Healing The Soul Of A Woman-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

[Music] I'm going to talk about um the healing of a woman's soul and um you know obviously men can be wounded too but this is a women's meeting and so I'm sorry guys but you'll just have to listen to how to heal a woman's soul and it probably will help you go home and help your wives have better lives how many of you want your husbands to help you have a better life amen all right I've had a lot of practice with the healing of my soul and I know a few things about it anyway

and Jesus wants us to be whole whole completely whole he died not just so we could go to heaven someday but he died so we could have a life that's worth living while we're on our way to go into Heaven someday and you know what we've all got a story and your story is important and maybe you're one of the ones who could give your Victory report your testimony of what God has done for you and maybe you're in the Pro process of Watching God do something for you or maybe just maybe you're here tonight

and you just thought you had to live with it it's amazing how many people that even are Christians and go to church I was one of them for a long time who has no idea that God is interested in anything other than just saving them and getting them to heaven and so I lived as a broken Christian for a long long long long time and I think it's it's bad to be a pitiful sinner but it's really bad to be a pitiful Saint because we are God's advertisement to the world we're his ambassadors and he's

making an appeal to the world through us and so it's important for your sake and also for his that if you've never done it before that you make a decision tonight that you're going to go all the way through with God and you're going to be everything that you can be in him and that you're not going to live full of pain and secrets and regrets from the past but you're going to go all the way through and you are going to be whole and you are going to be happy and you are going to

be strong and you are going to be confident and you are going to hold your head up high and you're going to make the devil mad every single day that you're on this planet amen Psalm 1473 he heals the Brokenhearted and he binds up their wounds curing their pain and their sorrow isn't that beautiful he heals the Brokenhearted he binds up their wounds curing their pain and their sorrow now your soul is often referred to as your heart or your spirit or even at times your mind and it's really kind of some of all of

that but your soul is not your spirit but it is the inner part of you when you're born again Christ comes to live in your spirit and everything is just made good in there because he has to clean it up and make it Hool or he couldn't live there so we're all taken care of spiritually that's why we can say and not be lying that we have things or we are things before we actually see them in reality like I can say I am the righteousness of God in Christ before I'm actually doing everything right

because I do have it I'm just not showing it all yet amen and boy if you can ever get a hold of that the devil is a thief and he's right there ready to steal every beautiful thing that God gives us if we don't stand our ground and hang on to it so some of the things I'm going to say tonight you may have heard me say before but before this night's over by the grace and the mercy of God and it will take that I'm going to give you 10 points on how to have

your soul completely healed and if you follow these points it may take some years it may take some time it may take some crying it may take some going through stuff but you will come out on the other side a whole individual with no evidence that you ever were that messed up person that you used to be that'll be somebody that you feel like you used to know but you're certainly not that anymore amen I tell Dave he probably feels like he's been married to 20 different women in the 50 years we've been married because

we just keep changing and changing and changing so your soul is the inner part of you and it's a part that certainly we can hide from people out here sometimes we even get pretty good at hiding it from ourselves you know I think one of the greatest things that we can do is know ourselves I mean really know know yourself and that takes a lifetime to really know yourself and to be honest with yourself but certainly God knows us and so it's very possible to look all together on the outside and yet be a complete

total mess on the inside has anybody gotten good at dressing it up and taking it to church and putting on your church face but yet inside you're thinking I am falling apart and why is this not working for me the condition of our soul is not only felt by us but it's also felt by all those that we are in relationship with and to be honest the biggest favor that you can do your family is to be a healthy you a healthy whole you where they don't have to wonder every day what version of you

they're going to get come on but you you know Dave says I remember I used to drive down the highway at night and think I wonder what you'll be like tonight and I didn't know either until the devil told me I didn't know until I got up and saw what my circumstances were going to be that way because if they were good and I was getting everything I wanted then I might be happy but I had no stability in my life and there's nothing worse than being controlled by your thoughts and your feelings and what

