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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 I’m teaching this weekend about the
dangers of
strife
and the importance of
Peace if you know how important peace is
you’ll do anything you have to do in
order to have
it but if you don’t realize how
important it is
then you’ll never have it because the
devil is constantly setting you up to
get you
upset
amen it’s challenging to go through one
whole day and not get upset about
anything but let’s just
say how many could go a whole
week well Jesus has given us peace John
14:27 my peace I leave with you not as
the world gives do I give unto you my
own special peace I now give to you but
here’s the important part so stop
allowing yourselves to be upset and
Disturbed stop allowing yourselves to be
fearful and intimidated and I love to
say this and I don’t know how many of us
really get this but we’re partners with
God God is not going to do everything
for us while we sit back and do
nothing right that’s not what prayer
is prayer is not just asking God to fix
your problems it’s also cooperating and
asking
him if there’s something he wants you to
do to change things and so Jesus has
given us peace but it’s our job to hang
on to it
and
I I’m an expert in this because I was
not peaceful trust me and if I can learn
to live in peace anybody can learn to
live in peace but I had to be willing to
make a lot of
changes and I said last night and I’ll
say it again you are never going to walk
in peace you’re never going to live in
peace without humility amen
and humility is I think probably the
most challenging Christian
virtue to develop and to
maintain in your life cuz we’ve all got
a big
ego we don’t want to be told what to do
we always want to be right we want to be
first we want to be on
top we really like to judge and
criticize and gossip I I don’t know why
we like to gossip so much but it’s just
boy if you know something it is very
hard not to tell it isn’t
it and uh but a lot of times it’s those
things that cause Strife we we start
telling things and telling things and I
mean I made the mistake last weekend of
deciding I’m going to look myself up on
the
Internet whoa buddy I found out some
things about me I didn’t even
know for example it said Joyce Meyer
buys all her clothes at Gucci I do not
have one piece of clothes from Gucci not
one I don’t even know you know people
just say stuff you know they just make
stuff up or they hear something and they
just pass it on to somebody else and it
just you you need to be careful about
how much time you spend on that social
media because if you start believing
everything that you read and print
you’re going to not you’re going to end
up hating everybody amen and don’t get
on there and leave some nasty opinion
about somebody and then not even have
the guts to sign your name to
it that’s really
bad if you’re going to get on there say
something nice say something pleasant
say something
happy I said last night when God
first gave us the call to start Joyce
Meer
Ministries he really spoke strongly to
my heart and said there’s three things I
want you to do and if you do them I’ll
bless your ministry how many of you want
to be blessed in your life okay well the
blessings from God don’t fall in your
life just because you go to church tithe
every week and read your
Bible Well I don’t understand why I’ve
got all these problems I
tithe what else do you
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do see we we we got to you can do the
right thing here but then kill it by
doing the wrong
thing over
here and
um Psalm 133 says that where there’s
Unity that it’s like oil being poured
down on the head of Aaron and running
all down his face and on his beard and
all down his body you know that’s the
way they anointed people who were called
into Ministry service Kings and Prophets
back in the Old Testament they didn’t
just dab
them they poured oil on them and that
represented the
anointing I am so grateful for the
anointing of the Holy Spirit and in 1
John 2 it says that we all have an
anointing from God and if you don’t know
what that word
means boy you need to study the
anointing I’m reading the book right now
on the sacred anointing it’s getting me
all stirred up again I mean we we have
to have God’s anointing and what that is
is his presence and his power on our
life enabling
us to do
things and you can have a little bit or
you can have a whole lot and I want all
I can get
and yes God’s gifts are free but we
can’t buy the anointing but we can make
it stronger or weaker depending on how
we
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live
amen
so if you want God’s anointing on your
life and you you don’t need an anointing
just for Ministry let me tell you
something you need an anointing to get
in and out of the grocery store in
peace if you’ve got teenagers you need a
strong anointing
amen if you’re married you need an
anointing amen if you got a dog you need
an
anointing so it says that where there’s
Unity where people are in agreement
getting along maintaining peace there’s
anointing and
blessing and I want to live a blessed
life don’t you
being blessed doesn’t mean just
having a lot of money that can be part
of it but it’s joy and peace and favor
favor is so amazing to watch God open
doors for you that you know God did
that you can’t even explain it but you
know that it was
God I love having the this little
awesome intimate secret relationship
with God where he does things for me
that wouldn’t make any sense to anybody
else but I know it’s God just giving me
a little
wink and saying I got you girl you’re
doing
okay
amen and my
heart I love to see people born
again but I
so hate to see people receive Christ and
then never grow up
spiritually and so we have to have the
full counsel of the word of God we need
to hear all the encouraging things but
