Facing The Truth About You | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

this program has been made possible by the friends and partners of joyce meyer ministries so the first key to breakthrough is first of all pray we always pray that's part of everything and then don't just pray for god to fix it for you pray for god to show you truth to show you what the real issue is [Music] is there anybody in this building today or in the overflows or watching by television that you need a breakthrough in your life how many of you are asking god to give you a breakthrough [Applause] well i said last night was going to be a happy night you're going to like everything i said today you probably won't like everything i say it might not be quite as happy right now but it's one of those messages that if you follow it a year from now or two years from now or six months from now you're going to be a whole lot happier than you are right now everything that we hear is not always something that feels good sometimes we need to hear things that make us squirm in our seats a little bit maybe even get a little bit mad at the preacher for a few minutes because you know when they tell us something we don't want to hear it's easy to get mad at them but i believe that you'll all see the truth and what i'm going to say the main thing that i want to say is that if you want any kind of a breakthrough in your life financial breakthrough breakthrough in your health breakthrough in relationships whatever it is that you might want to break through him first thing you should always do is pray but never pray and ask god to do anything for you if you don't intend to listen to what he probably is going to tell you to do that will ultimately bring that breakthrough i'm going to say that again see this idea we have about prayer is pray and get god to do everything when we've done our responsibility then we have the right to cast our care on god and wait for him to do what we cannot do in ephesians chapter 6 this is laid out so clearly it's a chapter about spiritual warfare and the armor that god has given us great great teaching points in ephesians 6. but i love what it says in the beginning it says having done all the crisis demands now stand firmly in your place a lot of times people just say well we're just we're just standing but have you done your responsibility have you done what you should be doing tell your story years ago we had banquets we'd have meetings like this but of course not this large and everybody would sit around tables and meals would be served and it was more like a weekend you know event a lot of those were women's conferences our marriage retreats and so six seven eight ladies might sit at one table and a lady came to me at the end of the conference and she said well i learned a big lesson today she said as god would have it he put me at the table with a lot of people who have had a lot of the same similar problems that i've had and came from a similar background that i came from where she had been mistreated and abused she said the only difference in me and them now is i listen to them talk about the trouble they were having and god showed them to do this and they did it and then god showed them to do that and they did it she said you know god showed me everything he showed them the only difference was i never did it so just throwing this out for thought if the shoe don't fit you don't have to wear it but i wonder just in this room right now how many how many people there are that you know that god has told you to do something are not to do something and you still have not you're still praying but you haven't taken the action yet to do what god told you to do yeah look at that well i really don't want to be mean but i'm having a hard time feeling sorry for you because here's the thing we are partners with god he's just not our big celestial santa claus that we just give our list to every year and sit back and lollygag around while he provides everything we need that's not the way it works and i think that a lot of people have been deceived into thinking that i was in a church for a long long time and i knew about the doctrinal things of the church i had a good foundation on salvation but i didn't know any of the stuff that i know now i thought everything that happened was god doing it and if it was going to get undone and god had to undo it i didn't i didn't understand anything about my responsibility i didn't know that you could hear from god you know a lot of people today they don't like that thought that you can hear from god i mean when you talk to god it's prayer but when god talks to you you're psychotic i mean it's amazing the way people act and look at you if you say god told me or god showed me well who do you think you are you say i mean all over the bible it talks about and god said to moses and god said to abraham and god said to jacob and god said to david and god said to joseph i mean that's the old testament now true he lives in us now and we may not hear as many audible voices but god speaks to us and one of the ways that god speaks to us interestingly enough one of the ways that god speaks to us and i want to be careful when i say this i don't want to give anybody the wrong idea but one of the ways that god speaks to us is through our own thoughts amen and so it becomes a thought that won't go away maybe like something you're supposed to do for somebody and it just won't go away you wake up in the middle of the night and there it is again you're driving to work and there it is again or maybe it's something that god wants you to do and it's a different quality of thought than just your own thought running through your head it's something it's a thought that you have that your whole spirit bears witness with and you you just kind of know that it's something that you need to do that's the beauty of having the holy spirit living on the inside of us so we can hear the gentle whispers of the holy spirit he's not in the habit of yelling at us and making us do things he whispers to us what he wants us to do he guides us and then he expects us to do it god will never ask you to do anything if he does not give you the grace to do it never so that girl sitting at that table she had the same ability to obey god as all the rest of those women but for some reason she still got stuck in that old improper thinking about prayer means that i ask god and he does everything now obviously there's a lot of things that god does that we can't do but having done all the crisis demands then you stand firmly in your place and you wait for god to do what only he can do i don't know about you but don't you see this as kind of a fallacy in the way we think sometimes you know we're partners with god that's the exciting thing about hanging out with god is it's not just like he takes over and you have no personality and you have no will and you can't make any decisions a lot of times god will just be with you while you work out decisions and if one doesn't work he'll get you back on the right path it's part of being a human being he doesn't want to do everything for us he wants us to work together in partnership to get his will done in the earth amen so i might as well warn you ahead of time that as i talk about all these keys to breakthrough that there's going to be