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I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that God
can heal you everywhere you
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hurt well thank you for joining me today
on Enjoying Everyday Life I’m going to
be talking to you today about the
importance of stability and if you have
the right foundation in your life how
you can be stable in any kind of a
circumstance or situation now I spent a
lot of years of my life and what I
called yo-yo Christianity I was up when
my circumstances were up and down when
they went down and I can remember when
the ministry was still very small and we
had handful of employees maybe I don’t
know 15 or 20 and D when I would go out
pretty much every weekend and do some
kind of a conference
or seminar or speaking engagement
somewhere
and we would come home and and go down
to the post office and want to see how
much mail we had I had a lot of mailbox
faith and
uh then we want to get the mail and go
sit at McDonald’s and drink coffee
and read the mail and boy I tell you if
there
was no mail which sometimes there was no
mail or just maybe one or two pieces of
mail down my mood would go Dave always
just stayed the same he was a lot more
experienced Christian than I was when we
got married and he’d already been
through enough to know
that you got to put your trust in God
plus he’s just a real easygoing cast
your care you know type person and I was
the absolute opposite I was
like and
uh you know that that being up and down
and up and down I mean the devil just
plays games with you when you’re like
that and
because he can work in our
circumstances he’s very good at creating
circumstances very good at creating
problems he is the God of this world’s
system and he can uh do all kinds of
things especially if we don’t recognize
that it’s him and know how to resist him
and so we need to have
a foundation in our life of knowing that
God loves us and he loves us
unconditionally yeah and I I wonder if
any of us really know how to do
that I mean if we really can love a
person no matter what they do you know
it’s like I guess the way you feel about
your kids would come about as close to
that as anything you know I may not like
everything you do but I I can never stop
loving you and
um so God often the Bible says shakes
everything that can be
shaken until only the things that cannot
be shaken remain and so even though God
loves us and we’re made right with him
through the blood of Christ and through
our faith in Christ and we’re precious
and we’re valued in all those things
that I’ve been telling you the last
couple of
days he also has to work in our
lives
to correct us and chastise us to help us
give up some of these wrong
behaviors because we may cling to them
if God doesn’t deal with us
and you’re going to see here in just a
little bit that the Bible pretty much
says that unless you understand
righteousness you can’t receive
correction because you always take it as
rejection
it’s like God rejecting you but he’s
really not he’s correcting you and even
as an authority here in the ministry
there have been many times when I’ve
tried
to correct someone in a loving way and
they take it personally and get all
rejected and you
know correction is just trying to get
you to go in the right direction is not
necessarily mean there’s something wrong
with you are you need to feel
rejected and
um hard and disappointing times will not
leave you
devastated if you have a proper
foundation in your
life we had a foundation one time the
first house that we ever owned and built
we didn’t build it but we had it built
in a subdivision and the foundation had
a fairly large crack in it and we
constantly were trying to get the
builders to come out and fix it and they
just gave us all kinds of trouble and we
tried two or three ways to fix it and it
just every time there was a
storm guess what we had a
mess in the basement to deal with so we
really couldn’t even finish off our
basement or anything because every time
there was a storm we were going to have
a mess well if you have a crack in your
foundation your spiritual
Foundation or I have a crack in my spir
spiritual Foundation every time there’s
a storm you’re going to have a
mess and so part of what God is trying
to get us to do is
to let those cracks get repaired through
his love and mercy and kindness and
goodness and sometimes God has to deal
with us fairly sternly you know it’s
like how many of you would much rather
that your children would just listen to
you when you tell them
something it’s kind of
like you’re saying to your kids if
you’ll listen to what I tell you it’s
going to be good but if not I will touch
your
circumstances and so rather that means
taking away a privilege or you
know time out or
whatever whatever you think is going to
get them to listen we’d much rather well
God’s the same way if you’ll listen to
my word or when the Holy Spirit
chastises us and that just means you
can if you have experience with God you
