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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 you know right thinking can enable
you and wrong thinking can disable you
it’s
amazing what you won’t do if you think
you
can’t I mentioned that my mom knew that
my dad was abusing me when I was growing
up but she never did anything about it
and 30 years after I left home she
finally found the courage to say
something to me and she said I’m sorry
for what I let your dad do to you I
didn’t
think that I could face the
Scandal and I didn’t think that I could
take care of you and your brother so her
thinking her wrong thinking her wrong
mindset ruined many
lives she could have just as easily said
I believe I can do this and taken a step
of faith and trusted God and things
could have turned out
differently for a lot of people now
things have turned out good for me I
stuck with God and fought through a lot
of things but I had a brother N9 years
younger than me who sadly ended his own
life and things could have been
different for him but he never had the
right kind of training growing up and he
got on drugs when he was 17 and on
alcohol and just never could get free
from it so it’s very important that we
realize how much our
thoughts affect our actions our
attitudes
our moods they literally are the
Forerunner for everything that we do are
everything that we don’t do now this
teaching is taken from the story of the
Israelites who the Bible plainly says in
Deuteronomy 1:2
that it it is only 11 days
journey from
Horeb by way of Mount the a to cadesh
Baria on canaan’s Border yet Israel took
40 years to get
there why would somebody take 40 years
trying to make an 11-day
trip any of you feel like you’ve been
going around the same Mountain way too
long in verse six of that same chapter
God actually spoke
through Moses and said you’ve stayed
long enough at this mountain and so I
want to start tonight by saying to some
of you you’ve stayed long
enough at the same
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place you’ve been feeling sorry for
yourself way too
long you’ve been blaming somebody else
way too
long you’ve been complaining way too
long come on it’s time for some
change and I want you to remember this
God can’t change anything if we won’t
change it’s useless to keep praying for
God to change everything if you’re not
going to be willing to do or if I’m not
going to be willing to do whatever God
asked me to do so I actually have 10 of
these wrong Minds sets and I’m going to
try to turn them into the way that you
should think rather than the way that
you shouldn’t think and I hope to get
through all 10 by the time I leave
tomorrow afternoon but if I don’t we can
always finish it on
TV I want to talk to you tonight
about getting your mind off of the road
behind
you letting go what lies behind and not
basing your future on your past or or
even on what’s going on in your life
right now see some of you are
stuck you’re just stuck you’ve been in
the same place for so long going around
and around the same Mountain that you’ve
dug a
rut and there’s no way that you feel
that you can get out of
it but it’s time for you to let God take
you out of that place to a brand new
beginning in your life
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amen the Bible says
that God called the Israelites out of
Egypt to take them in to the promised
land I brought you out to take you
in God has brought you out of something
to take you into something
better but you know what you have to let
go of the old in order to take hold of
the new
amen sometimes we feel pulled in two
different directions because God’s
trying to pull us forward and we keep
hanging on to what’s back
here you always have to give up
something to get
something
amen you almost always have to leave
something to go
somewhere but the thing about God
that well it’s
he knows what he’s doing of course but
it’s it’s not too easy is he’ll call you
out of something before he shows you
what you’re going
into and so there comes
fear like he told Abraham leave the
place where you’re
at and go to the place that I will show
you are there any of you like that right
now you’ve let go of one thing behind
you and now you just feel like you’re
just in total confusion and you don’t
know what’s next or what you’re going to
do and well you know what you don’t have
to know because God
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knows and all he really wants to hear
from you is I trust
you not why God why but I trust you now
our mind has a lot to
do with how fast we make it from Egypt
through the Wilderness to the promised
land I’m sure you’ve all heard of the
promised
land I don’t know about you but after
several years of being in church I got
so tired of hearing about the
promises but never feeling like I
actually possessed
them I heard about Freedom all the time
but I wasn’t
free I heard that God wanted to bless me
but financially we were
just hand to mouth and paycheck to
paycheck
and I heard about all these things
and I believed them or I thought I did
but they never seemed to happen in my
life anybody ever feel like that you
just I mean just be honest you get a
little tired of the rah rah rah in
church and you know it’s nice while
you’re there but when you go home you
still got the same mess and you just you
you want to
