Dealing with Stress - Part 1 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

learn how to unleash yourself from the pressures of life with today's offer Joyce's book overload and the companion study guide no one is immune to stress but as Joyce shares in her book by exploring the insights of the Bible and calling on God's strength we can achieve a joyful peaceful life that he intends for all of us then go even deeper with this chapter by chapter study guide discover engaging exercises thought-provoking questions and practical ways to identify manage and rise above the stress in life overload the book and study guide are available today for your gift of 25 or more connect with us now visit online at joycemeyer.org or call 1-800-709-2895 this program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt [Music] 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 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 and Penny'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 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 anything 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 let's 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 well I don't know it's just what we do and if any one of 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 hmm you're looking at me like no couldn't be that easy so stress is the the disease of the century 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 peacefully [Applause] so remember that if you're 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 in 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 he said 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 you feel it when it's coming okay the thing to do is stop it before it gets to your mouth [Applause] 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 right [Applause] 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 don't 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 are 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 they're 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 crack 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't we cannot have one meal in this house and have it in peace I do not understand I cooked 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 gifts 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 five o'clock in the morning and uh I gotta 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 then 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 them 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 second 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 wants 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 him accidentally he prayed all night and then picked him 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 kind of a picture and I started complaining 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 is 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 people working for us at the house and they really trained her I did and 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 I mean even the trainers that this dog is untrainable can't be trained so I gave her to the trainer the trainer gave her to hit to her son and he couldn't keep it he gave her to somebody else 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 [Music] since duchess 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 all right tell me next dog you get I'll I'll take it 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 an 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 worry and hurry man hurry and you know it's not just hurrying on the outside it's hurrying on the inside just having one thought after another after another after another after another rush through your brain trying to figure all these things out too much work not enough rest not enough enjoyment not enough laughter we need to laugh God gave us a laugh and the Bible says a merry heart doeth good like a medicine it's actually true one time I had a headache and something funny happened and I laughed really hard and my headache was gone when I got finished laughing I mean it really is like medicine it's a stress reliever laughter is one of the best stress relievers people pleasing causes stress anger and unforgiveness probably should be number one on the list there are more people in the church that are angry at somebody than those that are not and unforgiveness is one of the things that God has told us in multiple places in the word that we must not have and yet there's so many people that won't forgive somebody else and they say well you just you just you don't understand what they did to be honest it doesn't matter if God tells you to forgive people for you not for them they may not deserve your forgiveness but you deserve peace amen and not only that God never tells you to do something that you can't do you get that idea out of your head God never tells you to do something you can't do if the word says to do it you can do it if you're willing 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 notice 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 because I knew you wouldn't like it so I got a cookie and I put all this icing on it and then I had a little ice cream it was a little bowl of ice cream but put chocolate sauce on that 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 well 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 group [Applause] I mean they're all just [Music] how many of you don't get enough sleep you know what I've got an answer for you go to bed at night [Music] 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 okay everyone this is a big one the pressure of stress is something that we all face Maybe daily but there are answers and there is hope as Joy shared we can choose to not let stress rule us but instead choose to pursue peace no matter what the circumstances surround us let's follow the example Jesus set by praying and trusting God whenever we start to feel overloaded it's going to happen but you need to know what to do when it does so Joyce has a book for you that will really help it's her book called overload and it comes with a great study guide so that you can really dig into what the Bible says about stress yes the Bible talks about how to deal with stress in your life so when you get these two resources from Joyce you're going to have a practical way to deal with the stress in your life with God's help before we go did you know that we love to pray for you and we especially love hearing about answered prayer as well we receive so many reports including people like passion who wrote us this message she says hello I called in for prayer concerning employment your team prayed for me and I could feel their sincerity of prayer long story short I'm happy to share that I received an offer of employment for that job congratulations thank you for your love and dedication to God and people sometimes it's hard to keep the faith but moments like this help me to keep moving and believing isn't that the truth when you have that kind of stress in your life and you see God answer it helps you to know the next time you can trust in him and prayer is a very very powerful thing there are so many more stories like passions of people experiencing God's love in his faithfulness and did you know that that prayer line is there for you any time you need it if you would like us to pray for you go to joycemeyer.org prayer it's online it's there every time that you need it you just submit that prayer request and people will go into action praying for you and remember this is all possible because of our partners and they are doing what they can to help us share Christ and love people all 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Published: Wed Aug 09 2023