Breaking Free – Part 2 | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer

Adventure is found in starting something new, and also in stopping something that’s old. Be encouraged to make bold Spirit-led decisions in your life, on this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer!

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.

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To say no matter what god chooses you for, if you won’t believe it, then it’ll never happen.
So you have to stop looking at yourself the way the world views you, and you have to start seeing yourself the way god sees you.
I’m Joyce Meyer, and I believe that god can heal you everywhere you hurt.
Let me tell you something that I’m having to learn, and you might as well learn it too.
Nobody can always do what they’ve always done.
No matter how good you are at it, somebody’s gonna come along sooner or later that’s better at it than you are.
And someday, you will get old.
And you just won’t be able to do everything that you used to do.
So you gotta be very careful about having all your words and value tied up in what you do.
You’re so much more than what you do.
That’s why it doesn’t matter if you’re the janitor or the CEO. I mean, it just doesn’t matter.
What we do doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is am I doing what god wants me to do?
God will take care of you if you’re doing what he wants you to do, but you gotta let him.
You gotta let him. Not I don’t want to get into this too much tonight, but I had all my messages prepared and ready, and all these great things that we can step out into And, I mean, just less than a week ago, god so strongly put it on my heart to teach tonight that adventure is not always stepping out into something new.
Many times it’s letting go of something old.
And I feel so strongly about it.
That I believe that there may be more of you here that need that.
I really do.
And sometimes the things you have to let go of, they’re they’re not things that you hate and would love to let go of.
A lot of times, there are things that you wanna keep doing.
But you can’t do everything and do it all good.
I asked my trainer because I work out three times a week, and I have now for 14 years.
I wish I would have started earlier in life, but thank god. I got started when I did.
And, you know, the thing that really provoked me to start working out.
Well, first of all, I took a good look at myself one day in the mirror.
Not fully closed, forget that vision.
And all the stuff that used to be up here was down there.
And I thought, oh god, I’m in trouble.
And I really felt like the lord said to me, if you wanna finish the last third of your journey, and fully complete what I’ve given you to do, then you gotta start you gotta start exercising on a regular basis.
Now I’m not trying to get you to do that. I’m just telling you what he told me.
And I started doing that over 14 years ago. And I asked my trainer recently.
I said, so if I keep doing what I’m doing, when I’m ninety years old, will I still be able to do it?
And he said, no. I said, well, why not?
He said, because you’ll be ninety years old.
He said you’ll still be able to work out, but you won’t be lifting as heavy of weights as you do now.
You might have to do less reps. There might be some exercises you can’t do anymore.
And you know what?
When you’re strong and you’re like a bulldog and you, you know, I’ve spent my life pressing through things and pushing through things and starting with when my dad was sexually abusing me and deciding I am going to do something with my life.
I got so tired of him telling me that I was never gonna amount to anything, and I decided one day, I am gonna prove you wrong.
But I really believe that some of you, the biggest adventure that you could possibly have is to let go of something That’s no longer bearing fruit in your life, but perhaps never has born any fruit in your life.
You don’t even know why you’re doing it. You’re just kind of addicted to it.
And you just can’t imagine not doing it. Well, can I tell you something?
God always make you let go of something before he lets you take hold of something new.
You’re foolish if you think you can always do what you’ve always done.
Life is a journey. And things are anointed for a season, and friendships are anointed many times for a season.
I have people that were very good friends of mine 20 years ago that I never hear from now.
And they don’t hear from me. Everything is beautiful in its time.
You said, well, how do I know if god’s done with something?
Oh, you know. If you’re honest with yourself, you know.
Being honest with ourself is not always easy. Right? Well, I’m still on page 1.
I have a problem here. It’s nothing new.
What happens actually is I end up preaching at all.
I just do it backwards and upside down and Philippians 33 put no confidence in the flesh, but only in Christ Jesus.
Don’t be confirmed to this world.
Proverbs 3 26 for the lord will be your confidence and he will keep your foot from being caught.
Now, 1st Corinthians 127331, I have to try to help some of you stop discounting yourself and thinking that because you’re not super smart, god can’t use you or you don’t have the right education or the right friends or, you know, nobody to help you or or whatever whatever it is the devil tells you.
God doesn’t accuse people that the world would choose.
Matter of fact, he chooses, in these scriptures, it says, god chooses what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and god chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
He chooses people who know they don’t have it altogether, and know that if god doesn’t show up, they’re done far.
So all the people in the world who can’t figure out why in the world god is using you have to watch him do it.
You don’t worry about how people treat you.
As long as you’re doing what you believe god wants you to do, god will always take care of you.
