Don't Let Conflict Steal Your Peace - Part 1 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

this program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries I can't help it it's just too hard but but but excuse me but you need to get rid of your butt [Music] hello and welcome to today's program I'm so glad you're here today I'm teaching about how you can keep peace in your life but before we start I want to invite you to join me for a very special love life girls night in online event on January the 27th we'll have live worship with Brian and Katie torwalt I'll be sharing two messages from my new book about how to overcome anxiety and we'll have a live talk it out podcast with our special guest love McPherson we are going to start this new year off right go to joycemeyer.org live stream and register today mark your calendars for January 27th to stream girls night in I don't want to miss it and I don't want you to miss it now here's today's message if there's anything that the devil works at really hard is trying to keep us upset make you mad get you mad at somebody get you frustrated get you to worry Jesus said in John 14 27. my peace I leave with you I give it to you I bequeathe it to you one translation says not as the world gives do I give to you but my own special piece see the world can be at peace when all of its circumstances suited but we can be at peace when nothing is going right in our life because we have a helper we have somebody that we can ask to take those problems and work them out for us and I'm going to tell you a secret you may not know this but you have permission to enjoy your life while you have a problem [Music] and a lot of people don't know that they think they're obligated to worry about their problems but what you're supposed to do is cast your care on God and trust that he's taking care of your problem and go ahead and live the life that Jesus Paid such a terrible price for us to have my peace I leave with you not as the world gives do I give unto you but my own special peace I now give unto you but then in the Amplified Bible the classic version it says this so stop allowing yourselves to be upset and Disturbed stop allowing yourselves to be fearful and intimidated so Jesus has done his part now we need to do our part you say I can't help it well that's one excuse you need to throw away tonight I can't help it it's just too hard but but but excuse me but you need to get rid of your butt amen all the time we're like well I know I should do this but I know I shouldn't do this but I know I shouldn't say this but and we need to just stop all that because nothing that God tells us to do is too hard for us to do we just have to really really want to how many of you really are serious about your relationship with God [Applause] I mean I hope so because if you're not you might as well go ahead and leave now because I don't go out and do this just because I'm looking for something to do I really want to see people have what Jesus died for us to have I want you to know who you are in Christ have confidence be bold be strong enjoy your life and have the things that Jesus died for you to have one of the things that Paul said that I really like is he said I am going to take hold of those things for which Christ Jesus died to take hold of me and I love that statement I am going to press on to take hold of those things for which Christ Jesus died to take hold of me are you enjoying the things that Jesus died for you to have he didn't just die for us so we could have a miserable life and then someday go to heaven there's so much more to being born again than just someday getting to go to heaven that's wonderful and I guess it would be worth it if there was nothing other than that but John 10 10 is very clear the thief comes only to kill to steal and destroy but Jesus said I came that you might have and enjoy your life and have it in abundance to the full until it overflows and Romans 14 17 says the kingdom of God is not made in drank but it is righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost righteousness means that you know by the blood of Christ you have been made right with God that your sins have been forgiven you don't have to live guilty and condemned when you know that you can have peace and when you have peace you can have joy so we're going to work on these things tonight together and help everybody make a whole lot of progress when Dave and I began our ministry five years I taught home Bible studies that was my beginning years I didn't know hardly anything and I would just learn things and teach them to the people that were coming to the Bible so there's about 25 people every Tuesday night in my home and I was faithful of that and I probably studied even harder for that than I need to now because I know more now than I did then but then I felt like I was supposed to stop those Bible studies and I went to work at a church a new church in my city and they asked me to start a women's Bible study which I did and it grew very rapidly and got very large it got to be between four and five hundred ladies a week coming to this meeting and so then God really began to deal with me that he was finished with me there thank you Lord and that I was to take the ministry and go north south east and West and I had many confirmations because I was petrified to step out I had no money I had no real qualifications I had nobody to help me I had God and nobody knew me north south east or west so I kind of felt like Abraham when God said pack up your tent and go but it didn't tell him where to go well that's the way I felt the day I walked out of my job they didn't take a big offering for me and give me a bunch of money to start my Ministry I left with a calculator and a dented desk to go north south east and west so I just did the only thing that I knew to do we lived in St Louis which we still live there and so we started a meeting once a month in North St Louis East St Louis West St Louis and South St Louis we went north