needs to fix things we look

too much to the government depend too

much on them to provide for us and you

know we we we need to get our eyes

people are going to disappoint

you can anybody say Amen to that am

people will disappoint you you’re going

to disappoint yourself if you rely on

yourself but God said if you follow me

you will never be disappointed that

doesn’t mean

that that doesn’t mean that you’ll get

everything you want all the time but you

will get what’s best and what’s right so

that’s the future of the man who puts

all of his trust in the world system and

people

blessed with spiritual security is the

man who believes and trusts in and

relies on the

Lord and whose hope and confident

expectation is the

Lord for he will be nourished like a

tree planted by the water that spreads

out its roots by the river and it will

not fear when he

comes but its leaves will be green and

moist and it will not be anxious and

concerned in a year of drought nor will

it stop bearing

fruit now I love that

scripture I I learned that scripture

started a pastor that I had way back in

the beginning of my walk with God use

that scripture a lot and we have to

understand that a

tree it’s bran branches can only be as

wide as its roots are

deep so we have to be deeply

planted in the things we believe about

God we have to the Bible says be

rooted in Christ Jesus be rooted deep in

his love for you when you have Deep

Roots the storms of life don’t blow you

over a little twist big of a tree out in

the yard may get destroyed in a storm

but we’ve got some giant trees in our

backyard that have been there for

probably hundreds of years

and they don’t move no matter what kind

of storm comes they don’t move because

they have deep deep deep roots but what

a lot of people want is they want a lot

of fruit in their life they want a lot

of stuff they want a lot of opportunity

they want to be well known they want to

make a lot of money they want to have a

bunch of stuff they want that kind of

fruit but they’re not actually bearing

the right kind of fruit they’re going

after things that really have no ability

to ever keep them permanently happy and

so I love this scripture that a tree

that is

planted in God deeply planted in God and

let me just say that I think we need to

go deeper deeper I’ve started doing a

series of books and their Bible

commentaries on

we’re starting with the Epistles and

I’ll see then where I go from there

because I don’t think I don’t want to

tell people anymore read your Bible I’m

saying study your Bible we need to more

be more deeply rooted in the word of God

we need to know it to the point where no

storm in our life can take it away from

us

amen don’t ever when things are going

bad for you say God don’t you love me

you open your mouth and you you you tell

the devil God loves me and I will come

out of this I’ll come out of this on the

other end and this is going to end

well we all have storms in life you’re

not going to live and have a perfect

life and never have problems but we want

to grow to the point where even during

the worst times in our life we are so

deeply planted in God that we can still

bear good

fruit

amen does anybody need to hear this

today Psalm 1

1-3 blessed fortunate prosperous and

favored by God is the man who does not

walk in the counsel of the

wicked following their advice and

example Nar stands in the path of

sinners Nar sits down to rest in the

seat of scoffers I’m just going to make

this quick it is important who you spend

your time

with that’s exactly what that’s

saying the man who sits down in the

midst of Sinners and takes their

advice is going to end up in trouble

because you do become what like what

you’re around if you’re around it long

enough amen you listen to my teachings

day after day after day and you’ll start

to sound like me you’ll start to say

things like I

say but if you spend all your time with

a a

complainer and a

gossiper then it’s not going to be very

long and you’re going to be doing the

same thing that they do some of you

could immediately fix some of your

problems if you would just get a new

batch of

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friends

amen get around some godly

people his Delight should be in the law

of the Lord and on his law his precepts

and teachings he habitually meditates

day and

night and this man will be like a tree

firmly planted and fed by streams of

water which yields its fruit this fruit

thing is

everywhere in its season its Leaf does

not

wither and whatever he

does he shall prosper and it shall come

to maturity so if I’m seeing this

properly when you bear good fruit the

result is God prospers everything you

lay your hand to but we want to avoid

the fruit and just get the prosper

erity you’re not going to go you’re not

going to hold unforgiveness in your

heart and see the things that you want

to see happen in your life if we want to

have what God says we can have we have

to do what God tells us to do it’s a

very simple formula I will repeat it

again if we want to have what God says

we can have we must be willing to do

what God says we are to do

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one time I was murmuring because I felt

