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let your conversation be in line with
your prayer do you know how many of our
own prayers we kill
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we negate
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
Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can
heal you everywhere you hurt
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I just want to tell you when we’re
talking about worry that one of the
things you can do when you’re worried is
just really get it get some good worship
music on and
get into God’s presence and get your
mind off of the stuff that’s tormenting
you
you know when I stopped we were talking
about how worry
is the fruit of pride
and I’m going to try to just start with
that again
my husband has something that he says
which I think is good when you have a
problem
do your responsibility but cast your
care
and a lot of people a lot of people do
the opposite they
worry and don’t do the responsibility
how many people if they have a problem
just quit doing everything they should
do that’s right they don’t go to church
they don’t keep their commitments they
you know
murmur and complain and get on the phone
and talk to everybody they can about
their problem and so
there’s no problem that God can’t solve
no problem he can he can solve any
problem now
sometimes just to be honest
we all need to be honest with ourselves
if we want to get help
sometimes especially let’s take like
finances
you know it’s there’s probably just a
tremendous amount of pressure to
not ever have enough money
but
a lot of that we create ourselves by
overspending
and sometimes if you’ve made a big
enough mess yourself
it might take you a little while longer
to get out of it because if God just
comes and rescues us every time we act
foolish
then we won’t learn anything and Dave
and I had some very lean years
financially
but I will tell you that not once were
we not able to pay a bill
so I do believe that God will always
meet your need he may not meet all your
wants right away
but he will meet your needs
and as I said worry is the fruit of
Pride it’s us trying to figure out what
we can do to solve our own problem and
God wants us to always be leaning on him
and so
what are some of the things that you can
do
because we’re not we’re not real good at
just sitting around doing nothing and I
think people think to wait on God means
to just sit and do absolutely nothing
but that’s not really true it’s to do
what you can do
but trust God to do the things you can’t
do for example if you need a job
well don’t just sit in your house and
pray for God to get you a job
your part is to actively and
aggressively
look for a job
put in applications call paid every day
every day every day show yourself
faithful and maybe you’re looking for a
certain kind of job but you might have
to take
you might have to humble yourself enough
to say God I’ll do any kind of job until
you help me get the job that I want
I’ve heard people say well I’m not going
to take a job until I get one that is
really good use of my skills well that’s
not humility either we need to be
willing to do anything we need to do to
support ourselves and our families while
we’re waiting on God to bring the right
thing into our life
so you when you are having a problem you
can we’ve said this already but pray
keep a good confession
let your conversation be in line with
your prayer
oh
come on let’s say that again
let your conversation be in line with
your prayer do you know how many of our
own prayers we kill
we negate because we pray for one thing
and then we get on the phone and say the
opposite
I will go out to lunch with somebody and
even if they ask you well I heard you
had a problem tell me about it it’s not
that you can’t tell them about it but
you can also say but I’ve prayed about
it and I really believe that God is
working on it and that he’s going to
solve it and he’s going to bring the
answer at the right time and you can
also say I don’t know how he’s going to
do it but God is going to work something
good out of this
how many of you really believe that God
does work good where Satan what Satan
meant for harm God intends for good and
there is a scripture that tells us that
we should remind God
of his word
I have set Watchmen upon your walls o
Jerusalem who will never hold their
peace day or night
you who are his servants and by your
prayers put the Lord in remembrance of
his promises and keep not silent
now why would God want us to do that
because there again it shows faith
you know we’re just we’re not we’re not
being rude or
is that well you said you’d do this and
it’s not happening but you’re saying God
you said
and I believe it you said that you would
take care of this you said that I didn’t
have to worry and I believe that you
will do that one of the reasons to know
the word is so you can confess the word
of God out loud and one of the
ministries of the holy spirit that I
like says is the Amplified Bible that he
brings things to our remembrance
when we need to know them
and I think one of the things that the
Holy Spirit brings up in us when we’re
in specific situations is scriptures
that go along with that situation and
the more you confess the word
the more the enemy is going to want to
get out of your space because he just
doesn’t want to hear it
another thing you can do is stay
positive
stay positive
express your thankfulness for all that
God does do and has done instead of just
