Dealing With Stress-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you [Music] hurt well this weekend I'm going to do a little three-part series on dealing with stress and so tonight first service tomorrow second service will all be different messages so if you just want to make it a little weekend seminar on stress I'm sure none of you probably really need that just like you don't need any teaching on anxiety but you're welcome to come and I always get to get tested on what I'm teaching on so we we got here and they had given my hotel room away wasn't that sweet and uh the church here paid for it in advance they even paid for it last night and I wasn't even in it just to make sure they didn't give it away and uh so I don't know who was mixed up about what but they told us they were cleaning it and then they told us that all that was left to do was for the manager to inspect it and then they told us the people that were in it hadn't checked out yet so we got here and we ended up with four single rooms I was in Mike comp Pen's room Dave was in somebody else's room somebody else was in somebody else's room and Lord only knows where we'll be be when we get back tonight but we're just we're believing we'll get to sleep and uh so for a while Dave was in the room I was in where I was going to study and pray and be somewhat spiritual and he gets the ball game on his phone so I'm like thank you Jesus strike one I said this is not going to work you got to go somewhere else so anyway I am qualified to teach on this subject [Applause] all right let me start with a question do you ever complain about all you have to do always well she's very definite okay well you know I was complaining to God one time about everything I had to do nobody can be expected to do all this I don't know how you think anybody can do and the Lord spoke to me he said you made your schedule if you don't like it change it so we'll just kind of start with that you're the one that has said yes to all the things you do now some things we have to do but if we're going to be honest we all have to admit that there are a lot of things that we don't have to do we do them and we don't even do them for the right reasons we do them because we don't want somebody to get mad at us we do them because we're nosy and we don't want everybody else to go and us not know what's going on Amen we just do them because we've always done them we don't even know why we're doing it anymore it's just I don't know it's just what we do and if any one of you you were to go home and make a list of everything you're doing and then ask yourself each one if it's bearing good fruit in your life and if you'd cut out the ones that aren't bearing any fruit you'd have plenty of time left H you're looking at me like no couldn't be that easy so stress is the the disease of the C it's a multi-billion Dollar business between counseling drugs books Stress Management seminars and more stress is making more money than anything else and I just want to say this up front and you kind of Tuck this in your pocket God will never give you more to do than what you can do peace [Applause] y so remember that if you if you what all you're doing is stealing your peace then it's not God giving it to you and I I know what I'm talking about because I almost killed myself trying to do what I thought God wanted me to do and found out that there was a lot of reasons why I was doing it that really weren't all reasons why I should have been doing it stress is all around us and I kept praying for the stressful things to go away for the problems to go away and I finally realized you know what the world is going to change but it's probably not going to get better it may get worse and I'm not saying that as a negative statement all we have to do is look and see what's going on and we're going to have more to deal with and a year or two years than we do now so if anything's going to change it's got to be us we have to learn how to handle things in a different way okay um John 14:27 Jesus said and I'm going to quote the Amplified my peace I leave with you not as the world gives do I give unto you but my own special peace I now give and bequeathed unto you so stop allowing yourselves to be upset and Disturbed and don't permit yourself to be fearful and intimidated so this is a two-part thing really to be honest we don't even need to pray for peace what we need to do is access the peace that God's already given us actually Jesus has already done every single thing that he needs to do for us to have peaceful fruitful wonderful lives he has all we need to do is read the book and do what the book says you say well I can't help it I can't help it if I get upset well actually that's not true you can how many of you can feel upset when it's coming it kind of starts down here somewhere Can Can you feel it when it's coming okay the thing to do is stop it before it gets to your mouth [Applause] [Music] W because as soon as you start talking you're going to get even more upset than you were before and then you're probably going to upset somebody else and then they're going to upset you more I have actually learned how to be sensitive to when a conversation between me and Dave is about to go in the wrong direction and I've actually become so hungry for peace that I am now willing when it gets to that point to just shut up that wasn't something I was willing to do before no I was going to have the last word and I was going to prove to him that he was wrong and I was [Applause] right but you know what being right is highly overrated I mean it's a pride thing actually you can't even have conflict without Pride the Bible says you can't can't even have it unless pride is there so if you want to have peace you have to really want it bad and you have to want it bad enough to be willing to make