Right and Wrong Mindsets – Part 1 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

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The minute that you declare that you’re gonna walk with god, the devil comes after you.
I’m not gonna stand here and tell you if you received Christ tonight, that all your problems are over.
Some of them are over, but a different kind is gonna begin.
And you said, well, then why do I wanna receive Jesus?
Because your worst day with him will be better than your best day ever was without 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.
Welcome to enjoying everyday life.
Today, Joyce will be teaching us about right and wrong mindsets.
But before that, It’s that wonderful time of the year, and we are quickly moving toward Christmas.
We all know how crazy this season can be as we look forward to time with loved ones and sharing gifts as each day passes our excitement and sometimes our stress grows with the hope of what we may receive, but Christmas is about so much more.
These next few Mondays, we invite you to celebrate advent with us. Now maybe you know all about advent.
Maybe it’s new to you, but it’s about preparing our hearts to celebrate Christ, setting our minds on the things that his birth, death, and resurrection, and what they brought to us.
And one of those things and where we begin is hope.
Return to the stronghold of security and prosperity you prisoners of hope.
To you.
Wow. Okay. Now listen.
He didn’t say I’m doing it right this moment.
He said, I am declaring to you that I will do this in your life, but in order for you to see it, you’ve got to be a prisoner of hope.
You know what that literally means? I am just trapped in hope.
I just can’t help it. I gotta believe god.
I can’t help it.
I’m just excited to see the great things that god does in my life. Come on.
Why can’t we live like this? Come on. I’m talking to you today.
Is anybody looking for god to show up in your life?
You know, at this hour that we live we need to be looking for the return of the lord.
He said, I’m coming back. At a time when you’d least expect it, I’m coming back You know, the early Christians, if you read the new testament, I’ve been noticing over and over and over, they constantly were saying, we do this because the lord is coming soon.
I even saw the other day in Philippians.
He he encouraged him live unselfishly because the lord is near.
I think that we need to keep eternity in mind a little bit more.
There is gonna be a day when your body won’t hurt.
Amen, there is gonna be a day when you won’t cry.
When you won’t fight with anybody, when you won’t be sad, my biggest hope that is in heaven, I get to drive the chariot, and Dave has to ride.
God wants to give us double blessing for our farmer trouble, but you gotta be a prisoner of hope.
Hope is a beautiful gift.
In fact, it’s one we won’t survive without.
That’s why we must hold on tightly to our hope in Jesus. And hope is yours today.
So reach out for it and hold on And next week, we’ll focus on peace, which we also need so much.
So as we invited you early earlier, let’s walk through advent together We have a free study for you getting ready for Christmas on our website at joycemeyer.orgstudy.
Like I said, it’s absolutely free. And it’s called the greatest gift.
So go there today and check it out. And now this week, really focus on becoming a prisoner of hope.
Okay. You’re ready for Joyce? Here she is with today’s teaching.
You know, right thinking can enable you and wrong thinking can disable you.
It’s amazing. What you won’t do if you think you can’t.
I mentioned that my mom knew that my dad was abusing me when I was growing up, but she never did anything about it.
And 30 years after I left home, she finally found the courage to say something to me.
And she said, I’m sorry for what I let your dad do to you.
I didn’t think that I could face the scandal, and I didn’t think that I could take care of you and your brother.
So her thinking, her wrong thinking, her wrong mindset, ruined many lives.
She could have just as easily said, I believe I can do this.
And taken a step of faith and trusted god, and things could have turned out differently for a lot of people.
Now, things have turned out good for me.
I stuck with god and fought through a lot of things, but I had a brother 9 9 years younger than me.
Who sadly ended his own life.
And things could have been different for him, but he never had the right kind of training growing up, and he got on drugs when he was seventeen and on alcohol and just never could get free from it.
So It’s very important that we realize how much our thoughts affect our actions, our attitudes, our moods.
They literally are the forerunner for everything that we do are everything that we don’t do.
