Staying Strong-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

it takes effort sometimes it takes money sometimes it's inconvenient but you see we're very bad at wanting something over here on this end but not wanting to do what it takes to get [Music] it okay well I know there's lots of things that you can preach when you've been doing it as long as I have when you go to a place but I never just go to my little message drawer and pull out a message and come and show up and speak it a lot of times I'll put together things that are new and few

weeks ago actually I've had this message a couple of months and just waiting for the right place to preach it just about the importance of staying strong just staying strong and I I want to make a statement here in the beginning and I I hope this will mean something to you most people don't do their maintenance and they end up being controlled by emergencies just think about that they don't do their maintenance so they end up being controlled by emergencies I'll give you a little example about my dentist how many of you really aren't real

crazy about going to the dentist and just getting your teeth cleaned or just getting the checkup you know so you just wait until you have a bad toothache and then you have to go okay well I was like that I remember many years ago when we were first starting the ministry and I was so busy and just had so much going on and I never wanted to go to the dentist to get any kind of checkups and I had some different issues with my teeth and so I was somebody who needed to go and I

get a lot of plaque buil up on my teeth so I need to go and get that taken care of but I didn't want to go so then I'd get a bad toothache and maybe I'd be going out of town on a conference and I'd call my dentist and I had an emergency is there any way you can work me in so my poor planning ended up pressuring him come on now our poor planning can end up pressuring somebody else who then we put in a position of having to take care of our emergency because

we didn't do what we should have done to start with and to be honest that's really not walking in love and so that happened about three times and then my dentist just said to me the last time I went in for an emergency he said I don't want to be rude to you but he said if you're not going to get your checkups and get your teeth clean then I'm just going to have to ask you not to call me when you have an emergency and so don't want to stretch that story too far but

I don't think it would be out of line to say that maybe God is wanting to say that to some of us today now I'm not saying God won't help us when we have an emergency but sometimes we do have to learn things the hard way if we won't learn them the easy way and so if there's things that God is telling you to do telling you to do telling you to do showing you to do showing you to do and you keep just not doing it not doing it not doing it then maybe when

we have an emergency God might have to just say well not this time you need to learn a little something people don't like to do maintenance on their car they don't like to do maintenance on their who wants to change the filter on your air conditioning he'd rather sit on the back porch and have a nice tea I mean who in the world wants to go get a colonostrophy just to make sure that later on you don't have a problem nobody wants to do that you know I'm going to tell you something that I have

not thought of for a long time but maybe this will help you you know 28 29 years ago it's been so long and I forget when it was I had breast cancer and I ended up having to have a mastectomy on one side and three years before that I had gone to the doctor for a mamogram which nobody likes that either and they said they saw a little something on the test they weren't sure what it was but they highly recommended that I come back in 3 months and get it checked again I don't want

to do that I'm busy serving God I'm busy in Ministry so you know what we do a lot of times is I I'll just trust God to take care of that well can I tell you something sometimes that's just an excuse it has really nothing to do with real Faith it's not even anything God's really put in our heart it's just an excuse we use to not have to deal with something so I didn't do what the doctor told me to do I waited three years and when I went back I had breast cancer now

I tell you that because I believe that God not only uses miracles to heal us but I think he also uses wisdom and common sense I don't know least that may may be quiet in here today it just might be quiet today I'm dealing with something right now with my back got some arthritis and each one of my discs they said one of them is a bulging disc and so we're dealing with that but in the process of looking at my spine I went to a doctor that does a lot of preventative care also and

he said well even if we take care of this immediate problem he said I'm going to highly recommend that you do some certain treatments and do some certain Physical Therapy that will keep you from having a problem later on well I don't want to do that first of all these treatments I think might be a little painful and I'm not looking forward to that and I already exercise and work out and walk and I don't want to now add physical therapy to it and I'm busy and I'm serving God but I do believe that a

lot of times God will put some information in front of us now come on listen to me I believe God will put some information in front of us that if we will do the maintenance now see one of my great dreams is to finish my [Applause] race I don't even know how to tell you how important that is to me that's this has been a long journey for me and I've been teaching the word 42 years and I really hope and pray it is a great desire of mine that I can still be sharing the

word in some farmer fashion right until God is finished with me and he takes me home well you see I know that in order to do that I got to do a whole bunch of stuff behind the scenes means to stay strong takes my time it takes effort sometimes it takes money sometimes it's inconvenient but you see we're very bad at wanting something over here on this end but not wanting to do what it takes to get it let me ask a question are you a gambler or an investor you know what a person who

