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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
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hurt Psalm 1031 17-18 but from
Everlasting to Everlasting the Lord’s
love is with those who fear Him
and his
righteousness with their children’s
children with those who keep his
Covenant and remember to obey his
precepts a covenant is an agreement
between two parties each party having
Privileges and
responsibilities God has promised us so
many
blessings and what he’s asked us to do
is to
love and Obey him
Jesus said if you love me you will obey
me and think that’s John
14:15 he did not
say if you obey me I will love
you see we read it wrong we’re not
buying God’s love through our
obedience we’re not buying special
favors with our
obedience we love God
first and the more you love God the more
you’re going to obey him so if you’re
having a problem with obedience why
don’t you just go study more about how
much God loves you and fall deeper and
deeper and deeper in love with God and
the more you love him the more you’re
going to have to do what’s right because
you just can’t stand not
to
amen instead of trying In the Flesh to
do things right just spend more time
with God
Noah had a covenant with
God the
um the Earth had been
flooded and when the flood
subsided God made a covenant with Noah
and there were things that he asked Noah
to do and they all were dietary laws
which wouldn’t make any sense to us and
he said I will put a rainbow in the sky
as a sign of this Covenant and we still
get to see that that rainbow okay but
there are different strokes for
different folks as they say
and Abraham comes along and God makes a
covenant with
him and the first thing he says to
Abraham in Genesis 12:1 through3 the
Lord said to Abram go from your country
your people and your father’s house to
the land that I will sh show you now why
did he have to get away from his family
because they were all Idol
worshippers and I want to tell you
sometimes the best thing you can do for
yourself is get away from
something
amen I’m going say that again sometimes
the best thing you can do for
yourself is get away from
something
and so and he told Abram if you’ll do
this I will make of you a great nation
number one number two I Will Bless
You number three I will make your name
great number four and you will be a
blessing and number
five I will bless those who bless
you and whoever curses you I will curse
I love every bit of that man all he had
to do was walk away from some wrong
stuff and God said I’m going to bless
you I’m going to make your name famous
I’m going to I’m going you’re going to
be so blessed that you’re going to be a
blessing to everybody you get around and
everybody who blesses you I’m going to
bless them because they bless you
wow that’s pretty good
stuff and then he said we’re going to
make a covenant
and that’s what I’m going to do I’m
going to do all those things I just read
to you and he said for
you I want you to obey my precepts
and as a sign of this
Covenant every male has to be
circumcised now I don’t know about you
but I’d much rather have a rainbow than
a
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circumcision how many how many of you
could use a rainbow right
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now well I’m sorry that may not be the
way it
goes and the circumcision is really just
cutting away of
Flesh and it was
a a way
of
showing under the New Covenant that God
wanted us to walk in the spirit and not
in the flesh
thank God we don’t have
to do what he had to do although most
male babies are circumcised because it’s
healthy but the the the circumcision
that we have is a circumcision of the
heart where we’re walking in the spirit
not in the
flesh but I just I thought that was
pretty good you know that not everybody
gets the same
thing
God saved us by his
grace and gave us the Holy Spirit to
help us walk in obedience to
him we don’t even have to try to do it
by oursel he gives us all the help that
we
need we’re not perfect in our
performance but we can have a perfect
heart toward
God that’s what God is looking for the
eyes of God Ro to and fro across the
Earth looking for someone whose heart is
perfect to him in whom he might show
himself
strong and so a person with a perfect
heart just you want to do everything
that God wants you to do so bad you can
just hardly stand
it and that desire to please God causes
you to study it causes you to pray it
causes you to want to do everything that
the word tells you to do and you don’t
read the Bible out of obligation and you
don’t spend time with God out of
obligation and you don’t give out of
obligation you do those things because
you love
God I
remember I remember my brother saying to
me one time many many many years ago he
said why do you why do you give all that
money to the
church and I looked at him and I said
I’m not giving it to the church I’m
giving it to God it never one time
occurred to me that I was giving it to