changes yourself not to want everybody around you to change or to want all your circumstances to change but to ask God to show you how to change now I don't know if you're not willing to do that but if you're not you can be miserable another year and I'll come back next year and tell you the same thing there's not a lot of answers to some of the things that we deal with in this issue you have two choices we we can continue to be stressed out until we fall apart or we can learn to not be affected through it by it by not allowing it to get in us the things around us aren't going to change but we can learn to not allow it to get in us I remember when my kids were little and I had so many I call them fits just you know and you know we had four kids and you sit down at the dinner table to eat and it seemed like every night somebody spilled their drink and all tables aren't like this now but back in those days every table had a split down the middle so you could pull it apart and put a leaf in it well it it seemed like the real trick was to get to the liquid before it got to the cck because you hadn't had the table apart in a long time and there was stuff in there and if the liquid got to it especially if it was milk or something that would sour you had no choice when the meal was over but to pull the table apart and get in there and scrape and clean until you got it all out so I really got upset when the kids would spill it it would go under all the bowls and under the table get to the crack run down the table legs and I'm under the table screaming and yelling you can we cannot have one meal in this house and have it in peace I do not understand I cook you know well really I was the one stealing the piece and one time I was under there having my little fit and the Lord spoke to my heart he said you know Joyce no matter how much you rant and Rave this is not going to run back up the table legs across the table and back into their glasses so he simply said you need you need to learn how to go with the flow so sometimes if something is happening I couldn't do anything about that situation at the hotel we tried trust me we tried they said well we have one of our ambassador guests I mean I guess that's somebody with a lot of points they go to that hotel a lot and uh we can't just tell them they have to leave and I was thinking well you could have another Ambassador guest guest if you would treat me right but I passed the test not with flying colors but I did pass and uh I even acted like a Christian imagine that and you know we don't always act like Christians in situations like that it's like better get the cross off your neck and the bumper sticker off your car before anybody finds out fast forward 40 years it's amazing what time does for you fast forward 40 years and a couple of weeks ago I I get up really early so it's probably like 5:00 in the morning and uh I got to have my Jesus time before any noise starts the day goes much better if I have that and I make my coffee every morning make my coffee have my certain cup I put my coffee in well that morning I made the coffee in the cup the foam was on the top everything was good and I don't know what I did but somehow another I dropped the cup and it hit the marble counter shattered the cup coffee went all over the place glass went all over the place and I just honestly I can tell you I did not feel a thing I just looked at it and I said well I guess I'll clean that up I've come a long way from being under the table throwing fits so if you stick with God and you stick with the word what does the Bible say in 2 Corinthians 3:18 if we look into his word we will be changed or transformed into his image from Glory to glory to glory so if you haven't made it all the way there yet don't be upset with yourself just keep growing that's all God's not mad if you haven't arrived he just want you to keep going and keep growing amen all right you know Jesus was surrounded by stressful situations rejected by family and friends accused of being evil his disciples needed a lot of Correction you know they really weren't very mature they argued about who was the greatest and just all kinds of things that you know you think you picked them prayed all night he didn't get them accidentally he prayed all night and then picked them maybe it was to give us hope I don't know he was mentoring them for the job of carrying the gospel to the whole world surely sometimes he was a little disappointed in the way they behaved huge crowds followed him everywhere that he went and they all wanted something do you ever get a little stressed out because you feel like everybody that comes near you wants something nobody I'm the only one that ever feels that way one time I was not wanting to be recognized I was in the mall and people kept coming up have a picture we and I started complaining and God said well if you'd rather I can fix it so nobody knows who you are I said oh never mind never mind never mind I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry see you everything that you get as a privilege also comes with a responsibility side you get a car you get a car payment you get a bigger house you get a bigger house payment you got more house to clean and so maybe you go the extra mile and you get a house cleaning service then you don't like the house cleaning service and you don't like the way they're cleaning the house so there's always something that you got to deal with I had a dog for 12 years and I loved that dog her name was Duchess and she was just wonderful when she was a puppy we had a couple of people working for us at the house and they really trained her I didn't I was gone so much and so you know a dog is so much better when they're trained when they don't eat your furniture and go to the bathroom on the floor and all that stuff and uh so we