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

What’s been challenging your faith lately? On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares scriptures and strategies to help you increase your faith in Jesus.

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 he will do it for you.
The key to everything is found in god’s word.
I’m Joyce Meyer, and I’d be lead that god can heal you everywhere you hurt.
You know why god doesn’t tell us a lot of stuff?
Because to be honest, mystery is what makes life exciting.
Now, Dave and I kinda have a thing.
We’re a little turned around backwards. He watches Hallmark movies all the time.
And I I just God bless them, but I I don’t do well with something that 5 minutes after it starts.
I know how it’s gonna end. I I won’t be good with that.
And with Hallmark, I don’t know if you noticed or not, but the kiss always comes at the last scene.
You wait the whole thing to see this one kiss at the last minute.
I like mysteries. I like something that’s gonna keep me kind of on the edge of my seat.
And I was thinking about that the other day.
I think that’s part of the reason why god doesn’t tell us all this stuff we’d like to know because there are mysteries.
The mystery of the ages is Christ in me, the hope of glory.
How many of you agree? God’s a little mysterious.
He doesn’t, you know, I mean, you can ask him anything you want to, but A lot of stuff, he’s not gonna answer you.
And some of the stuff you ask, you probably better be happy.
He’s not answering you because you might not like what you find out.
Well, god, why did this happen?
Well, because you, Believe you have received it and you will get it.
Can’t tell you exactly when that’s where the test of faith comes in at.
But here comes really the most important part of this that we haven’t dealt with much this weekend, verse 25, and See, we get all excited about praying.
You’re gonna get it. Yeah. Woo.
Tell them out in the moon, and it has to move. Jesus.
I feel the holy ghost.
And When you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them.
Oh, where’s the noise at now?
And he got definitely quiet in here.
I didn’t hear one amen. Not one hallelujah.
Not one person, even quietly agreed with me.
This is one of the most important scriptures in the Bible.
And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, anything against anyone.
You don’t even get to be mad at the post office.
Forgive them.
Yeah. And how you’re getting it.
Forgive them so that your father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
Well, now look, what are we gonna make out of that other than what it says?
If I don’t forgive you, god’s not gonna forgive me. Woah. That’s scary.
Isn’t that what it says?
Do you do you know how many Christians there are that are mad?
If I would ask, and I won’t I won’t bother because I’ve done it enough that I already know.
If I would ask, how many of you are mad at somebody?
There’s a good 60 to 80% of the people in this room right now that are mad at somebody.
And then you’re gonna wanna take the part of my message about this praying and getting everything.
And being powerful and in prayer and defeating the devil, we like that stuff.
Man, I try to Devil’s not gonna walk all over me.
But then when it comes to forgiving that person that hurt you, you’re gonna say, Well, that’s not that’s not right.
They don’t they don’t deserve my forgiveness. Well, you know what? Even if they don’t, you deserve peace.
Did you hear me?
Let me ask, which one of you in here deserves god’s forgiveness?
No. You don’t. Have you not learned anything?
There’s not Half the people in here, Charles put their hand up.
We don’t deserve anything that god gives us.
What we deserve to do is die and go to hell.
We don’t deserve god’s forgiveness, but he’s gracious and he’s kind and he’s loving and he forgives us.
And he expects us to forgive other people.
And he says if we don’t, he won’t forgive us.
Well, I couldn’t just say amen and go home and leave you with that and see what you do with it.
Well, you just don’t know what they did to me.
Well, I know what my dad did to me, and I know that my life was going nowhere till I forgave him.
And I’ll tell you something that’ll help you do that.
Remember this. This helped me when God told me this, hurting people hurt people.
My dad had something all messed up in his life.
He grew up in an incestuous situation.
And to be honest, I think he was demon possessed.
He told me when he was 80, when he finally apologized to me, he was 80.
80. And he carried that burden around with him his whole life.
And this is what he told me.