the church or a person I always knew I
was giving it to God in obedience to
him and we need you need to realize that
when you give you’re not giving your
money to a man or a woman or a a person
or a building you God’s putting it
through their hands but you’re giving it
to God and I might even go so far as to
say if the person that you give it
through misuses it that still won’t keep
you from being blessed if you have in
mind that you’re giving it to
God
so we’re not perfect in our
performance but we can have a perfect
heart toward
God and the Holy Spirit through the
word will help us be transformed into
God’s image from glory to glory to glory
we have been predestined to be
transformed into the image of
Christ can I say something you may be
the only Jesus your neighbor will ever
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see now I am just in a pitiful shape
here because I’m down to 11 minutes and
I haven’t even started my
message so I have an eight-point
message and here’s number
one I do this all the time it’s
pathetic so I’m just going to tell you
some of the blessings that are
yours
and tell tell you that you need to
start just pressing in a little bit and
letting the devil know that you’re not
going to do without them
amen first thing that God has given us
is the Forgiveness of our
sins
now that is so amazing
wonderful it
just gets me so excited when I
think that he not only forgives our
sins but he forgets
them forgets
them and and moves them as far as the
East is from the West which nobody can
figure that
out but he forgets
them and I I just saw in Isa Isaiah
43:25 I’ve read that hundreds of times
but I never saw
this it says I even I am he who blots
out and cancels your transgressions for
my own
sake he doesn’t even do it for us he
does it for
himself I might have to think on that
some more but you know it thrilled me
because I’ve been teaching people for
years now you don’t forgive other people
for them do yourself a favor and forgive
am and then I run across this and he
says for my own
sake God doesn’t want anything between
us he doesn’t want anything between you
and him he wants it to be good and clear
and pure and he wants you to be
comfortable and there’s so many
scriptures in the Bible that talk
about the Forgiveness of God but you
know one of the things I think that we
make a mistake about is I don’t think we
know how to
receive I think we read some of this
stuff and we just don’t know how to
receive so I want you just to take 30
seconds and I want you to close your
eyes and sit real quietly and inside in
your heart I want you just to think over
and over all of my sins are
forgiven
go
okay we’ll say that’s 30 seconds
now this is just a little trick I’m
teaching you today I think if you use
this at home it’ll really be a blessing
to you because I do think that we we got
this stuff in our head but we don’t take
time to just sit in the presence of God
and receive it how many of you think I
might be right stay tuned for a candid
conversation with
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Joyce well Joyce you just had an
experience where you were not able to do
everything that you wanted to do how
about anything fair enough to say and we
do have times like that in life that we
we’re just whether it’s physically or
for other reasons not able to do what we
really want to do what we’re used to
doing um you know it may be because of
age or an injury or just a situation A
circumstance so we’re just going to have
a real good talk on how do you deal with
that because it it’s not easy easy when
the world seems to be going on and
you’re kind of stopped for a little bit
well you know Ginger everything really
boils down to
attitude it’s like you can take an
attitude this is going to drive me crazy
or you can say I’m going to take this
one day at a time and just in case
there’s people watching that don’t know
what my situation was just real quick I
had a minor back surgery on April the
24th
uh was supposed to be a two- week
recovery got a blood CL clot at the
surgery site got in all kinds of pain
had to go back in the next day and have
a second surgery that did some damage to
some of the nerves in my right leg so I
was two weeks in the rehab hospital
getting some strength back in my right
leg when I went home of course it still
wasn’t totally strong but it was getting
a little bit better each day however in
the process of that
I fell and broke my left leg by the
ankle yeah and so I really couldn’t do
anything I couldn’t walk on either leg
and so I couldn’t uh I had to wear one
of these big boots that come up to your
knee and they told me they said we have
three colors gray gray and gray so I
said well I guess I’ll take the gray and
uh so I really
couldn’t was having a hard time wearing
my regular clothes and
I I it it was just well you had a lot
time that you couldn’t put any weight on
it you couldn’t do anything long yeah I
was in a wheelchair for quite a while
and then of course I know there are