we also need to hear the word in a way
that it will correct
us and help us want to get from where we
are to where we need to be and I’ve kind
of been assigned that part God does give
you an assignment and my job has always
been to help the believer
mature and to so he can have the things
that Jesus died to give him and this
this thing about peace is it’s a key
part of this whole
thing in Ephesians 6 it talks about
spiritual warfare beginning at about
verse 10 going through
18
and it says that God has given us
armor and it’s it’s not armor you can
see but it’s Spiritual
armor we War not with flesh and blood
but with principalities and powers and
wickedness in high places there are evil
spirits
demons in the
world just like there’s
angels and you need to think about that
once in a while that you you’ve got
angels that have been assigned to you
that travel with you all the
time you ought to protect you ought to
just say hey to them once in a
while hey I’m glad you’re watching out
for
me thank you Jesus for my angels but
there are also demons and I know people
don’t like to talk about this kind of
stuff but we can’t stick our head in the
sand and pretend like everything is just
case to R to rock listen the devil hates
you and he hates anybody that’s trying
to work for God and spread the gospel
and God has told us that we can protect
ourselves by wearing the armor that he
gives us but it’s Spiritual armor it’s
the breastplate of righteousness it’s
knowing who you are in Christ and not
living under condem
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Nation don’t waste another day of your
life feeling guilty if you have done
something wrong then repent ask God to
forgive you receive it shake it off and
go
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on you say well what if I keep doing the
same thing over and over well then keep
repenting over and over and trust that
God is working in you and keep trusting
him to set you free
wear that breastplate of
righteousness get over being insecure
and comparing yourself with somebody
else all the time hey you you got what
you need You Got What It
Takes if you’re born again God lives in
you you’re the house of God and you can
do whatever you need to do through
Christ if you lean on him and trust him
am tight in the belt of truth the truth
is the word of
God put on your shoes a
peace walk in
peace the helmet of salvation think like
a
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Christian you know the Bible says that
if you look at a woman and have lustful
thoughts about her it’s the is actually
committing the act of
adultery so we got to do something about
this thinking thing that’s why I teach
about it so much I can’t help what I
think yes you
can we won’t get into that I’ll never
get off page one I I’ll be I’ll be gone
this afternoon and still will not have
gotten off page
one there’s a scripture in 1 Peter 310
and 11 that I abs absolutely love love
love love
love 1 Peter 3:10 and 11 in the
Amplified Bible says for let him who
wants to enjoy life and see good
days good rather apparent or not and I
like that so that’s basically meaning
that your circumstances might not be
good but it can still be a good
day I like
that in other words the devil can throw
his best shot and you can still have a
good
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day let him keep his tongue free from
Evil well there’s the mouth
again I’ll just throw this out for free
when you have a problem don’t start
complaining
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do you know that complaining opens the
door for the
Devil the Israelites murmured and
complained and God got so tired of
it he finally let serpents into the camp
and 23,000 of them died in one day and
it was all because of complaining and
I’m not telling you you’re going to drop
dead if you complain but I am saying
that it opens the door for the devil to
steal your joy and your peace and your
blessings and your favor and all the
other things that you say you want from
God now we all make mistakes with our
mouth but here again we can
repent oh God I’m sorry I shouldn’t have
said that I take that back I’m G to pull
it back
lord quick say something
good God is so good to us I said this
just last night as we were closing but I
heard this a couple of weeks ago and I
thought it was so good good what if you
woke up today and all you had was what
you were thankful for
yesterday yeah
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amen let him keep his tongue free from
Evil and his lips from
Gile let him turn away from wickedness
and shun it and let him do what is
right you know this is really a pretty
simple
deal Jesus has provided everything and
all he says is if you love me you’ll
obey
me he did not say if you obey me I will
love you that’s already settled he’s
going to love you God will never love
you any more than he does at this moment
right now God loves you completely and
totally
unconditionally he loves you I’m sorry I
don’t care how big of a stinker you are
he loves
you he loves you
amen God loves
you
amen and if we really learn to
appreciate that and soak in it we have
to respond with
obedience I’m going to say something
that I don’t know maybe I shouldn’t say
but I say a lot of things I shouldn’t
say I
guess cuz I think it needs to be said
you know you can pray what we call the
sinner’s prayer with somebody in a
meting
but I’m going to tell you the truth if
you are truly born
again and you really made a serious
commitment I don’t think it’s possible
for anybody to be truly born again and
never
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change I just I just don’t think it’s
possible because when you receive Christ
he comes to live in you and boy the war
is
on your spirit Wars against the flesh
flesh and the flesh Wars against the
spirit things you could do before and
