Are you ready for anything? Are you prepared, no matter what the difficulty is? Do you believe you can do all things through Christ? Be encouraged as Joyce remind us that as we stay strong with God, we will have the victory!
Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.
With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way.
all right proverbs 18 14.
great scripture the strong spirit of a
man
will sustain him in bodily pain
and trouble but a weak and a broken
spirit
who can raise it up or who can bear it
if we stay strong spiritually then
really no matter what comes against
us we will make it through
that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy
that doesn’t mean there’s going to be no
pain involved
but truly truly we can
do all things through christ
who is our strength yes you can
make it through whatever you’re going
through right now
and you know what you can get so strong
in spirit
that you can be going through really
really difficult things
and while you are you’re still reaching
out and helping other people
and they don’t even know what you’re
going through
[Applause]
did you hear me we don’t have to be the
kind of people
that every time we have a problem we
fall apart
we can be strong in the lord and in the
power
of his might but it’s going to take some
maintenance
some regular doing of what we should be
doing
not just waiting until all of a sudden
we feel like we’re falling apart
and quick quick trying to get to where
we need to be
ephesians chapter 6 is a chapter in the
bible about
how to defeat the devil and we all love
those kinds of messages everybody likes
to
think that they’ve got the power and
they can defeat the enemy
and in ephesians 6 11 through 18
it teaches us about putting on the full
armor of god and putting on peace and
you know all the different facets of
armor that we can put on which causes us
to be victorious
against the enemy but verse 10 is one
that we might not pay as much attention
to as we should
and that precedes all the others and it
simply says
be strong in the lord
be strong to your youness union or your
oneness
or your fellowship with him
draw your strength from him that
strength which his
boundless light provides
so the first thing to realize today
before we go even further is whatever
strength you hope to have in life
it’s got to be in god
he is our strength he doesn’t just
give us strength he is
our strength and the minute that you
have
any sign of difficulty even before you
have difficulty
every day pray early god give me the
strength today
to deal with whatever i need to deal
with because i believe that i can do
all things through christ who is my
strength and i like what the amplified
bible says
about that scripture it says i’m ready
for anything
i’m equal to anything through him who
infuses
inner strength into me let’s be the kind
of people
that are ready for anything we don’t
even know what it is yet
but we’re ready for whatever comes our
way and we already know we’re going to
have the victory before we ever have the
problem
what does it mean to be more than a
conqueror
i believe that’s what it means that you
are so convinced in spirit
of who you are in christ
that you already know you’re going to
win the battle before the battle ever
even comes your way
see not one of us in this building today
knows exactly what
our future holds we don’t know what’s
going to happen this afternoon tonight
tomorrow we trust god
but we don’t know we don’t know what we
may be called upon to endure
or to go through and we need to be
strong-minded we need to be strong
mentally
we need to be strong in god we need to
be we need to stay strong
in spirit because the world needs to see
a body of people that are stable
that are not just up and down and all
over the place depending on what their
circumstances are
they need to see a smile on our face
when we’ve got the same kind of problems
that they have
god doesn’t guarantee us faith in god
relationship with god doesn’t guarantee
us that we’re not going to have
problems it doesn’t mean that we’re not
going to deal with some of the same
things that other people deal with
but it does mean that there is a place
in him
paul said it was his determined purpose
to know him and the power of his
resurrection
that lifted him out from among the dead
even while he was in the body he didn’t
say i’m believing to never have a
problem
he said i’m believing that when i have
problems i can rise above it
you know the apostle paul went through a
lot of things and the whole time he did
he still ministered to other people
amen david went through a time
which if we think about this for a
minute it’s found in first samuel
chapter 30.