had her 12 years and then she had to go to Doggy heaven and so I wanted another dog well I got another dog and I think this dog was part devil I don't I mean the cutest dog you have ever seen and not a cheap dog and and I mean even the trainer said this dog is untrainable can't be trained so I gave her to the trainer the trainer gave her to to her son and he couldn't keep her and he gave her to somebody else I she went through a lot of people I don't know where she's at now so I'm a determined person and I have now bought and given away four dogs since duess and my daughter told me and she is absolutely right she said you want a dog but you don't want the work so yesterday I said you know I think I'm about ready for another dog and I've already got somebody that wants the next one she's already told me next dog you get I'll I'll take it and so I said I've got a better idea I'm going to borrow a dog for a day or two and I'll get over it and then I'll save myself all that money and embarrassment of getting another dog and giving it away so just remember that everything that you get as a privilege there's always another side to it you all are kind of looking at me like but I I want I remember there's going to be another side to it amen causes for stress I have 16 and I could have kept going so you know I'll try not to get hung up too much on these points so we'll just go through them pretty fast guilt that's a bad one hidden sin poor diet I decided yesterday I was tired I've been working a little more than I like to lately and I was real tired you know sometimes when you're real tired you want to do something you shouldn't do anybody ever noticed that and so I decided that I wanted dessert and I wanted a lot of it and to maintain my size I have to be you know pretty strict and so I decided I was going to eat dessert and not eat food I didn't tell you I didn't tell you cuz I knew you wouldn't like it so I got a cookie and I put all this icing on it then I had a little ice cream was a little bowl of ice cream but put chocolate sauce on that and and I I ate that dessert and didn't eat any food and I got so nervous it just the sugar just made me nervous and I felt terrible after that well how many people are stressed out all the time just because they have a lousy diet they don't do something like that occasionally they eat junk every day boy you got a good church they don't have a problem with anything I have never seen so many people that can look innocent as this [Music] group I mean they're all [Music] just how many of you don't get enough sleep you you know what I've got an answer for you go to bed at night this really isn't rocket science how many of you don't drink enough water drink some water you know we look for all these complicated answers to what we think are all these complicated problems and to be honest it's really not that hard I was having Stone problems every single morning I was being sick to my stomach not like throwing up sick but just nauseated and just and so I've learned that if you ask God he will tell you some things and so I was asking God to give me a word of knowledge show me what's wrong and I had these I had I have little bit of irritable bow syndrome and so I looked on the internet internet to see what irritated it and the number one thing on the list was xylol and I had these mints that I ate probably a package and a half of every day and the number one ingredient was xylol so I quit eating the mints and I quit having the stomach problem so just some of you not all of you but some of you that feel bad even even stress you know one of the things that will give you stress is doing things that God has not anointed you to do now my husband is I sometimes I wonder if Dave even knows what stress is I mean he's just very peaceful you know easiest guy in the world to get along with very patient very generous in forgiveness kind he just is very just not stressful and uh he was having what he calls The Yips which was really just he was he was felt stressed he was shaken inside you know like inside well he found out he was doing something that he'd been doing for a long time but God didn't want him doing it anymore and it took our daughter recognized it and shared with him and he stopped doing it The Yips went away so maybe you're just doing some things that God's no longer anointing you to do and that's giving you stress now I was abused sexually by my dad from the time I was a little little bitty and uh so I grew up with stress I had stress all my life I had so much stress I didn't even know it was stress so I was always going to the doctor because when you have stress it'll affect your health trying to find out what was wrong with me and then they would tell me it was stress and that would make me mad because I didn't even understand what stress was I thought stress meant you couldn't handle life and I a strong woman I can handle life I do not have stress don't tell me I have stress this is not stress I even had one doctor tell me to go see a psychiatrist I had one asked me if I wanted to come to these classes that he was doing on changing your thinking I thought I wrote the book [Applause] he said you're having a battle in your mind I thought I've sold six million copies of that [Music] book well if nothing else you're getting a good life tonight not enough exercise oh don't talk to me about exercise Joyce okay unresolved issues from the past you know it's our secrets that make us sick you know that no wonder the Bible says confess your faults to one another that you may be healed and restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart sometimes you just need to sit down with somebody you can trust and just say I just I just need to get some things out in the open it's not I mean you don't need to go to a person to get forgiveness but sometimes