kind of has a gambling Spirit does and I'm not even necessarily talking about the casino type thing I'm talking about you you kind of just don't do the right thing and kind of sort of hope you get by with it but the Bible says that we reap what we sell and so I think that we need to start doing a whole lot more maintenance and instead of just waiting until we have a major disaster in life and trying to Quick get strong let's talk this morning about staying strong let's talk about doing what we need

to do when there is no emergency but it's just wisdom to do it and then you know what we're going to have a lot less emergencies and to be honest with you it's going to be a lot less painful and in the long run it's going to take a lot less time to deal with things a little bit at a time than it will you know I didn't take care of my teeth for a long time part of it was we didn't have the money but then part of it was I just didn't want to

and I'll just be honest and tell you I have six teeth in my whole mouth that don't have crowns on them so do what you need to do when you need to do it and even now I'm one of those kind of people that get a lot of plaque on my teeth they want me to come get my teeth cleaned every four months I don't want to get my teeth cleaned every 4 months I mean I'd be happy to go once every two or three years but here's the thing if I wait even seven or

eight months when I go to get my teeth cleaned it really hurts because they have to really dig around to get the plaque off if I go every four months doesn't hurt at all come on how many of you are understanding what I'm saying [Applause] today you say well this is sure a lot of practical stuff I came to get a word from God you're talking to me about my teeth I call an oopy and you know what that's what's wrong today sometimes we go to church and everything is just so spiritual that we go

out and we don't know how to live practical everyday life amen oh the service today was so it was wow well what'd you learn uh I don't know but man I had a lot of Goosebumps it was great wow staying strong all right Proverbs 18:14 great scripture the strong Spirit of a man will sustain him in bodily pain and trouble but a weak and a broken Spirit who can raise it up or who can bear it if we stay strong spiritually then really no matter what comes against us we will make it through that doesn't

mean it's going to be easy that doesn't mean there's going to be no pain involved but truly truly we can do all things through Christ who is our strength yes you can make it through whatever you're going through right now and you know what you can get so strong in spirit that you can be going through really really difficult things and while you are you're still reaching out and helping other people and they don't even know what you're going through did you hear me we don't have to be the kind of people that every time

we have a problem we fall apart we can be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might but it's going to take some maintenance some regular doing of what we should be doing not just waiting until all of a sudden we feel like we're falling apart and quick quick trying to get to where we need to be Ephesians chapter 6 is a chapter in the Bible about how to defeat the Devil and we all love those kinds of messages everybody likes to think that they've got the power and they can defeat the

enemy and in Ephesians 6 11-18 it teaches us about putting on the full armor of God and putting on peace and you know all the different facets of armor that we can put on which causes us to be victorious against the enemy but verse 10 is one that we might not pay as much attention to as we should and that precedes all the others and it simply says be strong in the Lord be strong to your un Union or your Oneness or your fellowship with him draw your strength from him that strength which his boundless

might provides so the first thing to realize today before we go even further is whatever strength you hope to have in life it's got to be in God he is our strength he doesn't just give us strength he is our strength and the minute that you have any sign of difficulty even before you have difficulty every day pray early God give me the strength today to deal with whatever I need to deal with because I believe that I can do all things through Christ who is my strength and I like what the Amplified Bible says

about that scripture it says I'm ready for anything I'm equal to anything through him who infuses Inner Strength into me let's be the kind of people that are ready for anything we don't even know what it is yet but we're ready for whatever comes our way and we already know we're going to have the victory before we ever have the problem what does it mean to be more than a conqueror I believe that's what it means means that you are so convinced in spirit of who you are in Christ that you already know you're going

to win The Battle Before the battle ever even comes your way see not one of us in this building today knows exactly what our future holds we don't know what's going to happen this afternoon tonight tomorrow we trust God but we don't know we don't know what what we may be called upon to endure or to go through and we need to be strong minded we need to be strong mentally we need to be strong in God we need to be we need to stay strong in spirit because the world needs to see a body

of people that are stable that are not just up and down and all over the place depending on what their circumstances are they need to see a smile on our face when we've got the same kind of problems that they have God doesn't guarantee us faith in God relationship with God doesn't guarantee us that we're not going to have problems it doesn't mean that we're not going to deal with some of the same things that other people deal with but it does mean that there is a place in him Paul said it was his determined

purpose to know him and the power of his resurrection that lifted him out from among the dead even while he was in the body he didn't say I'm believing to never have a problem he said I'm believing that when I have problems I can rise above it you know the Apostle Paul went through a lot of things and the whole time he did he still ministered to other people amen David went through a time which if we think about this for a minute it's found in 1st Samuel chapter 30 I'm not going to turn there