God’s in the business of bringing down the high and lifting up the lowly.
Amen? Amen.
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even the things that are to bring to nothing of things that are.
Why so that no human being might boast in the presence of god.
Do you know out of all the disciples?
There was only one of them that the world would have approved of, and that was Judas.
He was very well educated.
Had it altogether, spoke well. I mean, Peter, no way.
Maybe Luke, he was a doctor.
But most of the disciples that Jesus chose and he didn’t just get stuck with them.
The Bible says that he prayed all night before he chose them.
But see, no matter what god chooses you for, if you won’t believe it, then it’ll never happen.
So you have to stop looking at yourself the way the world views you, and you have to start seeing yourself the way god sees you.
And I can tell you, I don’t care who you are.
If god calls you to do something, You may not have one natural qualification, but you know what qualifies you?
God’s anointing. And we talk so little about the anointing now.
I don’t even know how many people really even know what it is.
The anointing is when the presence of god comes on you and enables you to do something.
The Bible says that when saul, King Saul, when the anointing of the Holy Spirit came on him, he was turned into another man.
And I loved that. You know, I never knew I was funny till I started preaching.
Nobody would have thought I was funny. And people just laugh all the time.
And I’ll tell you the truth. I know that it’s the Holy Spirit. I know that.
He can cause you to do things you would never do. Say things you don’t even know.
Is anybody listening to me?
You’re not you’re not gonna be excited about your life if all you ever do is what you wanna do.
Or what you think you can do or what your friends think you can do.
The only way you’re ever gonna be excited about your life is to start doing what you really believe that god wants you to do and what’s in your heart to do.
Follow your heart that’s one of the things that Jesus died to buy you is the right to follow your heart.
Come on.
God does not choose you because of your education, your skills, your experience or your capabilities.
He chooses you because you’re available.
I always like to say, god doesn’t choose you because of ability, but because of availability.
You know, I really I really hope and pray that every person in here So I there’s something in my heart that I want to see happen, and it it’ll have to happen after you go home.
It’s not a matter of it happening right in here. It’s gotta happen when you go home.
And I wanna see every single one of you make a decision Well, I’m glad you’re so excited about that.
Seeing a lot of you are thinking, well, what could I do?
Well, that’s the problem. You’d be amazed what you could do.
All you have to do is say what Isaiah did. Here, my lord send me.
Here, am I send me? You’re not too young and you’re not too old.
And what you do will not be insignificant.
I think I started to tell you a while ago that one of my daughters came at just the right time when I was basically saying I need more help, but it was more like personal help that I needed.
So it had to be the right person.
I mean, you can’t write a 125 books and keep up with all the other the grocery list and the, you know, all the other things that I mean, you you just can’t.
And god provides what you need if you’re doing what he’s asking you to do.
And she said, I really believe at this time in my life, the call of god on my life is to help you.
And so she’s a helper.
Well, you know, maybe people don’t clap for her, but I call her the momager. She manages mom.
Amen? And she sacrifices so much of her time.
And, yes, I bless her and I help her and I do things for her, but she there’s no way that she could do for me what she does.
She’s got 4 kids of her own.
Now they’re 2 of them are gone from home, and the other 2 are One’s in college and one’s in her last year of high school, so it’s not like they need constant care.
But she just does so much for me. And can I tell you something?
The people who do those kinds of things for me, honestly, I tell you they are some of the most important people in my life.
And so if you’re one of those people that’s called to just help somebody else, god bless you.
And just do it and do it with all your heart.
And don’t ever say, well, I’m just a helper. Or I just clean homes.
I’m glad somebody cleans homes. Hallelujah. Hey, man.
How many of you are glad somebody cleans homes?
Stop discounting yourself and stop belittling yourself and and I’m just a wife and a mother.
My gosh. That’s one of the highest callings.
Man, if you can raise a house full of kids today and stay sane, god bless you.
Problems created when your confidence has been stolen.
And you know what confidence is? It’s just a belief. It’s not a feeling.
I don’t always feel confident when I come up here.
I don’t always even feel when I’m done. Like, my preaching was good.
I usually do, but I don’t always.
And I had one of those a few weeks ago where I just thought that was the biggest mess I’ve ever seen in my life.
And I told Dave I said, oh, there’s nothing worse for me than preaching and just feeling like it just wasn’t good.
Anybody else in here that teaches or preaches ever feel that way you’re just like it just wasn’t good?
And I rarely do this, but I had them send me a copy of it.
And I watched it, and you know what? It was really good.
Yeah.
The devil was just messing with me that night.
And he loves to make you feel like whatever you are doing is no good.
