Enjoying Your Life – Part 2 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

What does God want us to know in times of trouble? On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares encouragement for viewers who are going through difficult times.

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.

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 to everything is found in God’s word.
I’m Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.
You know something, God has never ever in your whole entire life ever thought one bad thought about you.
You don’t know any human being like that, I can tell you that for sure.
He’s never had a bad thought about you. He’s never had a hopeless thought.
He doesn’t look at you and say, wow, there’s no hope for you.
God believes in you. He’s got hope for you.
He’s got a future plan for you and no matter how many times you’ve messed up, God is willing to give you another chance and another chance and another chance if you’ll just be serious about your relationship with him.
John 1624, boy this is a good one.
Ask and receive that your joy might be full.
Up until this time you’ve not asked a single thing in my name presenting all that I am.
But now ask and keep on asking and you will receive so that your joy, your gladness and delight may be full and complete.
We’re gonna do a whole message in one of these sessions about learning how to just receive from God.
God is not for sale. You cannot buy him with your good works.
We don’t do right things to get God to love us, we do right things because He loves us.
There’s a big difference. I love that. Ask and receive.
Hey, instead of worrying about your kids all the time, ask god to take care of them.
Receive it and get about the business of enjoying everyday life. Amen?
If you’re concerned that your company you work at is gonna close down or you’re gonna get laid off, it’s not gonna do you any good to worry about it, pray about it, believe that God’s working in your life, trust that if you lose a job, he’ll get you another one, and go on enjoying every single day of your life.
When people you love have problems that they don’t seem to wanna fix.
I said when people you love have problems that they don’t seem to want to fix instead of worrying about it, trying to force something off on them that they don’t wanna have.
You can’t make somebody love God.
I don’t care how much you want them to, you cannot make somebody love God.
So say your prayers and cast your cares.
Actually, you will help them more if they see you enjoying life than you will ever help them trying to preach to them about something they don’t even wanna hear yet.
Now some of you like that, some of you aren’t so sure.
I know I’m a rescuer too. Let me help you.
You know what I finally figured out? Listen to this.
Jesus did not go around in his 3 years here and say, can I help you?
Can I help you? Oh, please let me help you.
Your life is in a mess, can I please help you? No, you know what he did?
The Bible says that all who came to him. Come on.
All who came to him, he helped them.
And the truth of the matter is is if you’ve been working on somebody for 4 years and they’re still not helped, there’s a pretty good chance they’re not really ready for help yet.
So sometimes you gotta just let them go ahead and get in a worse mess than what they’re in.
Okay. So anyway, I could tell you all kinds of reasons why we don’t enjoy life and I’ll get around to a lot of them before the weekend’s over.
But it is God’s will that you enjoy every single solitary ordinary day of your life.
Well, I wish I had a ministry like Joyce’s. Uh, I doubt it.
You might like this part.
But do you know how few moments I’m up here compared to the amount of time that I’m dealing with ordinary everyday stuff.
Amen? And then finally, John 17 13.
Now it’s interesting to me that all of these Scriptures I’m reading you about enjoying life are all in the book of John.
And probably more than any other disciple, John had an close intimate relationship with God.
He was the one that was always because he leaned back on Jesus’s breast at dinner.
You know, they laid on couches and ate then.
Sounds like a good idea to me, it was Lay down and prop up on the elbow and eat.
And John referred to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
I bet that annoyed Peter.
I mean, he wrote the book and called himself the disciple whom Jesus loved.
But the the the point is is he knew he was loved.
I said he knew he was loved unconditionally.
He knew that he was loved and so he’s the one who writes about enjoying everyday life.
When you know that you’re loved and you’re secure in that love, that gives you confidence and you don’t have to live in fear all the time and you can begin to then enjoy every single moment of your life.
Anyway, I think it’s interesting they’re all in the same chapter.
So John 17 13, last one.
And now I’m coming to you, this is Jesus.
I say these things while I’m still in the world so that my joy may be full and complete and perfect in them that they may experience my delight fulfilled in them that my enjoyment may be perfected in their own souls and that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts.
Wow. How many things do we do? I’ll be so glad when this is over.
I sure dread doing this.
Boy, I’ll be happy when this is done.
But see God wants us to be happy now. Not some other time.
