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Ministries I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe
that God can heal you everywhere you
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hurt well as we celebrate Thanksgiving
all of us at Joyce my Ministries want to
see how grateful we are for you not only
today but all year round we app
appreciate you we love you and we pray
for you every day we thank God that
you’re a part of our family you know
thankfulness is very powerful it’s so
easy to find all kinds of things to
murmur and complain about but if you
really think about it it’s easy to find
so many things to be thankful for God is
so good for us and I challenge you not
to just let Thanksgiving be a day of
Thanksgiving but find things to be
thankful for every single day and voice
your thankfulness to God the Bible says
be thankful and say so not only thankful
to God but remember to thank the people
that are a blessing in your life so I
pray that God blesses you and that you
have a very Happy Thanksgiving have a
great
day we have a tendency sometimes to just
kind
of sit and hope something good happens
but I want you to release your faith
this
afternoon faith is a force that you have
inside your
spirit and you can just let it sit there
or you can release it on
purpose and I want you to release your
faith
that everything I say this afternoon
you’re going to get something out of
it
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everything there’s a scripture in
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Hebrews
4 verse
2 that says for
indeed we have had the Glad
Tidings the gospel proclaimed to us just
as truly as they the Israelites of old
did when the good news of deliverance
from Bond bondage came to them so the
Israelites heard messages that were good
news about being delivered from
bondage but now listen to this but the
message they heard did not benefit them
because it was not mixed with
faith the messages they heard didn’t
benefit them because it was not mixed
with
faith and it concerns me sometimes that
people just
come and just sit in church
and kind of wait for somebody to do
something to
them and they don’t really mix their
faith with what they’re hearing they
don’t really like this is for me
sometimes we sit in church and we think
of all the people we wish were there to
hear that good
message don’t
we but you’re here and that means you
need need to hear what’s being
said and that means you need to apply it
to your
life and so you’re going to really
listen and you’re going to listen
already having your mind made up God’s
going to teach me something today and by
his grace I’m going to go out of here
and do
it so I think it’s very important that
we decide ahead of
time amen
I’m going to learn something today and
I’m going to do it we don’t just need
more knowledge in our
head we need more
action on the knowledge that we
have you know we Christians we like to
color in our Bibles we’ve got all these
colored magic markers and we like to
underline everything and I don’t know it
just makes me feel better if I underline
it it just you know if I read something
that really seems to kind of jump out at
me I just I got to get a pen and
underline it you know you can underline
it and put stars around it and highlight
it in yellow and be proud of yourself
when you open up your Bible it looks
like a coloring
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book come on be truthful have you ever
just opened up your Bible and secretly H
that the person next to you saw how
spiritual you
are man I tell you my husband has got
his Bible so marked up and he has got so
many uh bookmarks in his Bible I’m
afraid to touch the
thing I mean just looking at his bible
you’d think this man is a spiritual
giant well he is but I’m just saying
that you really can’t tell that just by
his Bible you could only tell it by his
character
when are we ever going to realize you
will know them by their
fruit you’ll know them by their
fruit I recently heard a story about
somebody
who got big mess going on in their life
and I’m not going to get into it
but you kind of look back and think
how how can that happen to somebody like
that but then if you really think about
it this person really wasn’t that nice
to the people that worked for him
Minister but wasn’t that nice to the
people that worked for
him didn’t treat people really all that
good and you know to me there’s nothing
worse than a minister who mistreats
people I mean I think that stinks in the
nostrils of God
that just upsets me more than
anything and
so we could have known years
ago that something was going to fall
apart down the road if we would have
just been a little better fruit
inspectors amen
amen and I want to encourage you to be a
good fruit inspector
the people you listen to the people who
have input in your life the people you
hang around with the people you eat
lunch
with do yourself a favor and get around
some people that can add to your
life
amen get get around somebody that you
want to be like
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them hang out with generous people don’t
hang out with Gingy
people don’t don’t just go to lunch with
somebody week after week after week that
always sits there and waits for you to
pay the
bill that’s right that’s right that’s
right cuz it’s a character
issue don’t hang out with people that
gossip about other people because if
they’re talking about somebody else
they’re talking about you
them
protect
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yourself from the garbage that Satan
tries to dump in
you and everything you hear when you
come to church don’t just come to church
and hope something good happens pray
before you get
there pray for the pray for the
ministers pray for the worship team
don’t just always sit and expect them to
do something for
you
pray for them let them know that you
appreciate
them do a little spiritual work before
you get there
amen take a little extra money you know
a couple tens or 20s and see somebody
that looks like they’re hurting or need
to be encouraged or find a single mom