possess the promises you don’t want to
just hear somebody talk about it you
want to possess it well the Israelites
wanted to possess what God called the
promised land and it was a land that he
said was flowing with milk and honey
which meant every good thing God wants
us to have every good thing the Bible
says I is not here I has not seen ear
has not heard all the good things that
God already has made ready prepared and
stored up for those who love
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him but the in interesting thing about
the word possess that the Israelites
didn’t understand and I don’t think we
understand it a lot the word possess
actually
means to dispossess the current
occupants so in other words they had to
be ready for
war in order to take that land that God
promised them because enemies of God
were already living on that land
amen and
so the Bible says that God took them the
long hard way through the desert instead
of a a route that was much shorter and
he did it on purpose because they were
not ready yet for
war and
see I’ve been getting real bothered in
my spirit lately and so I know that I’ve
got to do some preaching on this not all
tonight but I’ll mention
it you know a lot of Christians aren’t
ready for
war they’re
just sometimes I feel like I’m in a
cosmic battle between Satan and
God and they’re both trying to win and
I’m here in the middle deciding who I’m
going to follow am I going to listen to
the lies of Satan or am I going to
believe the promises of God and stand
firm and go with him
you got to dispossess the current
occupants before you can possess the
promises of God and we got to be ready
for war so God took them the long hard
way because they weren’t ready for that
yet he knew that they were still too
immature to really take a stand and not
be moved by anything that they saw or
felt and believe God and so they ended
up out in the wilderness whining blaming
complaining murmuring
grumbling and you’ll see when I get to
the part on complaining that the word
complain means to
remain
huh yeah complain and
remain praise and be
raised
that’s my own special
quote The More We complain the more we
stay right where we’re
at and so they just wandered around out
there for 40 years when it was an 11-day
Journey because they had wrong
mindsets they had a wrong mental
attitude they didn’t know how to think
right so before we get into the
specifics of
these different attitudes let’s just
talk for a minute about the Mind who who
could stand it if I talked for a minute
about the
mind please do right
okay
well Proverbs 237 says as a man thinks
in his heart so is he that’s a very
interesting
scripture Colossians 31 and2 says if
then you’ve been raised with Christ seek
the things that are above where Christ
is seated at the right hand of
God set your mind on things that are
above that means right things not on the
things that are upon the earth now let’s
read it again set your mind and I really
like what the Amplified says set your
mind and keep it
set see it’s easy to go on a diet on
Sunday night after dinner
but the problem starts by Tuesday when
you want to eat everything on the table
and then eat the
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table okay I’m going to tell you a
secret you’re not going to like this
part but here it comes
anyway if you want to have real
Victory you’re going to have to be
willing to hurt a little
bit
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and see the Israelites didn’t want to
hurt and we don’t want to hurt so the
devil gives us nine different ways to
get out of hurting and you know even if
you just take complaining you know if
you’re going through
something and you just keep your mouth
shut about it and you’re just talking to
God about it and not murmuring
complaining it it’s
hard there it’s like there’s no relief
valve for the pressure in our soul but
if we can just tell
somebody how bad we got it and how bad
we feel and oh my gosh if they if they
would just feel a little sorry for us
now the flesh is
like you got your fix and then you go
around the mountain one more
time I mean if you agree it’s hard when
you’re hurting just to say God I just
want to get through this and get it over
with and so I’m going to just talk to
you about it not Grumble and complain
there’s all different kinds of suffering
but we I just I’m very concerned because
it seems to me like of course it’s not
everybody there’s a lot of you out there
that are very strong
and you stand firm and you stand your
ground and you’re awesome mature
Christians but I think we all know that
the
majority are not like that and I think
that people are just
getting wimpier and weaker and you know
they just can’t take very much and
they’re ready to quit and you know if
you don’t do this today God then I’m out
of here I’m I can’t do this anymore
everything’s too hard and you know we’ve
got to understand
that you got to be ready for war
the minute that you declare that you’re
going to walk with God the Devil comes
after you I’m not going to stand here
and tell you if you receive Christ
tonight that all your problems are over
some of them are over but a different
kind is going to
begin and you say Well then why do I
want to receive Jesus because your worst
day with him will be better than your
Best Day Ever Was without
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him because here’s the thing without
