It’s Time to Push – Part 2 | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer

Today on Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares what it means to be faithful. Learn how you can display this fruit of the Spirit in your daily life.

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.

Well, I wanted to thank you for watching our YouTube channel, and for those of you supporting our efforts to produce these videos.
Thank you. Thank you. You are part of spreading the gospel around the world.
If you’re not a partner, prayerfully consider joining our efforts to help others the way you’ve been helped through the teachings.
We can only imagine all the places God sends these videos once we post them online.
But because it’s filled with his word, we know it’s bringing light into dark places.
Scan our QR code and give today.
It’s a decision that provides everlasting benefits to you and those waiting to see these messages.
This program is made possible by the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Get over the need to be looking for post to do, whether you feel like it or you don’t feel like it, whether it’s convenient or it’s inconvenient.
Is anybody there? 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’ve heard.
In order to give birth to your dream, your vision and to see it brought all the way through to the finish, we have to learn something about faithfulness.
And there are too many people that are addicted to excitement.
And excitement doesn’t have anything to do with faithfulness.
Actually, faithfulness would be defined in my way of defining it as continuing to do what you know you’re supposed to do when there’s not one drop of excitement left.
Good morning now.
So I’m gonna tell you something, and I hope you understand this, and it doesn’t come across wrong.
I’ve wondered for 2 days if rather to say this to you or not because I know not everybody understands, but if you’re mature enough, you’ll understand what I’m getting ready to say.
People have been asking me for weeks. Why are you excited about the women’s conference?
And, actually, I wasn’t. See?
You say, well, that don’t make me feel very good.
Well, I’ve done a few 1000 of these. I’m excited for you.
I wasn’t excited for me because I knew how hard I was gonna work.
And I know what I’m gonna feel like tomorrow when the party’s over.
You should be here 2 hours from the time this is over and see what this place looks like.
You should be here with all the people with sweat dripping off of their bodies, trying to clean the place up and reload the trucks and try to get airlines to go back home and missed planes and all that kind of stuff.
In order for one person to be helped, some else always have to sacrifice.
Are you out there today?
So if you think that being in ministry is just all gonna excitement and fun, you are wrong.
It’ll be exciting. The first several women’s conferences I had, I would get so excited that I would wear myself out with excitement.
And then when the excitement was over, then I’d feel kinda down. You know?
And I don’t wanna be have looking for something to, like, hoo about And then, because it’s over and then, Come on.
See, the thing is is I wasn’t excited, but I was committed.
I am committed to you to every single person that god has assigned for me to teach I can tell you right now I am committed to you until the day I die. I can promise you that as long as I can talk, I will be on that television 5 days a week every morning, every evening, taking you the word of god to the best of my ability.
And as long as I can walk and talk and move I will do these conferences because I care about you.
And just because I’m not excited, doesn’t mean a thing. I’m satisfied.
I’m content Get over the need to be looking for something all the time that excites you and just get committed to doing what you know you’re supposed to do, whether you feel like it or you don’t feel like it, rather convenient or it’s inconvenient.
Is anybody there? Anything new is exciting.
But when it’s not new anymore, it’s not gonna be exciting.
You’re excited when you first meet the man you’re gonna marry.
I’m committed to my husband, but my knees don’t get weak when he comes in the house.
Come on.
I mean, you can’t stay married for 52 years on excitement.
Did you hear me? You cannot stay married 52 years on excitement. You gotta have faithfulness.
You gotta have commitment. And that’s what you signed up for at the altar till death do us parts.
In good things and bad things in sickness and health, for richer, for poor. I’m committed.
And how many people that doesn’t last 1 year?
Because soon as the goosebumps are gone and the excitement’s gone and their heart doesn’t pound anymore, they’re looking for another new thrill.
Come on. I’m talking to you.
I’m talking about who is going to actually get committed enough to bear down and give birth to the things that god has put in your heart.
Amen? Come on. I’m doing my best.
This afternoon to get something across to you.
I love today, everybody’s hopping from one thing to another.
We’re church hoppers and job hoppers and friend hoppers and So what if you’ve got you know, I don’t know how many people are on our Facebook, and I don’t care.
