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today 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 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 well I am so glad that you have
joined us today for the program I’ve got
some things to share with you today that
I think are really really important you
know I’ve been studying God’s word for
45 years now I went to church for a long
long time before I really started
studying the word I would listen to
other people teach the word I read a
little bit of the Bible every day just
because I thought it was my duty but I
didn’t really study the word and I think
there’s a lot of Christians who don’t
really study the word and I want to talk
to you today about the importance of
studying God’s word the word of God is
actually medicine for your soul now you
know you can go to the drugstore and you
can get medicine for your physical body
but you can’t go to the drugstore and
get medicine for your soul the word of
God is the only thing that can get
inside of your mind and emotions and
heal them repeatedly we are told to
meditate on God’s word day and night
Proverbs 4: 20-22 says my son attend to
my words incline your ear to my sayings
let them not depart from your eyes keep
them in in the midst of your heart now
listen to this for they are life to
those who find them and health to all
their flesh well you know the Hebrew
word for health in verse 22 is actually
medicine God’s word is medicine to all
of our flesh and Isaac lear’s
translation of Exodus 15:26 reads I am
the Lord your physici the medicine he
prescribes is his word I absolutely love
that
you see you have to understand that when
you read the word of God it’s not like
just reading a magazine or or even
reading a book that somebody has written
it’s it’s different because the word of
God is full of God’s power and I believe
that when I’m teaching the word that
whatever I’m teaching on actually
there’s power in that to deliver people
in that area or to set them free for
example if I was teaching on anger I
think there’s power in that to help
people who have an anger issue be healed
from that Psalm 107:20 says he sends
forth his word and heals them and
rescues them from the pit and from
destruction and you know for many many
many years I have clung to the that
scripture and believed that when I am
teaching the word that people are healed
and their mind in their emotions in
their physical body every area where
they need healing there’s no place that
you hurt that God can’t reach and heal
you it goes on to say oh that men would
praise and confess to the Lord for his
goodness and loving kindness and his
wonderful Works to the children of men
and let them sacrifice the sacrifices of
Thanksgiving and rehearse his deeds with
shouts of joy and singing I tell you
studying the word of God will add joy to
our life now listen we all have 24 hours
a
day we don’t know exactly how long we’re
going to live different people live
different amounts of time but we spend
our
time A lot of times we say well I spent
my time doing this or I spent my time
doing that well the thing about time is
when you spend it you don’t get it back
so it’s best to invest your time rather
than wasting your time and so time spent
studying God’s word is time invested
that will pay dividends and benefits in
your life I was such a mess when I
started studying God’s word I mean I had
so many problems in my personality
because I had been sexually abused for
many years by my father and my mother
didn’t know how to handle it so she just
kind of turned her back and pretended
like it wasn’t happening I married the
first guy that came along because I
thought nobody would ever want me and I
had another 5year night nightmare with
him and so I just was messed up and I’m
telling you that God has healed me
through the power of His word now we are
not doing God a favor when we read or
study his word we’re doing it for our
benefit you know it’s kind of
interesting when I first started reading
the Bible or studying the word I I kind
of felt like that I was fulfilling my
duty to God or my obligation to God and
that’s because I was reading it like
someone under the law rather than
someone who was under the grace of God
you know we don’t have to study the word
we don’t do it for God he already knows
the word we are doing ourselves a favor
when we read or study his word and you
know you can pick the Bible up I I just
tried this this morning you can pick the
Bible up and you can open to let’s
say Matthew 7 verse1 don’t judge are you
too will be judged for in the same way
you judge others you will be judged and
with the measure you use it will be
measured back to you well that’s
information that I can use today and
maybe just reading that will keep me
from critically judging somebody else
and it will help me even in the future
to realize that when I do that I’m
likely to have the same thing come back
on my own head then it says why do you
look at the speck of in your brother’s
eye when you have a plank in your own
eye in other words this is telling me
I’ve got enough problems of my own I
don’t need to be looking at and worrying
about what’s wrong with other people
well see that’s something that’s going
to benefit me now you don’t have to
study the word you’re not going to go to