Now, this teaching is taken from the story of the Israelites, who the Bible plainly says in deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 2 that it it is only 11 days journey from Horeb by way of Mount Sierra to Kadesh Barniya on Kainan’s border, yet Israel took 40 years to get there.
Why would somebody take 40 years trying to make an 11 day trip?
Any of you feel like you’ve been going around the same mountain way too long.
In verse 6 of that same chapter, God actually spoke through Moses and said, you’ve stayed long enough at this mountain.
And so I wanna start tonight by saying to some of you, you’ve stayed long enough at the same place.
You’ve been feeling sorry for yourself way too long.
You’ve been blaming somebody else way too long.
Even complaining way too long. Come on. It’s time for some change.
And I want you to remember this.
God can’t change anything if we won’t change.
It’s useless to keep praying for god to change everything if you’re not gonna be willing to do, or if I’m not gonna be willing to do whatever god asked me to do.
So I actually have 10 of these Wrong mindsets, and I’m gonna try to turn them into the way that you should think rather than the way that you shouldn’t think.
And I hope to get through all 10 by the time I leave tomorrow afternoon.
But if I don’t, we can always finish it on TV.
I wanna talk to you tonight about getting your mind off of the road behind you.
Letting go of what lies behind and not basing your future on your past or or even on what’s going on in your life right now.
See, some of you are stuck. You’re just stuck.
You’ve been in the same place for so long going around and around the same mountain that you dug a rut And there’s no way that you feel that you can get out of it.
But it’s time for you to let god take you out of that place to a brand new beginning in your life.
Amen? The Bible says that god called the Israelites out of Egypt to take them in to the promised land.
I brought you out to take you in.
God has brought you out of something to take you into something better.
But you know what?
You have to let go of the old in order to take hold of the new. Amen?
Sometimes we feel pulled in two different directions because god’s trying to pull us forward and we keep hanging on to what’s back here.
You always have to give up something to get something. Amen?
You almost always have to leave something to go somewhere.
But the thing about god that Well, it’s he knows what he’s doing, of course, but it’s it’s not too easy as he’ll call you out of something before he shows you what you’re going into.
And so there comes fear.
Like he told Abraham, leave the place where you’re at and go to the place that I will show you.
Are there any of you like that right now?
You’ve let go of one thing behind you and now you just feel like you’re just in total confusion and you don’t know what’s next or what you’re gonna do and Well, you know what?
You don’t have to know because god knows.
And all he really wants to hear from you is I trust you.
Not why god why, but I trust you.
Now our mind has a lot to do with how fast we make it from Egypt through the wilderness to the promised land.
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the promised land.
I don’t know about you, but after several years of being in church, I got so tired of hearing about the promises but never feeling like I actually possessed them.
I heard about freedom all the time, but I wasn’t free.
I heard that god wanted to bless me, but financially, we were just hand them out and paycheck to paycheck and I heard about all these things, and I believed them or I thought I did, but They never seem to happen in my life.
Anybody ever feel like that?
You just can’t mean, just be honest, you get a little tired of the ra ra ra in church and, you know, it’s nice while you’re there, but when you go home, you still got the same mess and You just you you you wanna possess the promises.
You don’t wanna just hear somebody talk about it. You wanna possess it.
Well, the Israelites wanted to possess what god called the promised land, and it was a land that he said was flowing with milk and honey, which meant every good thing.
God wants us to have every good thing.
The Bible says, eye is not here, eye is not seen, ear has not heard all good things that god already has made ready, prepared, and stored up for those who love him.
But the interesting thing about the word possess that the Israelites didn’t understand and I don’t think we understand it a lot.
The word possess actually means to disposes the current occupants.
So in other words, they had to be ready for war.
In order to take that land that god promised them because enemies of god were already living on that land.
In him.
And so the Bible says that god took them the long hard way through the desert instead of a a route that was much shorter and he did it on purpose because they were not ready yet for war.