I don’t even want them to tell me. If I find out at the office, I find out accidentally.
I mean, it’s huge numbers. I don’t care. How many friends do I really have?
I don’t know. Maybe 3 or 4. You know, I mean, really, really true friends.
You know? But I’ve got one friend that sticks close That will never go away.
And his name is cheesy. Amen.
Now Dave and I love each other.
And I’ll tell you the truth.
I don’t even know how many people really love each other when they get married.
They’re romantically attracted.
But I I don’t think you even begin to know what love is until you start going through some stuff together.
Amen. Alright.
If I’m gonna even come close to getting finished, I gotta move on here.
So got a scripture I wanna read you.
And then I got a few little ladies that have come up here and helped me.
1st, John 39. No one born or begotten of god deliberately, knowingly, and habitually practices sin.
So see, I like this.
It’s like nobody that’s truly born again can live a sinful lifestyle.
That doesn’t mean you can’t sin because we all make mistakes and sin.
But the person who really is a lover of Jesus, I mean, the minute you say you’re convicted and you are so quick to repent, So nobody born of god deliberately knowingly, knowingly.
This is the amplified Bible. Deliberately, knowingly habitually, sins.
Because now I want you to get this because god’s nature abides in him.
When you’re born again, you get a new nature god’s nature, who god is, his character comes to live in you.
Everybody say I’ve got it. And and I love the amplified.
This is getting right down to it.
The divine sperm lord god help me.
Remains permanently with him, and he cannot practice any because he is born and begotten of god.
Now I don’t know what how we’re gonna get this scripture to fit together with some of the stuff we’re seeing in the world today.
From people that are calling themselves Christians and going to church every week.
I’m not trying to be judgmental.
Only god knows a person’s heart, but we are expected to be different.
We are expected to live a different life. And Jesus said, if they hated me, they’re gonna hate you.
That’s right. If you’re expecting to be a full on committed, fruit bearing, Christian, people are not all gonna like you.
You know what? Because your presence convicts them. Come on.
Listen. Just your presence. Convix them.
Now if you compromise your morals to keep them comfortable, And that there’s a lot of that going on today.
You know, we wanna make everybody feel comfortable. Wanna make everybody feel welcome.
And, you know, god’s just god of love, and he just wants us to love everybody.
Well, maybe you better go back and read some of the stuff that Jesus said to some people.
Wall onto you, you vipers and snakes.
I don’t know what wall is, but I’ve already decided I don’t want any of it because it sounds really bad to me.
So when I read this scripture, and I’m just going to be plain, you know, when When a man’s sperm is planted in the womb of his wife, she becomes pregnant.
And this says the divine sperm of almighty god is in us.
So everybody in here, even the few men that got in by special invitation, You’re pregnant.
And here here’s what is your pregnant with god’s nature.
There’s a seed you know, Jesus is called the seed, capital s.
Come on. I’m a fly off of here.
The seed, the sperm of almighty god dwells in the womb of your spirit.
The holy spirit has come to live inside of your spirit.
And everything in your spirit is holy.
Now the holy spirit comes committed to work with us for the rest of our life to help get what’s in us out of us so somebody can see it.
Can I have my ladies come up, please?
Somebody had the job of going around and finding pregnant women and saying, how far along are you?
Okay. Now they’re just gonna stand and they’re gonna stand sideways.
Okay.
I hope you can see them as the pulpit in the way because I don’t want the pulpit to be in the way.
Well, you’ll get them on the screen. Alright.
Now when you’re first born again, you got all this stuff happening on the inside of you.
You’re feeling things. You’re feeling changes.
You’re feeling emotions, you know, you got, you know it’s like when a person gets a dream from god, it’s like when god spoke to me and said, you’re gonna go all over the world and teach my word.
I mean, I was just like, wow. Woo.
But when I started telling people, They laughed. They thought I was crazy.
They didn’t want to have anything to do with anymore. You know why? I wasn’t showing yet.
I was I knew I was pregnant.
She’s pregnant. You’re how far along are you? 7 weeks. 7 weeks.