south east and west and I did thousands of meetings of 50 people and 70 people and 60 people and boy if I ever got 100 people I thought I had died and gone to heaven and uh don't despise the day of Small Beginnings if you're faithful if you want to be used by God and you're faithful in those early little beginning years eventually things will grow it always takes longer than we'd like it to but to be very honest with you that is good shooting stars usually fall down about as fast as they went up you got to have time to learn to grow and to go through some things come on I said to go through some things because that's how we gain experience Hebrews 5 says that Jesus gained experience through the things that he suffered and they equipped him to become the author and the source of our salvation I love that I'm going to quote that again because it says a mouthful Jesus learned through the things that he suffered and he gained experience how many of you have some experiences well if you cannot be bitter about them then maybe God could just use them to help somebody else you might not have a Ministry like this but we've all got a Pulpit it may be your backyard defense it may be your desk at work but we all have a Pulpit [Applause] and if everybody who calls themselves a Christian would just get out in the world and act like one not just in church but out in the world where people are looking for Jesus you may be the only Jesus they'll ever see and you can preach without ever opening your mouth [Applause] and so the experience that Jesus had equipped him and some of you don't realize it right now because you're going through some tough times but you're getting equipment you're getting what you need come on how many of you have ever asked God to use you well honey it's on [Applause] see we say all these oh God I surrender all really okay we'll give that a try and see how serious you are well give an extra ten dollars in the offering well I don't know about that you know we want to surrender the things we want to surrender but God wants to do such a deep work in people and it is so needful at this hour in history the World by and large does not respect us and the reason why they don't is because so many people just put on a little Christian jewelry and go to church and carry their Bible around but they don't really live the life out in the world where people need to see them [Applause] and so when we started our ministry north south east and west God spoke something to my heart and we've been very diligent to try to obey that now here's some 40 years later or 37 years I think so I've actually been in Minnesota about 47 years and um he said I'm going to give you three things to do and if you do them I'll bless your ministry whatever you do do it with excellence we serve an excellent God and we should not be sloppy in any way shape or form if you're going to do a job do it the best that you can do it amen always be a person of integrity that means tell do what you say you're going to do and then do it [Music] so many people they don't keep their word I'll call you next week and we'll go to lunch and you no more intend to call them than fly you're just trying to get rid of them you know the story I mean the workmen that don't show up when they're supposed to and all that and I mean the world has just gotten sold sloppy and he said Keep The Strife out of your life out of your marriage out of your home and out of your ministry he said well why would that be important well because God works where there's peace and you'll you'll see as we go through tonight that where the unity there's anointing and if you don't know what the anointing is my son is in his early 40s and he said a lot of people my age don't even know what the anointing is well it's the presence and the power of God on your life it's what makes things work I can stand here and say all the right things but if I had no anointing on my life you would all be so bored it would be pathetic why would people come as far as some of you did and pay 15 to get into the parking lot just to hear some ladies stand and talk because it's God's anointing that breaks the bondages off of Our Lives but if I if I want to have that anointing on my life if you want to have that anointing on your life and you want what you do to be blessed then you have to learn how to live in peace and in agreement and let me say quickly you don't have to agree with everybody to live in agreement you can learn how to disagree agreeably you you have a right to your opinion but you don't always have to give it foreign [Applause] I want to say that again you have a right to your opinion and I should respect your right to have your own opinion we're not all alike we have different personalities we come from different backgrounds we think differently sometimes even about the same thing but God expects us to get along we've got to find a way to get along and that's only going to happen through get ready for the word humility well one person is a tiny bit happy humility of all the Christian virtues I think is the hardest to come by and the hardest to maintain because there is nothing in our flesh that wants to Humble itself we want to be first we want to be in charge we want to be right we want to have the last word we don't want anybody telling us what to do and that's especially a problem today I mean people don't want don't tell me what to do I mean we've even had people come to a Christian Gathering like this and we'll have a section blocked off where we don't want people to sit and they're like I said where I want to well just get out of here you ain't gonna learn nothing [Applause] because you don't even have a heart open to learning anything if that's your attitude Proverbs 14 30. a calm and an undisturbed mind and heart now just just get this a calm and an undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body you know how many people are sick just because they're mad or how many people are sick just because they worry all the time 