And see, I’ve been getting real bothered in my spirit lately, and so I know that I’ve gotten do some preaching on this, not all tonight, but I’ll mention it.
You know, a lot of Christians aren’t ready for war.
They’re just Sometimes I feel like I’m in a cosmic battle between Satan and god.
And they’re both trying to win, and I’m here in the middle deciding who I’m gonna follow.
Am I gonna listen to the lies of Satan or am I gonna believe the promises of god?
And stand firm and go with him.
You gotta dispossess the current occupants before you can possess the promises of god.
And we gotta be ready for war.
So god took them the long hard way because they weren’t ready for that yet.
He knew that they were still too immature to really take a stand and not be moved by anything that they saw or felt and believe god.
And so they ended up out in the wilderness whining, blaming, complaining, murmuring, grumbling.
And you’ll see when I get to the part on complaining that the word complain means to remain.
Yeah?
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
That’s my own special quote.
The more we complain, the more we stay, right, where we’re at.
And so they just wandered around out there for 40 years.
When it was an 11 day journey because they had wrong mindsets.
They had a wrong mental attitude. They didn’t know how to think right.
So before we get into the specifics of these different attitudes, let’s just talk for a minute about the mind.
Who who could stand it if I talked for a minute about the mind? Please do. Right?
Okay. Well, Proverbs 23:7 says that a man thinks in his heart. So is he?
That’s a very interesting scripture.
Colashians 31 and 2 says, if then you’ve been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of god.
Set your mind on things that are above.
That means right things, not on the things that are upon the earth. Now let’s read it in.
Set your mind And I really like what the amplified says. Set your mind and keep it set.
See, it’s easy to go on a diet on Sunday night after dinner.
But the problem starts by Tuesday when you wanna eat everything on the table and then eat the table.
Okay. I’m gonna tell you a secret.
You’re not gonna like this part, but here it comes anyway.
If you wanna have real victory, you’re gonna have to be willing to hurt a little bit.
And see, the Israelites didn’t wanna hurt, and we don’t wanna hurt.
So the devil gives us 9 different ways to get out of hurting.
And, you know, even if you just take complaining, you know, if you’re going through something, and you just keep your mouth shut about it and you’re just talking to god about it and not murmuring and complaining.
It’s hard. It’s like there’s no relief valve for the pressure in our soul.
But if we can just tell somebody how bad we got it and how bad we feel and Oh my gosh.
If they if they would just feel a little sorry for us now, the flesh is like, you got your fix, and then you go around the mountain one more time.
I mean, if you agree, it’s hard when you’re hurting, just to say, God, I just wanna get through this and get it over with.
And so I’m gonna just talk to you about it. Not grumble and complain.
There’s all different kinds of suffering, but we I just I’m very concerned because it seems to me And of course, it’s not everybody.
There’s a lot of you out there that are very strong and you stand firm and you stand your ground and your awesome mature Christians, but I think we all know that the majority are not like that.
And I think that people are just getting wimpeier and weaker and you know, they just can’t take very much and they’re ready to quit.
And, you know, if you don’t do this today, god, then I’m out of here.
I’m I can’t do this anymore. Everything’s too hard.
You know, we’ve gotta understand that you gotta be ready for war.
The minute that you declare that you’re gonna walk with god, the devil comes after you.
I’m not gonna stand here and tell you if you received Christ tonight, that all your problems are over.
Some of them are over, but a different kind is gonna begin.
And you said, well, then why do I wanna receive Jesus?
Because your worst day with him will be better than your best day ever was without him.
Because here’s the thing. Without price, you’re stuck.
In the place you’re at. And your life is nothing but misery from now until you draw your last breath.
And if you haven’t saved Christ for the time you do that, then the real misery starts.
Yes. There’s a place called Hell. We don’t talk enough about that either.
I’d rather scare the hell out of somebody than just sit and watch them go to hell. Amen?
And every once in a while, we a good message, hellfire and brimstone like they used to call it, would be good for us.