So confidence is not a feeling. You don’t always feel. Uh. You know?
But it’s a possession. It’s something that Jesus died to give you.
He doesn’t want you to be ruled by fear He wants you to be confident, and he wants you to be able to step out and to do things and to do things maybe that nobody’s ever done.
And he wants you to be so confident in him that even if you do lose a few friends that you can trust him to say, well, maybe they were just excess baggage in my life and not who I really needed anyway.
I mean, if people aren’t gonna love you for you, Come on.
Are we getting anything? Well, here’s just a handful of problems that’s created when you don’t have any confidence.
Number 1, your potential in Christ has never reached.
Fear rules you and you live in regret about all the things you wish you would have done, but were afraid to do.
I think the saddest thing in the whole world is to look at an older person.
I mean, somebody, you know, seventy, eighty years old, and all they have left is regret.
That’s just heartbreaking. I wish I would’ve.
Don’t die wishing you would’ve.
Don’t die with all your potential still locked up on the inside of you.
I want every person to leave this comp this conference saying god, I wanna do something for you.
Show me what I can do And it it it probably won’t be a platform ministry.
You may not go to Hollywood and become a movie star.
You maybe won’t be the next Natalie grant, but you can do something Come on.
There’s something you can do. I honestly cannot even imagine how it would change.
The world and how fast it would change the world.
How people would admire the church and admire believers, and our churches would be packed.
You you you would not be able to get all the people in any church.
If Christians were actually just being kind to neighbors and helping the elderly person next door and picking up that employee that whose engine blew out of their car and They can’t can’t afford to get it fixed.
And, oh, by the way, it’s an employee that really has mistreated you.
But what does it say to them in the world if you offer to go pick them up?
Go out of your way and pick them up every day for 6 months.
Love is more than a word, and it takes confidence to love some people.
Stop thinking that what you can do or what you can give is too little to even mess with.
You know how I started working out? Because I always had the same excuse that everybody does.
I don’t have time. As much as I travel, there’s no way that I can do it and do it on a regular basis.
And finally, this this was what pushed me over the edge.
In addition to what god said to me, the thing that pushed me over the edge was I decided And if you’ll decide this, things will start changing your life.
I decided I’m going to stop worrying about what I can’t do and I’m gonna do what I can even if I can only work out 15 minutes once a week, I’m gonna do what I can do.
And you know what? That that kind of like jump starts things.
And so you do a little something, and then you you then I started liking it.
And when I started being able to wear smaller clothes, I really liked it.
Come on. And I really like it now.
When somebody says to me, you’re really in good shape for somebody seventy five years old.
I like it.
And it keeps me going back.
You see, first, you invest Now listen.
First, you invest and eventually after some long suffering.
Come on. You know what I mean by that?
When I started working out, I was so sore.
I had to fall on the toilet and pray to be able to get up.
Oh my gosh. I thought I was gonna die.
I mean, it might it might My trainers have some days, you’re gonna feel downright sick, and I did.
First, you invest, then you wait, then you get a reward.
First, you invest, then you wait, then you get a reward.
I’m gonna finish this up and let you guys get some sleep.
You won’t sleep anyway, but If you don’t live with confidence, you will never know full joy.
Never. And one of the worst things I think is the Holy Spirit is grieved because he’s in you to help you be all you can be.
And then the door is open for many kinds of torment.
I had a whole section here on the fear of failure, which I can’t get to, but I think you get the point anyway.
How many of you got the point tonight? Alright.
How many of you are ready to say here I am god to send me?
Now do you mean it?
Because if you say it, this is one of those you can’t take it back things.
Alright. I’m gonna pray.
Father, I didn’t see any hands down.
So that means you got a lot of new workers, new people that want to do what you want them to do.
And so I pray that you will give everybody in here an assignment of some kind.
And if it doesn’t come right away, if they don’t know what it is right away, then don’t let them get frustrated waiting.
Show us daily what you want us to do as well as giving us our life mission.
Help us be bold enough to step out and follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit and to be confident even when we don’t feel confident.
In Jesus name, Amen.
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You see, god’s love, represented here has totally changed all.
Mother, I pray that you would help us trust you, even when life is hard, even when it hurts, even when seems unfair.
The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down and green pastures. He leads me besides steel waters.
He restores my soul. He leads me in passive righteousness for his namesake.
God, please help us trust you.
Help us not to quit and give in the back away from hard things.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me.
Thyroid and I staff. They comfort me.
You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the house of the lord forever.
And I pray, lord, that you’re giving people understanding, that they’re gaining the strength to keep on keeping on and not to ever quit and give up.
Thank you for your word in Jesus’ name.
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