He said there’s no way when you were young, And I was young that I could have there’s no way I could have prevented myself from doing what I did to you.
He was controlled.
Now that doesn’t make it okay.
It doesn’t make it right, but We can be merciful.
I mean, would you rather be merciful or be mad?
And here again, this is where we get in trouble.
You say I’ve tried to forgive them.
But this is where the we get all mixed up with the feelings thing again.
You can pray god, in Jesus name, I forgive them, lord, I forgive them. I wanna forgive them.
Help me to forgive them. I forgive them.
And then the next time you see them, you wanna punch them in the face.
So now listen to me, because when you see them, you don’t feel any differently about them you assume that you didn’t forgive them.
I’m not leaving till you get this.
But if you make a decision and you do what god tells you to, you pray to forgive them, and then you pray for them.
To be blessed.
Well, I’ll be honest with you.
I told god, I don’t want them to be blessed. But see, here’s the thing.
When you pray for god to bless somebody that’s hurting you, that doesn’t mean he’s gonna give him a new car and a new house.
The first thing he may bless them with is some truth.
And then I’m about to tell you how to add some real power to your life.
Let me tell you.
That person who hurt you, who treated you unjustly, that you’re now praying for and you’re blessing them, even though it’s hard and you maybe still don’t feel any differently about them, but you keep saying, I did my part.
I did what god told me to do. See, our part is obedience. God’s part is the feelings.
But now wait.
Now if you wanna add some real power to your life, then if they need help you helped them.
Let’s just say Charles, you pastor this church here for all these years and you’ve worked so hard.
Let’s say somebody on your staff and this is not gonna happen. I’m just making stuff up.
I’m not somebody on your staff that you trust and loved mentored goes behind your back and they stir up strife.
And so they leave and take about 60, 70 people with them and start a church down the street.
Well, man, that’s gonna hurt, hurt, hurt, and the first temptation is gonna be to get mad, mad, mad, But I’ll tell you what you could do.
You could buy them a sound system. You’re not smiling yet.
I’m talking about, do you wanna know how to break the devil’s power over your life?
You buy them a sound system, and you pray for god to bless them just as much as he wants And don’t think for one minute that anybody can mistreat you and succeed.
Now come on.
You got me going in a different direction than what I’m supposed to be going in here.
God says if we obey him, he will be an enemy to our enemies.
When god taught me this, I felt like I had found a secret bomb Bless your enemies.
The Bible says, be good to those who have used you and abused you. That’s what it says.
Luke’s fix. Be good to him. Bless him.
If your enemies thirsty, give him something to drink.
If he’s hungry, give him something to eat. Meet his need, helping.
If you work with somebody that’s just been a jerk to you, And let’s just say you hear the engine and their car blew up.
Their car is gonna be in the shop for a month.
They don’t know how they’re gonna get to work.
They’re gonna have to take public transportation.
Well, what if what if you offer to go out of your way and pick them up every morning and take them home every night.
I love these Patty Capes things, I guess.
Oh, That would hurt. That would be so hard.
But every time you do the right thing when feels wrong.
You’re growing. You’re growing.
And I am not joking one bit.
I have done this. And I wanna tell you what, the minute that you do it, you are set free.
So I just can’t do that.
Yes. You can. Because the Bible wouldn’t tell us to do it if we couldn’t do it.
There’s nothing that god tells us to do that we can’t do, and everything that god tells us to do is for hour benefit.
But now remember what I said about the feelings, because that’s the thing that may is people up about this forgiveness stuff.
You think because you don’t feel any different that you didn’t forgive them, so you keep going to the altar one more time.
Getting prayer to be able to forgive somebody. You need to say, I did forgive them god.
I sincerely prayed to forgive them. I’m praying for them. I’m praying for you to bless them.
If they need help, you show me and I’ll help them and I will tell you what it won’t take very long and you’re feeling will catch up with your decision.
Oh, that was worth you coming today.
