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ministries how do we show humility but
not worry
all I’m saying when I worry is excuse me
god I think I can take care of this I
got an idea
the Bible says that worry and the cares
and anxieties of the world the
deceitfulness of riches choke the word
spend all that time that you’re spending
worrying meditating on the Word of God
fight the good fight get out your Bible
and start saying some stuff out loud
your own voice will disrupt the wrong
thoughts you’re having you’ll believe
more of what you say than what anybody
else says make a decision you’re not
going to live in worry humans are the
only species of creation that worries
and we are supposed to be the most
intelligent
we’re like the cream of the crop
everybody else gets it trees don’t worry
birds don’t worry rabbits don’t worry
flowers don’t worry lions don’t worry
pigs don’t worry cows don’t worry oh but
our smart ones the wise munch the
intelligent group we worry nobody else
worries Matthew 25 or Matthew 6 I’m
sorry the practicality of how not to
worry learn how to get some humility
learn what you can do and what you can’t
do do what God tells you to do but stay
away from trying to do anything he
didn’t tell you to do do what you can do
God will do what you can’t do Matthew 6
therefore I tell you stop being
perpetually uneasy anxious and worried
about your life the next time you start
to worry just have a little talk with
yourself as all right stop it
right now just stop it talk to yourself
say this is not going to do any good
I’ve been there done that I’m not going
to waste this day tormenting myself and
making myself miserable thinking about
this thing over and over and over god I
cast it on you I give it to you and then
you know what you should do go get
involved in something else that will
take your your time
and your mind something that’s going to
be happy something that’s going to be
helpful something that’s going to be
joyful and peaceful amen therefore I
tell you stop being perpetually uneasy
anxious and worried about your life what
you shall eat or what you shall drink
are about your body of what you shall
put on is not life greater in quality
than food and the body far above and
more excellent than clothes now here we
go look at the birds birds don’t worry
have you ever seen a bird sitting on a
branch having a breakdown wondering
where the next one was going to come
down from look at the birds of the air
they neither sow nor reap nor gather
into barns and yet your heavenly Father
keeps feeding them are you not worth
more than they are and then he goes on
and on and talks about the flowers and
even Solomon and all of his glory was
not dressed as beautifully as one of the
flowers and verse 31 says therefore do
not worry and be anxious saying if you
worry it’s going to come out of your
mouth so Satan puts wrong thoughts in
our head hoping they will come out of
our mouths because our words are
powerful far beyond what we can even
imagine and when we start saying things
we either give God permission to work or
we give the enemy permission to work can
I tell you that again when we start
saying things in the middle Jesus said
let’s go to the other side we’re now in
the middle we’re in the storm and we’re
going to say something so what we say
can either give God permission to work
what we need to be saying is God I trust
you Eileen and rely on you I don’t like
this it doesn’t feel good but I believe
that you are in control and I trust that
this will all work out good in the end
give me the grace to be stable in it now
God can go to work but on the other hand
if you open your mouth it I don’t what
are we gonna do better we’re gonna drown
now the enemy’s going on woo got him
again
what is Psalm 91 1 & 2 say he that
dwelleth in the secret place of the Most
High shall remain stable and fixed under
the shadow of the Almighty whose power
no foe can come against I will say of
the Lord what are you saying of the Lord
I will say of the Lord he is my refuge
my fortress my high tower in him I will
put my trust on him
I will lean and rely I will say of the
Lord what are we saying about the Lord
worries a thief it steals your peace it
steals your joy and more than anything
it steals your today today this is the
day the Lord has made
I can’t guarantee you’re going to get
another one I hope you do I hope I do I
think I will but what if I don’t I don’t
want to waste the last one that I had
the present is the greatest present that
God ever gives us the moment that we
have is to be enjoyed
we don’t worry and waste this moment
worrying about one that’s already gone
and we can’t do anything about our
worrying about one that’s coming up that
we don’t have any control over yet
that’s why you got to leave the past and
the future in God’s hands letting go of
what lies behind having faith for the
future and enjoy the moment enjoy the
moment
come on
and then he goes on here verse 34 so
don’t worry or be anxious about tomorrow
for tomorrow we’ll have worries and
anxieties of its own sufficient for each
day is its own trouble you know any of
the disciples that were worriers I mean
I bet they were ready for the mental
institution before long because he just