people who in wheelchairs all the time
and so I’m not saying that for pity’s
sake I’m just saying that it really put
a halt on my life yeah and it lasted I’d
say a total
of I mean
I’m good now still got a little pain in
my foot little weakness in my leg but
not much so I’m getting back to normal
I’m now obviously out and doing things
but uh for almost 3
months I said I went to three places the
chair the recliner the toilet and the
bed and that literally yeah was it
that’s hard I did take advantage of the
time and I wrote a good book called
don’t overthink it which is not
available yet so don’t call us an as
fart it won’t be out for a couple years
but
I couple things one I really from the
beginning told the Lord I I want to do
what I teach other people to do in
situations like this it was very
important to me that I behave the way
that I would tell somebody else to
behave in that situation
so right from the very beginning I set
myself to believe that all things work
together for good to those who love God
and are called according to his purpose
and I mean I I didn’t get into the why I
think people not that you can’t ask God
why he doesn’t get mad if you ask him
why but usually all you do is confuse
yourself because you
don’t you don’t always get answers or
sometimes you think you got an answer
and then it turns out not to be the
answer there are times when God will
tell you why but I didn’t get into
thinking you know did I do something
wrong that caus this that I open a door
for the devil now I did ask God if I did
something that opened the door please
show me but I don’t believe even going
on digging Expeditions because you just
get yourself in trouble doing that
and I just decided I had to take it one
day at a time and not you know when you
let your mind start going to oh man 12
weeks I mean they told me I’d have to
wear in this boot 12 weeks I mean I
counted up how many days that what it
was like oh my gosh that’s almost a 100
days what am I going to do and of course
we had to cancel some conferences which
I hate disappointing people and I hate
not being able to do what couldn’t do
what you wanted to do and felt called to
do yeah what said to do and uh
uh it it was just it was a challenging
situation but I was so blessed my family
pitched in and helped I mean I really
for quite a while couldn’t be by myself
at all I had to have somebody with with
me 24/7 because I had to have helped
going to the bathroom and all kinds of
stuff and so my family have four grown
children and uh um daughter-in-laws and
my husband and they they actually took
shifts 4our shifts and somebody stayed
with me all the time and one of my
daughters stayed with me all the time at
night and then she didn’t stay during
the day and we had a lot of laughs I
mean I watched a lot of good movies I
read books
I I refuse to get into feeling sorry for
myself it’s just all those things are so
tempting but they don’t do any good at
all and I know there are people watching
today that have much worse situations
than what I’m talking about but
attitude attitude attitude attitude it
really makes all the difference in the
world so when when you really had that
realization I am not going to be able to
do these things that I normally do that
I feel like like God wanted me to
do how did you begin to process that in
a different way because it it is it’s a
big change for anyone to go through that
where from one day to the next well
things are different now it’s all it’s
all in your thinking your thinking is
what develops your attitude and you know
I always say that when something changes
es if you don’t like the change the
first thing you need to do is change
your mind about the change M yeah in
other words let’s just say that we make
a decision here at work and uh not
everybody likes it well it’s going to
happen anyway and so they might as well
change their mind about the change we’re
making and then it can be pleasant for
them right but anything you know
something changes on your job whatever
they move you to another office you
don’t want to be in or sure you know
there’s there’s all kinds of things that
happen in our lives that we don’t like
yeah and but there’s nothing you can do
about it it’s something that’s out of
your control well I couldn’t Unbreak my
leg and I couldn’t undo the you know the
damage that had been done to my leg I
had to give it time to heal and yeah do
the therapy and do the exercises and you
know that’s not always fun because
doesn’t feel
you a lot of people they said it’s
amazing how many people won’t do their
exercises and they just never really get
over the damage that was done to
themselves and so I encourage anybody
watching if you’ve had some kind of D
damage or an injury and they’re telling
you to do physical therapy you need to
do it and it may not be easy but it’s
easier than staying in that same
situation your whole life and so really
the the whole thing no
matter how you go about it is it’s in
your thinking yeah and it’s in your