and give her the money to take her kids
out to
lunch don’t always don’t always just go
to see what you can
get
well I’m going to go and get my
blessing oh sometimes I just get so
tired of
that I want everybody to be blessed but
I want you to be a
blessing you know it’s greater to be a
blessing than it is to get blessed it’s
more blessed to give than to
receive
amen so I want you to mix your faith
with everything you
hear this
afternoon we’re talking about how how
much fear there is and that there’s only
one way to conquer fear and that’s with
faith you know there are certain
antidotes for different poisons or like
different snake
bites and there’s
antidotes for some of the junk the devil
tries to throw at us
too being thankful is the antidote for
grouchiness and
complaining and you know I I wrote that
book called the power thank you and I’ve
been encouraging you this weekend to get
it and I don’t know how many of you have
been smart enough to go get it yet
but you know that book that book really
helped me because you know what I found
I mean this I have found this to
actually be a reality if if I start to
kind of s maybe I’m tired you know like
I’ll be tired when I get home from
here and tomorrow it’s going to be warm
in St Louis my husband’s probably going
to go play golf and I’m going to be home
by
myself and I’m going to be
tired and this doesn’t happen very often
anymore but you know I could start to
kind of get like
just give everybody everything I got
what does anybody do for
me I’m not beyond that the devil attacks
me too and let me tell you something the
Devil comes after you when you’re tired
more than any other
time you got to be really careful when
you get excessively tired because you’re
weak and he comes against you when
you’re weak and I have discovered and I
did just try this when I start to feel
that if I start I mean I I’ll just say
uh-uh devil been there done that here’s
what I got to say God I’m thankful that
I’ve got this beautiful home I’m
thankful that I can stay here today by
myself and rest and nobody’s going to
bother
me I’m thankful God I got to preach to
all those people this
weekend and I’ll tell you what you can
run the devil off by being thank you by
being
thankful now don’t forget what I said I
just said you can run the devil off by
being
thankful don’t sit around and gripe
about what you don’t have thank God for
what you do have cuz no matter how bad
your situation is it could be a lot
worse
amen I hope somebody’s getting
convicted not condemned but
convicted we need to not complain God is
good to every one of
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us so we want to talk about faith some
more this
afternoon going to talk talk
specifically in a little bit about the
shield of Faith you probably see my
shield up
here first of all I want to tell you
that faith can
grow the Bible talks about great faith
and little
faith and I don’t want to have little
faith I want to have great
faith and you know how your faith can
grow the only way it can grow is if you
use
it you got to use what you
have if you want
more you invest what you
have and it will
increase and faith is a force that’s on
the inside of you but it has to be
released
am and you release your faith I think I
know three ways you can do it for sure
by praying by saying and by doing am
amenah When you pray in faith the Bible
says that the first effectual prayer of
a righteous man avails much I want to
tell you something I am a big fan of
prayer and I’m not I’m not even
necessarily talking about locking
yourself in a room and you
know praying five and six hours at a
time I think we need to pray our way
through the
day what does the Bible
say constant in prayer yes pray at all
times everywhere about everything you
don’t have to be in some spiritual
position on your knees with your eyes
closed to
pray prayer is just talking to
God but you got to mix your faith with
it do you know it’s it’s very possible
to pray and not mix your faith with it
at
all let’s just talk about praying over
our
food
well father thank you for this food I
ask you blessing my name bless my body
in Jesus name
amen we pray over our food all the time
and so it can just become this
ritual that means nothing to us that’s
right I read that in a book the other
day I thought you know what I’m guilty
of that and I’m going to stop
that
because I don’t want what I eat to kill
me and make me
sick
and the stuff we eat today especially if
you eat out there’s all kinds of stuff
in
it chemicals and this and that and
something else
and I was looking up some nutritional
facts on this one restaurant we eat at
and this one dish that Dave eats had
3,700 milligrams of salt in
it you’d be surprised when an education
you’d get about what you’re putting in
your body if you just do a little bit of
study no wonder God tells us to pray
over our
food
amen I honestly think if we were more
sincere in our
prayer and the Bible talks about that
about being sincere to When you pray the
fervent effectual prayer of a righteous
man avails much makes tremendous power
available in its
working you do the best you can to
choose right things to eat and then when
you pray over that
stuff stay focused that doesn’t mean you
have to get loud and long it just means
to be focused think about what you’re
really saying father thank you for this
food if you didn’t give it to me I could
have
nothing
and I pray over this that if there’s
anything harmful in it that you
will take it out and not let it make me
sick I pray that this will be health and
nourishment to me in Jesus name amen
well that’s much better than thaning for
the
food anybody agree with what I’m
saying so I want you to understand what
I’m saying things don’t work if if
you’re not releasing your faith with
them you can have faith and not release
it so you can release it through praying
you can release it through saying amen
through
declaring the word of
God when I don’t feel good or when I get
sick I will always say I believe God’s
healing power is working in me and every
day I’m going to get better better in
every
way but you know we’re tempted we’re all