you know that feeling it’s like you know
that God doesn’t
approve of what you’re doing but it’s
it’s a battle when we want to do
it it’s especially in the early stages
of being a Christian until you learn
that God is not going to change his mind
and you’re going to be miserable until
you change your
mind and then you get to the point where
it’s like you get pretty quickly
obedient because you don’t want to keep
going around and around the same
Mountain over and over and over again I
always say that God gives us tests to
pass before we get a
promotion just like in school you may go
through first grade but you don’t go to
second grade until you take final exams
and so God wants to promote Us in life
and he does it in levels I can see it
plainly in our ministry I taught 25
people in my living room floor for 5
years then I worked with somebody else’s
church for 5
years and then we started our ministry
and we had meetings of 50 people and 70
people and my goodness if I ever got a
hundred people I thought i’ died and
went to heaven and you know that went on
years and years and and then we finally
got up to where we were having some
places four or 500 people and that was
like Wow amazing and and then when we
went on television it things just
exploded and then we were having
thousands of people and looking for
places to rent to have our meetings in
and things like that but before each one
of those
promotions if I had the time and I’m
going to take the time to do it today I
could go back and tell you different
test that I had to pass and
obediences that were different diff
difficult I can talk yes that were very
difficult for me and
so God sometimes would have to deal with
me rather sternly but he does it for our
own good because he has a plan for our
life and it’s a great plan and the only
way we can have that plan is if we’re
obedient to God the Bible says that
Jesus was extremely obedient even unto
the death of the
Cross it’s in Philippians and there was
given unto him a name that is above
every name that at the name of Jesus
every knee must bow and every tongue
shall confess that Jesus is Lord that’s
going to be a beautiful day you know
what you know that especially when all
the people who don’t believe and some of
the silliness that goes on
and I mean trying to watch and you know
I believe in science and I respect
scientists
but sometimes when you try to divorce
science from
God it they they can come up with some
of the stupidest things I
mean this all came about by a big bang
yeah well who okay who created the
ban oh well no it wasn’t that there was
a some kind of a cell that crawled out
of the ocean on the beach and millions
and millions of years later here we
are okay who created the ocean see you
can’t go back far enough to not run into
God sooner or later you’re going to R
run into him because he’s without
beginning and Without End he just says I
am am I’ll figure that out I am and I’m
not going anywhere and so you have to
really we really need to pray for people
that believe some of the stupid things
that they believe because they are
deceived Satan is a Great Deceiver and
to be deceived means to believe a
lie but you see if you believe it it
becomes your reality right and so have
you ever tried to talk to anybody that
they just they believe beli they were
right about
something that I mean you could prove to
them you could show them proof that they
were wrong and you’re still going to
believe that they’re right and that’s
the way deception is so we want to learn
to be promptly and quickly
obedient we do have authority over the
devil but in James 4:7 it says resist
the devil and he will
flee well no it really doesn’t say that
mhm that’s the way we quote it but it
says submit yourself to God right resist
the devil and he will flee amen and so
we can’t be so foolish as to think that
we can live a disobedient life and have
unforgiveness in our heart and be
critical and judgy and you know all
these different things and then when the
devil attacks us say I rebuke you in the
name of
Jesus well you know you can use that
name all you want to but there’s no
power in
it if you’re not being obedient I use an
example
that when I married Dave I got his
name I legally got the use of his
name but I didn’t get it when we were
dating right and a lot of people are
dating Jesus they’re not
married in other words it’s a on and off
thing and when I need you and you know
it’s beautiful when Dave and I got
married I didn’t have any money and he
had some money and all of a sudden I had
money I mean it’s a cool thing
to really get
committed to God and uh I didn’t have a
car he had a car and all of a sudden I
had a
car it’s a great thing and you know
Jesus has got everything that you could
ever possibly want yes and so why not
make a full
commitment instead of just having a
little Sunday morning date every once in
a while and then forgetting about him
the rest of the
time when you have that proper
foundation in your