focusing on the problem you know
attitude is so important and your
attitude belongs to you
and it’s something that nobody can take
away from you
if you want to have a good attitude
there is no amount of trouble and no
person and not even any devil that can
take that good attitude away from you
I forget not exactly what his name was
but there was a man that was in the
concentration camps in the Holocaust and
he made that statement you can take
everything else away from me but you
can’t take away my good attitude if I
decide to have one so you can have a big
problem with a good attitude
and it’ll make that problem shrink
or you can have a little problem with a
bad attitude and it just blows it out of
proportion and so I love the word hope
we should always be hopeful hope is the
anchor of our soul and what that means
is Hope keeps me
anchored I don’t get all emotionally
frustrated and upset and start doing all
kinds of things in the flesh
hope is a positive expectation
that God is about to do something good
in your life
so why not when you have a problem
instead of worrying about it
why not every morning the first thing
you say when you get up is something
good is going to happen in my life today
now there are certain things that we
tend to worry about more than others
probably we should go through hearing
different ones if you have different
things
for people who have children
a lot of times it’s your children
but it is amazing
and many of us would have this testimony
if you’ve all if you’re old enough to
already have raised your children
you most of you would testify like me
that all the worrying that you did was
for nothing
because they all turned out okay
amen sometimes kids just have to go
through a rough patch and sometimes you
have to you know we want them to do what
we tell them to do
but did you do that did I do that
we would love them to
do what we tell them because we’ve
already been through it and we know
right but they have to learn it for
themselves and so all of you watching
with children that you’re worried about
pray
and trust God
you may have to wait five years or ten
years but I believe that when we pray
for our children that God hears our
prayers and don’t ever stop praying I
prayed for my father’s salvation for
probably
40 years not every day but on and off on
and off and I remember the last time
that I prayed for his salvation I got a
little bold and I said Lord
he’s given me the privilege of
ministering all over the Earth
and thousands of people get saved
through our ministry
and I think it would be
a shame
if my own father
went to hell while I’m leading other
people to Christ so I’m asking you
as a personal favor to me
to save my father
and you know it wasn’t very long after
that
and my mom called me and said your dad’s
been crying for three weeks he wants you
to come over he wants to talk to you
and so God was convicting him and
sometimes you have to get a little bold
in your prayers don’t wait pray wimpy
prayers you know I don’t like that so
many people say God if you’ll just do
this and if you’ll just do that
well I’ll tell you God is able to do
more than just
he does exceedingly abundantly above and
beyond and I love Hebrews 4 15 and 16
that we have a high priest who
understands our weaknesses and our
infirmities because he’s been tempted in
all points just like we have let us then
therefore
because he understands
let us come boldly
don’t pray wimpy little
well God if you’ll just do this for me I
won’t ever ask you for anything else
well that’s kind of that’s a shame
I mean I always say I’m a little
spiritual Pig I’m gonna anything
that God says anybody can have I want
some of it
amen don’t you want everything that God
can give you there is nothing wrong with
you praying for God to give you
extravagant blessings in your life if
you’re ready to do with them what God
wants you to do with them foreign
God wants us to prosper he wants us to
be blessed not just so we can just be
selfish and self-centered but so we can
help and bless a lot of people
there are so many people that are
hurting and one of the ways to draw them
to God is through random acts of
kindness
and the more you have the more you’re
able to do that for people
be patient while you wait
and that means to act like a Christian
while you wait
patience is not waiting it’s how you act
while you’re waiting and here again
when you’re worried it tends to make you
kind of Grouchy so sometimes we act
worse
when we’re waiting and those are times
to act better don’t be jealous envious
or resentful
of other people
who are not having the problems that you
have
I remember one time one of my sons got
in trouble and uh I had a party I had to
go to
and
I was surrounded by people that were
talking about how great their kids were
doing and I mean I went in another room
and just cried and cried you know it was
just like it was so hard for me
here I’m having this awful
feeling what if what if he doesn’t make
it what if what if what if
the devil’s favorite question you know
what if and
being around all these other people
whose kids were doing great
sometimes that’s even a test
God will set us up in a position like
this to see if we can be happy for them
while we’re waiting for God to do the
same thing for us
amen now I really want you to trust God
more than he ever had before
so I want to share a few scriptures with
you about what the Bible says about
being able to do that
first of all
in First Corinthians 10 13.
