The Bible talks about giving in to the desires of our flesh. Do we pout when we don’t get what we want? Joyce explains this perfectly.

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.

if there’s anything that we want

that we cannot be happy without it

it’s no longer a desire it’s become a

lust

see god gives us the desires of our

heart

if we delight ourselves in him psalm 37

delight yourself in the lord put him

first above

everything else want him more than you

want

anything else put him first in your time

first in everything

and be happy with or without the stuff

and at the right time god will give you

the desires of your heart

but if we’re lusting after something and

we think we can’t be happy without that

god’s not going to give us that

because then our joy is in the thing

not in him okay so

how do you crucify the flesh you just

don’t feed it

you can kill anything if you starve it

it’s really it’s really not that

challenging

if you really finally see this every

time

we give in to a fleshly whim or desire

let’s just say that i don’t get my way

and so my normal old nature reaction to

not getting my way is to pout and feel

sorry for myself

well i mean i did that for years and

years and years and

so when god started dealing with me

about that

that’s how it works the holy spirit

comes to live in you and he doesn’t

touch everything that’s wrong with us at

one time

it’s a little bit of time he’ll put his

finger on one thing

you know the bible says that jesus

stands at the door and knocks

well what door is he knocking at in your

life

and are you saying nobody’s home or come

in

come on come on let me say it again is

he knocking at the door of

appetite is he knocking at the

entertainment door

of your life are there some things that

your friends want you to do

and you know it’s not what god wants you

to do anymore and

maybe you’re afraid you’re going to lose

some of your friends if you don’t do it

anymore too

and so jesus is

not not not no nobody’s home nobody’s

home

i’m not ready for that yet i’m not no

god not that i’m not ready for that yet

let me tell you something god puts his

finger on something in our life we

better get ready

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because things aren’t going to work too

good after that if we don’t

see that to me

and i really mean this to me this is an

exciting part of our journey with god

because i want to be everything that he

wants me to be

but i’m not smart enough to do it

without some help from god

and i need the holy spirit to deal with

me

and i need conviction i don’t need

condemnation i had that long time ago i

finally got rid of that but i do need

conviction

i’m glad when god shows me joyce knock

it off

that attitude is not good amen

i don’t want to just get by with stuff

you don’t want to just get by with stuff

anymore do you

you want god to deal with you you want

him knocking at the doors of your life

that’s right but if we

everybody in here tonight probably if i

ask you what’s god dealing with you

about it’d be something different for

everybody

except dave i do remember one time

asking dave because god was always

dealing with me

like always and i so wanted god to deal

with dave

because i was pretty convinced he had

more problems than me

which was another thing god needed to

deal with me about

honestly this happened i’m not kidding

and i remember saying to dave

is god dealing with you about anything

because i’ve been praying for him in

some areas

are you with me i mean i’ve been praying

for him in some areas that i

i was trying to help god and

i mean i still remember exactly where i

was at the house we were living at the

time

and i said is god is god dealing with

you about anything and he said

no i don’t think so

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lord have mercy

it’s tough when you’re married to

somebody that’s perfect i’ll tell you

so let’s just say that every time i

don’t get my way which this was a big

problem for me a big fleshly problem

every time i didn’t get my way i would

pout

if i didn’t get my way

and then i’d put up my walls and

give the silent treatment you know like

how many of you ladies know how to do

this well right okay

i don’t know if men even pout or not but

you know

if you don’t you’ve seen a woman do it

so

i’m sure there’s men who do it too they

probably do it a little differently

and so when god finally put his finger

on that in my life

and he was knocking at that door in my

life

then i could never stop doing that

because the flesh is stupid and it only

can do what it’s used to doing

it only wants what we give it you know

if you give it a pound of sugar a day

it’s going to

scream for a pound of sugar a day and

when you first start taking it away from

it

it’s going to scream because you took it

away it’s like a baby

when you take the pacifier away from

them

amen the problem is we got a lot of

adults in church that are still carrying

their pacifiers around with them

and that’s not what god wants

so

the way to get free from something like

that is okay then i have to start

not pouting and not feeling sorry for

myself

and every time i don’t give in to it

then

that fleshly trait

in my flesh gets weaker and weaker

and weaker to where then ultimately

you would actually feel really unc like

for me now

if i spent a whole day pouting and

feeling sorry for myself

that would just be misery to me i

wouldn’t like that at all

because now i’m not used to that now i’m

used to

being okay with it if i don’t get my way

same way with you

you can take any fleshly thing

and if you just quit feeding it it’ll

get weaker

and weaker and weaker how many of you

understand where i’m coming from

and what i’m talking about okay we hope

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