I'll just tell you the story but David and his men I guess had been off to some kind of battle and they came home to zigg and you know when you've already been in a battle and you come home you don't want to come home to some big disappointment I mean even at the end of a day's work you don't want to come home to some big disappointment you want to come home and rest and relax so they'd been fighting a battle and they came home and they found out that their enemies the amalekites had

raided their city and burned the whole thing with fire and had taken the women and the children captive and David even found out that his own wife had been taken captive and so not only did they have this disappointment to deal with the loss of their family the loss of their city but now all the men turned against David they blamed him because their families had been killed and I love what the Bible says in verse six just think about what David was going through at this point and it says and David was greatly distressed

for the men spoke of stoning him because the souls of them all were bitterly grieved each man for his sons and and daughters and David what did David do David encouraged and strengthened himself in the Lord his God the minute that we have problems we don't need to go to the phone we need to go to the throne what whatever you need to do whatever you're facing right now and some of you are going through some really difficult things whatever it is that you're facing right now I want to tell you you can do it

you have got what it takes come on you have got what it takes I said you can do it you have got what it takes come on we got to get rid of this weak wimpy pitiful pathetic it's too much for me kind of attitude God is on your side you are more than a conqueror you are a warrior you have authority over the enemy and I'm telling you that you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who is your strength the moment and I have to practice this the moment that you hear

any kind of I can't the mind is the battlefield Satan puts thoughts in our mind and if he can get us to believe them then we're already on our way out I I can't the minute you hear that you need to open your mouth and say I can do whatever I need to do through Christ who is my strength I want to pray something over you today and I just want you to receive it this is something I think that we could and should do on a regular basis and I like to pray this over

people when they're in a service like this Ephesians 3:16 Paul prayed this for the church at Ephesus so receive this I pray that God would Grant you out of the rich treasury of his glory to be strengthened and reinforced with Mighty power in the Inner Man I pray the Holy Spirit would indwell your innermost being and your personality and that you would be strong in the Lord and able to face anything you have to face and still be victorious in Jesus name how do we stay strong in spirit well first of all the word of

God is the food you need for your spirit just like I'm thirsty so I had to drink of water well you know what Jesus said I'm the living drink if you drink of me you'll never thirst he said I'm your living food if you take me as your food you'll never hunger always respect the word of God and when you hear the word of God the words going forth out of my mouth right now they're not just words they're God's words and so that means there's power the Bible says there's inherent power in the word

of God so just like when you eat food and you chew it and you swallow it the nutrition is released if you really listen you don't just put your time in in church to think that you've made God happy because you showed up for 45 minutes but you you you come with an attitude of your word is powerful your presence is powerful this is helping me this is strengthening me this is healing me this is making a difference in my life see everything that you get in a church service is not up to the preacher

a lot of it is up to the attitude that you come in with you need to come hungry you need to come excited you need to come and realize what a precious treasure it is to sit around other believers that have an anointing on their life and to hear the word of God come on let's thank God for what he's done in our lives this a good place to be so the word strengthens us in spirit God's presence you know something that you could do I do this from time to time how many of you

can kind of tell when you're starting to run on empty I mean your system is just kind of like you're running on empty well you know what instead of just continuing to push yourself and getting cranky and grouchy and blaming everybody around you and you know it can just go from bad to worse you know that don't you it can just if it's already bad it's going to get worse if you don't do something about it I I don't care if you just have to go lock yourself in the bathroom just go and sit somewhere

or stand somewhere even just take three minutes and just God I need you strengthen me Lord help me just calm [Music] down H okay feeling better now come on do you understand that I mean it's just good practical advice just get somewhere by yourself zip your lip you know when you're frustrated the more you talk the worse it's going to get just get somewhere for a minute get quiet calm down collect yourself get yourself together as we tell other people you just need to go somewhere and get yourself together God's presence prayer but I want

to talk to you specifically about yes we need to pray about everything don't do anything until you at least mention it to God first but repentance you know one of the things that keeps us weak in spirit is hidden sin stuff that we know is there and God knows is there but we're just not talking about it we're just not dealing with it David prayed that God would clear him from hidden and unconscious faults things that were there that he had managed to ignore long enough that although he was still feeling the weight of them