hell if you don’t study the
word but you’re going to have a much
better life if you study the word
because if you don’t study the word
you’re not even going to know really
right from wrong we have an enemy the
devil and he can controls people by
lying to them he is a liar liar liar and
the only way that we can know when he’s
lying to us is if we know the truth
which is God’s word when we study the
word we are spending time with God we’re
honoring him but we’re studying for
ourselves God’s word teaches us that he
loves us
unconditionally and this is one of the
most important things that you need to
learn knowing that God loves you is the
foundation for your relationship with
him if you don’t know that then you
really don’t know where to go from there
it’s it’s the foundation for your
relationship with God Hebrews 4:12 says
for the word of God is alive now get
this it’s alive and active sharper than
a two-edged sword it penetrates even to
the dividing of Soul and Spirit joints
and Marrow it judges the thoughts and
attitudes udes of the heart you see when
I study the
word it’s like looking in a mirror and I
see in there what I’m supposed to do
what’s going to be best for me to do but
at the same time it also judges my own
heart because it lets me know well Joyce
you you need to come up higher in this
area or or hey you you know you’re
you’re doing this you’re doing what God
wants you to do in this area and we need
to have God uses the word and the Holy
Spirit to convict us of areas in our
life that are wrong not to make us feel
bad but so we can change them and have a
better life there’s power in the word of
God to produce what it says if you study
healing scriptures it has the power to
heal if you study scriptures on healing
a broken heart it has the power to heal
that area of your soul
who else but God can get on the inside
of you and heal a broken heart there’s
no medicine that you can go get for the
healing of a broken heart but I can tell
you the word of God is medicine that
will heal a broken heart and the thing
that’s so great about God’s medicine the
word is that you can get as many refills
as you want you can take it as many
times a day as you want you can never
take too much of it and I’m telling you
it works now obviously just reading it
doesn’t change your life just studying
it doesn’t change your life you study it
in order that you might do it Joshua 1:
18 says meditate on the word of God day
and night that you may do it and then
you will prosper and things in your life
will turn out good obviously there’s the
doing it but you can’t do it if you
don’t even know what to do Psalm 1473
says he heals the Brokenhearted and
binds up their wounds listen if you’re
sitting and watching today and you’ve
been hurt by somebody you’ve been
abandoned you’ve been abused somebody’s
lied about you somebody you trusted
broke your confidence and you’re hurting
on the inside there are scriptures that
will comfort you Isaiah 61 1-8 are
scriptures I cannot tell you how many
times I read and studied these
scriptures during the early years of the
time that God was healing my Brokenness
from my childhood and this is what it
says Isaiah is prophesying about the
coming Messiah the spirit of The
Sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord
has anointed me to Proclaim good news to
the poor he has sent me to bind up the
Brokenhearted to Proclaim freedom for
the captives and release from Darkness
for the prisoners to proclaim the year
of the Lord’s favor and the day of the
Vengeance of our God to comfort all who
mourn MN there’s a comforter available
for you
today to all those who
mourn provide for them who grieve in
Zion to bestow on them Beauty instead of
Ashes I love that beauty instead of
Ashes well you can’t have the beauty if
you don’t give up the ashes for a long
time I would sit around and feel sorry
for myself and I had a chip on my
shoulder because I’d been abused and I
was mad at everybody because I’d been
abused and I had to be willing to walk
away from all that and give all that to
God and then he could start giving me
the beautiful life that he wanted to
give me he says he’ll give us the oil of
Joy instead of mourning and a Garment of
Praise instead of a spirit of
Despair then will be called Trees of
Righteousness the planting of the Lord
for the display of his Splendor and then
they will rebuild the ancient ruins and
restore the places long devastated they
will renew the ruined cities that have
been devast at for generations and you
know that’s exactly what I’m doing here
today I’m bringing restoration through
sharing the word of God to people’s
lives many of you have been
brokenhearted many of you have sadness
and I’m telling you God is for you he is
not against you and he has got a good
plan for your life and nothing that has
happened to you in the past can destroy
your future if you will believe the word
of God let’s just say that you’ve been
abused and have a root of anger in your
life that’s harming all of your
relationships it could even be affecting
your job you try to control it but no
matter what you do you explode in Anger
at the slightest provocation you don’t
want to act like that matter of fact
you’re not even sure why you act like
that but you know you can have deepr
rooted anger in you from being
