What About Me | Radio Podcast | Joyce Meyer
What About Me | Radio Podcast | Joyce Meyer
Join Joyce Meyer on “Enjoying Everyday Life” as she addresses the power of overcoming selfishness in her series “What About Me.” Joyce reveals how focusing on ourselves can hinder our happiness and explores the transformative effect of living for others. Learn how shifting your mindset from self-interest to selflessness can unlock true joy and deepen your relationship with God.
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.
[Music] welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer on today’s program Joyce will be teaching from her series what about me it’s natural to wake up with our thoughts focused on ourselves but if we’re constantly wrapped up in only what we want what we think and how we feel we’ll never be happy true Joy comes from living with a mindset focused on other people now here’s Joyce with today’s teaching well we’re talking about you using our time wisely this weekend and
just kind of coming at it from different angles last night we talked about not wasting our time just being busy busy busy and yet not really bearing fruit to learn to be fruitful and not just busy this morning we talked about how there’s never a time when it’s okay to do the wrong thing that we need to do what’s right all the time continually all the time all the time all the time all the time can I just remind you that it’s not what we do right one time that brings us into Victory it’s what we do right over
and over and over and over and over and over again the word continue is used very often in the word of God and that word means to stick with something to keep on keeping on to never give up to don’t faint in your mind and to do what’s right because it’s right tonight I’m just calling this message it’s time for change and really what I want to talk to you about is I know something you’ll just be delighted in and even if you’re not I’ll talk about it anyway but I’m going to talk about overcoming
selfishness because I frankly believe it’s time for us to get ourselves off our mind quit being obsessed with what people think about us and what they’re saying about us and what’s happening to us and what’s not happening to us and what people are doing to us and what they’re not doing for us and we need to give ourselves once and for all to God trusting him to take care of us retire from self-care throw a big party come on now and while you’re waiting for God to do whatever it is he’s going to do for you through you in
your life you stay busy being a blessing to somebody else it’s really a very simple process forget yourself lose sight of yourself all your own interest take up your cross Jesus said and follow me and the cross that we’re to take up Is Not Tragedies and all kinds of disasters and horrible sicknesses it’s literally just learning to live for something other than yourself can anybody say Amen now let me just tell you that every person in the building has problems with selfishness you don’t have to try try to
be selfish you show up on planet Earth well equipped with it what we want to do is learn how to not be selfish how to recognize it to realize that it’s not okay that it keeps us from the very best life that God has for us and literally and I want to just get this across to you in so many different ways tonight the more you try to take care of yourself and I’m not talking about taking care of yourself in a balanced way I’m not talking about don’t take care of your health and don’t take care of your body that that’s not
the kind of stuff I’m talking about but the more you try to make yourself happy the more unhappy you’re going to be there’s only one way to be truly happy and that’s to trust God to do whatever needs to be done in your life even as far as encouragement I’ve learned that it’s useless for me to get mad at somebody if they’re not encouraging me what I need to do is tell God that I need encouragement and then trust him to give it to me through whomever he chooses to give it to me through and it’s amazing how much
encouragement I get when I do that and how much more fun that is than getting mad at Dave because he didn’t say and do this and getting mad at my kids because they didn’t say and do that and getting mad at you know the people I minister to because they didn’t write and say good things instead they wrote and complained about something come on now do any of you do any of you ever get mad at somebody because they’re not encouraging you like you think they should well you know what just forget all about it don’t
get mad at them they don’t even know what they’re doing I mean really people aren’t going around trying to make you miserable on purpose now yeah there may be a few people that that’s their assignment but you know by and large people just have problems they’re hurting and we get in the way of their pain we get in the way of their messed up lives and we just get hurt but it’s not like they’re picking on you that’s just kind of what they do to everybody no wonder Jesus says that we need the
forgive them and pray for them and hope that things can change in their life now that doesn’t mean you got to sit around and let somebody abuse you but it means instead of trying to make somebody else treat you the way you think you should be treated go to God with it let’s learn tonight to start going to God with a lot more than what we do let’s turn ourselves over to God and see what he can do for us I got tired a long time ago trying to take care of myself I’m not living anymore to make myself happy
and an odd thing has happened I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my whole life did you hear what I said come on I want to say it again I’m not living any longer to make myself happy and a strange thing has happened I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my whole life I think we need that one more time don’t live to make yourself [Music] happy turn your case over to God put him in charge of your reconstruction progress give God your case and just tell them if I’m ever going to be happy