we do just need the vent we just need to talk to somebody not to complain or Grumble but just to get rid of it fear being codependent if you're a person who's married to somebody that's hard to get along with and you have to wait to see what kind of mood they're in before you decide what kind of mood you're in that's being codependent I had a lot of problems when Dave and I first got married from being abused and Dave tried for a long time to make me happy and I didn't know how to be happy and he finally said I don't care what I do you're not going to be happy so I'm finished trying but he said I am going to enjoy my life and oh that made me mad made me so mad because people that aren't happy don't want other people to be happy but you know that was one of the best things that he ever did for me he didn't become codependent on me he didn't let my mood ruin his mood he didn't let my lack of Joy take his lack of joy and you know I don't have time to get into all these things that I would love to get into because it's taken me a lifetime to learn them but if you are in relationship with somebody whether it's a real good friend or a parent or a spouse or a child that is determined to be unhappy don't let them steal your joy because you are not helping them by doing that actually what what eventually happened was when Dave persisted in being happy he finally made me hungry for what he had so it actually really helped me in the long run same way with his peace he modeled peace in front of me and I finally thought well if he can have that I can have that so it it doesn't help a person with problems if you let their problems determine how you're going to live your life he loved me he said I I love you but I'm not going to let you make me unhappy come on somebody here needs to hear that now I always say Dave kind of got what he deserved because when he met me I was washing my mother's car and short shorts and he pulled up to pick up guy he was going somewhere with that rented my mom and dad's upstairs flat and he tried to flirt with me and I didn't trust men didn't like men and I said well I liked men but I didn't trust them and I said he said hey when you're finish washing that car you want to wash mine I said if you want your car washed buddy wash it yourself well he'd been praying for a wife and boy he made a mistake he said God make it somebody that needs help honestly that's what he prayed so I you know I don't feel sorry for him he got what he asked for another real stressor is people you know I used to be you know I I can be really happy till the people come you ever feel like that I mean when I first got into the things of God I would play my Christian music all day and you know pray in the spirit and listen to my teaching tapes and it was they were tapes back then now they're something else I don't even know what they are but uh downloads that's what it is downloads and uh I was just oh so spiritual then all my kids would come home from school and then I was like it's easy to be peaceful when there's no people around sickness can give you a lot of stress just circumstances the world today just all the negativity in the world today so the bottom line is that if you want to have peace you're going to have to want it really really bad 1 Peter 3:11 says that if if you want peace you have to seek it and pursue it seek means to go after with all your strength pursue it seek it and pursue it it's not going to fall on you like ripe fruit falling off a tree you have to really want it and you have to be willing to change is there anybody here that would be willing to change anything you need to change just to have peace okay well God saw your hand so get [Applause] ready but I love what it says in the Amplified Bible in 1 Peter 3:11 it says that if you want to enjoy life and have good days good rather a parent or not turn from Evil and do good seek peace well the Amplified says seek it eagerly do not merely desire peaceful relations with god with your fellow men and with yourself but pursue and go after them and so you know you're never going to have peace with other people or even peace with your circumstances if you don't have any peace with yourself and that's really where most of our problems come from a lot of people just don't like themselves I know cuz I live through that and you know when I first got started hearing preaching and hearing how we all need to love each other I wanted to love people but I just couldn't and I didn't know what the problem was and God taught me he said you you can't love anybody else because you don't love yourself and if you don't have love in you you can't give it away you can't give somebody something that you don't [Applause] have God's love is shed brought in our heart by the Holy Spirit when we're born again so we have love in us but if you don't love yourself you're not receiving that love and I'm not talking about being in love with yourself and selfish and self-centered I'm talking about loving the you that God created you to be amen and if you start to love yourself and have peace with yourself you'll be amazed at how easy it is to love other people and have peace with them a lot of our problems start at home base amen I started paying attention to what my peace Steelers were you should do that if you want to have more peace start paying attention to what it is that upsets you what upsets you what drives you to that point where you lose your peace I don't do well if I have to hurry a lot so I've learned to leave a little more time I don't like being pressured I don't like to feel like oh I'm going to got to preach in three days and I don't have my messages yet so I stay way ahead on all that stuff and so if you get stressed out in the mornings trying to get out of the house then go to bed a little bit earlier and get up a little