You know you’re pregnant. Right? Are you are you already feeling any changes? And
Morning sickness.
Morning sickness. She’s she’s got some stuff going on, but I see her, and I’m like, You sure look pregnant to me.
Well, see, that’s what happens when Jesus comes to live on the inside of you.
And you know that you’re now a new creature, and you’re trying to tell everybody else what’s happened.
And they’re like, what? You don’t you’re not asking any different? You’re no different?
You’re we’re not showing yet.
Well, see, there’s a real problem if 9 months from now, she’s still not showing.
Come on, stupid. This is what’s wrong with the church.
Christians are thirty, forty, and fifty years old, and they’re still not showing.
Come on.
So we’re not expected to show after being born again a month.
God works in us.
In Philippians 2 12, it says, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, not in your own strength, but while god, effectually, is at work in you.
So he’s saying the good thing that’s in you, work now with the Holy Spirit, follow the Holy Spirit, obey the Holy Spirit, stay in the word, water that seed with the word, and you’ll grow little by little from glory to glory, you’ll be changed into his image.
Well, now how far along are you? Week’s 3rd baby. 6 weeks 3rd baby.
Well, you, you know, you’re not showing much either. How about you? 7 7 months. Wow.
Look at that. We got something going on here.
Now I can tell that you’re pregnant.
By the way, I bless these babies in the name of Jesus.
They’re gonna be healthy and strong and whole and serve god and be a blessing to these mamas.
How far longer are you? 30 weeks. 30 weeks. How many weeks do you have left in? 10.
I carried all my babies 10 months. 10 months.
That’s why what comes Okay.
Now oh, we don’t have any I can tell she’s pregnant.
Everybody how many of you can tell that she’s pregnant? How about you? 36 weeks.
Okay. Now do you feel pregnant?
Are you ready to deliver? Yes. You’re ready. Yes. You’d be any day.
It’d be fine for you. Right? Yes. Well, see come on. Get ahold of this.
If you’re pregnant with a dream, God has put something in your heart.
I don’t care if it’s to get out of debt or to go to the world preaching the gospel.
Whatever your dream is, it’s important to you. If it’s important to you, it’s important to god.
So we’re not just talking about people being in ministry. You gotta be patient.
And you gotta be faithful because Satan is the one who came up with the idea of abortion, and he is a dream thief.
And he wants you to abort your dream And if he can’t get you to abort it, then he wants you to burst it early premature births.
Don’t always make it. And he wants you to do things out of god’s timing And birth a bunch of sickly things that don’t have any real life that you’re really not ready to do yet so you get out in the world and you say a bunch of things that you can’t pull off and you make a fool out of yourself and how many people do we see today that get in ministry way too fast?
They they they can sing really great.
So all of a sudden, they’re promoted, promoted, promoted, promoted, promoted because of their gift, and then they have some massive moral failure and become ashamed to everybody in the body of Christ And now all Christians are judged because all these people are phonies.
Don’t try to birth something before god’s ready.
Beg him not to give you any opportunity that’s not an opportunity from him. Amen?
So the longer you stick with it come on.
When I send you home, I don’t want you to go home with some new vision for your life and have it last a week and then have you throw it away, abort it, because you found out it’s gonna take a little bit longer than you thought it would be a little harder than you thought it would.
Anybody would it’s easy to go on a diet Sunday night after dinner.
Anybody can do that.
But what happens by Wednesday afternoon when you’re hungry enough to eat everything on the table and then eat the table, That’s when you gotta be committed.
It’s easy to say I wanna get out of debt but when you have to be really committed is when you’re out shopping, which you shouldn’t be don’t ever shop for entertainment if you’re trying to get out of debt.
Only go when you have to buy something.
You gotta be committed when it’s 75% off.
And you’re already not paying for what you got. Amen?
Uh, how many of them understand what I’m saying? Let me tell you something.
You can clap and cheer and out and yell in here.
When I send you home, I want you to know the excitement’s not gonna last.
The conference is gonna be over.
It’s gonna be the middle of the night, and you’re gonna wake up.
And the devil is gonna tell you some of the biggest lies you ever heard in your life.