attitude and you know I had a couple
days where I started to feel kind of
like and then but I would just say
nope I’m not going there yeah I’m not
doing it I’ve lived my life like that in
the past and it doesn’t help it doesn’t
make the time go by faster yeah and
people people don’t want to hear it you
know they really it’s not that people
don’t have empathy for you but they
nobody wants to hear somebody complain
all the time and Grumble all the time we
all have to course correct yeah it was
interesting because um you had shared
some of the story and um then a couple
days after called me and said right
after I said what a great attitude I had
I started having you know the glimpses
of not such a good attitude and but you
made me feel better about life in
general but you you had to see it and
and course correct make a decision what
am I going to do different so the
devil the devil loves it when you give a
testimony about a victory yeah to try to
take it away from me yes and the very
next day I had two different attacks on
my mind of starting to feel sorry for
myself and I had to say out loud no I am
not going to go there yeah so how do we
help someone in in our life someone
who’s a friend someone in the family in
our church who is now at a point where
they’re perhaps isolated can’t do what
they used to do um how can we be an
encouragement what what things are
important well like I said my family
helping me I think when when you know
somebody who can’t do things for
themselves get
practical put a little bit of action to
your empathy
you know the Bible says that Jesus was
moved with compassion and so people that
are like that really good he didn’t
stand still with it yeah he you compa
real compassion yeah you know it’s one
thing to just feel a little sorry for
somebody but when you have real
compassion on somebody you’re going to
help them yeah and so ask them what you
can do for them is there something I can
do for you you know if they’re if they
can’t go out I mean I had people cooking
for me I got lots of flowers I got lots
of people praying for me pray for people
let people know I’m praying for you I
had somebody text me just this morning
and said I’m still praying for you every
day how are things going well I believe
that it wasn’t just my decision to have
a good attitude I think that people
praying for me was what gave me the
strength to have that good attitude we
we don’t do anything apart from God
apart from me you can do nothing and so
it yes there is a decision involved but
you can’t do it just on decision you
have to pray that God will help you and
you need to give him the credit and give
him the glory and I know that I couldn’t
have done that without God because I’m a
very active person I don’t like to
be not be able to do what I want to do
and I had all kinds all kinds of people
telling me what to do yeah don’t do this
don’t do that careful don’t do this
don’t do that and I’m like you know how
many doctors am I going to have and they
weren’t all real doctors so you know it
was Dr Dave and you know and
uh you know it Ginger there’s no point
in fighting something that you can’t do
anything about yeah yeah because for
some people what we’re talking about
will be a permanent change right
something that is has shifted in their
life in their health and and um there’s
an adjustment to be made because it it’s
not going to be the way that it was
before so so often we frustrate
ourselves trying to get rid of something
that only God can do anything about or
trying to get something we don’t have
that only God can give us and so we
really need to learn like Paul said I’ve
learned how to be
content whether I’m OB based or
abounding whether I like my
circumstances or I don’t I’ve learned to
be content and I think he learned it
probably by doing it the wrong way and
seeing how miserable it made him and
then realizing that he could still have
joy in every situation but he had to
have the right attitude in order to be
able to do that yeah any final
encouragement for someone who might be
having a hard time with that right now
well trust God that you’re going to get
better and better every day and I don’t
think anybody has to just say well you
know this is my life in life and I’m
never going to get any better you you
can always believe that you can get
better because God is a miracle working
God and ask God what you can do to be a
blessing to other people while you’re in
that situation just remember one day at
a
time don’t take it all in big you know
chunks just look at it one day at a time
and God gives us our daily bread give us
this day our daily bread doesn’t just
mean what we’re going to eat it’s
talking about what we we need for every
day yeah sometimes getting better means
seeing the goodness of God where you are
yeah amen thank you very much you’re
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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 mine 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
oh