Putting Confidence in God Alone

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The Bible says in Mark four, the measure of thought and study that you give to the truth that you hear is the measure of virtue, which is power and knowledge that will come back to you The measure of thought and study that you give to the truth that you hear It is good. I'm glad you said that Each time you think a good or a bad thought about yourself, it becomes more and more a part of you And what you think is ultimately what comes out of your mouth and it gets into your attitude And then it gets into your emotions and then you begin to portray that to other people So you better do some thinking when you go home about how you do feel about yourself. What do you think of yourself Do you believe that with God's help, you can do whatever you need to do in life, or do you believe, well, that's just too much for me That's just too hard. Now God never gives us anything to do that's too hard, and that's our biggest excuse. Well it's just too hard I tried to study Joyce, I don't understand the Bible. Well, then get another translation. Keep digging until you find one you can't understand and pray that the Holy Spirit will teach you while you read Oh man Do you know, they say that insecurity is now likeike an epidemic. The world is full of so many insecure people that it's considered to be like an epidemic of insecurity. Oh, I used to be so insecure. I didn't know I was. I thought I was just like, So you can get a facade on the outside where I'm toughed and nobody's going to walk all over me and yet inside you're falling apart. two lives, the one we showed everybody else and the one that we know about inside and that's that it's that inside Man, that's got to be The soul has got to be healed And I remember when if Dave and I didn't agree about something, I would always get hurt and feel rejected Like he didn't love me And God had to teach me just because he doesn't agree with your opinion doesn't mean he doesn't Lve you So you have to give people the freedom to have a different opinion than yours and not fall apart because they don't feel exactly the same way you do about something Otherwise we have no freedom. It's just all control It's so wonderful to like yourself And you know, if you get in religious circles, I'm talking about, you know religious circles And you dare say you like yourself I mean good grief What I was in Pennsylvania one time and I said that on a Friday night and Saturday the paper came out it said admred says she likes herself. But you know, if I would have said, Oh, I'm such a miserable worm, I'm a wretch, I'm a terrible person, then they would have thought I was good I'm telling you what, you got to know the difference in religion and having a true relationship with Jesus Christ Because whatever faith you've got religion will suck it right out of you if you don't know Jesus I'm talking about just that old dead, dry Pharisee type religion that Jesus Hself was so against He said you're like a bunch of whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones. You tell everybody else what to do and don't do it yourself. We desperately need a healthy self image You're never going to reach your God ordained destiny If you don't learn how to have a good attitude toward yourself That's why it's so important to let go of your mistakes and trust God that we not that we're not sorry for them, off course we're sorry for them. It breaks my heart when I do something that I believe God disapproves of But I've learned by experience, I can't drag it with me. You can't drag yesterday's mistakes into today because it all becomes too heavy to carry You have to let it go. God's got a job for you to do and you can't do it, dragging around a sack of guilt And then, it becomes a heavy burden Come unto me, all ye are weary and overburdened and I will give you rest We cannot go beyond God's will for us. You can't do just anything you want to But you can do anything he tells you to do. Anything God gives, no matter how crazy it sounds to everybody else If you really feel sure that God has spoken to you in your heart thenen go for it And you know what If you find out you're wrong, don't let that throw you off base either Just say, well, I know not to do that again and go on to the next thing You know, failure is part of being a success We fail our way towards success I made mistakes, I tried to go on TV before God called me to go on TV And you know, sometimes you'll have something in your heart and it's from God, but it's not the right time. And that That gets kind of hard to discern sometimes, especially as a young Christian. You know, a lot of people even in the Bible b that Same mistake They just got a little bit ahead of themselves And so I thought I'm going go and tellle you So We rented a studio at a cable station and St. Louis where we live and I took four or five of my female employees, and I was going to have a talk show And I was going to ask them questions and let them answer them, but there was a problem. I would ask the question that I would answer the question. Because I'm not a talk show host And if you notice we don't do a lot of interviews on our TV program like bringing people in and interviewing them I am going next week to they start to TV in to do a couple of hour interviews for my f books Well, that's what they do. They have people come in all the time and they interview them. But I tried that And we had people writing