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I’m Joyce Meyer I’ve seen God’s power
transform my own life and he will do it
for
you out of control and loving it and I’m
not talking about you being out of
control and doing whatever you want to
do I’m talking about stop trying to
control other people and
circumstances and even sometimes
God and learn how to let go of that
stress and you’ll love it there’s two
ways we can look at this first of all
you don’t want to let anybody control
you that’s not God’s will for your life
it’s not good for them and it’s not good
for you and you don’t want to be trying
to control other
people the desire to control is rooted
in
selfishness 1 Corinthians 134 and 5 love
is patient and
kind love does not envy or boast it is
not
arrogant or
rude it does not insist on its own
way say that with me love does not
insist on its own
way it is not IR
irritable and it is not
resentful Proverbs 13:10 says that only
by pride comes
Strife you you can’t have
Strife unless there’s a pride
problem Proverbs 16:5 everyone who is
arrogant in heart is an Abomination to
the
Lord
wow be assured he will not go
unpunished Isaiah 2:1 and 12 the hoty
looks of man shall be brought low and
the lofty pride of men shall be humble
LED and the Lord alone will be exalted
in that day for the Lord of hosts has a
day against all that is proud and lofty
against all that is lifted up and it
shall be brought
low good three people like
that Bible says humble
yourself under the mighty hand of God
that in due time he might in in um
exalt you I start to say insult
you but honestly and truly if you’ve
been around long enough you know God
will give you an opportunity to humble
yourself but if you
don’t he will do it for
you usually
publicly and it can be pretty
painful so I highly recommend doing it
yourself while you can do it in private
you’re right God I’m wrong
amen amen
now it’s also Pride that causes us to
feel that we must always give our
opinion about things that are actually
none of our
business do you know there’s three
scriptures just as plain as they can be
that tell us to mind our own
business
so how many of you kind of like to get
into other people’s
business come on I don’t want one of
these down here things how many of you
like you know Dave and I used to live
live next door to a single man that
owned a a big house
and we just couldn’t figure out why this
single guy wanted a house with four
bedrooms in it it’s like you
know what a waste of money now keep in
mind we didn’t even know this guy’s
first
name
but one day we’re driving out
and so they they were I said well maybe
he did it for an investment and then the
other one said well but he could have
found a lot better Investments than that
cuz he’s got to take care of this big
place and so we spent maybe 10 minutes
playing this guy’s financial future and
we didn’t even know his
name can I tell you that in Romans 14
the Bible says that every man will give
an account of himself
God’s not going to ask you about anybody
else not going to ask you about your
husband not going to ask you about your
kids your
friends he’s going to ask you about you
and another way we can keep a lot of
stress out of our
life now come on another way we can keep
a lot of stress out of our life is just
by staying out of other people’s
business
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you don’t even need to have an opinion
where you don’t have any
responsibility not even an opinion well
I think well I think well nobody cares
what you think and nobody wants to know
what you
think the only time we really should
give an opinion is if it’s ask
for and then we need to do it
carefully
2 Thessalonians 3:11 for we hear that
some among you walk in idleness not busy
at work but being busy
bodies 1 Thessalonians 4:11 and to
aspire to live quietly and to mind your
own Affairs and to work with your own
hands and 1 Peter 4:15 but let none of
you suffer as a murderer or a thief or
an evildoer or as a med
you know what I think is interesting
about
that a
meddler is in a list with murderer thief
and
evildoer I just noticed it today I
thought wow those are Heavy
Hitters you know most of us wouldn’t
think that being a little nosy was a
problem but I mean it’s right up there
with a bunch
of serious
stuff sometimes I have to say to myself
Joyce it’s none of your business it’s
none of your business it’s none of your
business come on anybody besides me ever
have a problem with
this now this doesn’t mean we never
correct a person who’s in sin or try to
help them in any way but there’s a
difference in genuinely trying to help
somebody and trying to get into their
business when you don’t need
to great example in John 21 beginning in
verse
18
this is Jesus talking to Peter truly
truly I say to you when you were young
you used to dress yourself and walk
wherever you wanted to go but when you
are old you will stretch out your hands
and another will dress you and carry you
where you do not want to go so he’s
given Peter
the the heads up that things are going
to be a little more difficult for him in
life now than they have been and I don’t
think that he was talking about Young in
years I think he was talking about when
you were younger in the
Lord and you know when you’re younger in
the Lord to be
honest you do pretty much just do what
you want to do and pray for God to bless
it and and a lot of times he does for a
period of time because he’s establishing
a father child loving relationship with
you but just like when our own children
grow up we don’t want to have to keep
taking care of them all the time we want