really pulled some stuff if you ever
hang out with Jesus you have no home no
place to lay your head you never know
where you’re going to be from one night
to the next jesus said follow me and he
didn’t say how long they were going to
be gone when they get to see their
families next they didn’t ask what hotel
they were going to stay in what the
insurance benefits were Jesus just said
follow me and they went and followed him
they got to carry no extra food he told
him to feed 5,000 people and they said
we don’t have anything he said what do
you have they found a little boy’s lunch
give it to me and he made it grown in
Luke chapter 10 he sent the disciples
out two by two seventy of them to go out
and heal the sick and preach the gospel
and he said do not take a purse with you
do not take an extra bag do not take an
extra pair of sandals don’t even he said
stay so focused that you don’t even slow
down your journey by stopping along the
way to wish somebody well Wow
Hemme he sent these guys out to do a job
but he said I don’t want you worrying
about anything I don’t want you getting
caught up and wondering about what’s
going to happen tomorrow he’s trying to
make a point when he sends us to do
something he will provide for us what we
need and we don’t need to be worrying
about it
you know it’s so exciting when I say we
have a worldwide ministry and we’re on
television in two thirds of the world
and we’re preaching in 40 languages and
we have mission works all over the world
one three hundred and some-odd radio
station forwarded to my television
station if I didn’t know how to trust
God I would be a complete lunatic total
100 percent lunatic you have no idea how
much money it takes every month to keep
something like this up and running
you know God taught me he took me the
long hard way and taught me some things
in the beginning how to believe for my
socks and my underwear and my skillets
and my wash rags and the other thing
that will keep you from worrying in
addition to being humble two things
learn that you can’t fix it you need to
say to yourself real often you know I’m
not smart enough to figure this out so
I’m not gonna waste my time trying can
we try that they say I’m not smart
enough to figure this out
you don’t sound convinced let’s try it
again
some of you even had some really weird
look something I’m not some irony to me
it’s like we really want to be the one
who’s in control come on say it with a
smile I’m not smart enough to figure
this out
now that doesn’t mean you’re done we
have wisdom from God and he’ll show us
what we need to see at the right time
but he doesn’t want us trying to get it
with our brain amen
then the other thing that you have to
have if you’re going to not worry first
thing is humility the second thing you
have to have is experience with God we
hear the saying all the time there’s no
teacher better than experience and it’s
just not going to do you’re not ever
going to learn to worry if you don’t
step out on the promises of God and see
what God will do that’s exactly why the
Bible says even regarding tithing and
giving in Malachi it says bring all the
tithes the full tenth of your income and
your offerings into the storehouse so
there might be meat in my house in due
season to meet your needs and to meet
other people’s needs and I will open the
windows of heaven and pour out a
blessing so great that you cannot
contain it and then he and I will rebuke
the Devourer for your sake and then he
says try me try me and prove it so he’s
saying if you don’t believe it try it do
it and see what God does you how many of
you know that you cannot outgive God how
many of you have seen amazing things
happen in your life through giving oh my
gosh it’s just like so amazing so
amazing and so I got experience with God
back in those early days I remember
having this pathetic little prayer list
god I need 12 washcloths
I was dish rag I needed new dish rag so
bad and Dave and I just did not have any
money I mean I had quit my job to
prepare for ministry and you know I
thought that one sacrifice should just
bring us like you know into this huge
level of abundance and instead
I mean we’re believing God for our socks
and underwear for you
God’s going to test your little heart to
see if you’re doing what you’re doing
for the right reason
one person understood that over here in
this section today everybody wants to
get paid for every move they make you
know but back when I was coming up there
was a whole lot of volunteering amen
I think the Bible called it being a
servant like serving we had so many
needs and God always met those basic
needs but we didn’t have no high level
of living
I had to shop at garage sales for many
years and go with my two or three bucks
and believe God to find my kids tennis
shoes and in the meantime I’m out
preaching how God wants to bless us and
prosper us and how we walked by faith
and sometimes seem kind of silly to be
preaching it and yet feeling like it
wasn’t even working for me but I was in
the middle did you hear me I was in the
middle
I had got in the boat Jesus said let us
cross over to the other side but we
weren’t on the other side yet I was in
the middle and what I did in the middle