do you know that we can compromise to the point where we have major sin in our life and we don't even really know what it is that's bothering us anymore and you know sometimes if you're just not feeling right in your life you just something's wrong I've got a heaviness and don't there's no joy why don't you just go and get by yourself somewhere and just ask God a question that he's just waiting to answer and here's the question God what is really wrong in my life come on not like he may not tell you

it's your circumstances see we always think every time we're unhappy it's our circumstances but a lot of times it's our attitude or it's something going on in us or something that we need to take care of that we've not taken care of I recall a time when I wasn't sleeping good it was one night I wasn't sleeping good I tossed and turned and I'd sleep for a few minutes and I'd wake up and it got to be about 5 5:00 in the morning and I really wish that I would have asked God sooner so I

could have gotten some sleep but I waited till 5 and I finally just said God what is wrong come on that's a good question to ask God what is wrong and immediately he showed me something that I had done the day before I had hurt somebody's feelings and just glossed over it didn't do what I should have done didn't take care of it didn't asked God to forgive me didn't ask them to forgive me and I repented immediately made a commitment to make things right with them the next day and it was almost time to

get up anyway but I did get about 30 minutes sleep come on God what is wrong come on this is good advice what's wrong what's going on we run so fast in life that many times we're just dragging all these problems along with us and we don't even take the time to stop and ask God what's really going on on how about uh guilt don't be carrying a bunch of guilt around with you man that weakens us woo it's hard to stay strong in God if you got a guilty conscience and a bunch of stuff

that's bugging you inside how about knowing who you are in Christ boy I tell you the devil gets afraid of you when you know who you are in Christ Peter talked about it this morning that was great what he shared who are you do you know who you are if you know who you are and the devil knows you know who you are then he's going to be running from you instead of you running from him but you know what knowing [Music] maintaining a righteousness Consciousness in your life it takes hugging up close to God

and staying in the word because there's anything the enemy wants to do to you he wants to make you feel guilty and condemned and like you're no good you guys out there am I right how many of you have to fight that battle it's like well you didn't this and you didn't that and you're not and you're not do you ever get tired of the devil telling you what you're not then get in the word and let God tell you who you [Music] are and then another thing that really weakens people is anger Wow fight

for yourself and refuse to let anger steal the spiritual strength that you need to deal with things in your life I'm telling you staying angry at people will just zap it right out of you then one last thing I'll say about this section is let's all work together and just see how many issues we can have in our life and still hold our peace while we got them that's that's a new goal I told Dave day I said okay I've got a new goal I really love peace and and I do pretty good most of

the time but lately I've just let a few stupid things aggravate me anybody ever do that you just let some really dumb stuff just get you all rattled and and and it's it's it's not anything that's going to be Earth shaking doesn't really matter that much and I had about three or four of those things last week it was just like silly stuff and I just let it and you know what I've discovered once you get really upset you're not going to get over it in 5 seconds when when you get really upset at least

when I do it takes a toll on me and sometimes it takes a while for me to calm down so it's just a lot less effort to just not get upset come on I'm telling you something valuable it takes a lot less effort to just not get upset than it does to get upset act bad have to repent the devil condemns you you know all that stuff then you got to go apologize to five or six people it's like God no I don't want to do that anymore I just my new goal is just do

your best devil but I'm holding my peace stay tuned for a candid conversation with Joyce [Music] Joyce today in our candid conversation where we talk a little bit more intimately I I know that you are speaking to many people who are watching who are going down the path of emotional healing that you've been down so I would love to talk about some of those things that you faced that were the most difficult challenges um that maybe would encourage other people that they're going to make it through those hard times too well I think the one

of the first things I would say is that it's really hard to face the truth about your own behavior MH you know for so many years I blamed my bad behavior on the fact that I'd been abused and I used that as an excuse uh I mean everything from fits of self-pity to whatever I would just say well if only I wouldn't have been abused and you know as long as you're making excuses for something you can't get free from it now I want to say that again yeah as long as we're making excuses for

something we can't get free from it because we're giving ourselves permission to keep it so excuses like it's not my fault it's not my fault I deserve to feel this way it's because I was abused any body that's been through what I've been through would yes would behave this way yeah and uh I had a real problem with self-pity I mean among many other things but I particularly had a problem with every time things didn't go my way or I didn't feel like Dave was paying enough attention to me or whatever I would sit and

feel sorry for myself and you know God spoke to me you can be pitiful or powerful but you can't be both I was trying to minister already and you know I'd be in the Pulpit talking about being a powerful woman and yet having these pity parties and I said well you know you know how we talk to the Lord I mean I said well I anybody would feel sorry for themselves that they've been through what I've been through and he said well you have a reason but don't let the reason become an excuse to stay

