Determination – Pt 2 | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer
Determination – Pt 2 | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer
Do you try to fix your own problems? Today on Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer discusses how determination plays a vital role in overcoming anxiety and trusting God to fix what you cannot.
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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me today on Enjoying Everyday Life I hope that you enjoy the teaching and not only that you enjoy it but that it makes a real positive difference in your life I’m talking about determination we started yesterday talking about being determined to keep a good attitude no matter what’s going on in your life today we want to talk about being determined to not be anxious and upset set every time you have a problem because you can’t solve your problems anyway Only God Can so believe it or not it’s perfectly okay for you
to give your problem to God and then go ahead and enjoy your life while he solves it I think I might need to say that again because you know we we kind of automatically think that if we have a problem we should be miserable the whole time we have the problem or if you got a kid that’s not doing well in school or whatever but you don’t have to be miserable if you really believe that God is working on it and that he’s going to solve it then why not go ahead and be happy because the joy of the Lord is
your strength and we’re in the business of making the devil mad and he does not like it if you’re happy so the happier you are the matter you make him couple of scriptures that use the word determin and when I say determination I want to repeat what I said yesterday that doesn’t mean just self-will we can’t do anything apart from God but it does mean that whatever the word tells us to do or whatever God asks us to do we do need to be determined if we’re going to do it because the enemy will work overtime
trying to make sure that we don’t and so God wants us to be peaceful Jesus said John 14:27 my peace I leave with you not as the world gives do I give unto you but my own special peace I give and bequeath unto you so stop allowing yourselves to be upset and Disturbed and stop allowing yourselves to be fearful and intimidated so God’s done his part I’ve given you peace now your part you stop allowing yourself to get upset how many of you can feel up upset coming from down in here somewhere well the key is to stop it
before it gets to your mouth because once it gets there then you only start magnifying the problem by then you have more to repent for First Peter 58 and9 says be well balanced temperate which means disciplined sober of mind be vigilant and cautious at all times for that enemy of yours the Devil roams around like a lion roaring in Fierce hunger seeking someone to seize upon and devour withstand him be firm in faith against his onset rooted establish strong immovable and determined knowing that the same identical sufferings are appointed to
your Brotherhood the whole body of Christians throughout the world and Paul said in Philippians 3 my determined purpose is to know him and the power of his resurrection that lifts me out from among the body what lifts me out from among the problems while I’m still in the body you can be lifted above your problems into a place where God is even though you have problems and Paul said I’m determined to know him in such a way that I’ll be able to do that it’s it see it seems that some people are always
anxious and upset about something you know that can become a habit you can make problems out of things that really don’t even have to be problems I think some people call it making mountains out of mole Hills and it’s amazing to me now after 45 years of studying the word and Walking with God the things that I don’t get upset about that I would have gotten very upset about when I was more of a immature baby Christian and we all go through those stages but the point is is is if you’ve been saved 50 years and you’re still in
that first stage then there’s a problem with that God is not upset with us if we haven’t arrived but he does expect us to always be growing amen and making progress so we should be able to look at our lives and see some difference every year some area where you’re making progress we must learn to live the deeper life rather than a surface life if you think about a body of water if there’s a storm on the top of that water it’ll be rough and waves but if you could go down deep it would be just as
still as it could be and see that’s the way that God wants us to be because really we are a spirit which is deep we have a soul next later and we live in a body so it’s our soul that gets upset our mind our will and our emotions and a lot of why we get upset is based on how we think how we think about a situation do you really believe that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose see I really do believe that because I’ve had enough experience with God now
that I’ve seen it happen over and over and over and I’ve also learned to say this won’t last forever right yes and see the enemy he he talks to us like well I can’t stand this because we think it’s going to last forever but you know something you can do anything if you do it one day at a time I want to make sure that our viewing audience gets that you whatever ever it is you’re going through if you take it one day at a time God just give me the strength I need for today and don’t let the devil tell you
it’s going to last forever because think of all the other things that you thought were going to last forever that God took care of and you don’t have them anymore you know we worry about all that stuff and we get upset and what we should do is p r a y who can spell pray our first response to every problem should be to pray and when I say pray don’t think of it like oh I’ve got to get somewhere in this certain place and I’ve got to get in this certain posture and I have to have enough time to pray
for a long time no we need to learn that we can pray about anything anytime anywhere yes you can pray out loud or you can pray silently depending on where you’re at so we have to learn that the world is not going to change if anything it’s going to get worse and I spent a lot of time praying for God to change my circumstances and he really didn’t so I finally figured out he wants me to change it’s not my circumstance oh you know maybe one circumstance would go away but then another one would come
