Your Life is What You Make It Part 2 | Radio Podcast | Joyce Meyer

Join Joyce Meyer where she explores how to create a fulfilling life by following God’s plan. In today’s episode, Joyce emphasizes the power of gratitude and the importance of a strong relationship with God in overcoming negative thoughts. Discover how to transform your daily life and unlock God’s blessings through obedience and faith.

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 life is what you make it if we want to have a great life we must learn to do things God’s way we’re all created with free choice but if we’re obedient to following his word he will give us the desires of our heart now here’s Joy with today’s teaching few weeks ago God said to me on a day when I was about to have a bad mood how many of you can tell when

you’re about to have a bad mood that’s the time to do something about it don’t wait till you’ve been in a bad mood for a week but get it right away first Peter 5 in the Amplified says resist the devil at his onset he roams about like a lion roaring in Fierce hunger seeking whom he may devour whom resist steadfast in the faith knowing that the same identical sufferings are appointed to your brethren throughout the world everybody is going through stuff so we don’t need to feel sorry for ourselves when we’re

going through things we need to start doing what the Bible says submit yourself to God resist the devil and he will flee we have authority over the devil but we have to use it it’s not going to just be an automatic thing and so I knew right away that God was talking to me about my attitude that if I wanted to have a bad day I could certainly have one but if I wanted to have a good day I could have a good day last I’ll say a few things that I said last night in case you weren’t here but not too many trouble is a

promise but misery is an option that’s right spiritual maturity is only seen by how we handle ourselves when we’re having problems how many of you want to be spiritually mature want to be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ that’s that should be our goal every Christian you’re we’re not here just for God to give us everything we want give us a nice cushy life we’re here to serve him and every day I encourage you to ask God what can I do for you today not just this is what I need you to do for me to keep me happy

but what can I do for you today the cross that we’re to Bear take up your cross and follow me Mark 8 is to live an unselfish life that means we don’t have ourselves on our mind all the time but we actually make ourselves available to God for his use we we think that getting what we want is going to make us happy but I can tell you it won’t getting does not produce Joy giving is what produces Joy getting may make you happy for a little bit but then you’re going to need to get something else to keep that going

then you’re going to need to get something else then you’re going to need to get something else things have no ability to keep us happy matter of fact the Bible says that one of the ways that people are deceived is through riches through thinking that if I can just get a bigger house if I can just have more money if I can just have this if I can just have that and I can tell you things have no ability to keep you happy not that we don’t want nice things but God wants us to want him first yes and if we

keep him first the bible promises us that he will add the things delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart it’s better than trying to get them for yourself amen and so I knew that I know what to do when I start to even remotely feel sorry for myself the Bible tells us what to do be thankful start thanking God for everything you can think of that’s a blessing in your life every person in here no matter what kind of problem you have you have more blessings than you have problems come on you have more

blessings then you have problems but what we do and it’s Satan’s plan he wants us to focus on the problem and forget about the blessings the Bible says looking away from all that will distract unto Jesus who is the author and the finisher of our faith so we don’t need to be staring all the time at our problems we need to pray about them give them to God cast our Care on him and go ahead and be a blessing to other people I said go ahead and be a blessing to other people see I I don’t know you personally I only know you

through my relationship with teaching you and and coming seeing you in some of these conferences but I just wonder I have to wonder how many of you are actually doing something purposely to make somebody else’s life better or are we just looking at people saying what can you do for me what do you think would happen to marriages 50% of Christians are getting divorces now not just the world but Christians and you know don’t Stone me when I say this but the Bible only gives one valid reason to divorce now of course

God doesn’t want to see anybody abused or you know there’s issues sometimes that you can’t get away from but you you can’t just divorce somebody because they’re hard to get along with where incompatibility I love that one who is compatible there’s no two people that are compatible unless you are willing to adapt and adjust but what would I think we get married with the idea okay you’re going to make me happy and then as soon as that doesn’t happen we get mad at them and start

trying to change them what would happen if we got married and from the very get-go we said God I want to make this person happy that you put in my life what if you focused on making the other person happy you know what would happen then God would make you happy hallah see if we do what God tells us to then he’ll give us the desires of our heart so I’m going to say it and say it and say it and say it today we overcome evil with good Romans 12:21 and I tell you what I had a huge giant mess in my life when God Touched Me In

1976 I was born again when I was 9 years old but it doesn’t matter how born again you are if you don’t know anything if you don’t know the word and if you don’t put it to practice in your life then nothing is going to change you can be saved and miserable you can be a miserable sinner or you can be a miserable Saint and it’s usually because of a lack of knowledge and not trying to pick on any particular denomination but let me just say that there are many churches who teach people a lot of good sound

solid Doctrine but they don’t teach them anything about who they are in Christ and you need to know who you are in Christ what he’s done for you what belongs to you what Jesus bought and paid for and that you’re a join a with him and you need to start living the life that he intends you to live the thief comes only to kill steal and destroy but Jesus said I came that you might have and enjoy your life not just get up every day and breathe but enjoy your life and you you’re like well if I could just get rid

of these problems that I could enjoy my life eh-uh no you got to learn how to enjoy your life in the middle of the problems so let me say it again if you want to be spiritually mature which is really awesome because when you are spiritually mature all the things that bug you and make you unhappy now won’t bother you at all am because you trust God enough to know that he’s going to take care of it and in the end it’s all going to work out all right so you don’t bother wasting 3 months worrying about it you just trust