like there

were things that God had told me that I

couldn’t do that I saw other people

doing one of them for example was like

the kinds of movies that I feel like I

can go to and there’s a lot of things

I’d like to see that I just don’t feel

like I can go see because of some of the

stuff that’s in them and yet I know many

people even people in Ministry who have

no problem at all seeing those kinds of

movies but you’re not responsible for

what everybody else does you’re only

responsible for what you

do and so I was complaining one day to

God well I don’t know why you’re so

strict with me you know they you know

they can do it and you know why can’t I

do it and you know what he you know what

God said to me look you’ve asked for a

lot do you want it or

not I’m the one praying that God will

let me reach the whole world with the

gospel and so the more you want to do

for God the narrower your path is going

to

be is anybody hearing

me you got to you got to get off the

broad path it’s easy to walk on the

broad path you’ll have lots of company

on that path but Jesus walked a narrow

path and anybody who wants to end up

with the kind of life that God says that

you can have I mean life beyond anything

that we can imagine and to me part of

that life is to have every kind of

problem imaginable and it not bother you

at

all how many of you think that’s a good

life to

have how many of you would love to just

not care what people think about you you

it just doesn’t bother you at all

because you know your heart and you know

what God thinks of you so you’re not

going to ruin one more day of your life

by being upset about what somebody else

thinks of you that doesn’t even know you

at

all these are the real things that God

wants to give us it’s not just more

money or a bigger career or you know

more fame or to be more well known those

things come and go and let me tell you

something no matter how popular you are

the day will come when somebody will

come along that will be more popular

than

you and so you you got to you got to

have yourself to live

with and you need to know who you are

and know who you are in

Christ

amen the devil’s got me mad this morning

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he shall be like a tree planted by the

water then in a whole year of

drought will continue to bear fruit it’s

not enough just to Bear a little fruit

when things are going good maybe we

could be honest and ask

ourselves a few questions this

morning how difficult is it for you to

keep an even temper when you’re under

personal pressure

just just throwing some stuff out

just

whatever how hard is it for you to keep

being good to other people when doesn’t

seem like anything good is happening for

you what level of Peace do you maintain

during personal trials

are you able to remain

joyful when you’re going through

something really

difficult you know something somebody

told me one time Joyce you never really

know anybody until you see them in all

kinds of

situations and you know what that is so

true you never really know very much

about a person until you see how they

react when things are not good for the

them I’m so grateful that God put me

with my husband because I grew up in

such a

pathetic situation and to me turmoil was

normal I lived in the middle of turmoil

I didn’t know that anything else even

existed and nobody could have told me

about peace and me gotten it I had to

have somebody show it to me and I had to

see it for a long long period of time

and year after year I would see Dave

just continue to love me no matter how I

I acted and and that didn’t mean he

didn’t confront me but he would love me

he he stayed calm no matter what was

going on in our life and I finally

thought I want that and see that’s what

God wants us to do out in the world he

wants us to be like that so other people

can actually see that you have something

worth having and they’re going to say I

want that then you’re not going to be

trying to cram something down their

throat all the time they’re going to be

wanting to know from you how can you be

that way what is different about you let

me tell you something the world is

hungry they don’t know what they’re

hungry for they keep trying to fill up

that hunger with things but they are

hungry because when you don’t have God

in your life you’re never going to be

satisfied because you are created for

him you weren’t created for anything

else and without him it’s impossible to

be permanently

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happy you never see the real person