right behind it how many of you have something going on in your life on a pretty semi-regular basis oh yeah okay we all do you know I mean I could tell you just in the last week things that have happened to me and you know I’m here today doing what I’m supposed to be doing and you know we when we’re having problems we should not withdraw and isolate and stop keeping our commitments and just stay home and feel sorry for ourselves activity the Bible says be alert and active and we should be actively continuing to do what God wants
us to do keep your commitments if you’ve committed to do something if at all possible go ahead and do that thing I love these scriptures in Luke 5 1-8 I use them often and they they really have taught me a lot now it occurred that while the people pressed Upon Jesus to hear the message of God he was standing by the lake of janeret the Sea of Galilee and he saw two boats drawn up by the lake but the fishermen had gone down from them and were washing their Nets and getting into one of boats the one that belonged to Simon
Peter he asked him to draw away a little bit from the shore and then he sat down and he continued to teach the crowd of people from the boat I don’t know if you know it or not but when you talk across water at amplifies your voice he didn’t have microphones but that was why he asked him to draw away a little from the shore when he had stopped speaking he said to Peter put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a hall now listen to what Peter said Master we toiled all night exhaustingly and we caught nothing in our Nets now
just let’s think about how they felt No Sleep been up all night fishing all night catching nothing how many of you know if you’re fishing so to speak in Life or let’s just say you’ve been doing the right thing for a long time and you still haven’t had a breakthrough it gets kind of hard doesn’t it yes you need a refreshing you need a little bit of encouragement but you know the Bible says that God will never allow more to come on us than what we can bear but with every Temptation he always also provides the way out and he
does so Peter told Jesus how he felt he said look we’re tired we are exhausted and these nets were not easy to wash and and get all cleaned up and put away he said we didn’t catch anything but on the ground of your word I will lower the Nets again wow I love that so what’s he saying I don’t think this is going to work I don’t feel like doing it and I don’t want to do it that’s his soul yeah but because you said to I will do it yeah now what do you think would happen in our world if everybody who calls themselves a
Christian would just start to read the book The Bible right and just do what it says wow yeah yeah I mean and that’s really what it comes down to to everything that the Bible says is for us even the things that are hard to do God is not just trying to make it hard on us he’s he wants to set us free and you can’t run away from the hard things if you run away from the hard things then you always they’re always there chasing you anything you run from is always chasing you but if you turn and confront
it then you can win over it yes you can Master it you can’t get rid of fear by running away from it you have to confront it that’s the only way you can get rid of it and so sure enough they did what he said when he had done this they caught a great number of fish so many that their Nets were at the point of breaking when Jesus said a hall he meant a hall how many of you are ready for a hall of blessings any your life amen and I love this part so they signal to their Partners in the other boats to come and take hold with them and they
came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink what I love about that is if we do what God tells us to do not only will we have more than what we need we will have so much that we will be able to bless all the other people around us and I love that we should not just want blessings for ourselves but we should want to be able to bless other people because that’s where the real Joy comes in your life is being able to bless other people so when Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus’s knees saying depart
from me for I a sinful man so we need to learn to act on what we know not what we feel or what we think so the next time that you’re really upset and sure enough you just got yourself more upset by just talking about it for an hour and now you just you’re really in a mess and you’ve got a decision to make and you’re all emotional well trying to make that decision based on those emotions is the wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong thing to do because your emotions will lie to you you say well what should I do
go get somewhere where it’s quiet take a few deep breaths and try to calm down and just see what’s in your heart and you know what you’ll find out that you do believe that Jesus will deliver you if you’ve been around the word very long you do believe that in your spirit you know that because he fills our spirit full of good things but that’s why our mind has to be renewed the Bible says in Romans 12 that unless we renew our mind according to the word of God we will never really experience the good plan that God has for our lives
so isn’t that interesting that God’s got a good plan for our lives but just our just wrong thinking can keep us from ever actually experiencing the that plan I remember all the years that I had no idea that my thinking or my words made any difference at all in my life I wasn’t being taught that in the church that I was going to I was just being taught doctrinal things which is important but we need to learn how to live right we need to learn about our soul and and and it’s our mind our will and our emotions and how we need to to
learn to keep that area calm so God can actually have his way in our lives we need to act on what we know not what we think or feel and you know a lot more than you think you do you just let your soul take over that’s why we need to learn how to live deeper the Deeper Life manifests itself in the fruit of stability the more spiritually mature you are the more stable you will be the Bible says for example be rooted deep in love in the love of Jesus you don’t just Jesus Loves Me on the good days no how many of you have ever said when
