Ways to Increase Your Peace – Pt 2 | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer

Are you worried about something today? Jesus wants us to live in peace, even in the midst of our circumstances. Today on Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares ways to increase your peace and enjoy your everyday 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.

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[Music] hurt well thank you for joining me on Enjoying Everyday Life I’m excited about sharing God’s word with you today and I hope you’re excited about hearing it I started yesterday talking about ways to increase your peace it’s so important that we keep the peace and hold on to the peace that Jesus has given us he bequeathed us peace but we have to hold it the Bible says in Exodus 14:14 hold your peace and the Lord will fight for you that’s kind of an interesting thought that as long as I’m worried and frustrated and upset

God’s not fighting for me but I have to calm down which shows that I’ve put my trust in him and then he’ll go to work and you’re behalf and in my behalf let me ask you are you at peace do you have peace most of the time or would you say that you’re frustrated most of the time you’re worried about something most of the time you know everybody is always excited to get teaching about the mind or about anxiety and uh that tells me that people deal with that a lot in their life 1 Peter 3:10 and 11 in the

Amplified Bible are some very revealing Scriptures it says let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days good rather app parent or not well what does that mean that means if you want to see good days even while you’re having a problem let him keep his tongue from evil very interesting and his lips from speaking Gile so what we say the words that we speak have a lot to do with whether or not we’re going to enjoy our lives what have you been talking about what have you been thinking about he must turn away from wickedness

and do what is right he must now listen search for peace with God with himself and with other people you know we often Pray for Peace but to be honest we already have it in our spirit because Jesus said he gave it to us we’ll read the scripture later but in John 14 he said my peace I leave with you so stop allowing yourselves to be upset and Disturbed you know we would love it if God would do everything for us but we have a responsibility we’re partners with God he’ll give us the grace to do things

he’ll show us what to do but we still have to be active and do the doing with his grace with his help but we have a free will and so we can’t just sit back and want God to do everything for us while we do absolutely nothing pursue it actively you can lose your peace through the way you talk what are your peace Stealers when I finally decided that I wanted to have peace in my life and that I was going to do whatever I needed to do to have it God put this thought in my mind of what are the things that steal your

peace that might be something you would want to spend a little time with after the program’s over just get a piece of paper and sit down with the Holy Spirit and think it through what kind of things steal your peace well rushing will steal my peace if I have to hurry I I mean I can hurry a little bit but if I have to hurry too much I’ll end up losing my peace being late for an appointment that puts pressure on everybody and some people are just historically late I mean late is just the way they are they’re late

everywhere they’re always in a hurry and always getting there at the last second or are being late and then sometimes we put ourselves in a position where we end up maybe not quite telling the truth about why we’re late oh the traffic was bad or this or that when the truth is is we just didn’t allow ourselves enough time to get ready let me make a suggestion to you that will help you with your peace if you don’t already do this start adding a little margin into your life just just a little margin you you can think about a book

you know there’s a margin on the the left side it makes it much easier to read you know if it was just word words words words words it would be more difficult to read and life is more difficult to live if we leave no margin now building margin into my schedule has been challenging for me because I’m the kind of person I don’t like to sit around and wait I think it’s called patience and so I have a tendency to plan everything to get there right at the last minute and I’ve had to learn not to do that to be satisfied to

get there and have five minutes to wait rather than take a chance on being late another thing that will steal my pece and probably yours is difficult people and I think it’s safe to say that the world is pretty full of difficult people right now people are under a lot of stress Financial stress just stress in the world a lot of people don’t feel good the stress that they have makes them feel bad and it makes them cranky and hard to get along with and so difficult people can get me frustrated I’m so glad that my husband

is easy to get along with having too much to do and not enough time to do it that will really frustrate me that’ll steal my peace so part of that is in our planning we need to not plan too much to do in the amount of time that we have to do it unexpected problems now we all have unexpected problems so what’s the best way to handle those well I have found out when I have an unexpected problem like I say not every storm is in the forecast when I have an unexpected problem I do what I call talk myself off the

ledge you know if you’ve seen a movie where somebody’s standing on the ledge of a building and they’re threatening to jump off and a negotiator is sent out to talk them off the ledge they talking to them and talking to them well I’ve learned that I can talk myself off the ledge of a full-blown case of worry and anxiety and losing my peace by just saying okay Joyce every everybody has to deal with stuff in life you’re no different than anybody else Jesus said in the world you will have tribulation

cheer up I’ve overcome the world just calm down God will help you with this if you will just be peaceful and trust him to give you the answers that you need try talking to yourself instead of just flying off the handle and going with your emotions we all have emotions but we’re going to get in deep trouble if we follow them we have to seek peace and be willing to make whatever changes need to be made in order to have that peace I had to build some margin into my life if I wanted to have peace I have to leave enough time so I’m not