life nothing can really shake you too
much now I’m not saying that you
know trials and tribulations don’t
ever bother us but if you know how to
talk to yourself you can talk yourself
off the ledge pretty quick it’s what I
call it like sometimes I can feel myself
about to have a tantrum and it’s like
I’ll take myself and have a talk with
myself right okay Joy’s been there done
that you know it’s not going to do any
good calm down settle down put your
trust in God and you really
can talk
yourself
into behaving the way that you should
behave if you want to Romans 8: 35-39
some of the most beautiful scriptures in
the word who shall separate us from the
love of
God of Christ shall tribulation our
distress our persecution our famine our
nakedness our danger our
sword as it is written for your sake we
are being killed all the day long we are
regarded as sheep to be slaughtered and
I I think that deserves an
explanation it to me it’s it’s kind of
like saying some of the things that we
go through as
Believers it may look to somebody else
like you’re a sheep being led to the
slaughter because you sure don’t look
like you’ve got any victory in your
life but if you know who you are in
Christ and you know who he
is this is getting ready to say that
we’re more than conquerors and I think
to be more than a conqueror means that
you know you’ve got the victory before
you ever get the
problem so therefore when problems come
it’s not that you like them it’s not
that they don’t hurt it’s not that
they’re easy but if you really trust God
you know that in the end it’s going to
work out okay and even if it doesn’t
work out the way you want it to it’s
still going to work out
okay amen one of the first things I say
when trouble starts is this will end
well and you got to believe that you can
go through whatever you need to go
through until you get to the end of it
right you all know that earlier this
year I had a back surgery minor back
surgery got a blood clide at the surgery
site caused damage to the nerves in my
right leg so I was two weeks in a rehab
hospital till they got me to the point
where I could get on a walker I couldn’t
I couldn’t put any weight on my right
right leg I couldn’t at first I couldn’t
lift it that far off the bed I mean had
no strength in it at all so they had me
doing exercises and rehab and I got to
the point where I could go home on a
walk and I got home
and got a little full of myself and
thought I was doing better than I was
and I fell and broke my left leg so I
ended up being in the hospital a total
of 23 days out of 27 but for 6 and 1/2
Weeks 2 and 1/2 months I couldn’t
walk but I’m happy to say and I’m not
bragging from day one I said God please
help me do this
right and I wanted
to trust God stay in peace I didn’t want
to complain I didn’t want to murmur
about it I wanted to stay thankful and
God really really helped me during that
time and I
believed that it would turn out good and
and I think that that comes from
experience with God and some of you have
that
experience some of you sadly are still
getting it and I know how you feel I
know you feel like throwing the towel in
about 200 times a day but if you just
won’t quit and you won’t give
up the longer you’re in relationship
with God the more you know how much he
loves you the more you watch him deliver
you from situ
amen you understand that he’s
faithful and the more we can put our
trust in God the easier life
gets if we can trust God in every
situation then there’s really nothing
that can shake us we may have to go
through things but it’s so much easier
to go through something if you already
believe it’s going to end well then if
you go through it afraid that something
bad is going to happen know in all these
things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us that’s all you
that’s the foundation God loves me he
loves me I’m made right with him through
the blood of Christ I’m precious in His
sight in his sight he values me he’s
going to take care of me because I
belong to him and I am sure Paul said
that neither death nor life nor angels
nor rulers nor things present nor things
to come nor powers was saying I don’t I
don’t know what the future holds but it
doesn’t matter what it
is nor height nor depth nor anything in
all creation will be able to separate us
from the love of God that’s found in
Christ Jesus so there it is right there
we don’t have to let anything separate
us from the love of God Proverbs 10:25
says when the Tempest passes the wicked
is no more but the righteous are
established
forever I love
that
but buildings without
foundations
man you know foundations are not very
exciting when we were building I think
we built like three houses in our 57
years of marriage and uh we never
invited anybody to come out and see the
basement I you know but I can remember
inviting people well they’ve got the
frame up you want to come and see the
frame but I really don’t remember ever
ever asking anybody to come and see the
foundation and yet the