people say or don't say or what people do or don't do or whether you get what you want or you don't get what you want I want to be happy all the time not just when my circumstances are telling me that it's okay to be happy if the soul is wounded we often wound other people many times unintentionally many times we don't even know that we're doing it but that's why we run into so many people in the world and we think what is your problem well they're wounded on the inside and to be honest

sometimes instead of just wanting to get away from people like that we might want to take a little more time to find out what's going on inside them because probably there's somebody that's bleeding on the inside and doesn't know how to get the help that they need so I think Loosely very Loosely we can say that our soul is our personality it's the way we present ourselves and so God can heal our personality James 1:21 I love this scripture it says receive the word of God with meekness because it contains the power to save your

soul it doesn't say to save you like so you can go to heaven it says the word of God is the healing bomb that we need that will bring Salvation and wholeness to this inner life to my mind I tell you what my mind has been saved not just my spirit my mind has been saved when the Bible says to put on the helmet of salvation in Ephesians 6 as part of our Warfare with the Enemy you know what that means learn how to think like a person that's saved don't keep thinking like somebody who's

not saved think like a person that's saved and then you don't have to believe every lie of the enemy my feelings have been saved and are in the process of being saved but I tell you what I sure don't live by my feelings anymore nothing like what I used to a long time ago and even my will has been saved not just my spirit but my mind my will my emotions and I no longer have to do just what I want to do because I want to do it and I don't have to get angry

anymore if I don't get what I want but I can actually now want what God wants more than I want what I want in my life that is wholeness and real salvation now in saying that let me say this it's been a long time coming 40 years I've been a pretty serious student of the word of God and I would say probably 25 years ago I started getting some pretty major breakthrough but it took time I'm going to tell you something I'm going to be honest with you what I say tonight is going to help

you I believe by the grace of God that it is going to help you I pray that the words will be so anointed that they absolutely have to help you but just what I say tonight is not going to be the secret key that's going to fix everything in your life because here's the thing if you don't go home and do what you hear you know Jesus washed the disciples feet and he said I've done this as an example to you and then in John 13:17 he said blessed shall you be knowing these things if

you do them if you do them and you know we say what is just so hard well that's one of the first things we need to stop saying don't ever say that again it's just it's too hard because it may be hard but God is not going to give us anything to do that is too hard for us to do he is the god of the impossible and what God shows us to do he gives us the grace and the anointing and the power to do everybody say I can do it I can do it

okay I'm 10 minutes in and haven't even gotten to 0.1 so we're in trouble when the Bible speaks about being saved that's talking about being made whole we're going to skip some stuff already you see my pit here don't you how many of you know about being in the pit some of you probably still have one somewhere keep it around just case you need to go in and visit for a day or so our pit is where we go and feel sorry for oursel and we go and remember all the bad things that everybody's ever

done to us and anyway we we'll visit the pit in a little bit I don't want to get too far ahead of myself the pit ultimately refers to hell but we can experience some of hell right here on Earth unless we choose healing Psalm 42 and3 wonderful promise from God he drew me up out of a horrible pit a pit of tub bolt and of Destruction out of the myy clay froth and slime and he set my feet upon a rock steadying my steps and established my goings and he has put a new song in

my mouth a song of praise to our God many shall see in fear rever and worship and put their trust and confident Reliance in the Lord do you see what that's saying he said look I was in a pit he lifted me out of that pit he set my feet on a rock people saw it and then they wanted to serve the Lord come on people saw it and then they wanted to serve the Lord one of the best things you can do for yourself and for God one of the greatest ways that you can

serve God is to let him heal your life and then be an example to other people that if God can do it for you God can do it for them and if God does it for you God will do it for them I'm here to tell you tonight that you do do not have to stay broken you do not have to stay miserable you don't have to live in depression you don't have to live in self-pity you don't have to live hating yourself and despising yourself you don't have to live in regret and you don't

have to live in dread and you don't have to live in fear God is living in you and you can live the life that Jesus died to give [Applause] you some of are going to be your cheerleaders to cheer you on as you make your journey now Joseph is probably one of the best examples as the right way to respond to unjust treatment and I'm sure that he had some rough days that the Bible doesn't necessarily tell us all about but wow what an example and what a great account the Bible gives us gives us

of somebody who was so unjustly and unfairly treated and yet he didn't park at the point of his pain come on now he went all the way through from the pit to the palace and honey that's what God's got in mind for you you might be in a pit but you don't have to stay there cuz he's going to lift you out of that pet and set your feet on a rock so just a few scriptures here in Genesis 37 and when they saw him they his brother far off even before he came to them

they conspired to kill him they said to one another see Here Comes This dreamer and the master of dreams so come on now let's kill him and throw him into some what pit then we will say to our father some wild ferocious animal has devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams now Reuben heard it and said no let's don't kill him and he said shed no blood but cast him into this what pit our well that is out here in the wilderness and lay no hands on him he was trying

to get Joseph out of his hands in order to rescue him and deliver him to his father when Joseph had come to his brothers they stripped him of his distinctive long garment which he was wearing and they took him and they cast him into a what which was empty and there was no water in it but here's what I've got to say Joseph chose not to remain where they left him I don't know where somebody maybe has left you maybe somebody you loved and trusted walked out on you and you're sitting there now with a

broken heart but you don't have to remain where they left you you can get up you can shake it off and you can go on and do great things for God Joseph decided somewhere down within him that he was going to keep a good attitude and that he was going to trust God to do something for him in his life well let me tell you what living in a pit is like we sit in our pits for me mine was my little office before I had an office it was the bathroom I used to love

to go in the bathroom and be pitiful do any of your ladies like to go sit in the bathroom floor lay your head on the toilet bowl and just cry and be pitiful come on be honest you ever go to the bathroom and cry well you know it took me a long time but God gave me a revelation on why women like to go to the bathroom and cry there's a big mirror in there and after You' have sufficiently cried long enough and you just like now feel as sorry for yourself as you possibly can

feel I can remember I would stand up really a mess now if I had any makeup on it was mascar is running my eyes are all red I'm looking bad the hair's messed up and I go look at my myself in the mirror and go I remember one time as a born again Spirit-filled Bible teacher I was sitting in the bathroom floor 7 months pregnant with my baby who's now going to be 37 head laying on the toilet bowl feeling sorry for myself and one of the two times in my life that I can ever

remember anything like this happening I felt like my spirit kind of lift out of my body and hover above me and look down at me and the Lord said don't you look ridiculous do you just not look ridiculous and you know what we just need to sometimes just knock it off come on I said we just need to knock it off and we need to just get on with what God wants us to do so in my pit I I wasn't this dressed up when I went into my pit by the way cuz if you're

going to sit in your pit you certainly don't want to look good while you're in there and I would sit there and just hate people and [Applause] you know if you um if you live in a pit for a long time you might as well just decorate it and make it kind of nice you know so you got something when you go in there and uh so you know you can have pictures in your pit of all the people that you hate and then it's like boy I remember I remember what you did to to

me and if you think I'm ever going to forgive you I'm not going to forgive you I hate you then I could just feel so sorry for myself Dave plays golf and he doesn't even understand what I'm going through when I try to tell him he just says cast you care [Applause] just just cast your [Applause] care and then I had this book of remembrance I was so dumb I actually remember one time getting out a pad of paper and writing down on a piece of paper everything that I thought was wrong with my husband

well the last list I made I made one of everything that I thought was right with my husband God Has Changed Me amen now here's the thing you know we said oh God you got to change me God you got to help me God you got to do something you got to do something remember what I said last night the first thing that Jesus said to a lot of the people that he encountered was get up make up your bed and go home and what he meant was get up get some gumption shake that junk

off decide you're not going to live like that anymore and let's clean up the mess and leave no evidence that you were ever in that kind of a situation well Joseph decided that he wasn't going to stay in that pit he decided that he was going to shake it off and he ended up in the palace second in charge to only the Pharaoh you may not have anybody that understands you may not have anybody that you think cares you may feel like you are totally invisible in this Earth but let me tell you tonight and

don't you ever forget it God sees you he knows your name he's got a plan for you and if you will cry out to him and believe just a little teeny teeny teeny tiny bit it doesn't even take much more than a mustard seed of faith if you'll just believe just a little tiny bit he'll reach down in you there and he'll lift you up out of that pit and he'll set your feet on a rock come on this is a night of Hope a night of Hope the spirit of the Lord Jesus said well

this is Isaiah talking about the coming of the Lord the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed and qualified me to preach the gospel of Good Tidings to the me the poor and The Afflicted he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to Proclaim Liberty to the physical and the spiritual captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound now you know just about the time you begin to get just a little tiny bit of Freedom someday you'll be walking along and you can kind

of feel that pit trying to pull you back in no I've spent enough time in that pit I'm not coming back in again no thank you you know I I spent a lot of my life in self-pity I felt sorry for myself cuz I'd been abused and I just felt so sorry myself I felt sorry for myself because we didn't have much money I felt sorry for myself you know blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and when I started trying to serve God and wantan to be a powerful woman of God God said

to me you can be pitiful or powerful but you're going to take your pick cuz you can't be both you can't be both and I'm throwing that out to you tonight do you want to be pitiful or do you want to be powerful and if you want to be powerful then you got to give up the pity God said I'll give you Beauty for Ashes but you can't keep the ashes and have the beauty so I guess I got to say tonight are you willing to let go of some things are you willing to let

go of some attitudes are you willing to stop feeling sorry for yourself are you willing to be bold and say if anybody can have freedom I can have freedom and I'm not going to shut up God until you bless me let's be like Jacob I am not going to let you go until you bless me I may have a limp all my life but I'm going to limp off with my blessings Isaiah 61:7 I love this love it love it instead of your farmer shame you'll have a two-fold recompense instead of Dishonor and reproach your

people shall rejoice in their portion therefore in their land they shall possess double double what they forfeited and everlasting Joy shall be theirs double for your trouble why verse eight for I the Lord love Justice that's just the bottom line God loves Justice now let me tell you something I know that a lot of you have been through a lot of rough things but you can let it make you bitter or you can let it make you better and actually the things that I went through I had to make a choice at one point but

they've actually made me strong I mean I am strong strong inside I don't quit I don't give up if I got a goal I'm going to go after it I'm strong physically I'm strong and you can be strong but sometimes you got to go through some stuff and in the middle of that going through you've got to make a decision I'm not going to park here at the point of my pain and give up on life I am going to go through with God and I believe this is going to work out good amen all

right Point number one okay first point to the healing of your soul you must receive God's unconditional perfect love for you you receive it as a gift you can't deserve it you can't earn it and I don't care what you do you cannot keep God from loving you because love is not something he does turns on and off it is who he is who he is but if you have a revelation not a teaching come on we don't need another teaching we need a revelation in our life and the only way that a teaching that

I'm doing becomes Revelation to you is if you go home you take it you get out your body you look at it you write things down you got to put some effort into it you you can't just sit there and want somebody else to download a victory into your life I mean we love free downloads well I'm going to tell you this is not a free download tonight what I have to say here tonight cost me an unbelievable amount of pain and I'm very happy to share it with you but I am not offering you

a free download what I'm showing you is that you can have the same thing that God has given so many people if you're willing to do the same things that they did come on get up make up your bed it's time to have a life how many people here tonight need to make a decision about going home and beginning to just be a little more tenacious about not letting the devil walk all over you come on man I just might get excited if I stay up here long enough tonight you are accepted close your eyes

and swallow this God loves you unconditionally he is not going to love you anymore when you behave better God God will never love you any more than he does at this moment right now because he already loves you with a perfect love God loves you even though my mother and my father have forsaken me the Lord will take me up and adopt me as his own child nobody in here is an orphan we are Sons and Daughters of the most high God Amen Sons and Daughters of the most high God and I think sometimes it's

how we see ourselves if you see yourself as broken if you see yourself as an orphan then you're always going to be that and I want to tell you something if you're still in the pit I know exactly how you feel but I'm telling you this is your night to come out when Jesus walked up to the tomb of Lazarus he said come [Applause] out when King when the king went and opened the door of the fiery furnace and he saw not three men in there that went in but he saw four because Jesus is

always with you in your fiery furnace he said come out and when they came out they didn't even smell like smoke and I'm telling you right now it's time for you to come out it's time for you to stop living like Jesus never died for you and start acting like the unbelievable amazing human being you are come on give God a [Applause] praise if you want your soul to be healed you have to receive God's forgiveness and that means that you have to forgive yourself come on now obviously we can't forgive ourselves for our sins

but when we receive God's forgiveness receiving it means that you take it and you let it go and in essence you forgive yourself don't go the Bible says when he forgives us he forgets our sins and he removes them as far as the East is from the West you don't need to sit around and think about all the things that you did that were wrong one of the things that came up several times today was how do I get rid of this regret how do I get rid of this regret and you know I talk

a lot about regret because my father bless his heart I mean he's gone home and I'm happy to say with the Lord now but he was 8 3 before he gave his life to Christ and he was mean and hateful and abusive and you know when he died nobody really cared because he never really did anything for anybody we took care of him because we felt like it was what God wanted us to do and that ended up being a witness to him and he did receive Christ I think as a result of seeing God's

unconditional love but all he died all he had laying on his hospital bed was regret regret that's one of the reasons why I just wrote that book seize the day I tell you what when I get to the end of my life I want something to be proud of I don't want to look back and just have nothing but regrets I want to say man Jesus we had quite a journey and I'm so grateful for everything that you did in my life I'm begging you tonight don't live live with regret don't park at the point

of your pain let it go I don't care if you did it 50 years ago or 10 years ago or five years ago or this morning or on your way to this conference ask God to forgive you and Let It Go receive his forgiveness and forgive yourself and let it go Point number three and boy here's the one that seems to get so hard for everybody come completely forgive all the people that have hurt you we have got so many angry people in the church so many people that are mad at somebody if it's not

somebody from a long time ago you're mad at the preacher because he didn't shake your hand on Sunday or you're mad at the choir director because you didn't get in the choir you know whatever all it does is just slam the door on what God wants to do in your life why do you want to stay mad at somebody without having a good time and don't even care that you're upset that doesn't even make any sense all you're doing is hurting yourself when you stay angry you're not hurting them all those years I hated my

father that didn't change him that didn't make him want to repent or change him forgive people you say I want to but I just can't I just can't years ago I said to God why is it I see sincere people come and ask me to pray for them that they'll be able to forgive and then two weeks later they're back again asking me to pray for the same thing I know these are good people I know they love you back then I was doing like different me me weekly meetings around town and so I you

know I had a lot of the same people week after week and they would come back same thing same thing same thing same thing and I knew they were sincere here and I didn't understand I'm like God why if they want to forgive why is it they don't seem to be able to and this is exactly what the Lord spoke to me he said because they don't do what I tell them to now wait what has God told us to do regarding forgiving our enemies pray for them come on don't sit there look so innocent

how many of you actually really sincerely pray for the people that have hurt you to be blessed yeah well we got a few holy hands up but not very many let me tell you you know why cuz the truth is you don't want them to be blessed the Bible says that you bless and do not curse them to bless means to speak well of to curse means to speak evil of so that means you got to stop retelling everybody what they did to you over and over and over and over and over and over you

got to zip your lip pray for God to bless them it is very hard to keep hating somebody that you're praying for every day the best thing that you can do when you've got an enemy is send them a present now that went over big okay now you don't have to feel like praying for somebody to be blessed to pray for him you do it in obedience to God you don't have to feel like blessing your enemies but you can do it in obedience to God and it's perfectly fine if you say you know God

I don't feel like doing this but I love you so much that I'm going to do whatever you tell me to do because I believe that your word works and so I'm just going to tell you right now you are going to be living in this stupid ugly pit the rest of your life if you don't make a decision that you are not going to live angry and you are going to start getting so good at forgiveness that you are going to give the devil a breakdown number four no more self-pity you know no matter

how bad you think you've got it there's somebody else in this room right now tonight that's got it worse than you do count your blessings and I mean that I've been doing something the last week or so week and a half I don't know how hard it'll get after I do it a while probably harder but I'm writing down 10 things every day that I'm thankful for in my journal but I made a commitment that they had to be 10 different things every day it can't be the same thing it's getting pretty interesting but you'd

be amazing I mean really just jawdropping amazed at all the things that we have to be thankful for if we would just actually stop for a minute and pay attention to them it would so drive self-pity out of your life that it would have no way to even hope to get in number five woo I love this I wish I had an hour and a half stop blaming other people for your problems stop blaming everybody else for your problems own your own junk own it I have a bad attitude and my attitude belongs to me

and nobody can make me have one if I don't want to own it yeah take responsibility for it I'm having a lousy day well I think it's your fault well no I can choose to have a good day if I want to nobody else can make you have a bad day if you really don't want to have a bad day here's the thing what my dad did to me when I was a child in sexually abusing me was the reason why I had the problems I had but I had to stop using that as an

excuse to stay that way come on hear me that was the reason but my the reason now became an excuse to stay parked at the point of my pain and so I had to stop blaming start realizing that all painful hurtful things come from the devil he just finds somebody to work through and I figured out how to get him back and the way you get the devil back is by doing as much good as you can every day of your life to as many people as you can as long as you [Applause] breathe Romans

12:21 we overcome evil with good one of the most powerful scriptures in the Bible That's why God says bless your enemies pray for those who treat you cruy that's why it does no good to blame people who hurt you the only reason why they hurt you is because somebody hurt them and they haven't had any healing in their life yet amen stay in the word stay in the word stay in the word stay in the word stay in the word stay in the word stay in the word amen can I have is the medicine bottle

out here ah never mind it's okay we got this huge life-size medicine bottle you know the word just like you might take an aspirin if you got a headache there's something in the word for everything that ails [Music] you all you got to do is take it you got a prescription that's got as many refills as you'll ever want and you can't take too much the word of God is one thing you cannot overdose on be patient let the Holy Spirit lead and help as many people as you can possibly help now here's an option

that you have that I would like to see you take one day a farmer's donkey fell into a pit and the animal cried piously for hours and hours for the farmer was trying to figure out what he should do finally he decided the animal was was too old to really mess with and just needed to be killed and so he thought well while he's down there we'll just cover him up with dirt and just let him die down there so he got a bunch of neighbors and they started shoveling dirt in on the donkey shovel

after shovel the donkey cried piously horribly they heard these sounds coming out of the pit then to everybody's amazement all of a sudden it got real quiet down there and I guess they thought he died few more shovel loads later the farmer looked down the well and was astonished and what he saw every time they would throw a few shovels of dirt on the donkey's back he'd shake it off and get up on top of it and they'd throw some more down there and he'd shake it off and get up on top of it he

was getting closer and closer to the top of that well few more shovels full and he shook it off got up on top of it if people throw enough junk on you and you shake it off and you keep getting on top of it one day you'll just walk off and go take your place in the palace come on give God a big praise yes Hallelujah woo amen all right how many of you are going to go for it we're going to be gold medal Olympia champions for Christ I pray for you in Jesus name

that every one of you that are hurting that have been hurt that are hurting because of something you've done in your life or something has been done to you that as of tonight you would receive God's love receive his forgiveness forgive yourself forgive the people who hurt you and that you would decide that you are going to let what's happened to you make you stronger make you better and lift you to a higher place no more living in the pit no more self-pity no more blame this is a new day be healed in Jesus name

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the days 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 to call on God [Music]