a transition to come at some point where
they say mom dad what can I do for
you and so Jesus is saying when you were
young you pretty much did what you
wanted to but things are going to change
now and I’m going to lead you into some
things that may not be the most fun for
you but it’s what I
need and in verse 19 it says this he
said to show by what kind of death he
was going to glorify God you know Peter
was crucified upside down AC cross and
then after saying that he just said to
him follow me now Peter just needed at
that point to say yes
Lord but Peter turned and saw the
disciple whom Jesus loved that happened
to be
John John wrote the Book of
John and he referred to
himself over and over as I am the
disciple whom Jesus loved
now I know Peter’s person personality
well enough to know that that just got
all over
him yeah you’re the disciple whom Jesus
loves I me you know these were people
just like we are I mean it’s even a
little bit aggravating to me to hear
John say that so I can imagine how Peter
felt about it and I mean these guys had
problems just like we would have
problems if we were in a group they were
jealous of each other they competed with
each other and I think that knowing
Peter’s personality that he probably
just had a hard time with all the gooey
gooey you know John laid on jesus’
breast at dinner and they just had this
great loving relationship and you know
Peter always wanted to run the show so
he’s gotten the bad news that things are
going to be a little hard for him toward
the end he sees John and he and he says
um when Peter saw him he said Jesus what
about this
man what’s what’s going to happen to him
come on you know we’re not really good
at it if we’re having a hard time and
everybody else is having a good old
time e at least if we’re going to be
miserable we’d like some of our friends
to be miserable with
us and Jesus said verse 22 if it’s my
will that he remains until I come what
is that to you you follow
me so Jesus just told
Peter mind your own business now think
about it for a
minute we’re having a problem we’ve been
having a problem for a long time maybe
you’re a single girl and you haven’t had
a date in 12
years
and your friend who’s not nearly as
attractive as you are in your
[Applause]
opinion she just can’t beat the guys off
with a stick they’re just after her all
the time and
so you don’t like it
and you love her with the love of the
Lord but you don’t really like
her how many of you know about that I
love you with the love of the lord I
can’t stand you but I love you with the
love of the Lord
see and all you have to do you don’t
have to try to figure out why you
haven’t had a date and she has you have
to tell God how unfair it is you just
have to remember that God has a
personalized
individualized perfect plan for each one
of
[Applause]
us and we might as well just quit
looking at other people trying to figure
out why we don’t have what they
have pastors can get into the same
thing get jealous of another Pastor
because he’s got
a bigger church and you’ve got this and
you’ve got that yeah yeah yeah you know
you know anybody that’s successful is
always going to have a certain amount of
people that aren’t going to like
him and you know why
jealousy just plain
jealousy so I’m just going to say it the
sweetest kindest nicest way that I know
how
to mind your own business
[Applause]
third reason we may try to control
people is because we’re afraid of being
taken advantage
of after being sexually abused by my
father who
was did it all through control
manipulation and
control he didn’t force me physically
but he forced me with
fear and my father controlled everything
that went on in our house what he wanted
to watch on television is what you
watched you ate what he wanted to eat
you got up when he got up you went to
bed when he went to
bed and somewhere along the line in the
middle of all that I started making
promises to myself when I get out of
here nobody is going to ever tell me
what to do
again so when you make those kind of
vows to yourself inner vows
then I married the first guy that came
along and he was basically a con man and
a thief and so he was always lying and
manipulative and so by the time I went
through my dad and my first husband and
then wonderful Dave came
along I took it all out on
him and so when Dave would try to give
me a little bit of advice or like Dave
is very protective of me and and so he’s
always trying to tell me things to keep
me from getting hurt like how to get out
of the
bathtub you know just stuff that I am
like but see I would take it like why do
you always have to try to tell me what
to do but he really he was trying to
love
me but because I had this stuff inside
me from the past I couldn’t take it that
way I always took it like he was trying
to control me and that really wasn’t
what he was trying to do at all and I’m
I’m sharing this because I believe many
of you have been hurt in the past and
you may be doing the same thing that I
was doing you may be
now couple of husbands down the
road
and you can’t keep blaming the new guy
for everything that the old guys
did come
on because it’s just not fair it’s just
not fair to do that and so I had to
actually come to a point where I
repented for those inner vows that I
made nobody’s ever going to control me
again nobody’s ever going to control me
again and I had to come full
circle back to realizing that God
establishes order everywhere you go and
everywhere you go you need to know who’s
in who’s in charge who has the authority
and you need to be willing to come under
that Authority now I’m up here preaching