foundation is what the building stands
on yes and so our life has to be built
on a strong
foundation and unless it is we are
always going to have a mess in our lives
and so if you don’t know if you don’t
have a revelation on how much God loves
you then I suggest you just set
everything else aside for a while and do
nothing but study that till you get
it amen am and
then go on to righteousness if you don’t
know who you are in Christ or if you’re
still one of those people who even after
you repent you feel guilty
then let that be your next college
assignment you know we need to
study the word in the areas where we’re
having problems not just randomly
study the
word the Bible is like
a it’s got a pres prescription in it for
everything that ails
you it’s like Isaac leiser’s translation
says that he’s our physician and the
medicine is his
word and so there’s medicine in there
for anger there’s medicine for
hatred there’s medicine for guilt and
condemnation there’s medicine for
sin and when you go to the doctor you
get a prescription
filled you go get it refilled however
many times you need to until you get rid
of what’s bothering you and you’re
faithful to take your medicine too you
don’t take it and just set it on a shelf
well if we would treat the word of God
the same
way we might
get well a little bit quicker
am the milk of the word is for those
unskilled in righteousness you have to
be able to hear the meat of the word and
the you know today yesterday last two
days and today it’s easy I’ve been
telling you how wonderful you are and
you’re the righteousness of God in
Christ and he loves you and you’re
precious and you’re valued and all of
that is important that has to be the
foundation and once that once that’s
settled and you’ve got that Foundation
there’s no cracks in it then we can
start to build a life then God can start
dealing with us
but if we don’t have that every time God
tries to deal with us we’re just going
to feel
guilty you see you have to understand
there’s a difference in conviction and
condemnation and I used to feel every
time when the Holy Spirit convicted
me let’s just say that I went to lunch
with somebody and we ended up gossiping
about somebody else the whole
time and of course as soon as you shut
your mouth and get quiet you
know well you usually know what we’re
talking and but then when the Holy
Spirit would convict me immediately I
would feel
condemned and boy the devil loves that
because when you feel condemned nothing
changes but if you receive the
conviction of the Holy
Spirit then with his help you can make
those changes and now I love it when the
Holy Spirit convicts me of something
because I know that’s a sign of his love
and I’m grateful that he cares enough
about me that he won’t leave me the way
I am the rest of my life how many of you
are hoping for a little change in your
life see so
um Isaiah 54:1 14-17 says in
righteousness you shall be
established you shall be far from
oppression for you shall not fear and
from Terror for it not shall not come
near you if if anyone stirs up Strife it
is not from me whoever stir up Strife
with you shall fall because of you then
I’m going to skip from verse 15- 17 no
weapon that’s formed against you shall
prosper but every tongue that rises
against you in
judgment you will show to be in the
wrong this is the
Heritage the inheritance of the Servants
of the Lord the Amplified Bible says
righteousness peace security and Triumph
over
opposition is our inheritance from God
let me go through it again
righteousness peace
security and Triumph over
opposition is what you can expect in
your life if you know who you are in
Christ it’s so wonderful to not have to
live with
fear the Bible tells that we should be
rooted and grounded in Christ
and rooted and grounded in the love of
God
Roots we’re called Trees of
Righteousness the planting of the lord
well a tree with no roots we all know
what’s going to happen to that in a
storm it’s very simple analogies that
God gives
us if I’m a tree with no
roots any storm that comes along even a
little one’s going to blow me
over but when you’ve got Roots I’m I
mean we’ve got a huge oak tree in our
backyard that’s been there I don’t know
maybe 100 years 50
years and I tell you that Baby’s Got
Roots and I’ll tell you no matter how
hard the Wind
Blows the trunk on that tree the the
leaves May blow but the trunk on that
tree does not
move because it’s roots that go way down
into the ground they even come up over
here and then they go down again and the
roots are big
and that’s the way we can be through
enough study of the word and experience
with God we can be the kind of people
that are rooted and G grounded in Christ
and have that stable sure foundation in
our lives
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the Mind actually is the battlefield
that’s where we win or lose the war with
Satan he said all he gets to
say 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
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