And I could give you examples for my own life, but I really wanna go on here.
So Yeah. That’s a great scripture in Mark Levin.
Whatever you asked for. Believe that you have received it, and you will get it.
Yeah. Whoo. God is so good.
And whenever you’re pregnant, if you have anything anything against anyone.
Forgive them, leave it and let it go.
So that your heavenly father may forgive you your sends and trespasses.
I wanna tell you what.
This thing I’m talking about right now, this why the church is so weak.
I’ve been reading the book of acts And I know this because I read it before, but the reason why they had such miracles and such power was because they were in unity.
They weren’t all mad at each other and hating each other.
They all sold all their stuff and they had everything in common.
They made sure that nobody had needs. They were taken care of each other.
They were sacrificing for each other.
I mean, back in those days, if you’d lied to the Holy Ghost, you fell over dead.
Well, we could probably use a little bit of that today. You know why?
And I’m not joking because you know what’s missing?
The fear of god I’ll tell you something, and I’m telling you the honest to god’s truth.
I would be where I’m at in my life right now and what god is letting me do, I am well aware the devil hates me.
And I can’t play games and even stay alive.
And I would be afraid to stay mad at somebody. You know why?
Because I know better, and I would open a door for the enemy to do me harm.
Now you may not agree with that, but I’m telling you that’s I that’s what I believe. I believe that we are responsible for We are responsible for what we know.
To know what is right to do and to do it not.
It is sin. And, you know, I talk to you like this because I care about you.
Oh, I hope and pray before I die. I can see the church in power.
I wish that people were afraid to disobey god in a right way.
Not afraid that god will hurt you, but just having that reverential respect and all.
That god is so awesome and mighty and so powerful.
I was reading this morning yesterday morning something about when when god was on the mountain given the commandments to Moses that nobody could even touch the mountain.
If an animal who went near the mountain, they would die.
Because god’s holiness was there.
And when god appeared in that burning bush to Moses, he said take the shoes off your feet because the ground you stand on is holy ground.
And we go to church and sit there while the pastor’s preaching, text our friends.
Get up and walk out during the altar call.
Climb all over the people that need to be saved.
See, I can say what I want to now. I got 10 minutes. I’m leaving town.
And by the time I come back, you’ll love me again.
It’s true.
I mean, we even need to tell people how to dress.
You know, if you’re a woman, everybody doesn’t need to see up your skirt and down your blouse.
Well, it’s fashion.
I remember trying on a dress or something in a store, and there was a slip that came up to about right here.
And I said, no, that won’t work for me.
And the lady said, oh, honey, that looks great on you. That’s fashion.
I said, it’s not fashion where I work.
The Bible says, come you out to among them and be separate It doesn’t say go out there and be like them.
And it is my personal opinion that pastors need to tell people this stuff.
Because honestly, sometimes people just don’t know their parents didn’t teach them.
Nobody’s taught them And we need to be practical in the church and teach people things that will keep them going in the right direction.
Before you go out of your house in the morning, go look at yourself in the mirror.
And say, do I look like a godly woman?
And that doesn’t mean you’d I I dress nice.
But I don’t but you can be pretty and be holy.
Being holy doesn’t mean you can’t wear any color and you can’t wear any makeup and you can’t fix your hair.
That’s all legalism and dead religion.
Lord help me. Where am I at? What am I doing?
I don’t guess it matters now. I got 7 minutes.
I might as well do what I want to.
You know what?
You got it. I’m gonna pray for you. I’m gonna close.
There’s no point in me saying anything else.
You got what god wanted you to Man, it’s something if if if you just go out of here and you just live a little bit of a better life, Thank you.
It’s worth all the work and all of it’s worth everything.
We serve such an awesome god.
And we need to respect 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 Thank you.
I guess it’s a lot of it. Today’s mine. You start asking god to heal you, and he will restore.
Is the god of all come and I am so grateful that I know how to call on god