tempted to just go around all day and
talk about how bad we feel we want
everybody to know how bad we
feel well that’s fine you can tell
somebody I’m not feeling good but at
least follow it up with what I believe
God is working in
me and every day I’m going to get better
and better in every way and when I’m
having a trial when I’m having a
problem I have formed the habit of all
always saying this is going to end
well right now I’m really going through
it and it’s hard but I tell you what
this is going to end well and God’s
going to take what Satan meant for harm
and work it out for my good see you you
can release your
faith by
saying not only that if you listen to
people you can tell how much Faith
they’ve got by what they say especially
when they’re having a
problem and you can learn a lot about
yourself if you listen to what you
say when you’re having a
problem if you’re already sick and tired
why do you say I’m so sick and tired of
being sick and
tired why not say this two will
pass God’s going to work this out for
good and I believe it’s going to end
well we could use a good message on the
mouth couldn’t
we 2 Thessalonians
1:3 we ought
always always to thank God for you
brothers and
sisters and rightly so because your
faith is growing more and
more and the love all of you have for
one another is
increasing I love that don’t ever get to
the point where you think you’ve
arrived don’t you dare if I if I talk
about a certain scripture and you open
your Bible up and you got it underlined
and all colored in don’t you dare think
oh I I I I got that one I know that
one no you say I need this tell it to me
again Paul said I never get tired of
telling you the same stuff over and
over you know why it takes us a while to
get
it and then I don’t know about you but I
need to be reminded of stuff that’s
right cuz there’s so many
things that the Bible teaches us that we
can let things slip
you can be generous at one point in your
life and then maybe start to backslide
in
generosity and so God will send somebody
along
to teach a message on generosity and
then you get back on
track I believe that everything in God’s
kingdom should always be growing we
should always be growing as Believers be
growing in our faith and I love this be
growing in the love that you have for
one
another if there was only one message
that I could preach the rest of my life
I would have to
preach on loving God loving yourself and
loving
others cuz I’ll tell you when you get
right down to it the main theme of the
Bible is Faith and
love Faith and love and the Bible says
that our faith only works in is energy
through
love everything in God’s kingdom grows
second Corinthians 4:13 it is written I
believed therefore I have
spoken since we have that same Spirit of
faith we also believe and therefore we
speak if you’re a real man or woman of
Faith people will hear it coming out of
your mouth amen amen and then you can
release your faith through
doing what God tells you to do through
taking God inspired
action Faith Works through love it works
through knowing that God loves you
you’re not going to put faith in God if
you’re not positive that he loves
you so let me tell you again God loves
you
and then I want to go to a scripture
I’ve mentioned a couple of times but I
want to read this to you point out
something Mark
11 24 or 22 have faith in
God have faith in God Jesus answered
truly I tell you if anybody says to this
mountain go and throw yourself into the
sea and does not doubt in their heart
but believes that what they say will
happen it will be done for them
therefore I tell you whatever you ask
for in prayer believe that you have
received it and it will be
yours well how can I believe that I have
something that I can’t
see because you can have things in your
heart before you have them in your
possession amen I haven’t seen Jesus
return yet but I’ll tell you what you’re
not going to convince me that he’s not
coming
back I believe he’s coming
back I haven’t seen an angel but I know
there are angels that watch over us and
protect
us I don’t see gravity but I use it
every
day come on so you do believe things
that you can’t see
so he says believe that you have
received it so to me that’s just like
saying I’ve asked for it I believe it’s
on its
way and I believe God’s timing is
perfect in my
life
amen believe that you have received
it and you will get it now I made a
point last night out of saying that he
doesn’t father to say when you’ll get
it and that can kind of be somewhat of a
problem
because if we really read the
Bible Abraham waited 20 years Moses
waited 40 years Joseph waited 13 years
you said man don’t tell me that I can’t
wait that
long well your breakthrough could come
in the next 20 minutes but you got to
make your mind up if it is 20 20 years
you’re still going to keep believing
God we cannot put time limits on our
faith we can’t give God
ultimatums well if something doesn’t
happen soon God I’m just going to give
up what have you been saying that or
what
you can wait however long you have to
wait as long as you keep the right
attitude you keep saying it’s on its
way it God’s
working and I do that whenever I feel my
faith start to weaken I’ll open my mouth
and say I believe that God is
working can I encourage you to do that
e even you know if you’re having a
long-term illness and the devil’s trying
to discourage you you’re never you’re
never going to get your heing you’re
going to be sick the rest of your
life well one of two things is going to
happen either God’s going to heal you
he’s going to give you the grace and the
strength to go through whatever you need
to go
through
amen fear is everywhere and affects
everyone including me but with God’s
I’ve learned how to move forward in the
presence of fear and do it afraid I
wrote this book because I want you to
experience the peace that Jesus died to
give you in these Pages you’ll learn how
to understand and confront fear and
change your mindset for lasting Freedom
if you open your heart to God he’ll help
you Embrace courage in the face of fear
find your strength and walk in Freedom
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