Candid Conversations: The Role of Scripture in Today’s Challenges | Joyce Meyer
Candid Conversations: The Role of Scripture in Today’s Challenges | Joyce Meyer
In this candid conversation with Joyce Meyer, we explore what the world needs most today. Joyce emphasizes the need for truth, as she discusses the deception prevalent in society and the importance of standing firm in God’s word. Watch as Joyce Meyer unpacks the vital role of Jesus and the Bible in navigating today’s challenges.
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.
[Music] all right Joyce let’s talk about the world today and what it needs do we have to we’re going to have a candid conversation on your your feelings of what the world really needs most and there are so many possibilities but what’s heavy on your heart for the world today well I could make this a short day and just say the world needs Jesus so true goodbye and I hope you enjoyed the show um let’s break it down into two categories the well now we we can make it one first of all the world needs
truth and uh there is so much deception deception is the perfect deception but the Bible says very plainly that in the last days look it up Matthew 24 that in the last days deception will be great and the devil is The Great Deceiver he’s he lies he puts things in your head that are not true he he lies to so many people that everybody can believe something that’s not true and if you don’t know truth which is only the word word of God Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me so Jesus
who is the word made flesh is the truth and if like even Ginger when I watch television very often I I just say God thank you that I know the the word because there are so many things even that come on television that are just against the word of God and people in the world just think there’s not a thing wrong with them you know I mean things that people used to be ashamed of they aren’t even ashamed of anymore they’re just like well yeah everybody does it well you know just because everybody does it right doesn’t make it
right and if if people had any idea how many things they believe that aren’t true they would be amazed you know now Christians should know better but even some Christians fall into that deception and they begin to go along with you know things that really are not in the word and I think sometimes because it’s just it’s hard to stand up to people and your friends and maybe take a chance on losing your friends to to to stand with God but God expects us to do that we need to stand with God if we lost every
friend that we had but in addition to that if a Christian let’s just say they do know the truth they stand up for the truth I think what Christians need more than anything is to die to self and begin to really live for Christ the Bible says in Romans 8:29 that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ and that means that the Christian goal from the time they’re born again is to let the Holy Spirit work in their life to change them to become more and more like Jesus and Jesus said If any
man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me and the cross that we take up is not disasters and Devastation and you know every kind of bad thing that you can imagine you know some people say oh it’s just my cross to bear well the cross that he wants us to Bear is to live an unselfish life and you’re not ever going to have a bigger challenge than that because we all have a flesh and we just want what we want when we want it and we usually don’t act too pretty when we don’t get it and God
wants us to trust him that if we don’t get what we want that we know that he still has our best interest in mind yeah but I I think overall if we’re going to talk about this subject the main thing that people need is to first of all we need to be careful I mean the Bible says to live carefully and to to be sober minded to don’t just go along with everything that comes along wrong you know but is this right I mean is it really right according to the word of God now people who don’t believe in God don’t care you
know they don’t they don’t care about the word of God because they don’t believe in God you know the Bible says in the Old Testament and it’s prophecy about the days we’re living in that the time will come when good will be evil and evil will be good and that’s really exactly what’s happening in today I just as an example I was watching a TV program and you know sometimes you’re watching them and they’re good and then all of a sudden they get weird and so you have to know when
to turn the thing off or get away from it but in this program all of a sudden something these people are being questioned about something and and they said well we we have an open marriage you know we we both have other sexual partners and we’re okay with that and uh so it was a police detective that was questioning them and and she kind of came across like a little judgmental like well you know like it wasn’t right yeah like like it’s not right and this is what they said and you have to pay atten to get
this according to today’s standards and that’s the problem a difficult phrase right there according to today’s standards you judging us for what we’re doing is more wrong because because you’re judging our right to do what we please and what makes us happy and so what’s happening in the world today is people are doing just that they’re doing whatever they please and whatever makes them happy and they actually think that that’s all right you know people people have they’ve got this
notion that well it’s my right to have whatever I want well you know it’s also your right to go to hell I mean people say that oh I don’t believe a loving God would send anybody to Hell well God doesn’t send anybody to hell he doesn’t but we can choose to go you know a lot of people say I don’t believe in Hell well the Bible believes in it and here again you know I got to go back to what the Bible says you’re going to you’re going to live for God receive Christ and live for God and
go to heaven when you die or you’re going to ignore God all your life and then you’re going to stand before him on Judgment Day and he’s going to yeah send you to the other place and what what you said is that the the world right now is facing a culture where it is worse supposedly to judge and judging isn’t the right word because we’re not talking about making decisions about people we’re talking about making decisions about God’s word and sin well making it so you love the people but
yeah but the action right is a different thing so we should never judge people but we are called upon by the word of God to judge sin yes so where it’s wrong to call something wrong I mean that that is such a dangerous place for us to be right but I I love that you distill it down to what the world really needs is truth yeah because there are so many hurting broken confused people oh my gosh and with the truth of God’s word that you know that comes with the fact that he loves them and has salvation and
a plan for them and it comes with exactly it it comes with peace it serving God is comes with so many good things that our world needs so desperately it’s just if people just knew people PE the only thing people think about when it comes to being a Christian if they don’t want to be one is well I can’t do everything I want to do but the things that you think you want to do are the things the very things that are making you unhappy and people think well if you’re a Christian you can’t have any fun that’s
not true we have fun we just have good clean fun we you know there there’s a difference in Holiness and legalism and I was just thinking this morning I need to do a teaching about Holiness versus legalism because legalism means you can it it’s always what you can’t do what you can’t do what you can’t do but living a holy life there’s still a lot of things you can do you just choose to do them the right way you know and uh people just there’s so much confusion in the world today people are so confused and
if you just and Jesus is the Hope in all of it and the only hope the only hope that people have and so I just would really encourage people to not just believe everything that the world says or the government says or you know I mean the government can even make something legal well it’s legal well it may be legal but it might still be wrong you know just because the world says it’s legal to do something doesn’t mean the Bible says it’s okay to do it it definitely gives you a burning need to pray to pray for
everything happening to pray for our kids pray for our grandkids to pray against that deception right and to pray for the truth of Christ to Wi out yeah every day people that are praying need to pray that people will see what real truth is what real truth is and you know today people would you hear a lot well truth is relative well relative to what relative to me because I want to do it you know truth is truth I mean there can’t be one truth for you and one truth for you and another Truth for you and another Truth for me that’s not truth
you know that’s just I’m doing whatever I want to do and calling it truth I mean there can only really be one truth and Jesus said I’m it I am the way not a way among a bunch of ways are a truth among a bunch of truth I am the way the truth period [Music]