rushing all the time if I want to have peace I have to learn that there are difficult people in the world and I have to realize that they’re being difficult because they have a problem in their life and instead of being so concerned about what they’re doing to me maybe I need to be more concerned about what they’re doing to themselves and pray for them Psalm 34:14 depart from Evil and do good seek inquire for and crave peace and pursue and go after it wow have you ever craved something to eat and you wanted it so bad that you

ended up getting in the car and going to the store and getting it well I usually don’t go myself I talk dve to going but I have done it and uh so when you think about craving it says crave peace don’t just well I’d like to have some peace or God give me some peace but want it enough that you’re willing to make whatever changes you need to make in your life in order to have it you know who are you worried about right now I just get a sensing that there’s some people watch watching and you’re really really worried right now

about somebody that you love can I tell you the best thing you can do for people that you love that are in trouble is to pray because God can do more in one second than you can do in a lifetime and when you pray for other people their will is involved everybody has a free choice and nobody is going to change unless they want to change and if you’re concerned about someone who’s not Walking with God keep in mind that you can’t make anybody love Jesus so just pray for them to have a desire or for God to put the perfect

labor in their path that can speak a word in due season to them but don’t take a false sense of responsibility and make it your job to be their savior you can’t do that John 14:27 I we can’t teach on peace without sharing this scripture Jesus said Peace I leave with you my own peace I now give and bequeath to you not as the world gives do I give to you so it’s not the kind of Peace the world gives which operates the world can be peaceful when everything’s going the way wants it to but Jesus is offering us a different

kind of Peace a peace that operates in the storm do not let your hearts be troubled neither let them be afraid now listen to this stop allowing yourselves this is what the Amplified Bible says stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and Disturbed and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled wow so this is telling me I have a responsibility to take that peace that Jesus has given me and when I have something that can be upsetting instead of letting it upset me I need to stay calm and peaceful and not

allow myself to get frustrated we have peace but we have to hold on to it another way to increase your peace is to not follow the emotion of anger now James 1:20 says a man’s anger does not promote the righteousness that God desires so anger is not the right way to handle situations now when we’re being mistreated when somebody hurts us our our natural human response is to get angry but the Bible says when you’re angry do not sin don’t let the sun go down on your anger I always jokingly say it’s much

better if you get angry in the morning than right before you go to bed because you have longer to work it out Ecclesiastes 79 do not be quick in spirit to be angry are vexed for anger and vexation Lodge in the bosom of fools well I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be a fool because fools end up not having a very good life Ephesians 4:26 and 27 when you’re angry so pretty much that’s saying everybody’s going to get angry at some time when you’re angry don’t sin so apparently it’s not that feeling of

anger that’s a sin because like I said if somebody mistreats you you know anger is a pretty normal response but when we feel that we’re not to sin we’re not to stay angry and we’re not to take that anger out on other people or retaliate or want to get people back don’t ever let your wrath your exasperation your Fury or indignation last until the sun goes down wow you know if you go to bed angry you’re going to wake up angry leave no such room or foothold for the devil give no opportunity to him so obviously from

this scripture when we hang on to anger it opens a door for the enemy and gives him room to come into our lives what makes us angry people who hurt us or won’t do what we want them to do circumstances we don’t like we may even become angry with ourselves because we do things that we know we shouldn’t do and we don’t even want to do and we end up doing them anyway we’re like the Apostle Paul said he was in Romans 7 he said the thing I want to do I can’t do and the thing I don’t want to do I always end up

doing you know I can lay in bed in the morning and make great plans for Holiness and it lasts until I get out of bed and put my feet on the floor and it’s usually not long until I do something or act in some way that I shouldn’t and it’s usually when the people get up I can be pretty peaceful when nobody’s home it’s just when the people come home we can’t control people we can’t make them act the way we want them to act Mark 11 tells us that if we hang on to anger and unforgiveness that it’s

going to really not just hurt but pretty much shut down the hope of answered prayer Mark 11:25 and whenever you stand praying if you have anything against anyone anything against anyone come on I’m asking you who are you mad at you think well you don’t know what they did to me it’s not justified we are not justified in hanging on to anger because God tells us not to and any thing that God tells us not to do we’re never justified in doing it if you have anything against anyone forgive him and Let It Drop leave

it and let it go in order that your father who is in heaven may also forgive your own failings and shortcomings and let them drop you know it’s so much easier to forgive other people if we keep in mind how much God forgives us but if you don’t forgive neither will your father in Heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings let’s learn how to maintain a quiet and a peaceful heart that God can Delight in now Paul told Timothy and this is the Amplified translation he was giving him some instructions for his future as a minister and in 2