you’re going to have to make me happy if I’m ever going to be satisfied if I’m ever going to get anything that I think I want in life then you’re going to have to give it to me I’m tired of struggling I’m tired of wrestling with something all the time I’m tired of being frustrated all the time I’m tired of being mad at people because they’re not making me happy God if I’m going to be happy and satisfied and fulfilled and blessed it’s up to you and then in the meantime you
make it your business to purposely be a blessing everywhere that you go you don’t wait to feel like it you do it on purpose could we at least decide to bless one person a day just one just start with one and then maybe that one can go to two and two can go to three and the less you think about yourself the happier you’re going to be overcoming selfishness John 1224 does this sound like anything that you might possibly be able to use I assure you and and I love the choice of Jesus’s words here most
solemnly I tell you so he’s really saying listen what I’m getting ready to say to you is very serious I assure you most solemnly I tell you unless a grain of wheat falls into the Earth and dies it remains just one grain it never becomes more but lives by itself alone but if it do it produces many others and yields a Rich Harvest so it’s amazing what all that scripture is telling us obviously Jesus was the grain of wheat that died and fell into the ground and through his death he became the firstborn of many Brethren and now
because of that one seed that he sowed the seed of his life he gave his life now we’re all here tonight and not only those of us tonight but literally millions of Believers all over the world Christ gave the whole world hope to that one unselfish act of giving himself you know we have a real tendency to try to protect ourselves and take care of ourselves and make sure we’re treated right and nobody takes advantage of us and we get Justice and we get our fair share and people treat us the way they should treat us and the more we try to
do that it seems like the worst things get the more frustrated we are you know if you try to take care of yourself there’s always going to be somebody for you to be mad at I’m glad this one girl down here likes my message I mean is anybody in the building tired of being mad because somebody’s not treating you the way you think they ought to treat you well my boss doesn’t pay me what I’m worth well tell God and then walk in love with your boss pray for him do what God tells you to walk in love with him go to work act
like a Christian and just watch and see what God will do for you just watch and see what God will do for you the longer we try to take care of our ourselves the less we’re going to experience the outrageous blessings of God in our life it is so much fun to stop trying to take care of yourself and let God go to work in your life and if you’ve never done it tonight it’s time for a change I’m excited about this message tonight because I I can just sense in my spirit that some of you are going to go
that’s it that’s it I’m retiring from selfcare I so fed up with trying to take care of myself and make sure nobody hurts me and everybody does this for me and I get my way and I want people to think right of me and treat me right I give it all up God whatever happens to me in my life is up to you I put my trust in you for timing on breakthroughs to have the finances that I need to have the right friends that I need I trust you to take care of me from this night forward I give it up I retire and I’m going to have a
party you know being abused in my childhood I kind of learned quick that nobody’s going to take care of me so I decided that I was going to take care of me and that nobody was ever going to Hur H me again and nobody was going to push me around and nobody was going to tell me what to do and man I came out fighting it doesn’t take too many years of that to just completely and totally wear you out you think you’re protecting yourself from getting hurt but the truth is you’re just hurting yourself every
single moment that you live you’re hurting yourself cast your care on him for he carth for you God will take care of us if we stop trying to do it ourselves and here again I’m not saying I mean I teach people you need to take care of yourselves you need to get sleep you need to eat right you need to have fun you need to laugh I mean we need to there’s a certain amount of I’m not talking about that kind of not taking care of yourself I’m talking about this other thing where you’re always trying
to make sure that everybody treats you right what about me what about me what about me well we’re almost in May and I haven’t had to do the robot once this year yet so I guess maybe I could do it for you tonight let me just tell you that I was so selfish oh my gosh I was so selfish I was always on my mind and you know if Dave was going to go play Golf the first thing I’d think is well what about me and if Dave was going to watch a football game well what about me the kids would go outside with Dave
to play and I had work to do inside now you know mind you I could have not worked and went out and enjoyed myself but no I I wanted to work so I could feel sorry for myself come [Applause] on and everything was well what about me you know what about me when’s somebody going to do something for me and I started early in the morning before I was even fully awake thinking about myself any of you like that and so many many many years ago I was laying in bed one morning and I wasn’t even fully awake yet and I was
thinking about how I could get Dave to not do what he wanted to do that day and do what I wanted and you know how I could maybe get the kids to do the housework so I could just just kind of chill and you know have fun and it was like I was just thinking about myself just laying there in bed thinking about myself and you know that’s a dangerous way to start your day because however you get started that’s usually the way things go the rest of the day and you’re much better off to lay in bed and purposely think God what can I do for