the Bible says that there’s no
temptation
that can come against us that’s not
common to man
in other words don’t get in a little
self-pity corner
and think poor me
I’m getting picked on while everybody
else has got a great life
let me tell you something no matter how
bad of a problem you have somebody else
is having a worse problem
and we all have our share if not today
wait a few days and I’m not saying that
as a negative it’s just that
we live in a world we live in a real
world
where there are things that just don’t
always go away
that we should go
and it says
that nothing has come upon you
that is beyond human resistance
I love that so we need to get that
through our heads I I can make it
through this
that’s what you want to tell yourself
when it starts this is going to end well
I can make it through this
God gives me Treasures out of Dark
Places
and I can do whatever I need to do
through Christ who is my strength God
this doesn’t feel good but help me act
right
help me act like a Christian
and God can be trusted
not to let you be tempted beyond your
ability
to resist it
so when you start thinking I can’t take
this I can’t take it I can’t take it
you might as well just stop and say God
I can take whatever comes because you
are not going to bring more on me than
what I can bear
how many things have you thought in the
past
I I’m not going to make it through this
you’re still here
I mean I can look at different ones of
you that I know and remember times when
you went through really really I mean
hard difficult things and we walk
through them with you and here you are
with a smile on your face just loving
God and don’t you know that it just
infuriates the devil when he throws his
biggest problem at you and you come out
stronger in your relationship with God
than you were when you went in
he will always
also provide the way out
the means of Escape
to a landing place
so we have God’s promise that no matter
what happens he will always provide a
way out
Matthew 6 25-34
a lot of verses there I’d like you to
read them later
but it says
I tell you stop being perpetually uneasy
anxious and worried about your life what
you’re going to eat or drink or about
your body what you’re going to put on
is life not greater in quality than food
and the body and far above and more
excellent than clothing now you know
these are real basic things and so we
think I don’t worry about what I’m going
to wear I don’t worry about what I’m
going to eat now there are people in the
world that do have to worry about those
kind of things
but to me this is just basically saying
don’t worry about anything
I’m going to take care of all of your
needs and then it gives a couple of
really good examples look at the birds
and sometimes it’s not a bad idea
go out on your deck or in your yard and
just
see if you can find a bird sitting on a
branch having a nervous breakdown
I mean we need to think about this
there are millions probably billions of
birds in the world and God feeds every
one of them
how does he do that I don’t know
but he does
he finds a way
he puts a worm somewhere or somebody
throws bread off their porch or I mean
but that’s pretty amazing when you think
about it billions of birds
and he gives that example and he says
are you not worth more than they are
how many of you think you’re worth more
than a bird
come on even if you’ve got a really bad
attitude about yourself you can give me
that I’m more important than a bird
and then he talks about how beautiful
flowers are and that you know lilies are
more beautiful than the finest thing
that Solomon had on and he said these
flowers are here today and gone tomorrow
and I take such good care of them how
much better care
will I take of you so don’t be worried
and anxious saying
and I like to stop there when I use this
scripture because what’s in our heart
comes out of our mouth
and so if we have wrong things in our
heart
we are ultimately going to have wrong
things come out
of our mouth
you know when we worry and worry and
we’re in think and think and think
what’s behind it is we want to know
we we may believe God’s going to solve
our problem we want to know when and how
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and do you know that the thing that got
even trouble was wanting to know
so sooner or later we have to trust God
enough
to get around to
not having to know
what God’s going to do but just being
satisfied to know him
and to know that he loves us
first John 4 18 perfect love casts out
fear if you know how much God loves you
then you start there and you know that
because he loves you he will take care
of you
I want to assure every single one of you
everyone
watching from home
everybody here God loves you more than
you can even imagine we God loves us so
much we don’t even know how to think
about it
and the Bible says that he loved us even
when we were still yet in sin
worry causes so many problems
but God is so faithful Deuteronomy 31 8
it is the Lord who goes before you
he will march with you
he will not fail you
or let you go or forsake you
let there be no cowardice or flinching
but fear not
need to become broken in spirit
depressed dismayed
and unnerved
with alarm
my three-year-old grandson
and his mother’s such a good mother and
she’s teaching him little short
scriptures and little short sayings and
um
and she he does them and he sends them
to me on
my phone
and I got one the other day it said
don’t worry
be happy
that’s all
[Laughter]
I thought man that’s a whole sermon you
know I mean what else is there don’t
worry
be happy
that’s all you really have to do to have
a great life
just don’t worry and be happy now let me
say again
I understand that some of you are going
through some really really tough things
and there may be some of us that aren’t
right now I’m not going through anything
in particular that’s tough
but I have in my life and
May again
we can’t get this idea that because
we’re Christians and we love God that
that means we get to escape
every situation in the world the Bible
says Jesus said in the world there will
be tribulation
but cheer up
so we need to laugh the laugh of faith
and we need to laugh as often as we can
and don’t think when you have a problem
that that automatically means you have
to be miserable
guess what you can have a problem and
it’s okay to still go ahead and enjoy
your life
and I really think sometimes we get this
feeling well it just wouldn’t be right
to enjoy myself while I have this
problem going on
well actually it would probably get rid
of the problem quicker
if you did go ahead and like and enjoy
your life because if the devil can’t
make you miserable
then you might as well go try and bother
somebody else
and so
there’s so much to be said about worry
and I’ve only been able to say a little
bit but I hope what I have said has
helped you and encouraged you
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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
thank you
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
thank you