Fear leads you in the wrong direction, so why not give faith a chance? On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer, learn how to stand in faith no matter how you feel.
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psalm 86 2 david said this and i wrote
after this very good
preserve my life o god for i am godly
now this is a guy who committed murder
and adultery
and he said god i’m godly
i mean it’s like
come on man give me a break
but you know what this proves to me he
understood
the power
of forgiveness of sins
he understood the power
of what god did for him
and man he let go of it
and there’s some people in here today
and watching my tv you need to let go of
some stuff
you need to leave the crowd behind and
you need to let go of some stuff from
behind
on i’m preaching good
and i am not teaching you anything that
i have not had to do in my life i don’t
make up sermons i’ve lived them
and i know i know that the word works
i know it because i’ve seen it work in
my life
but i do know there will be waiting
and there will be testing
and there will be doubts that will come
and there will be feelings that will
make it rough
but i also know that i know that i know
that you can do whatever god tells you
to do because he is not going to tell
you to do something that you can’t do
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preserve my life for i am godly
and dedicated oh my god save your
servant for i trust in you
leaning and believing on you committing
all and confidently looking to you
without fear or doubt
some common fears we deal with
you don’t like this
and some of them are probably things
you’ve never thought of you know one of
the fears we deal with is the fear that
we’re not going to get what we want
come on just just think about it
maybe somebody thinks you know you’re
singing you think well i want to get
married
and i just don’t think i can be happy if
i don’t
well
then there’s other people that are
married and think i can’t be happy
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all we really have to have to be happy
is god
now yeah some of the other stuff is nice
but
you know here’s what happens when you’re
afraid that you’re not going to get what
you want you start taking matters into
your own hands
and boy that’s when the trouble starts
oh i went around that mountain so many
years i was strong-willed and
independent and determined
and if god wasn’t going to do it i would
oh i was so frustrated
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lord i didn’t like stuff that dave did
and i tried so hard to change him
and it just wouldn’t work
and i had a son that was just like me
and i did not like him and i
come on you can laugh at me you got kids
you don’t like
come on
and i didn’t realize he was
strong-willed like me so our wills were
always just butting up against each
other
and now he’s the head of our world
missions and every mission thing that
we’ve done he’s had his hands on in some
way shape or form come on don’t write
your kids off too early
i’m afraid i won’t get what i want well
you know what if you don’t get it you’re
not supposed to have it
i mean if god can’t give it to you you
still can’t get it
come on abraham and sarah tried that
they got tired of waiting on god’s
promise and so they got a bright idea
i’m good at bright ideas
sarah said i know what we’ll do i’ll
give you my handmaiden hagar to be your
secondary wife now what kind of stupid
is that
nobody gives their husband another woman
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and sure enough when she got pregnant
then she got an attitude
and then sarah blamed it on abraham
oh there’s some funny stories in the
bible
do you know that jesus did not want to
go to the cross you know that
you don’t have to want to do everything
that you do
that’s right
i did a message a couple weeks ago
called the power of restraint and i was
talking about the restraint
that jesus used
to stay meek and humble
when he people would spit on him and
make fun of him and
when he was in the garden of gethsemane
and
all those soldiers came in to take him
and old peter you know he
pulls out his sword and whacks off some
guy’s ear
i guess jesus had to pick it up and put
it back on his head i don’t know but
he said to peter peter
what are you doing don’t you know that
if i wanted to
i could call
legions of angels
legions of angels there was when you
multiply that was like 72 000 angels i
could call and
my god would deliver me
and really
it was god in christ reconciling us to
him
so it wasn’t even just jesus who did
this for us it was god himself
who did this for us
how could you ever think that god
doesn’t love you for god so loved the
world that he sent his only son
to die for you
but the discipline the restraint the
humility that he showed and when he was
in the garden of gethsemane praying
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he went off by himself not once not
twice but three times he prayed the same
prayer three times
father if possible take this cup away
from me
nevertheless your will be done and not
mine
not once not twice three times he prayed
the same prayer i think he really didn’t
want to do
what he did
and i want to tell you we don’t have to
want to do everything god wants us to do
when my parents got older and
weren’t really able to take care of
themselves properly god put it on my
heart to move them to our city to buy
them a house and to take care of them
until they died
at first i rebuked it i thought that’s
the devil
you know what i thought there is no way
god would ask me to do that
well you’d be surprised what he might
ask you to do
long story short it’d make a whole
sermon but it took three years but my
dad got saved
i got to baptize him and he’s in heaven
today going
the same man who abused me and told me
i’d never amount to anything
oh our god is an awesome god
but but we have to do things his way
don’t be afraid you’re not going to get
what you want tell god i don’t want what
i want unless it’s what you want me to
have
come on learn how to pray a little
different way stop spending all your
time trying to get god to give you what
you want delight yourself in the lord
and he will give you the desires of your
heart
amen
another fear we have is the fear of
failure which is the fear of
imperfection
oh we just want to look so good to
everybody
you’re always going to make mistakes
always
and you have not failed until you stop
trying
that’s what failure is you give up you
quit
you don’t try anymore
you will make mistakes
and you need to get comfortable being
imperfect
this may sound nutty to you but i
remember years ago one time god said to
me i’m giving you permission to make
mistakes
that didn’t mean he was inviting me to
sin but he was trying to teach me i
don’t expect you to be perfect if i
could be perfect i wouldn’t need jesus
and neither would you
why do we put all this pressure on
ourselves
you have jesus because you can’t do it
all right
you have jesus you have his name to pray
in because you don’t deserve the things
that you ask god to do for you
when we pray in jesus name the amplified
bible says we are presenting to god all
that jesus says
oh that’s so good
i ask you to do this in jesus name now
if it’s clear in the bible that it’s
god’s will you don’t have to save it be
your will but if
if it’s not clear
well god i want to marry that person
you better say if it’s your will
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because you may think you want to marry
them and really you don’t
dave and i had five dates and got
married and i always say that he had to
marry me real quick before he found out
what he was getting
but i’ve been worse than heaven i babe
he’s not talking up down there
oh we had some rough years in the
beginning
we’ve been married three weeks he looked
at me one day and he said what’s wrong
with you
well i thought what was i thought some
everybody else had a problem i thought
if everybody else would just do what i
wanted them to do everything would be
okay
that’s why it’s so hilarious that god
called me to preach
get comfortable being imperfect i invite
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