Amen? I mean, what what what do people think they’re doing?
I mean, the the amount of time that you have here on Earth is absolutely nothing like one grain of sand on all the beaches in the world compared to forever.
And we need to spend our now time here getting ready for there.
And I tell you more than anything, we need to get our eyes off of ourselves.
Get your mind off yourself and on to what you can do for somebody else.
I love the song that Natalie sang tonight. You can be a miracle.
Everybody wants a miracle, but how about being a miracle? How about being one for somebody else?
And yes, if you do that, you will live a sacrificial life, but you’ll be so full and fruitful on the inside You see, a wilderness can be a literal place like a desert, but many people have a wilderness in their soul.
Everything is dry, bearing and no matter what they do, even even people, there’s so many unhappy Christians.
And really, that’s an see moron.
I mean, Christians should be the happiest people on the face of the earth, and yet they’re not.
It’s because we really just forget that the enemies after us all the time.
He’s not gonna win. The purpose that Jesus came was to destroy the works of the wicked one.
We’ve already got the victory, but we are gonna have to stand our ground.
And we are more than conquerors through price to the Lobser.
That’s why we need to get a little bit sassy with our souls and say, why so downcast on my soul?
Get a smile on your face body and get out there and count your blessings and stop whining over every little thing that goes wrong in your life.
You say, well, Joyce, if you had my life, you wouldn’t be standing up there saying you don’t know what my life is like.
You don’t know.
I tell you there’s a lot more to it than this little part right here.
That I can tell you for sure.
And if you think the devil gets after you, you ought to try preaching this stuff and see if he gets after you.
So you got you gotta set your mind.
I am going all the way through to victory. I am not gonna quit. I am not gonna give up.
By the grace of god, I am going to be who god wants me to be do what he wants me to do and have what he wants me to have.
And that’s why it doesn’t matter anything that’s happened to you previous to this moment right here.
If it’s bad stuff you didn’t like, you need to let go of it.
And you need to say this is the 1st day of the rest of my life, and I am not gonna live the rest of it like I’ve lived the previous part of it.
Mindsets are an interesting thing.
You need to you we we set ourselves up sometimes for just a bad day.
Uh, yeah, I don’t want anybody to take this wrong because I know sometimes the annum the anniversary of the death of a loved one can be painful for people, but my aunt who’s gone home to be with the lord.
She, every year I mean, this was still like 15, 20 years, uh, after my uncle passed, and he was a Christian man.
She knew he was in heaven.
She would plan to have a bad day on that day.
I mean, she would tell me 2 weeks out. Now, you know, honey.
Next so and so is went uncle Marvin passed, and, you know, that’s gonna be a hard day for me.
Well, I understand that things like that can be hard, but I also understand that a little bit of right thinking can change that.
Amen? How many of you agree that sometimes we just set ourselves up for disaster just with our own thoughts.
Okay. So, David, what? How’s it gonna be for you if you would ever get to the point where you can’t play golf?
And he said, oh, I’ve I’ve already thought about that.
And I’ve just made my mind up that I’ll just be happy anyway.
Now you know what most people would do? Oh, I
don’t know what I’ll do if I can’t play golf. My gosh. I’ll be
so bored if I just, you know, he’s like, nope. I’ve already made my mind up.
I can be happy anyway. You know what?
Some of you need to take that little bit of advice right there.
And instead of deciding, you can’t be happy if your situation doesn’t change. Come on.
The minute you say, I cannot be happy if this doesn’t change, you’ve thrown down the gauntlet in the devil’s face.
And he’s gonna turn the heat up. Remember the guys in the fiery furnace?
The furnace got turned up seven times hotter than before?
The minute you say, if this doesn’t change, I can’t be happy.
The enemy will come against you with everything he’s got to make you unhappy.
But what if you say, if nothing ever changes, I’m gonna be happy.
What if you what if you say?
If nothing ever changes, I’m gonna be happy because my joy is not in my circumstances, it’s in the lord.
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