you’ve been having problems well Jesus don’t you don’t you love me or I don’t feel like you love me I’ve said that when I was a younger Christian well don’t you love me I feel like you don’t love me I would never say that now no matter what happened to me I would never say that you know why because I know I don’t just know it’s not just information it’s Revelation and that’s what happens when something becomes Revelation to you nobody no devil in hell can take it away
from you and so he said you need to be rooted deep in love so nobody can take it away from you Ephesians 3:17 and 18 May Christ through your faith actually dwell settle down abide and make his permanent home in your hearts you know I think about that sometimes and I think I really want to just think about it more that God lives in US yeah I mean even though I say it it’s like really yeah I mean we’re the home of God God lives in us we’re full of the Holy Spirit and the bottom line is you’ve got what it
takes to face any situation that comes along you just have to remember who you are in Christ and not listen to the lies of the devil he’s such a liar and he wants us to believe his lies so we’ll be deceived and think that God doesn’t love us and he’s not going to come through for us and this is you know never going to end and it’s not going to work out good and my life is terrible May Christ through your faith dwell settle down abide make his home in your hearts has to be through your faith
because you don’t always feel that way may you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love you see how how can you put your faith in God when you’re having problems if you don’t know that you know that you know that he loves you and he loves you with a perfect love and I’m going to tell you something today that we really need to realize no matter how much more you improve in Behavior God is never going to love you any more than he does right now today amen y you say Well then why should I
keep trying to improve because you love him that’s right you’re not trying to buy God’s love by having better Behavior he loved you while you were still yet in sin and sent his son to die for you he has a perfect love for us we can’t buy his love with our good behavior but if if you have something in your life that needs to change trying say patience for example trying to be patient ain’t going to work you ever try so hard to change and the more you tried the worse you acted man I’ve had that but you know
what the Apostle Paul did too he said the thing I want to do I can’t do and the thing I don’t want to do that’s what I always end up doing I well Paul I relate to that and then toward the end of chapter 7 in Romans he said said who will deliver me from this body of death then it says oh exclamation mark thank God he will exclamation mark who’s going to deliver us he will so the thing to do is to fall more and more and more in love with Jesus and so if you’re going to work on something work on your love
relationship with Jesus tell him a hundred times a day how much you love him because Jesus said if you love me you will obey me so I believe that the degree of our obedience lines up perfectly with the degree of our love for God the more you love him the more you’re going to want to do everything he wants you to do and the more you’re going to not want to displease him be founded securely on love that you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the Saints God’s devoted people the experience of
that love do you know that we actually should experience God’s love and and in uh 1 John 4 it says that we should be conscious and aware of God’s love and that actually was that scripture was very life-changing for me because if you pay attention you’ll catch God loving you that’s good I call them Winks from God little things that he does for you that maybe would only mean something to you but you know it’s God showing you that he loves you and I’ve also discovered I believe very much that God loves us through other
people because God wants to work through us to edify and encourage and build other people up right you want a Ministry be an encourager people need to be encouraged it’s amazing sometimes when I’ll you know give somebody a compliment and they say you made my day that’s pretty amazing when you have the power to make somebody’s day yeah just by giving them a compliment so start watching for God’s love in your life and you might even keep a journal and just write down all the little things that
God does for you that really to be honest nothing God does is little everything he does is Big then it goes on to say that who can ever separate us Romans 8:35 from Christ’s love shall suffering and affliction and tribulation or Calamity and distress or persecution or hunger or destitution or Peril or sword then it goes on to say but we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us what does it mean to be more than a conquer I think it means that you already know you have the victory before you even get the
problem so therefore you don’t have to be afraid of trouble that’s good I can remember when I used to get the first hint of trouble I’d be like oh no I was afraid of trouble oh no not again but see now I know I don’t like to go through them but I know that I will have the Victory and so therefore I am more than a conqueror I don’t have to I don’t even have to wait to see what I’m going to conquer right and you don’t have to either because you are more than a conqueror thank you for
being with us today we really do love you and I pray that you will have a great rest of the [Applause] day so sometimes what we think will bring us happiness still doesn’t do it for us we try everything look out for number one but life still feels empty well you know we typically look at our circumstances and try to change them in order for me to be happy I know this because I thought this way for years I was always on my mind I would constantly think what about me what about me I had no idea that the root of my unhappiness was something I
could actually change I was getting in my own way and missing the blessings that God has for me you see selfishness steals our joy but God has such a better way for us to live I firmly believe that people need to realize that there’s great power in an unselfish life that’s why I’ve written what about me inside I share why it’s important to get out of that me mindset and how to change your perspective in a way that will benefit you and others request what about me today and take important steps to living an
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