that way so how is that affecting you behind the scenes you be on stage and and you know you're teaching and God is using it but what's happening at home well that's what I'm saying you know at home I would be I mean not a totally different person but I would uh um the thing that happened with me a lot is what God was teaching me is what I would be preaching one lady said you're just letting us eat off your plate yeah so sometimes I was teaching people but it wasn't yet perfected in my

own life and the Bible says in John 8 that if you continue in my word you will know the truth and the truth will make you free but it's the truth applied that makes you free so you know just to those that are watching today the first thing that you might want to pay attention to is am I stuck in a place because I just keep making excuses for it are blaming you know blaming everybody else and so really no matter what you do or you do or you do I'm still responsible for my own

behavior even if somebody doesn't treat me right I'm still responsible for my attitude toward them yeah and that's hard and that's true for for everybody oh yeah it's I mean it's it's easy to face truth about somebody else how often do we hear a message and think well yeah so and so really needs this when really we're the one that that needs it right some of the things that were the most challenging for me was um learning how to be a submissive wife M you know and you know not in a weird way where I

had no mind of my own or no choices or you know where Dave was trying to control me because he's not even the kind of person to do that but I just because I'd been mistreated by men I didn't have respect for men and makes a lot of sense and I didn't I didn't trust like if a decision needed to be made I didn't know how to trust that Dave would make a good decision for me as well as him because I men had always used me and so I didn't it was very hard for

me to believe that you'll make a decision that's in my best interest and I remember Dave saying to me one time why do you act like I'm your enemy and so that but that was your experience that that that was my experience and I think that something that we all have to learn and this this was a challenge for me you have to learn how to act on the word of God rather than reacting to whatever is bringing that emotional upset to you right you know like if if Dave would be or anybody else would

be the least bit Stern with me because my dad was so mean I would immediately get you know like you're not you're not going to treat me that way yeah and you know some people just have stronger personalities they don't they're not trying to be mean or something but I was I was very overly sensitive and so I'd like for people that are listening today to remember that if you've been hurt a lot you probably are going to be overly sensitive to certain things that you need need to be careful about and to take responsibility

for your own behavior and this was big to be patient because when you have the kind of mess in your life that I had in mine no matter how much you want it to it's not all going to change overnight it's going to take time and you're going to have setbacks you're going to have times where you know you feel like you've gotten free in an area and then all of a sudden it comes up again and you know like if you've ever peeled an onion which I know you have it's comes off in little

tiny layers and sometimes you think am I ever going to get to the good part of this and that's kind of the way emotional healing can be sometimes because your emotions are they're a hidden part of you and so that's a great way to explain it yeah it it it's on the inside of you and so we can pretend that everything is okay but still just be having really bad bad thoughts about people and bad attitudes behind the scene and God really wants us to face truth the psalmist David said God desires truth in the

inner being so he wants he wants us to be authentic and genuine and real and it just takes time Philippians 1:6 says that Heath begun a good work in US is well able to complete it and bring it to its finish Deuteronomy 7 says that God delivers us from our enemies little by little and that onion is a great example right because as you peel off those layers and deal with different things and get deeper they going to be a lot of Tears it's going to stink a little bit now and then so that's really

a very good way to look at it and when you say to have patience you're talking about having patience with your yourself and and others too I'm sure as you walk through this but did did you have those times that you're like God when am I going to get there when oh my gosh yeah Ginger I had I probably gave up 1,000 times you know and sometimes I'd even try to get God to feel sorry for me well that's it I just I can't I can't go through this anymore I just give up and it's

almost like funny because you're not going to give up you know once you really fall in love with Jesus no matter how hard yeah your days are you're always going to come back around to knowing that you need God let's talk about this reaction or acting on the word you see I had to find out that I could feel wrong and still behave right and that was a pretty major thing for me when I realize that and I've written a couple of books on managing your emotions and one called living beyond your feelings and that's

that's even to forgive somebody you know when you forgive somebody you don't necessarily feel like doing it nor do you feel like it's fair or but you you do it because you love God and that's what he's asked you to do and we need to be smart enough to realize that God is always right whatever he tells us to do is for our benefit and you know so I would have a lot of these pouting spells where maybe I mean in the very beginning of our marriage if Dave made me mad Ginger I could not