until you see them under

pressure man

pressure that shows what’s on the inside

doesn’t it now in Colossians 31 12-15

the Apostle gives a very detailed list

of acceptable Christian

Behavior everybody say Behavior Behavior

see of course the first thing that’s

important is what we

believe but faith without works is dead

James said Faith always comes

first but good works should follow now

if you just have good works and no faith

in God then that’s useless because we’re

not saved by our works but if we’re

saved by

faith and you become a new person in

Christ and he’s living in you it should

be a very natural desire then to want to

do good

things but we have to grow in that we

have to learn new habits we have to

learn new ways to respond literally the

moment that you are born again you enter

the school of God and you’ll be going

going to school until the day he comes

back to get

you ever learning and relearning and

going over and over some of the same

things so we don’t let them slip away

that’s why I’m proud of you for taking

the time to come out and sit in

something like this today instead of

just being out doing some of the other

things that you could be

doing now I’m going to make it very

clear that we cannot behave the way we

should without God this is not just

something that you can jump up and

decide to do I’m going to leave here and

I’m going to be

nice well probably not you

know I you I could be nice all day when

nobody was home it was when the people

came home that I got in

trouble I mean if there were just no

people I could be so

Godly but they are

everywhere everywhere we’re going to

talk more about that this

afternoon so here’s this

list Colossians 3:12 so as God’s Own

chosen people who are holy set apart

Sanctified for uh-oh his

purpose

a and who are well beloved by God

himself

let them put on a heart of compassion

kindness humility gentleness patience

which has the power to endure whatever

comes or whatever unpleasantness comes

with good temper don’t you wish that

wasn’t

there God I don’t want to have to endure

it and have a good attitude I want you

to get rid of

it now I don’t know if he noticed or not

the words put on let him put on a heart

of compassion kindness humility that

word put on is found several places in

the Bible and for me it became a very um

important phrase for me because I

learned by that that that means that I

have to do these things on

purpose not one of you went and stood in

your closet this morning and had your

clothes just jump off the rack and onto

your

body you had to choose them and put them

on and some of you put on one thing it

didn’t look right you took it off you

put on something else I did that this

morning my goodness I had silver on the

back of my pants and I had gold on the

front of my shirt well as every woman

knows that won’t work I had to match

so then I had all my suitcases locked up

and closed up well then because I had on

gold earrings and now I’m so then I had

to open up the suitcase and I had to get

the stuff back it’s amazing what we do

to go out in front of people and say

look how put together I

am well if we would spend the same

amount of time getting ready spiritually

how about if you get up in the morning

and you put on an attitude that doesn’t

look good on

you what if God says that nah that don’t

look good on

you

uh-uh that’s not for you then you change

it just like you would change your

clothes is everybody with me

today you put on Christ you put put on

love you put on peace you put on

righteousness these are things that you

do on purpose with God’s help verse 13

bearing graciously with one another and

willingly forgiving each other if one

has a cause for complaint against

another just as the Lord has forgiven

you so should you

forgive aren’t these fun to

read I put a br brackets around this and

I wrote out there

wow h i better read that one again

Lord beyond all these things put

on and wrap yourselves in unselfish love

which is the perfect Bond of unity for

everything is bound together in

agreement when each one seeks the best

for

others Let the Peace of Christ the inner

calm of one who walks daily with God be

the controlling factor in your heart

deciding and settling questions that

arise to this peace indeed you were

called as members of one body oh and by

the way be thankful to God

always now these are not just given to

us for good

times this is the way th this is should

be our goal I’ve not arrived I don’t

imagine you have

either but it’s my

goal what I

want is not more

money my name to be more well known what

I want is to be able to get out in the

world and act like

Jesus

amen to bear fruit good fruit there’s a

little something that has to

happen and it’s called pruning you

pruning

now some crazy wild branches just need a

little they just need a little

clip if you don’t know what pruning is

it means

that when a tree starts to get it’s

going this way and then all of a sudden

some Branch wants to go that

way it can ruin the looks of the whole

thing so you prune those off

it pruning takes away dead

stuff are stuff that’s going in the