Christ you’re stuck in the place you’re
at and your life is nothing but misery
from now until you draw your last breath
and if you haven’t received Christ by
the time you do that then the real
misery
starts yes there’s a place called
hell we don’t talk enough about that
either I’d rather scare the hell out of
somebody than to sit and watch them go
to hell
amen
and every once in a while we a good
message Hellfire and brimstone like they
used to call it would be good for us
amen I mean what what what do people
think they’re doing I mean the the
amount of time that you have here on
Earth is absolutely nothing it’s like
one grain of sand on all the beaches in
the world compared to forever and we
need to spend our now time here getting
ready for
there
and I tell you more than anything we
need to get our eyes off of
ourselves get your mind off
yourself and on to what you can do for
somebody else I love the song that
Natalie sang tonight you can be a
miracle everybody wants a miracle but
how about being a miracle how about
being one for somebody else and yes if
you do that you will live a sacrificial
life but you’ll be so full and fruitful
on the
inside you see a Wilderness can be a
literal place like a desert but many
people have a Wilderness in their
soul everything is dry and Barren and no
matter what they do even even people
there’s so many unhappy Christians and
really that’s an oxymoron I mean
Christians should be the happiest people
on the face of the Earth and yet they’re
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not it’s because we really just
forget that the enemy is after us all
the time he’s not going to
win the purpose that Jesus came was to
destroy the works of the wicked one
we’ve already got the victory but we are
going to have to stand our ground and we
are more than conquerors through Christ
who loves
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us that’s why we need to get a little
bit sassy with our souls and say why I
so downcast oh my soul get a smile on
your face body and get out there and
count your blessings and stop whining
over every little thing that goes wrong
in your
life you say well Joyce if you had my
life you wouldn’t be standing up there
saying that well you don’t know what my
life is
like you don’t know I tell you there’s a
lot more to it than this little part
right here that I can tell you for sure
if you think the devil gets after you
you ought to try preaching this stuff
and see if he gets after you
so you got you got to set your mind I am
going all the way through to Victory I
am not going to quit I am not going to
give
up by the grace of God I am going to be
who God wants me to be do what he wants
me to do and have what he wants me to
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have
and that’s why it doesn’t matter
anything that’s happened to you previous
to this moment right
here if it’s bad stuff you didn’t like
you need to let go of
it and you need to say this is the first
day of the rest of my life and I am not
going to live the rest of it like I’ve
lived the previous part of
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it
mindsets are an interesting thing you
need
to you we we set ourselves up sometimes
for just a bad
day yeah I don’t want anybody to take
this wrong cuz I know sometimes the an
the anniversary of the death of a loved
one can be painful for people but my
aunt who’s gone home to be with the Lord
she every year I mean this was still
like 15 20 years after my uncle
passed and he was a Christian man she
knew he was in heaven she would
plan to have a bad
day on that day I mean she would tell me
two weeks out now you know
honey next so and so
is when Uncle Marvin passed and you know
that’s going to be a hard day for
me well I understand understand that
things like that can be hard
but I also understand
that a little bit of right
thinking can change that
amen how many of you agree that
sometimes we just set ourselves up for
disaster just with our own thoughts okay
so Dave how’s it going to be for you if
you would ever get to the point where
you can’t play
golf and he said oh I’ve I’ve already
thought about that and I’ve just made my
mind up that I’ll just be happy
anyway now you know what most people
would do oh I don’t know what I’ll do if
I can’t play golf my gosh I’ll be so
bored if I just you he’s like no I’ve
already made my mind up I can be happy
anyway you know what some of you need to
take that little bit of advice right
there and instead of deciding you can’t
be happy if your situation doesn’t
change come on the minute you say I
cannot be happy if this doesn’t change
you’ve thrown down the gauntlet in the
devil’s
face and he’s going to turn the heat up
remember the guys in the fiery furnace
the furnace got turned up seven times
hotter than
before the minute you say if this
doesn’t change I can’t be happy the
enemy will come against you with
everything he’s got to make you unhappy
but what if you say if nothing ever
changes I’m going to be happy amen
huh what if you what if you say if
nothing ever changes I’m going to be
happy because my joy is not in my
circumstances it’s in the
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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 mind 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