them not bother you at all you do them
now it’s going to bother
you and I pray God will just keep
bothering you and keep bothering you and
keep bothering you until you can’t stand
it anymore and you do what he wants you
to how do you like that for a loving
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prayer
and you know you you you need to instead
of just pray oh God bless
them Lord bless Uncle Charlie and Aunt
June
and no God bother
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them send the Holy Spirit after them and
don’t leave them alone until they submit
to
you
amen and that is a blessing you are
praying for them to be blessed When you
pray like
that that’s why the Bible says to pray
for your enemies bless and do not curse
them when you pray for your enemies to
be blessed you’re not praying for them
to get a new car in a big
house really that the biggest blessing
they can have is for for them to see
truth and face that truth and let God
deal with them and there is nobody
listen to me there is nobody that God
cannot change I don’t care how bad they
are or how long they’ve been that way
there is nobody that God can’t
change turn away from wickedness and
shun it verse 11 let him do right let
him not this is the part I don’t want
you to miss let him search for
peace
so you got to want it you got to figure
out how the devil is stealing your peace
and get the upper hand over him he knows
how to push your
buttons Harmony disturbing and fears
agitating passions moral conflicts and
seek seek is a very strong word it means
to go after with all your
might and seek it eagerly do not merely
desire peaceful relation
relationships with god with your fellow
men and with
yourself but pursue and go after
them I pray that a whole bunch of people
here today make the decision that I made
years ago I am not going to live without
peace I refuse to live without peace any
longer God I don’t care what you have to
change in me change
it
no matter how much pride I have to
swallow give me the grace to swallow it
because I can tell you what fighting
with somebody just to prove your right
is not worth the price you’re paying to
get
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it first you have peace with God and
that comes
through either doing the right thing to
start with or when you do make a mistake
and sin repenting right away seriously
repenting right
away and we all going to do plenty of
that in our life because there’s none of
us that do it all right all the time and
this peace with yourself is so important
and I’ll tell you why it’s important you
cannot have peace with people if you
don’t have peace with
yourself what kind of a relationship do
you have with yourself I like
myself I didn’t for a lot of
years I hated myself and I thought about
only what was wrong with me I didn’t
like my voice I didn’t like this I
didn’t like that I didn’t like my thighs
I didn’t you know it was
just come on if you don’t like your feet
too bad it’s the feet you
got just dock them up put some
rhinestones on those
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toes I mean my husband’s toes are as
long as my
finger but that don’t keep me from
loving him and that doesn’t keep him
from being a great man of God I mean my
one son his toes are so long they
curl but I have cute
feet nobody gets everything but we all
get
something I have short baby fine hair
but I got cute
feet
it is miserable if you don’t like
yourself because you never get away from
yourself you know what it’s like to
spend one afternoon with a relative you
don’t like well think about spending
your whole life with somebody you don’t
like you can’t even go to the bathroom
without
you you can’t give away what you don’t
have
and if you don’t have love in you you
can’t give it to somebody else and
that’s the high command on our
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life what’s the most important
commandment they said and Jesus answered
in Matthew I think starting in 36 or
37 love the Lord your God with all your
heart soul mind and strength and a
second is like it love your neighbor as
you love
yourself come on make peace with
yourself
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and stop warning what everybody else has
got I wish I look like
you well I wish I had a Ministry like
joyes well I didn’t get it
wishing and you probably don’t want it
anyway cuz there’s a whole lot more to
it than this I’ll tell you
that this is the one little fun
part you how much time I spend alone
studying and writing
and trying to hear from God about the
things that you need to
hear it’s a big responsibility and we
always just look at the fun part of
stuff you
know God is looking for Laborers he said
the Harvest is ripe pray for Laborers
for the
Harvest but remember without that peace
you’re not going to carry any anointing
on your life
you know let’s just say you work in an
office and you’re the only Christian
there well if you live the right kind of
life and you carry that sacred anointing
on your life that presence and power of
God you can go in there and not open
your mouth and there’s going to know
there’s something different about
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you you’re very presence May convict
them but you be
sweet don’t don’t get all religious on
them be nice to
them if they need help help
them show them what it really means to
be a Christian and you might get salty
enough to make somebody
thirsty amen the Bible says we’re Salt
and
Light well salt makes you thirsty
yesterday I got a meal that was kind of
salty and I was thirsty all
night well be a salty Christian make
people
thirsty have you been looking for a
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Peace 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 he the God of all comfort and I
am so grateful that I know how to call
on
God