mistreated when you were a child and
that needs to be dealt with and it can
be dealt with through the word of God
you can’t go to the doctor and get
medicine for anger but medicine is
available in God’s word listen to this
there are 131 Bible verses about anger
in the King James version of the Bible
Well if you feel angry and you feel like
you’re about to
explode if you get a concordance and
really today it’s so simple all you have
to do is put into your computer give me
scriptures on anger and they’ll just pop
up a long list of them and you can sit
there and read them and speak them out
loud and I can tell you that you will
begin to calm down that anger will begin
to dissipate because the word of God is
more powerful than anything that the
enemy wants us to do they tell you these
scriptures not to be angry to control
your anger to refrain from anger Etc and
you might think well that’s exactly what
I’ve been trying to do but the
difference is is that when you study the
word then the Holy Spirit who is your
helper can work through the power in
God’s word to set you free from those
things God will help you get to the root
of your anger and the truth will set you
free John 8:31-32 says if you are my
disciples then you will know the truth
and the truth will make you
free when you begin to study the word
you will probably learn that you need to
forgive the people who abused you and
that will be the key that unlocks your
healing and you just think no I just I
can’t I can’t do that Joyce I can’t
forgive them they don’t deserve
forgiveness well you’re probably right
they don’t deserve
forgiveness but you
deserve Peace So when you forgive them
then you get peace and when you forgive
them then you put them in God’s hands
and you give him an
opportunity to deal with them and he
will try to bring them to a place of
Truth so they can repent and be
forgiven you cannot even pray and hold
unforgiveness in your heart you say I
can’t do it I just can’t do it yes you
can you study every scripture that you
can find unforgiveness and you believe
that there’s power in that word to
enable you to forgive and I can tell you
that you will be able to do it well just
because you don’t explode doesn’t mean
that you’re not angry there’s passive
internalized anger that can often do
more harm than any other kind God’s word
teaches us how to live right there is a
right and a wrong today in our world
there’s a lot of gray but there’s no
gray in God’s kingdom it’s either right
or it’s wrong and actually the Bible
says the day will come when people will
say that right is wrong and wrong is
right and I think we’re in that day
right now I mean there’s some pretty
crazy stuff going on in the world today
and if the there was ever a time when
people need to know the word to know
what truth is it is today Psalm 11915
says your word is a lamp to my feet a
light to my path it shows you how to
walk in Matthew 7 I believe it is it
says that we are to stay on the narrow
path that leads to life and off of the
broad path that leads to destruction
yeah you can do anything you want
to Paul said I’m free to do anything I
want to but not all things are expedient
not all things are good your salvation
is not based on what you do or don’t do
but Jesus said if you love me you will
obey
me the way that we know what God wants
us to do is through studying the word of
God I’m just going to say it as plain as
I know how to say it if you will not put
time into studying the word of God
you’re never going to be able to live
the Victorious Life you say well Joyce I
go to church every Sunday well that’s
good you’re hearing somebody else speak
what they’ve
studied at least write the scriptures
down that you hear on Sunday and go home
and look them up yourself and think
about them a little bit meditating on
the word of God means to kind to chew on
it to to mutter it under your breath to
roll it over and over in your mind and
to think about what does this mean and
and what what does it mean to Me 2
Timothy 3:16 17 says all scripture is
given by inspiration of God and it’s
profitable for Doctrine for Repro for
correction for instruction in
righteousness that the man of God may be
complete thoroughly equipped for every
good work you know one translation says
that the word of God rebukes us well you
know one of the problems we have today
is nobody wants to be corrected
everybody loves to be encouraged but
people don’t want to be corrected they
don’t want to be rebuked and you know
what it is impossible to grow up into
the mature Christian that God wants you
to be and never be corrected God has to
correct us he has to discipline us he
has to show us what’s right and what’s
wrong because he wants us to do what’s
right I believe that the answer to every
problem we have I really believe this I
believe the answer to every problem that
we have is found in God’s word studying
God’s word strengthens us it brings us
joy it brings us peace it teaches us who
we are in Christ and what belongs to us
as children of God God’s word changes Us
2 Corinthians
3:17-19 says now the Lord is the spirit
and where the spirit of the Lord is
there is freedom there is liberty and we
all who with unveiled faces contemplate
the Lord’s
glory in other words you look in the
word of God and you see Jesus you see