85 percent of all illnesses the illness is real but the root cause of it is stress and you can take all the pills you want to take but it'll be just like playing that game whack-a-mole if you ever saw that you can knock it down one place and it'll pop up somewhere else so I mean it is important to me that you understand tonight that this is not just a nice little message that I threw together to come to Austin and preach but I want by the grace of God and the help of the Holy Spirit to somehow get you convinced that you you gotta have enough humility to wait on God for things and not try to make everything happen yourself did did we ever see Jesus lose his peace no I mean he got accused of stuff all the time he didn't even answer people whatever you think why do we think that we have to try to prove that we're right all the time you know being right is highly overrated let's trust God enough to stay under his mighty hand and let him exalt Us in due time and all it takes sometimes is just to shut your mouth oh but that is so hard when somebody accuses you of something or they say something to you you don't like we have to defend ourselves we have to convince you that we're not like that you've got it wrong we argue about so many things that just don't make any sense when I think now about the things that Dave and I used to argue about you talk about stupid I mean it was stupid on steroids I mean I can I can remember us arguing about who an actor was on TV I always say Dave thought everybody was Henry Fonda I don't know if you know who he is he's long gone now so some of you may have never heard of him but it would make me so mad that is not Henry Fonda yes it is no it's not yes it is no he's not you always think everybody's Henry fund and then he'd say you are you could don't say that word always you always say I always and I don't always foreign how many of you agree that we argue over stupid stuff don't doesn't even make any sense or we're going somewhere and I think he should go a different way to get there and so that becomes a big thing well why are you going that way well why couldn't I just be quiet and let him go the way he wants to [Applause] you know we just need to let the man drive just let him drive [Applause] a man does not want to be told anything when he's behind the wheel of the car he does not want to be told anything aren't you guys you like me now don't you guys see I'm helping you [Applause] well we'll get around to some things for you later but I just want to lay this groundwork so you see how silly it is how useless it is when there's such serious things going on in the world and when God so desperately needs us to represent him in a way that people are going to respect and cannot deny people can argue with you about thousands of things but if you can get out in the world and just walk in love wow didn't Jesus say one new commandment I give unto you that you love one another just as I have loved you well [Applause] humility is required in order for us to live in peace Jesus loves a gentle quiet spirit first Peter 3 3 and 4. let not yours be merely external adorning with elaborate interweaving and nodding of the hair of the wearing of jewelry or the changes of clothes and that doesn't mean you shouldn't wear jewelry or wear clothes or fix your hair laughs what he's saying is you spend so much time on the outside trying to impress each other Now ladies just I say this in a spirit of love so just take it that way if we spent as much time getting ready spiritually as we spend trying to look cute when we go out need I finish I mean I don't look like this when I get up I had to work on this a long time now you got to wash the hair you gotta you put on the makeup you gotta curl the hair you got to comb the hair you got to try on your clothes if you don't like them you got to put on another set of clothes and you put on another set of clothes and we look at it every which way that we can look at it and then there's the other side of it there's the people that you look at them and say did you not look in the mirror this morning but it's all part of how we're going to represent God and how we're going to live before him so let yours not just be getting the outside already but verse 4 let it be the Inward adorning and beauty of the Hidden person of the heart with The Incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and a peaceful Spirit which is not anxious or brought up [Music] but is very precious in the sight of God I'm going to tell you a secret you may not know this but you have permission to enjoy your life while you have a problem do you struggle with fear anxiety and uncertainty Jesus came so that we might have a life full of Peace confidence and joy Joyce's book 21 ways to finding peace and happiness shares how you can live in peace no matter what your life circumstances are here Joyce explains 21 practical biblical steps you can take to achieve a life full of Peace along with this offer you'll also receive Joyce's three-part audio teaching recognizing and dealing with Strife it's time to identify and rid Strife forever through the power of Jesus Christ these resources are available for a gift of 30 or more visit online at joycemeyer.org or call 1-800-709-2895 [Music] did you know that you can be completely honest with God David in the Bible certainly was he poured out his questions in pain and discovered How Deeply God loved him through it all you can too that's why I'm so excited about this devotional daily devotions from Psalms as you take time to know God in a deeper way you will find comfort and peace every single day daily devotions from Psalms new from Joyce Meyer order your copy today [Music] thank you [Music] we hope you have enjoyed today's program please contact us or visit joycemeyer.org to share your prayer requests or partner with us in Sharing Christ and loving people all across the globe this 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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 03 2023