letters to us saying, will you please tell Joyce to let the guests talk when they first came and told me that, I was like I didn't like that at all because if you're on my show and you're not saying the right thing I'm gonna to take over And we're gonna get right back on the right track. So I just said, you know what? That's not me. We can only do You can't just do something because somebody else does it well. You can only do what God has called you to do Hi man And so In six months, we got one piece of mail from that TV show As I said, this isn't working. Well, then when God told us to go on TV, we were like shocked We don't know how to do that Well, that's what God was waiting for for us to be humble enough to realize we couldn't do it by ourself Instead of just thinking we could just go do it because we wanted to do it Amen And then Something else I feel like I need to share is, you know, sometometimes you can be doing something for a long time and then all of a sudden God's done with it. And that's a hard one too, because you kind of like what you're doing You've gotten good at it. You're enjoying it Then all of a sudden, something's not working It's not working The anointing just isn't there. You're not enjoying it anymore. It's like Yeah I worked at a church in Stain. Louis for five years. five years I had home Bible studies, and five years I worked at this church and I like my job I got to do a lot of preaching taught in the Bible school, had Huge women's meeting every Thursday morning, of four hundred four hundred and fifty people came That's a decent sized congregation did most of the teaching when the pastor was out of town Did't have to believe for my paycheck. he did And it was good. And then But I started just didn't want to go to work didnn't want to go to the meetings, the board, you know, the weekly meetings It know what was wrong with me? I'm like what'song with me Did't want to go to prayer meetings We had church every Tuesday night, and one Tuesday night, I sat in my seat Of course, you know, I had a seat on the front row with my name on it. We all love that That makes us feel important don't. I have my own par in place with my name on it and my own seat with my name on it It's amazing that the things we think are important that when we get older, we realize just had no importance at all. I look back now and the things that I thought were important when I was thirty five, I realize now is just nonsense The only thing that's really important is that we live before God the life that He wants us to live. And so I heard God speaking to me, what are you doing here? And I thought, Well, going to church, it's Tuesday night And God actually said, I'm finished with you here Well, I was insulted I mean, how are you gonna run the church without me Come on. But God God didn't need me there anymore. I had done my part And he wanted me to take the ministry and he said, go north, south, east and west. Well I won't get into that whole story because it's long. But my point is I feel like somebody's here that needs to hear that You may even be good at something, but when God's done with it, You don't need to keep trying to push a horse uphill that's been dead ten years He man. And you know, I've had to give up some things in the last few years I used to love to go on our mission trips out of the country. Three times a year, I'd go out for three weeks at a time and we'd go to four or five, six countries be involved in all these outreaches and We had such favor, I mean every door was open to us. It was amazing And then things started not working out. ourur visas would get canceled and our the grounds that we raned would get cancellled and Do just Stupid. It just wasn't working How many of you know what I'm saying, what I'm saying, it's just not working. And It was wearing me out. I was getting Too old to be doing that I needed to be giving myself to things that didn't take quite as much out of me. You know sooner or later you got a Compare effort to fruit You know, are you getting enough fruit out of the effort that you're putting into something to make it worth doing it giving that up. Now Ginger gets to go and I don't get to go But thank God, she's there to do it You know, we can't be all full of ourself and never let anybody else do anything because if you do, you'll just get written off period. So be ready to do something when God says, do it, but be ready to let it go when God says, let it go And just because you let go of something doesn't mean that God's done with you or that you were not valuable, it just means it's a new time in your life I want you to take a look at yourself and ask yourself, what do you think of yourself and how do you talk about yourself I said this last night, but I'm going to say it again today. Do not And I repeat, do not And I am old enough to tell you what to do. Do not say bad things about yourself out of your own mouth. You'd be better off for somebody else to talk bad about you than for you to talk bad about you And I remembered last night I started a story and then got off in another direction. so this is a good place to Finish it I was talking about when God was teaching me that I was the righteousness of God in him That was so hard for me to get through my head And one morning I was feeding my baby and Daveid and I had had an argument and He left for work. Anybody remember when I started this last night and then didn't finish it Maybe you didn't even know, I didn't finish