wrong

direction and the Bible says

that he’s the vine we’re the

branches that every branch in him that

does not bear fruit he prunes takes away

cuts off every branch that does bear

fruit he

prunes so that it Bears richer and more

excellent fruit so it seems to me like

the pruning thing is a fact of life we

can’t get away from it you’re pruned if

you don’t bear fruit and if you do bear

fruit God says oh good I’ve got somebody

I can work with we’re going to have them

bear more

fruit so sometimes as God’s dealing with

us it just takes a little a little

adjustment but for some of

us there’s a bigger job that has to be

done

my husband had a tree in our front yard

pruned back one time I mean I knew I you

know I knew it needed to be done but

when I came home from

work I was so mad when I saw that

tree because it just was down to almost

nothing come on do you feel like you’ve

been cut down to almost nothing

and he said just be patient my husband

has a lot of that I don’t have as much

of it as he

does just be patient and you’ll

see next year well I didn’t want a

pretty tree next year I wanted a pretty

tree right

now now how many of you know that’s our

problem we don’t want anything next year

or in five

years we want it right now

well God doesn’t work that

way sometimes he prunes us

back like for example they

say like say a peach

tree a good

farmer or

a peach orchard

grower if they’re really

good the first year the tree Bears a

little tiny fruit they go and pluck it

off the next year it’s a little bit

bigger they pluck that off too and if

they’ll be

patient and not let it actually bear

fruit the first few years

then it will come

around and bear fruit like no other

tree come on now some of you you’re

where I’m at you’re you’re with

me you know when God called me to teach

I thought for sure I’d roll out of bed

the next morning and go to the

world I felt like God said you’re going

to go all over the world and teach my

word well I didn’t

know I didn’t know that meant like years

from

now see a lot of us God has called us to

do something but we don’t want to settle

down and let him prepare

us come on I’m talking to somebody when

God puts something in your heart you see

the end of it you see it

like

wow but it’s going to start out like a

little tiny fuzzy peach popping out on a

tree and God’s going to come along and

pull that baby off and say not

yet well sure enough next year we had a

gorgeous

tree in the front yard and God loves us

so

much that he will kick things out from

under us that have become props to

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us when I had my little Women’s Bible

group at the church that I was at and I

had my little Thursday morning meeting

and I had my little leadership team and

there were 12 ladies and I just thought

they all just loved me they you know

they just love me they’re Farm me

they’ll back me up and you know a time

came

when one of them decided that she wanted

my

job she felt like God told her that she

should be doing the teaching instead of

me and she started talking to a bunch of

the

others before you know it they were all

finding fault with me and ended up

gossiping about me and telling some lies

and turned against me and it was one of

the hardest things that I have ever ever

ever gone through in my life but can I

tell you something if I wouldn’t have

gone through that I wouldn’t be here

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today you know why because I trusted

them too much I had too much of my

confidence in

them and God loves you enough now please

don’t misunderstand I’m getting ready to

say but God loves you enough that he

will let something happen in your life

that will hurt you for a period of time

because it’s intended to make you a

better person in the long

[Applause]

run it took me three years to get over

that it hurt me so

bad but I’ll tell you

what I got used to being by

myself and going to God for what I

needed putting my I trust in him and I

learned some wisdom

about getting too entrenched with

people come on we need people people are

wonderful we need our friends but

there’s a trust that belongs only to God

and when you start giving it to somebody

else it’s going to come back and bite

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you Jesus came to declare the favorable

year of the Lord the day of the V

Vengeance and the retribution of our God

don’t you love that God is your

Vindicator come on God is your

Vindicator and when anybody has treated

you wrong if you will treat them

right oh

Lord oh help me

Jesus come

on do you know how hard it is to be nice

to somebody that you know has been

talking about you behind your

back

woo that’s when I need those big pruning

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the Mind actually is the battlefield

that’s where we win or lose the war with

Satan he said all he gets to

say rest of the day is mind you start

asking God to heal you and he will

restore it’s the God of all comfort and

I am so grateful that I know how to call

on God

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