Timothy 4:5 he says as for you you be calm cool and steady accept and suffer unflinchingly every hardship wow come on are we paying attention to this I’m a minister I need to pay attention to this accept and suffer unflinchingly in other words when you have hardships don’t let them change you you stay the same and trust God to take care of the problem be calm and cool and steady some of the other translations say keep your head which is an interesting way to put it do the work of an evangelist fully perform the duties of your ministry you

know Paul knew that a lack of stability would hurt Timothy’s witness it would hurt his anointing he wouldn’t be able to sense God’s presence you know when you’re angry you have a very difficult time hearing from God we’re not we’re not sensitive to the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit Whispers he doesn’t yell and if we want to hear from him and be led by the spirit we must maintain a quiet a peaceful and a gentle heart I I’ll admit that hasn’t been the easiest thing for me I’ve got a pretty

fiery personality and my natural impulse when somebody fires off something at me is to fire something back but I’ve learned I was a slow learner in this area but I have learned not that I ever make a mistake but I would say that 97% of the time I am peaceful and I love peace it’s the most wonderful thing to be at peace to hear from God we must maintain an inner silence when we’re upset we make make bad decisions we say things that cause trouble it affects our health adversely there’s so many disadvantages to being

upset no wonder Jesus said in the world you will have tribulation cheer up I have overcome the world the Amplified says I have deprived it of the power to harm you you know there’s always things that we can worry about be anxious about or be upset about I mean I had something happen in the last 24 hours that I wasn’t expecting and I needed to come and preach today I needed I needed to stay peaceful and it’s it’s something I can’t do anything about it anyway it’s going to be the way it is and so when those

kind of things happen we might as well stay happy hold our peace and trust God trust God trust him Trust TR him trust him trust him the psalmist David said quite often I will put my trust in the Lord and I say that a lot of times in my morning prayers God I put my trust in you today I put my hope in you my trust is not in the stock market it could go down at any time I hope it doesn’t but it could my trust is not in the bank I mean I mean I hope it doesn’t but it could fail you certainly can’t put your trust

in people because people sure disappoint you and you can’t even really put your trust in yourself because we are a human flesh and blood and sometimes we do things that we think I can’t even believe I did that so we put our trust in God 1 Peter 56 and 7 humble yourselves under the the mighty hand of God that in due time he may exalt you so in God’s economy down is up you have to be willing to go down and lower yourself in your own estimation make yourself a servant be willing to do whatever God ask you to do treat people well even

when they’re not treating you so great and God will exalt you and lift you up in due time at the right time casting the whole of your care all your anxieties all your worries all your concerns once and for all on him for he cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully now maybe you’ve never realized it but five and six definitely go together verse 6 says to humble yourself and verse 7 says to cast your care on the lord well casting our Care on God is a way of showing humility because as

long as I have a problem that I’m trying to figure out and fix then I’m in a spirit of Pride because I’m thinking that I can solve my own problem so casting your care on God is an act of humility God I can’t solve this I can’t take care of this so I cast it on you cast means to pitch or throw why don’t you just throw your problems away right now and trust God to take care of them don’t worry be thankful Matthew 6 tells us not to worry about anything that God knows what we need before we even ask him he takes care of

the birds he takes care of the flowers he takes care of the grass and you’re much more important than any of those every day provides enough worries of its own so we don’t need to spend today worrying about tomorrow God will take care of you if you will let him verse 31 says therefore don’t worry and be anxious saying what what are we going to do what are we going to eat what are we going to wear what about me what’s going to happen we just need to say God I trust you I don’t have the answers but I trust

you it says the Heathen wish for and crave diligently and seek all these things but I love this verse 33 what a great place to end the teaching today but seek first of all the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all of these things will be added unto you you know I don’t know about you but I would much rather seek God and have him add the things than to chase the things and miss out on my relationship with God you know God has a good plan for your life and I want to really encourage you to not just read the word but obey

the word if there’s anything that God is dealing with you about that you need to do or stop doing just go ahead and Obey him today because he’s not going to change his mind thank you for being with us today and I pray for you that the rest of your day will be absolutely glorious Hope you join us again tomorrow when I’m going to talk about how to have peace with yourself does it feel like you’re walking through a Minefield of your kids toys and Chaos does looking at your daily schedule make you want to crawl

back in bed and maybe try again tomorrow is your mind clouded by the pressures of an out ofc control to-do list disorder in our homes our schedules and our minds can leave us overwhelmed in feeling like we’re spinning our Wheels sometimes living a simple life just seems impossible I certainly know the feeling because we’ve all been there Joyce experiened this in her life too then she learned how to apply practical biblical principles to overcome these stresses and anxieties that’s why Joyce is sharing those simple principles in her

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