God Jesus said if you’ve seen me you’ve
seen the father he came here to
represent the father and he came here to
show us how to live so when we look in
there we see his glory and it says we
are being transformed into his image
with ever increasing Glory which comes
from the Lord who is the spirit it
doesn’t happen all at once God changes
us but he does it little by little by
little and you know I had so so many
problems when I first began to study the
word of God I mean honestly I can tell
you after 5 years I felt like I hadn’t
made hardly any progress at all so if
you’ve been studying the word and you
feel like this is not doing you any good
you know what that’s a lie from the
devil he wants you to think it’s not
doing you any good because he doesn’t
want you to keep studying it and I’ll
tell you another thing the devil will
tell you there’s no point you trying to
study the word because you don’t
understand
it oh in anyway just a bunch of men
wrote it it well but every word of God
every word in the Bible is inspired by
God yes it was written by men but it was
inspired by God and when we take that
word into us and we believe it there’s
power in it to change us the Bible says
that we are to be transformed into the
image of Jesus Christ do you understand
what I’m saying you can become more and
more like Jesus every day you can behave
the way he behaved
meditating on the word of God and doing
it brings wisdom prosperity and success
according to Joshua 1: 18 the word
reduces the capacity to sin it
strengthens us against Temptation how
does it reduce the capacity to sin well
we’re all tempted to sin just because
you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you’re
never tempted to sin but when you do it
makes you
uncomfortable there are things now that
I used to do that didn’t bother me at
all that if I tried to do that now I
would know this is the wrong thing to do
and how do I know that because I’ve
studied the word of God and found out
that’s not the way God wants me to
behave the word the Bible says in Psalm
119 that the word makes you wiser than
your enemies well boy who doesn’t want
that I want to be smarter than the devil
I want to be smarter than people that
would be in the enemy category the Bible
tells us that our sins are forgiven
Jesus has paid for all of your sins and
it also says that he forgets them moves
them as far as the East is from the west
and remembers them no more and that
there’s no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus wow the Bible is so
full of good news you can find things
like that in in Romans you can you can
find it in different Hebrews just all
over the place Psalms 103 I think says
that he forgives our sins and forgets
them and so when you when you sin and
you’re sorry and you
repent you need to receive God’s
forgiveness and then you don’t need to
waste the next three four weeks or
months or years
feeling
put those few things I don’t understand
on a shelf and I trust God to give me
the understanding when I need it don’t
don’t use that as an excuse I can’t
understand the
word start in the New Testament start
maybe in the Book of John or start in
Psalms you know don’t start with
something in the Old Testament that’s
really hard to comprehend
understand begin with the New Testament
and then as you grow you can go back and
study the Old Testament the ways to
digest the word of God today are endless
and there’s absolutely no excuse to not
study the word it’s so easy there’s so
many translations of the Bible are
available Bible studies on the internet
are available we offer several Bible
studies on online free you don’t even
have to pay for them it’s so easy to
look up scriptures on the internet now
teaching is available on television on
radio on YouTube and other social media
Outlets just be careful that you’re
listening to somebody who has a
reputation as a good and accurate Bible
teacher because there’s also some cooky
people on there that you don’t want to
listen to and I tell you I love the word
I don’t even know how to tell you how
much I love the word sometimes I just
give my Bible a big hug because of what
it’s done for me in my life and I really
want you to love the word I want you to
love the word so much
that you will spend time in the word
every day
sometime as much as you can different
people’s lives are different maybe
you’ve got a bunch of little kids at
home right now and you’re not you can’t
be like me I can get up every morning
and study the word hour two hours three
whatever I want to do CU I make my own
schedule now but you may not be like
that well just do the best you can you
know my husband when he worked in the
engineering field he took his lunch hour
and studied the word of God there’s
always time that you can find a study if
you want to do it I plead with you and I
pray for you that you will study the
word and make it a priority in your life
because I can tell you it is medicine
for your soul it will bring healing into
your life thank you so much for being
with me today I’m so glad that you heard
these things and I believe that you’re
going to take some action and put them
to work in your life
God bless
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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 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