bit earlier do a few things the night before that will help you the next morning so you have a little more time the book that Pastor showed you is based out of Philippians 46 and 7 and it is the whole answer to anxiety you say the whole answer in one scripture yes don't be anxious about anything but in every situation by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving the the more thankful you are the less anxiety you have because the more thankful you are for what you have the less upset you are about what you don't have amen present your requests to God and the peace that passes understanding will keep your hearts and Minds in Christ Jesus on life Everlasting so in that book I do it in four parts and I talk about the anxiety that every situation be thankful pray about everything your first response to everything should be to pray and then peace how valuable peace is Amplified Bible about says in Colossians 3:15 that we should let peace be the Umpire in our life and we all know what an Umpire is he decides whether something's in or out and we should let peace be the Umpire in our life deciding whether something is in or it's out if I can't do it with peace then it's not from God Amen a foolish person recognizes his problem and refuses to do anything about it the Bible says they want somebody else to do it for them somebody else should fix this don't blame the world or the people in your world take responsibility for your own peace and start asking God what can I do about this let me remind you about what I said in the beginning make a list of everything you're doing and then honestly look at each one and say what kind of fruit is this bearing in my life and even better ask yourself what your motive is for doing it if you're doing it just to keep somebody else happy you know what I found out I lived a portion of my life there was a church that we were going to and I wanted to be in with this certain group of people in order to do that you had to have favor with this one certain woman and in order to get that you had to do everything she wanted you to do and you know what I found out when push came to shove she didn't care anything about me people who want to control you don't love you they don't anybody who really loves you if you say to them you know I would like to be able to do what you asked me to but I just can't I got too much on my plate right now or I don't have peace about doing it if anybody really loves you they should honor that and say I don't want you to do anything you don't feel right about not get mad because you're not keeping them happy you're not a you're you're alive to obey God and love him not to keep everybody else on the planet happy and you can't be a god pleaser and a people pleaser you have to be one of the [Applause] two there's four things that Jesus did to manage stress he trusted himself and everything to God 1 Peter 2:23 when he was reviled and insulted he did not revile or offer insult in return when he was abused and suffered he made no threats of Vengeance but he trusted himself and everything to him who judges fairly he prayed about everything he'd walk away from a crowd and go pray I guess if he was just feeling too much pressure he just walk away from him and go pray many times in the Bible we see Jesus do that and I love this he knew when to be quiet seriously John 14:30 he said to his disciples I will not be saying much more to you because the prince of this world is coming and he has no hold over me he knew that it was just about time for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer and apparently he knew that it was not a good time to say the wrong thing you know when you're under stress that's a good time to make a decision I think I'm just going to be quiet like some days if I just don't feel real good or something I'll just tell Dave you know I don't feel real good today I'm probably going to be a little quiet and I'm sure he's glad he's like yeah just be quiet listen to Matthew 27 when Jesus was accused by the chief priest and the elders he gave no answer why because he knew his own heart he didn't have to try to convince them that he was a good guy then pilate said don't you hear the testimony that bringing against you but Jesus once again made no reply not even to a single charge did he make a reply you know God has had to teach me that you don't have to try to prove to people that you're right if you need to be proven to be in the right I'll take care of that amen and the last thing that Jesus did was he always forgave always always he forgave Peter on the cross he prayed father forgive them for they know not what they do and that's about half of my message but sadly I'm out of time so you still got a lot right did you get what you wanted okay okay listen let's all stand up we're going to pray a prayer together I don't want anybody to leave here tonight that doesn't know Jesus so we're going to do this a little different we're going to all pray this prayer together and then anybody who has never received Christ get ready let's just pray father God I love you Jesus I Believe In You Jesus I believe in you I believe that you are God I believe the Son of God the Son of God I believe you died for me how believe you died for me you paid for my sin you paid for my sin you took my guilt you took my and you set me free and you set me free forgive my sins for and help me to live for you me to live for you Jesus I receive you now Jus I receive you and I Surrender my life to you I Surrender my life to you now I believe I'm saved I believe I'm Saed this is a new beginning this a new beginning and I want to live for you help me do that help me do that amen amen thank you so much for being here tonight

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Length: 43min 16sec (2596 seconds)

Published: Sat May 11 2024