Yeah, I know you got a lot of things in your life you think they ain’t no way I could enjoy that.
Well, here’s what I’m trying to tell you, if you enjoy God in the midst of it, then doing the task takes on a whole different nature because you’ve now offered it up to him as part of your service and sacrifice to him.
Do you know that us taking care of what we own, washing your car, clean the house, mowing the grass, all those things we need to do also We don’t appreciate what we have if everything around us is falling We don’t appreciate what we have if everything around us is falling apart.
See, you could go home tomorrow and clean out that closet with joy.
Oh, God I’m doing this for you. Hallelujah.
Oh boy.
Education about joy I believe is vital.
1 woman after hearing this seminar, thanked me for giving her permission to enjoy her life.
And this may not be all of you, but I would imagine there’s a few of you in here tonight that are kind of thinking the same thing.
You you mean, I can actually enjoy this?
Yes. Now, Ecclesiastes, you know, Solomon who wrote this was supposed to be the wisest man in the world although he did some dumb things.
He, uh, I never have quite totally worked that out yet, but he said some really amazing things and he again, 4 times in the short book of Ecclesiastes makes comments about one of the most important things that we can do is to enjoy life.
And he especially talks about enjoying our work.
I think sometimes we just get addicted to being miserable and we just purposely put ourselves in positions where we can keep being miserable so we got something to mumble about all the time.
I just got so much to do.
Nobody could be happy with everything that I’ve got to do. I am so busy busy busy busy busy.
Well, you know what sweetheart? You made your schedule. If you don’t like it, change it.
Learn how to say no to a few people and no to a few things.
Your kids don’t have to do everything they wanna do and go everywhere they wanna go.
They’re not gonna fall apart if they don’t get to be in 5 sports and go to 12 parties a week.
And you are more than a chauffeur for your kids. Amen?
So many people have so much going on every day goes by in a blur and they don’t even know what they did at the end of the day.
You cannot enjoy life if you never have time to breathe, and you cannot enjoy life if you’re doing a bunch of stuff that you hate and despise and don’t wanna do and you’re doing it just to keep somebody else happy.
And you say, well, I don’t wanna make them mad.
Okay. But here’s what happens. Because you don’t wanna make them mad, now you’re mad.
And you’re taking it out on somebody else in your home.
See, I know some of you’re gonna think, well I just don’t feel happy.
Well that’s your number one problem you live by how you feel.
I just don’t feel happy, I just don’t feel hopeful.
Well then give your feelings a kick in the can and just say I am not gonna live by how I feel anymore.
I am going to enjoy my life.
One day when I was trying to get a breakthrough in this, I walked through my house and I screamed at the top of my lungs.
I am going to learn how to enjoy my life.
Sometimes you gotta be a violent christian.
Some of you already are, but I’m not talking about that kind.
Ecclesiastes 224, there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and make himself enjoy good in his labor, and this is not talking about eating too much.
Thought I better throw that in there because you’re about to hear 4 times there’s nothing better than to eat and drink.
And make I love this.
And make himself enjoy good in his labor. That means you do it on purpose.
You decide, I’m going to the grocery store and devil, I’m gonna enjoy it.
I’m getting ready to do my dishes and I’m gonna enjoy it.
I’m getting ready to drive in traffic to work and I’m going to enjoy it because Jesus is in my car.
See really the truth of the matter is is you’re not not enjoying your life because of your problems.
You’re not enjoying your life because of your attitude towards your problems.
There’s nothing better.
Verse 25, for who can eat or who can have enjoyment more than I can apart from Him?
So he’s saying apart from him, you’re not gonna have any of this.
But how many of you know that a sad christian is an oxymoron?
I mean that just There’s nothing about Christianity that tells us to go around being miserable, stressed out, busy all the time, complaining, murmuring, I hate to drive in traffic, I hate to go to the store, I hate to do dishes, I hate to mow the grass.
Boy, thank God it’s Friday. Man, vacation’s coming up.
Am I gonna have a good time?
And then you go in debt to go on a vacation that you can’t afford.
Oh, yeah. And then you come back and you spend the next 12 months trying to pay off the vacation you didn’t even have any fun on while you were there.
And let me tell you something, we can learn to live on vacation if we learn the true meaning of this message.