i’m not going to turn there i’ll just
tell you the story but
david and his men i guess had been off
to some kind of battle and they came
home to
ziklag and you know when you’ve already
been in a battle and
you come home you don’t want to come
home to some big disappointment
i mean even at the end of a day’s work
you don’t want to come home to
some big disappointment you want to come
home and rest and relax so they’d been
fighting a battle and they came home and
they found out
that their enemies the amalekites had
raided
their city and burned the whole thing
with fire
and had taken the women and the children
captive and david even found out that
his own wife had been taken
captive and so not only did they have
this disappointment to deal with
the loss of their family the loss of
their city but now all the men
turned against david they blamed him
because their families had been killed
and i love what the bible says in verse
six just think about what david was
going to at this point
and it says and david was greatly
distressed for the men spoke of stoning
him
because the souls of them all were
bitterly grieved each man for his sons
and daughters
and david what did david do david
encouraged and
strengthened himself in the lord his
god
the minute that we have problems we
don’t need to go to the phone we need to
go to the throne
whatever you need to do whatever you’re
facing right now and some of you are
going through some really difficult
things
whatever it is that you’re facing right
now i want to tell you
you can do it
you have got what it takes
come on you have got what it takes
i said you can do it
you have got what it takes
come on we got to get rid of this weak
wimpy pitiful
pathetic it’s too much for me kind of
attitude
god is on your side you are more than a
conqueror
you are a warrior you have authority
over the enemy
and i’m telling you that you can
do whatever you need to do
through christ who is your strength
the moment and i have to practice this
the moment
that you hear any kind of i can’t
the mind is the battlefield satan puts
thought in our mind
and if he can get us to believe them
then we’re already on our way out
i can’t the minute you hear that you
need to open your mouth and say i can do
whatever i need to do
through christ who is my strength
you know there’s something that nobody
can do for you but you
and that’s refused to give up god can’t
do that for you
your pastor can’t do that for you your
friends can’t do that for you
only you can find that place in you
that says i’m not quitting and i’m not
giving up
i don’t care how many times i have to
keep doing what’s right until i get a
result
i am not going to stop doing what’s
right
i say sometimes you may have to treat
somebody right for a long time that’s
not treating
you right before you see a change in
them
but don’t give up don’t we all love
isaiah 40 29-31
he gives power to the faint and the
weary
to him who has no might he increases his
strength
causing it to multiply and making it to
abound
even young men shall faint and be weary
and selected young men shall feebly
stumble and fall exhausted
but they that wait upon the lord
see you love that scripture what are you
doing here today you’ve taken
time out of your weekend to come
and wait on the lord you’re just you
being here is saying god i need you
i don’t want to face next week without
you i hope you’re not here today
just to put in your weekly time with god
but you came
because you wanted to be strong in
spirit you wanted to hear the word
you wanted to be in this corporate
fellowship
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i don’t know if you have any idea how
blessed you are just to be able to come
to a place like this and just sit here
just sit here i told some of the people
with me this morning you know
being able to come and just sit in a
church service like i did this morning
is something i don’t get to do very
often because usually i’m not just doing
the teaching i’m running the whole
service
and so it’s a different kind of a
situation when you’re doing that
because you’re you’re thinking you’re
praying you’re you’re preparing
you’re planning and i so enjoyed just
being here this morning
see you don’t you don’t realize maybe
how blessed you are
it doesn’t matter whether you think you
got a word
from god or not just be
blessed to just be here and just soak up
god’s anointing
and soak up his presence you know why
it’s making you
strong for the things that are ahead you
never waste your time in the house of
god you
never waste your time when you hear the
word
[Music]
the day that wait upon the lord shall
renew their strength
they shall mount up with wings as eagles
they shall run and not be weary
they shall walk and they shall not faint
[Applause]
amen this is a real thing
and then the bible even says in isaiah
41 that when you’re going through
terrible things
you don’t have to fear because i’m with
you
isaiah 41 10 fear not there’s nothing to
fear i’m with you
don’t look around you in terror and be
dismayed for i am your god
i will strengthen you
and even an extra promise i will harden
you to difficulties
in other words every time you go through
something what doesn’t kill you makes
you stronger
come on
how many times do we say well god this
is just gonna kill me i just can’t do
this god
and yet you’re still here and you know
what you’re stronger than you were
before