it, I didn't. And so I'm sitting at the table saying that's why I'm just a jerk. I'm just Just a total mess up. Ething I do is wrong. It's always my fault. It's always me, always me. You everent And what I'm going to tell you is the absolute truth and I'm not saying it to be spooky, I'm just telling you the truth There are angels, but there are also demons And just because we can't see them don't mean they're not and When I was sitting there saying all these bad things about myself I felt literally felt an evil force coming across the room at me scared the liivving Tar out of me. I started saying, I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am the righteousness of God in Christ And the more I said that, the more I felt that evil presence back and a away. Come on, don't open a door for the devil in your life Don't say bad things about yourself out of your own mouth. Just say what the Bible says. Even if you're not fully living it out right now, it still legally belongs to you bought with the blood of Jesus See, I think one of the places where we get confused is there's a legal side to our redemption and there's an experiential side to our redemption. Legally I'm holy But experientially, I don't always do the holy thing It's almost like God gives us a coat that's way too big for us and gives us time to grow into it The important thing is is that you're growing If you're growing God's not so concerned as to whether or not you've arrived, but are you growing? Can you look back last year and say, I'm different this year than I was last year? Hopefully, nobody has to say I'm different, I'm worse Well, what is a healthy self image First of all, you don't think more highly of yourself than you ought to Because the minute you start thinking that you're really important, you're going to automatically start thinking somebody else is unimportant And there is nothing I don't think that hurts God's heart worse And if we treat somebody as if they're beneath us, are not as good as we are And sometimes the people that are most guilty of that are the ones that are in charge So I make it my business when I'm in these arenas I talk to everybody sitting back there that I run into Greet them and Thank them and look for the person nobody's paying attention to and talk to them Don't go trying to just get to the most important person in the room. Look for the person that looks lonely Well, Joyys, I'd rather hang out with my friends. Well Who wouldn't Yeah, let's just quit being in our little groups My little Christian groupy friends and I don't talk to anybody else The world is so full of hurting people. And we are not too important I said, we are not too important. to pay attention to them. Aen. We're not even too important to pay attention to a center They don't have to become your best buddy, but you need to treat them right I always say hang out with sinners as long as you're affecting them and they're not infecting you What do we put our confidence in? The Bible says, put your confidence in nothing but Christ. But what do we put our confidence in? ourur appearance? Now don't misunderstand me. I think we ought to look as good as we can Take whatever you got and work with it If you're a little fluffy, just wear black That willll help a lot. Learn all the tricks You know, We put our confidence in appearance Social status What we do Who we know You know, someday if I can't do what I'm doing, I'm still gonna to be Joyce Meyer And I don't want to hear somebody say, didn't you used to be Joyce Meyer Ayen We put our confidence in money, and how many of you know that could all go away in one day Revelation says that Babylon falls in one day and Babylon represents the world system. We don't know from one second to the next in this volatile world that we live in what's going to happen. And we better have our trust in God notot in anything else When we begin our journey with God, most of our confidence is in those outward things. And it just takes time and letting God work with you to realize Do you realize all of those things are shaky The only thing that can't be shaken is God That's why you want to have your confidence in him. You know, you're gonna get hurt by friends That's a given in this life. and especially if you start putting too much confidence in them, God will be obligated to show you their weaknesses And you're going to think, well, I would have never thought you would have done that. Well, guess what? A self image is out of balance if you think too highly of yourself or if you think too lowly of yourself Matter of fact, one very smart woman said, the best thing to do is just not think of yourself at all How many of you agree we just have ourselves on our mind way too much I want you to feel good about yourself, but I don't want you to feel like you're better than somebody else None of us are too good to do anything And it's good for all of us sometimes to purposely put ourselves in a position of serving just to show that we are not so full of ourselves God has created you an amazing Awesome Creatacure And you can do things that you would not even ever believe that you could do if you'll just believe in Christ and put your confidence in him There's a promise land for you And its fruit is big But there are giants in the land And you will have to deal with them. but you won't have to deal with them by yourself God' willll be right there with you every step of the way. 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