Jesus said, come on to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
I will ease, relieve and refresh your souls.
I’m preaching tonight while on vacation.
The word is so good.
Ecclesiastes 4, 7 and 8.
Then I returned and I saw vanity under the sun, in one of its particular forms.
Here is one alone, no one with him, he neither has child nor brother, yet there is no end to all of his labor, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither does he ask for whom do I labor and deprive myself of good?
This is also vanity, emptiness, falsity, futility. It is a painful effort and an unhappy business.
So here we have this man who has several problems.
He has never taken time to develop relationships.
You see it, it says, he’s alone and has no one with him.
Secondly, his work never seems done no matter how hard he works.
And 3rd, even though he works even though his works has produced riches, he does not know how to enjoy them.
Whatever God has given you, you need to save some, give some and spend some.
I said whatever God has given you you need to save some, give some, and spend some.
You won’t be happy if you save it all because you’re afraid of the future.
You won’t be happy if you spend it all because then you won’t have anything for the future.
And you sure won’t be happy if you don’t give some because then you’re not operating under one of the best spiritual laws in the whole universe that we reap what we sow.
As long as the earth remains, there will be seed time and there will be harvest.
For whatsoever a man sows that and that only is what he shall reap.
Some of you are like me, you’re a workaholic, you never take the time to enjoy anything because you only feel good about yourself when you’re working and actually the truth is is you talk way too much about how hard you work and how much you work because that’s where you get your worth and value.
And I know you’re better more excited than you act.
How many of you how many of you know what I’m talking about?
You can get your worth and value out of what you do.
See, sometimes even when you do for people all the time, you can become a real martyr.
Well, I just do everything for everybody all the time. I do everything around here.
I do all the work. Nobody does anything but me. Well, then, just don’t do some of it.
Well, it’s all up to me. If I don’t do everything, nothing gets done.
Well, you know what? Even if you just took a little break once in a while, it would make the rest of it doable.
Amen? Come on ladies, take a break. Go get a manicure. Go get a pedicure.
Amen? Let somebody rub those feet. Amen.
You say what kind of preaching is this? Smart preaching.
Ecclesiastes 51819.
Oh, I just heard somebody say this is good.
Okay.
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is for one to eat and drink and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun all the days which God gives him.
We’re gonna go back and read that again.
Come on now, make the devil mad, enjoy your job.
I said, make the devil mad, enjoy your job.
Well, I’m the only Christian where I work.
Well, didn’t you pray for God to use you?
See, we think when we ask God to use us, he’s gonna put us to work in the church or a ministry.
Behold, what I’ve seen to be good infinity is for 1 to eat and drink and to find enjoyment labor in which he labors under the sun which means on the earth, all the days which God gives him for this is his allotted part.
And every man to whom God has given riches and possessions and the power to enjoy them and to accept his appointed lot, his life, and to rejoice in his toil, this is the gift of God to him.
You’re like man, I don’t know.
I don’t know if I come back tomorrow. I I got some real problems.
I was hoping that you’d really have a word for me. I’ll wake up.
What I’m trying to tell you is while you have a problem, it’s okay for you to go ahead and enjoy your life.
See, people don’t know that.
They think if they got a problem, they got to go sit somewhere and be miserable until they don’t have the problem anymore.
You don’t even have to talk about your problems all the time. Imagine that.
You don’t have to think about them all the time.
You can say your prayers and cast your cares.
Do what God tells you to if he tells you to do anything.
If he doesn’t, then trust God that he is working in your life right now.
Now, one more thing in Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes chapter 6 verse 9.
Now this is a scripture that backs up what I was saying about enjoying your life.
Better is the sight of the eyes, the enjoyment of what is available to 1 than the cravings of wandering desire.
So he said, it’s better to enjoy what’s in front of you that you have than to have all these craving desires for things that you don’t have.
Come on. Enjoy what’s in front of you that you do have and stop just wanting something that you don’t have because he says it is vanity.
And you know, one of the things that the writer of Ecclesiastes learned and I I respect him for this.
He basically says, I tried everything and nothing worked.
But he finally found out at the end the only thing that really works is God and living for him and obedience to him.
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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.
He says he wants his life. Today’s mind. You start asking God to heal you and he will restore.
It’s the God of all comfort and I am so grateful that I know how to call on God.