And you’re gonna look at the teenagers that are driving you crazy and the husband that is driving you crazy and the bills that are driving you crazy.
And that when the devil’s gonna sneak in and try to get you to forget your dream.
Amen? And I want you to remember me saying, stay committed.
Stay faithful. Don’t give up. Thank you, ladies.
Oh, did I get to pray for all of you?
I want to bless these babies in Jesus name, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, You can name them after me.
You know, there’s a lot of different stages of pregnancy.
There’s all the crazy hormones. Come on.
And some ladies, when their hormones go crazy, they get really crazy.
And then you get to that stage that that one girl was and you just feel so fat.
And you just feel like you’re just gonna pop and you’re so uncomfortable.
And that’s the way some of you are, like, you’re you’re pregnant with something from god.
And you’re just you just think if I don’t get this out of me, If I man, I was so pregnant with the desire to teach god’s people.
I remember in the floor and just begging god 1 night. I’d been on a fast.
And, I mean, the spirit of god came on me, and I was just like, I pleaded with god for hours.
God please, you just gotta let me help more people, god. I gotta help more people.
I gotta help more people. God puts that in you.
And I felt like if I couldn’t give birth to something other than preaching to twenty people in the basement floor that I couldn’t stand it anymore.
Does anybody know what I’m talking about? Come on. You know, anybody know what I’m talking about?
But I stayed committed.
There’s a lot of different stages of pregnancy. There’s transition.
And that’s one of the most painful times of pregnancy, by the way, when the baby’s transitioning into the birth canal.
Anybody in transition right now? I hope I haven’t lost you.
I guess if you’re a man, you might be lost.
But We did it. Now, you know, today women get epidurals.
But I’m gonna tell you something. There are no spiritual epidurals.
No spiritual epidurals.
If you want god to use you, he’s gonna have to get you ready.
Because you’re not ready.
You think you’re ready, but you’re not ready, then I’m gonna tell you what, when you leave this place, you can expect, and I hate to even say this.
I’m not trying to prophecy bad things, but I don’t want you to be surprised.
The devil is gonna come immediately and try to steal from you what you got here.
Don’t you let him do it? Yeah.
As soon as he shows up lying to you, say, no. You’re a liar.
God lives in me. His seed is in me. I am pregnant with everything that god is.
He is changing me from glory to glory and I am going to do something amazing with my life.
Daily life can sometimes feel like a battlefield.
Fair, with help from Joyce Meyer’s book, your battles belong to the lord.
This book will teach you to know your enemy and fight spiritual warfare, god’s way.
And when you reach out today, we’ll include the your battles belong to the lord’s study guide.
The questions will help you go deeper into god’s word.
Right now, get your battles belong to the lord book and study guide through the Joyce Meyer Ministries app.
Atjoycemeyer.org or call us at 1-800-709-2895.
Have you struggled to discover god’s plan for your life?
Maybe you’ve tried and tried to hear god’s voice, but nothing seems to change. If that sounds familiar.
I’ve got some good news in my book, Finding God’s Will for Your Life.
I wanna take you on a journey to peace as we explore what the Bible says about god’s purposes for us.
You can say goodbye to the struggle and trust that god has a good plan for you.
Finding God’s will for your life. Order your copy today.
If you are a medical care professional, we need help.
In fact, people all over the world need your help.
And it’s an opportunity that will change your life and well.
You see, through our volunteer medical trips, we travel all over the world to places that are very remote and have desperate need of health care.
So go to our website, check out the schedules, and join us here. We hope to see you soon.
Behaves.
Real life.
Real friends? No pretense. Joyce Meyer talk it out podcast. Join Joyce.
Erin Clooley and me, Ginger Stockey, along with some amazing friends.
As we honestly share the hard stuff, laugh through those unpredictable moments and learn to apply what god says about at all.
Sometimes you just need to talk about life with your girlfriends.
So we have a spot saved on the pink couch just for you.
Watch your list of the new episodes every other Tuesday, wherever you get your podcast.
We hope you enjoy today’s program. For more information, visit joycemeyer.org.
This program has been made possible by the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries.