Pressing Past Negative Feelings - Part 1 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt [Music] pressing into things and through things is a very important principle that we must understand if we're ever going to be who God wants us to be do what he wants us to do and have what he wants us to have God has got a job for you every single one of us has an assignment from God and I probably most of you don't know what yours is but you have one and for most of you do you know what it is

it's just to get out in the world and be an example it's not for most of you it's not to go to the mission field it's not to be up here it's not you know to be a great singer or it's just get out in the world live your Monday through Sunday life and just be an example be a pattern that people can follow what the world needs is to see real Christians being Christians and like ginger said earlier if you had any idea how amazing you are I mean really and truly how amazing I

mean I was thinking about this the other day that God took his own hand and fashioned and formed us the Amplified Bible says intricately and carefully in our mother's wounds you are not a mistake there's not something wrong with you because you're not like somebody else you're not supposed to be like somebody else and you're not weird you're unique amen [Applause] wishing does nothing for us well I wish I had well I wish I was out of debt so I wish I could lose some weight I wish my closet was cleaned out foreign we don't

need Wishbone we need backbone amen [Applause] wine is made by putting grapes through a press and wine often represents power in the Bible for example the Bible says new wine cannot be put into Old wineskins which really means new power cannot be given to someone who is hanging on to old ways if I was still hanging onto my old religious ways I wouldn't have the freedom that I have now and you always need to be open to new things nothing outside of the word of God but don't ever get the idea that you know it

all and there's nothing that you have that you can learn and no matter what denomination you're from yours is not the one that has it all right amen we're going to be surprised I think when we get to heaven to find out none of us were all right the past is like a magnet trying to draw you back all the time and God always wants us going forward if you were supposed to be looking back all the time you'd have eyes in the back of your head not just the front of your head we press

close to get wrinkles out of them and Jesus is coming back for a church without spot blemish your wrinkle Matthew 7 13 and 14 enter through the narrow gate for wide is the gate and spacious and Broad is the way that leads away to destruction and many are those who are entering through it the wide gate you know why many enter there because that's easy it doesn't take any effort you got lots of company on the wide Road it's easy to walk on you can do what you want to do what you feel like take

all your fleshly baggage with you there's room for all that but the gate is narrow and look here contracted by pressure and the way is straightened and compressed that leads a way to life and few are those who find it you know even among preachers we all have something I think that we're especially called by God to focus on and for me it's always been spiritual maturity it's always wanting to help the believer mature and be transformed into the image of Christ so they can really enjoy the life that Jesus died to give them he

didn't die for us just so we could someday go to the Sweet By and By and live in our nice little mansion in heaven I'm looking forward to that looking forward to Eternity being with God the older I get the more I look forward to it but how many of you want to enjoy the journey and how many of you want to be fruit fruitful on the journey you want to take a few people with you let's don't just be around people all the time and let them go to Hell by the dozens but let's

be an example to people and give them let's be the kind of people that are salty the Bible says we're Salt and Light and salt makes you thirsty so if we're good and salty then other people are going to get thirsty for what we have amen [Applause] tonight in particular I want to talk about pressing past the pain of negative emotions anybody ever have any motion that keeps you from doing what you should be doing feelings boy those feelings they're abundant aren't they feel one way one day and another way the next day and one-way

fight I mean a lot of you to tonight you feel like coming and being here all day tomorrow but if you wake up in the morning and don't feel like it then what are you going to do [Applause] I can watch her on television Monday morning foreign you'll miss something that God wants you to have and we absolutely must begin to do what we know we should do rather we feel like it or not amen matter of fact I want to suggest to you tonight that you stop paying so much attention to how you feel

just don't don't bother asking yourself how do well how do I feel about this somebody asked me a few years back how do you feel about all the traveling that you have to do to be in Ministry and I you know I took me back for a minute and I thought I said you know what I haven't asked myself in a long time you know why because if I did I wouldn't feel too good about it the more you pay attention to how you feel the more you're going to not walk according to God's will

for your life matter of fact if I did what I felt like doing you know I might not even show up sometimes but you know that I've never missed one of my meetings [Applause] in 45 years I've never left the stage to go to the bathroom I mean you ever think about things like that you know people people out there they get up and run to the bathroom and get up and run and get drink of water they don't care who they're disturbing around them or whether it bothers a preacher or not I never leave

I don't get to go anywhere what about you Pastor Tommy do you ever have to go to the bathroom when you're up here we just can't always do what we feel like doing and we need to stop doing that because that's part of that soulish nature that has to die so Christ can live in US and take that space that belongs to him courageous people and people desperate for change will press and press and press and press until they get the desired result and I can tell you I'm not and this is not a put

down to me but I'm not especially talented I'm really pretty normal but I'll tell you one thing that I've got going for me I am bullheaded [Applause] amen they were reminding me the other day of a conference that we went to Cambodia to do where we were somebody yeah and uh they um the people got in the building and the worship team was in there but then somebody got the power turned off and there was a it was an electric gate and so I couldn't get in they were all in and I couldn't get in

and so the devil thought that he had ruined the meeting and I said isn't there any way you can get me in there my son said well not unless you want to jump up on the trash can and jump the fence I said let's go [Applause] and they hoisted me up on this big trash container outside and I climbed up on that fence and went over on the other side and some of the guys caught me on the other side and didn't have any power so I preached through a bullhorn and they said that that

did more for the city than if the power would have been on and I would have got in the normal way because they actually saw somebody press through come on I mean how can we be full of the Holy Spirit and be such wimps all right yeah I can't do that that's too hard there's nothing too hard for God and he's in US [Applause] oh there's so many things that we need to press through I want you to go to Philippians chapter 3 beginning in verse 10. this is from the Amplified Bible and we're gonna

we're gonna take this a little slow I really want you to to see this this is Paul he said now my determined purpose is that I may know him wow he didn't say my determined purpose is to have a new camel or a new donkey or a bigger tent can I tell you the truth we really there's nothing wrong with asking God for what you want and need but we don't have to spend very much time at all asking God for things because the Bible says plainly if you seek him first he will add all

the things [Music] we need to be going for a stronger relationship with God not any more of something else that we've already got more of than what we know what to do with for my determined purpose he said I'm determined to know him that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with him perceiving and recognizing and understanding how wonderful he is and that I may understand it more strongly and more clearly and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from his resurrection which it exerts over believers you

won't like this part and so that I'm that I may so share his sufferings suffering I know that's not a popular word but it is a Bible word you say I thought Jesus died to Deliver us from our suffering yeah he he died to Deliver us from our sin we don't have to suffer the effects of sin but we will have to suffer in the flesh and I'm not talking about sickness and disease and tragedies that's not the thing I'm talking about if you're going to die to self and live for Christ let me tell

you something while God was trying to teach me how to be a submissive wife My Flesh had real pain in it thank you I mean pain that I could feel how many of you know what I'm talking about all right you know even if it's something as simple as not having the last word in an argument if you're and you know the holy spirit's telling you just shut up [Music] if you obey him your flesh is going to hurt and that's the kind of suffering that Paul's talking about here and he says that that I

might so share his sufferings as to be continually transformed in spirit into his likeness even to his death he's saying see the Bible says we are predestined to be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ but to be predestined doesn't mean that it's going to happen no matter what you do that means that that's God's will that's what he has arranged for and because he's arranged for it it can happen if we do our part and so we can't back off from the hard Parts because if we do we're never going to get through to

the Finish do you honestly think that I can stand here after 45 years of doing this without having gone through a lot of things that have been very difficult and hard of course not so don't ever sit out there and say I wish I had a Ministry like Johnson well do you want to do what I did to get it don't be jealous of what somebody else is God if you don't want to do what they did to get it hey man that I may be continually transformed in spirit into his likeness even to his

death in The Hope that if possible I may attain to the spiritual and moral resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead even while I'm in the body now you know what that means he said look I want I want to know Christ I want to be like him I want to I want to have that same resurrection power so when I have problems and trouble and turmoil there's a place where I can be lifted above that you see we don't we can be lifted above these things it's almost like the the eagle when

they're in a storm that downdraft from the storm kicks them up above the storm and they just fly around up there in the good space and look down at the storm well that's the way God wants us to be he wants us to be the same way the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall Mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and they shall not faint we are not supposed to let our troubles take us down we're supposed to stand

up to them and say no you're not going to defeat me [Applause] no you're not going to defeat me I'm not going to quit I'm not going to give up Jesus died for me to have a life that I could enjoy and I am going to have it amen not that I have now attained this he said I'm I'm not there yet I have already been made perfect but I press I press on to lay hold of grasp and make my own that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has laid hold of me and made

me his own why did Jesus die for you why did he take hold of you what what is his will for your life he wants you to know who you are in Christ he wants you to of course go to heaven when you die and live in eternity with him but he wants you to have a good life while you're here and and if the only time we can have a good day is when we have no problems we are not going to have very many good days yeah amen I got a lot more message

and I've got night I know that Psalm 94 12 and 13. blessed happy fortunate and to be envied as the man whom you discipline and instruct O Lord and teach out of your law now watch that you may give him power to keep himself calm in the days of adversity so in other words God is going to discipline us you know what that means he's going to teach us by whatever means he has to use to teach us how many of you just wish that your kids would listen to you when you tell them something

[Applause] because if they if they were to take it to another level well God's the same way if you would just listen you even just read the book and do what it says we wouldn't have to go through all this but no well you got to have it the hard way okay have it the hard way but I'm going to keep working with you and keep working on you until I can work through you amen did you hear me God's going to keep working on you until he can work through you because you have an

assignment from God and it's to affect other people and you you can affect other people and not even open your mouth so you don't need to be afraid or I I can't preach I can't tell you know you you can preach a much louder sermon and never say a word just by living the life that you're supposed to live in front of people what do you think happens when I had this happen to me I bought a pair of shoes and I was looking at the purse want to get it didn't want to get me

finally decided not to get the purse so I paid for the shoes and when I got home I had the purse in the bag I didn't put it in there the clerk put it in there so now I can't be one of those stupid Christians that say well God was just trying to bless me no no no no no no the devil's testing you and God may use it as an opportunity to test you to see what you'll do You Gonna Keep It are you going to get in your car and use your time and

your gas money to go back and fix their mistake well when I took that purse back the clerk said man we never have anybody do this and that's when you have an opportunity if you're bold enough to say well I'm a Christian and I certainly couldn't steal it so I brought it back [Applause] okay let's look at this scripture again in Philippians not that I've already attained that I've not arrived but I press on to lay hold of and take hold of those things for which Christ Jesus died to take hold of me verse 13

I do not consider Brethren that I have captured and made it my own yet yet but one thing I do I love this it is my one aspiration forgetting what lies behind and pressing says straining forward to those things which are ahead I press on toward the goal to win the Supreme and the Heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward now probably people don't usually go on to this but I think this is important so let those of us who are spiritually mature and full grown have this same mind and

hold these same convictions so what are you saying he's saying anybody who is spiritually mature should be able to let go of the things that are behind and press on to the things that are ahead that means if you sinned on the way to church I don't know maybe you used a dirty word at another driver maybe you fought all the way here with the person you came with I don't know well you're not going to get a thing out of what I say if you sit there all night and feel guilty I don't care

if it's letting go of something five minutes ago or letting go of something 20 years ago we need to let go of the past and I'm going to talk to you more about that tomorrow so I'm not gonna I'm not going to do any more of that but isn't it interesting that he said the spiritually mature baby Christians are the ones that hang on to every little mistake that they make and mourn over it and grieve over it Jesus died so we didn't have to do that so we could repent turn around I'm not going

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