determine if I would ever get to the
other side and it determined how long it
would take me to get to the other side
and I can tell you that I messed around
in the boat way too long but I’m trying
to help you not to make some of the same
mistakes that I did
and what did I learned I learned I am
not smart enough to solve my own
problems I learned I cannot change my
husband I cannot change my kids I cannot
run the world it is too difficult
God if you can’t do this it is never
going to get done but one thing I’m not
doing I am NOT tormenting myself one
more day let me ask you a question look
at momma Joyce why should you make
yourself miserable over somebody else’s
bad choice
now look here comes another good one if
you’re living with somebody that does
not want to be happy why let it steal
your joy
you ought to drive them nuts and be
joyful enough for both of you amen
come on don’t be codependent on other
people’s messes
well if you’re not happy I can’t be
happy listen I was not happy a long time
and my husband stayed happy every day oh
he was happiness about drove me crazy I
mean the man absolutely would not be
miserable with me he just refused he was
like I’m gonna enjoy myself you can do
what you want – oh the rage inside of me
because you know miserable people want
to make everybody else miserable they
want to control everybody else with
their misery come on you know the thing
if mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy
but actually Dave stability of keeping
his joy no matter what was going on and
no matter what I was doing was one of
the things that caused me to have
breakthrough in my life
and you don’t need to get in somebody
else’s mess with them and let them make
you miserable you need to remain stable
so they can see that their circumstances
don’t have to control
and all those years God provided for us
so faithfully different way every month
we were 40 dollars short a month of even
being able to pay our bills and every
month God would come through some some
way somehow I mean it was just like
those days when I look back they were so
precious
that’s what develops relationship
between you and God when you have nobody
to go to but God we didn’t have parents
that we could go to for help we didn’t
have sisters and brothers that we could
go to for help
we had God we had God now I could have
gone back to work and forgotten the
whole ministry thing because I was
suffering we were sacrificing but all
how many of you know I’m so glad today
that I didn’t that I made it through the
middle man I’m glad I made it through
the middle and I want you to make it
through the middle but I’d like you to
make it quicker than I did and I’m
telling you you don’t need to frustrate
yourself about all the things you’re
frustrating yourself about it’s useless
be anxious for nothing but in all things
by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God and the peace that passes
understanding shall keep your hearts and
minds in Christ Jesus unto life
everlasting cast all your care on him
for he careth for you but before that in
first Peter 5:6
it says humble yourselves under the
mighty hand of God that in due time he
might exalt you casting all your care on
him how do we show humility by not
worrying all I’m saying when I worry is
excuse me God
I think I can take care of this I got an
idea I bet it’s really funny when we
tell God what we’re suggesting he do
I caught myself about to do that the
other day and I certainly know better by
now well my god you could do this stop
worrying about stuff that you don’t even
need to be trying to deal with whirring
whirring whirring have the gift of not
knowing a lot of stuff I don’t know and
I’m so cool with it now but I used to
have to try to figure it out
I love proverbs 3:5 through 7 trusting
the Lord with all your heart and mind
and lean not to your own understanding
and all your ways acknowledge him and he
will direct your path be not wise in
your own eyes there it is again don’t
even think you’re smart enough to figure
out your problems how many of you are
worried errs and figure out errs are you
getting a revelation today how silly it
is to torment yourself
now you don’t meet me sharing with you
does not gonna mean that it’s just
automatically gonna stop I mean you’re
gonna have to confront this stuff and
stand against it you’re gonna have to
make some declarations I will not leave
I will not live and worry I will not
live and worry I will enjoy my life I
will have peace God has left it for me
and I am going to heaven in Jesus name
I’m not gonna live my life miserable I
cannot even imagine people who followed
Jesus around what they thought we have
the situation one day where he went to a
well found a woman there said give me
drink in John chapter 4 she said well
why are you a Jew asking me a Samaritan
for water because they had absolutely
nothing to do with each other and then
she’s sitting on top of that I’m a woman
and men didn’t talk to women they didn’t
know back then that was a no-no tune so
he says we’ll give me some water so
she’s already confused and then he just
takes it to another level and he said
well if you knew it was you were talking
to you you’d ask me for water and I
would give you living water because the