tonight but this is Joel’s house and so
he’s sitting down there but he’s really
the one in control because if he told me
not to do something then I better not do
it and we need to be willing to come
under Authority now listen to me we have
so much rebellion in the world today it
is unbelievable how rebellious people
are and the Bible says that Rebellion is
the spirit of
antichrist and we need to be very
careful about this attitude that’s
creeping up on everybody that nobody’s
going to tell me what to do I’m going to
do what I
please when God establishes order it’s
not so one person can control another
but it’s so you can have peace every
body obviously can’t be in
charge somebody has to always
be the person that calls the final shots
and everything that person also is the
one with the
responsibility now probably none of you
have any problem coming under Authority
do
you you know what you have no business
ever being in Authority if if you don’t
know how to come under
Authority I worked for a a man for a
long time that was not very easy to work
with and he wasn’t very fair in a lot of
ways and God used that situation to
teach me how to be
submissive with a decent
attitude even with somebody that I
really didn’t agree with but I learned
so much out of that experience you know
sometimes everything you learn is not
pleasant like from being mistreated I
learned not to mistreat
people because I knew how it felt from
having it done to me if you have a
leadership
personality see yourself as a leader not
a boss because if you say I’m the boss
then you’re going to be
bossy but if you see yourself as a
leader then you’ll know that means that
you have to set a good example for
people not just be telling them what
they need to be but leading them by
example into what they need to
be so we may try to control because
we’re afraid to be taken advantage of or
the fourth thing is we may try to
control people just because we’ve got a
strong temperament and our temperament
the temperament that God gives
us does play into things I was listening
to a a I’ve been listening to a man
named Martin Lloyd Jones who they say
was probably the best Bible teacher of
this century and he’s just really a very
good Bible teacher and
he interestingly
enough from that era you wouldn’t think
that you’d hear people talk about this
but he talks a lot about how our
temperament plays into the way that we
handle things and he said like some
people are just never going to be as
cheery as some other people you know
some people are they just have a a a
deeper more Melancholy personality and
they would be more inclined toward
getting depressed you know where other
people they just like can bubble through
life every single day and everything’s a
big joke to them you know Dave gets up
in the morning and he gets up singing
and I just don’t even want to talk or
talk to or see a human until I have my
coffee amen it’s like the only person
that I can stand to talk to that time of
the morning is
Jesus but if you give me about an hour
I’ll be okay
so if you if you have a strong
personality you have to you have to be
careful that you’re balanced with it
that you’re not trying to tell everybody
in the world what to
do know when you’re in control and when
you need to come under control amen now
there is
only one thing in your life that God has
told you to control and that is
yourself so instead of trying to control
everybody else we need to use more
self-control 2 Timothy 1:7 God has not
given us a spirit of fear but of power
and love and self-control so don’t ever
say again I just don’t have any
self-control you may not be using
it but you have it and the more you use
it the easier it will be to use it Paul
said every athlete exercises
self-control in all
things and they do a good athlete I mean
they observe a bedtime they exercise
they eat certain ways they you know and
he says they do it to win a wreath that
is perishable so you think about what
some of these Sports people
do are like a bodybuilder what they go
through trying to
train just to stand on a stage and show
off their
muscles
and are like to get a wreath of flowers
or a ribbon or a trophy they do all that
just for that but he says we’re doing
it for a reward that is
imperishable so if they’re willing to
discipline themselves to that degree
just to win something that’s already in
the process of rotting when they take it
home how much more should we be
willing to control ourselves in order to
have what God has promised us which is
eternal life with
him
so two scriptures both in 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 9: 25-27 every athlete
exercises self-control in all things
they do it to receive a perishable
wreath but we an imperishable so I do
not run aimlessly I do not box as one
beating the air but I discipline my body
and I keep it under control lest after
preaching to others I myself should be
disqualified well the Amplified Bible
says but I Buffet my body however I
think we misread that for a long time
and we thought it said I Buffet my
[Applause]
body right here Paul says I Buffet my
body same
spelling different
pronunciation 1 Corinthians 612 all
things are lawful for me but not all
things are
helpful all things are lawful for me but
I will not be dominated by
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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 rest of the day is mine you start
asking God to heal you and he will
restore is the God of all comfort and I
am so grateful that I know how to call
on
God
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