speak a word to him for three weeks three weeks three weeks now that there weren't too many three weers but I would I was very bad at pouting and staying mad and the reason why I did that was because I had always seen my dad get his way through anger yeah and so I would I would react the way I had seen him behave sure and I had I had to learn enough of the word to learn how to act on the word rather than reacting and it so what happens is at first you don't

do it at all and then after a while you start you'll recognize it and so maybe you'll act bad for a little while and then you'll say NOP that's not right and you change your mind until all the way up to now I would say the biggest majority of the time and I'm not saying never because I still do sometimes but instead of reacting to the devil's stimulus that he's trying to use against me I can say I recognize it's the enemy and I recognize that I don't have to be that way but if I

were to talk about the thing that probably was facing truth was really hard what kind of Truth well just like I mean I always thought all the problems in my marriage was Dave if Dave would do this if Dave would do that if Dave would do this and one day I was praying for Dave to change and the Holy Spirit spoke in my heart Dave is not the problem and I really thought I honestly thought well who is there's only me and him I mean he had you know yeah and God revealed to me what

it was like to live with me and I cried for like three days I think I was just so I don't know just disappointed in myself didn't want it to be my fault you know when you've had a lifetime of blaming other people it's very hard it's painful to say I'm hard to get along with yeah those are hard words to come to grips with I have unforgiveness in my heart yeah you know I I make a big deal out of every little thing I'm I'm not merciful it's it's challenging to admit all those things

but I want to say again that is the first step toward freedom but probably the thing that took me the longest to to get over completely was feeling guilty all the time because I had always felt guilty about what my dad was doing to me even though it wasn't my fault you know it's our secrets that make us sick and so I had this big nasty secret that I had to keep all the time and so I always always felt guilty always and it didn't it didn't matter if it was little thing or a big

thing and then as I got into a relationship with God and I started hearing these things about there's no guilt there's no condemnation I became a very religious Christian in the beginning to keep the guilt away well no I was yeah trying to do everything perfect so I didn't have to have that burden of guilt and it it it took me a good number of years it got better mhm that's the thing that people need to you know realize and something I'd like to say to our viewers today is please please please celebrate your progress

and don't only think about how far you have to go yeah that's a great encourage and some things are going to be harder than others I mean there may be some things that you'll get over much quicker and then there's yeah other things I share that one of the things that I still deal with is I don't like any kind of strife are upset in the family you know it's like I mean one of my sons told me one time he said you can't expect us to all work together and be around each other as

much as we are and never ever have any kind of a conflict and but see it doesn't matter I mean if it's two of my kids not getting along or whatever I can't it's hard for me to settle down and be peaceful until it's solved and it relates directly to the turmoil that was in my house all the time and the the whole game that everybody played was let's keep dad from getting mad right you know my mother did it I did it my brother did it and if he was mad then we started doing

I guess what I call the dance you know where we would just you know try all these different things to get him back in a good mood right and so it took me a long time to get to the point where I didn't carry some kind of a burden of guilt or always be kind of um vaguely you got to be careful about the vague things in their life your life they're not the like right in your face type things but I always had like this feeling around me that just kind of like waiting for

the next bad thing to happen and U there's a scripture in Proverbs 15:15 that talks about evil for boings right and so it's like we've been set free from that but I was always instead of expecting something good which is what hope is I was more expecting the next problem because that's all I'd had you know in my life yeah but if you want to just boil it down for our viewers to probably two of the things that were the hardest I would say it was this facing truth and you know I still don't enjoy

it you know who does it's hard I mean who wants to say you know I didn't act right in that situation and it doesn't really matter what you did you know we always want to saywell I shouldn't have acted I shouldn't have acted that way but you know you shouldn't have but God wants us to get to the point where we just take responsibility for us and I think if we can stop playing this Blame Game it opens the door for God to deal with the other person if they aren't behaving right so I would

say that that facing the truth and the the guilt thing getting over that were probably two of the hardest things for me yeah well thank you very very much I'm sure it's encouraging to people when you talk about having patience with yourself and knowing that you can stand on what God says that he will continue that good work in you right so there's hope out there yes there is and I hope everybody's been encouraged have you been looking for a 365-day devotional well look no further than the promises for your everyday life devotional from Joyce

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peaceful lifestyle so grab a cup of coffee find a comfortable spot and embark on your journey to find peace remember this limited time YouTube offer won't last long go to joy.org pursuit to get your copy today and start your Pursuit Of Peace [Music] the Mind actually is the battlefield that's where we win or lose the war with Satan he said all he gets to say rest of the day is mine you start asking God to heal you and he will restore he the God of all comfort and I am so grateful that I know how

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