water you’re drinking will never quench
your thirst but I’ve got water that I
could give you if you drink that living
water you’ll never get thirsty again
whoa talk about a mind bender and she
comes with questions again while where’s
your bucket you have a bucket that’s
what I would have said well yeah where
you gonna get your water you don’t even
have a bucket and then she said oh he
said go call your husband he said I
don’t have a husband and he said well
you said that right you’ve had four and
the guy you’re living with now you’re
not married using her home about that
time the disciples showed up and they
were astonished that he was talking this
woman but they were too afraid to say
anything and then the next thing that
John chapter four says and they said to
him rabbi you need to eat ‘is that all
I’m meat to eat that you know not of
yeah well where is it out all my meat is
to do the will of my father let me tell
you something if you want to know
everything and you’re gonna hang out
with Jesus you are in for a hard journey
because there’s going to be a whole lot
of stuff that is not gonna make one bit
of sense to you and you’re gonna have to
have the gift of trust I trust you God I
trust you like the blind man trying to
get over there to the water you know
Jesus rubs mud on the guy’s eyes and
he’s blind he tells him to go washing a
pool of water excuse me I’m fine how am
I supposed to get there God just wants
you to go just start moving if I can
just get people moving in some direction
who helped us Jesus do your
responsibilities cast your care
Ephesians six is talking about spiritual
warfare and it says do all the crisis
demands then stand firmly in your place
it’s not that you don’t do anything dave
says that this man I love it do your
responsibilities cast your care what is
my responsibility when I’m in the storm
pray say do whatever God tells me to do
my part is to pray keep a good
confession stay positive
don’t start complaining in your storms
whew I wish I had about another hour to
speak I’m complaining don’t start
feeling sorry for yourself don’t get
jealous of other people who don’t have
your problems that must be nice to have
no problems I mean before I learned
better you know the way I was raised I
resented it and you know when I would
come across people that had these little
Pollyanna upbringing as I would think
that must be nice they have good parents
must be nice must be nice you got to
lose the attitude God’s got an
individual plan for each one of us and
the way he works with you will not be
like the way he works with anybody else
but just because he’s not doing for you
the way he did for them doesn’t mean
that what he does for you is going to be
inferior keep your commitments if at all
possible walk during the storms in your
life that’s so important so many people
today do not know how to keep their
commitments you got to do what you said
you would do especially when it’s hard
to do I said you got to do what you said
you would do especially when it’s hard
to do
I think I need to say that one more time
you got to do what you said you would do
especially when it’s hard to do and then
extremely important all the time that
you’re in the storms in your life one of
the most important things for you to do
in the middle is keep reaching out to
other people keep being a blessing to
other people keep sowing that seed of
time and service and love and
encouragement to other people so you can
keep having a harvest in your life
there’s something for you to do but it’s
not worry it’s not reason it’s trusting
God reaching out to others and some 37
talks about the wicked and the evil
times and it says trust in the Lord and
do good so simple we complicate what am
I supposed to do trust God and do good
trust God and do good I don’t know how
long it will take you to get to the
other side but I do know this we’re
going to the other side amen we are
going to the other side you are looking
at somebody that is going to the other
side can I get a witness is anybody
going to the other
well as we talked about today when we
step out in faith we always have a
beginning and hopefully we have an end
but it’s really what happens in the
middle that makes all the difference in
the world and the reason I say hopefully
we have an end is because if we don’t
make the right decisions in the middle
of our faith or while we’re waiting to
see the fulfillment of the promises of
God then many people turn back and never
get to the end of their dreams and their
visions and so I really want to
encourage you in the midst of whatever
you’re doing you’re believing God but
cast your care on him and believe that
if you’ll just keep doing what you know
that you should do day after day after
day after day you’re going to get to the
end and it’s going to be beautiful I
love to say that it’s not what we do
once that gives us a good result it’s
what we do right over and over and over
and over again so maybe you’re watching
today and you feel like you’ve been
trying to do what’s right but you’re
getting a little weary well the Bible
says be not weary in well-doing for in
due season you shall reap if you faint
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