a responsibility attached to almost every one of them but you know what an irresponsible person is an unhappy person you you can't you can't be happy when deep in your heart you know that you're not doing what you should be doing you really can't be happy you can't be lazy and be happy you can't be disobedient and be happy i am challenging every one of you and re-challenging myself also let's get so much better at quick prompt complete obedience to what god shows us to do i mean let's don't be the kind of people that god's got to deal with us for a year and a half to get us to do some simple thing that could be life-changing for us we've asked him i need a breakthrough i need you to help me and he showed you something like maybe maybe you need to apologize to somebody you know you acted kind of ignorant now just go tell them you're sorry come on man up take responsibility get rid of the excuses and just say you know the other day when that happened between us i i lost my timber you know what that was totally my fault man isn't that hard to say we once in a while will share the blame but that was totally my fault now that is like gut-wrenchingly hard but boy you know what those are freeing words when we stop making excuses and we start taking responsibility for the things that we do wrong that's what sets us free satan wants us to be deceived always finding somewhere else to put the problem so we never get our problem fixed because we never take responsibility for it and guess what nobody else is going to come along and fix your problem and i got three ladies out here in the middle that are agreeing [Music] well today i've been teaching about the keys to breakthrough and ginger is here with me to answer some of the questions that you've sent in regarding breakthrough well we all need a breakthrough in some area don't we that is so true and i think people really appreciate the encouragement you know that breakthrough is even possible and that everybody everybody knows yes so you're not by yourself yes exactly so this first question i i think is a great place to start it says what does breakthrough really mean so i think sometimes it's so foreign to us that we can even experience that that's a good question well i think it just means that you know you you you know something needs to change in this area and so finally you feel that you've got that change or you've got a handle on how to make that change in your life and that's why i think it is so encouraging to hear because these are those areas that you do feel often stuck right or am i ever going to get through this yeah you know one of the reasons i think why why people get stuck is because a lot of times when we need something to change we're always hoping it'll be somebody else that needs to change to fix our problem not us yeah right um you know jesus said in john 8 that if you continue his word you'll know the truth and the truth will make you free and you know it's very easy to blame everything on everybody else but the truth that the fact is and the truth is is you can't you can't make somebody else do what they should do very true i've tried yeah the only thing you can really do anything about is yourself and so if there is a problem in a relationship or say it's a financial problem you know a lot of times people have a financial problem and they'll blame blame it on their job they're not paid enough for doing what they should be doing or to blame it on the world everything's too expensive but you know facing truth it's like really getting real with god i love the way david in the psalms was always so real with god and a lot of times we just really need to go to god and say okay is there something that i'm doing or something i'm not doing or what can i do in this situation too that's great to make that change you know it's fine to want change but it's kind of silly to want a change that you're not willing to do anything about yeah and i almost always find that no matter what somebody else is doing wrong there's a part that i play to either i'm responding to their wrong behavior wrong are i'm just getting angry at them and i'm not praying for them or you know i'm just looking at what's wrong with them and not thinking about all the things that are right so i think that breakthrough yeah getting the changes that we need whether it's in your your eating habits your your finances relationships with other people your health we always need to not just want some magical not not just want god to do some miraculous thing you know that's fine and who who doesn't want a miracle great but there's usually a cause behind every problem and yes it may just be the devil trying to annoy you but let's be honest enough with god to let give him a chance to tell us for real yeah i love what you're saying because you're saying yes it's true that other people do impact our lives and there are things that don't seem fair at times but we still have responsibilities right god's still asking us to do certain things for our own breakthrough here's a question from christina she says are obstacles to break through normal even when you truly believe that god is leading you in a certain direction oh absolutely i mean paul said and i think first corinthians 16 9 a wide door of opportunity opened unto me and with it many had many adversaries yeah and so yes you know whatever whatever it is i mean let's just say you're trying to lose weight and you've got your plan and you know it won't be abnormal to get invited to every party imaginable and they're going to have everything there that you shouldn't eat that you're going to want to eat and it's always easy to say well after this party well after this dinner well after this or after that and sometimes we just need to go ahead and do the hard thing you know it's not like well after christmas well what about before christmas you know what about really true you know yeah doing things now instead of always trying to wait for it to be a convenient time and yes there absolutely any time you try to make progress the enemy hates progress and anytime that you try to make progress he will try to stop you so persistence is very much a key to breakthrough yeah and it doesn't necessarily mean that it's not what god wants for you because it's not coming easily right great okay this one is anne from missouri i'm tempted to worry and stress out and be envious of others who have their breakthroughs what about mine how do i avoid the pity party that inevitably comes while i'm waiting for my breakthrough well i think she she knows the problem and so she described it really well she described it really well so being honest with god and praying and asking him for the grace you know something that i've been realizing lately just more and more is why spend my time doing things that are useless you know when you when you really think about it worry has never solved a problem very true being jealous of somebody else is not going to get you what you want those things don't move god one bit you know no matter how sorry we feel for ourselves god is not going to get in our pity party and feel sorry for us too and so let's let's just like and i don't mean this harsh but let's just grow up a little bit and stop wasting our time doing all these things over and over that really are not bringing solutions to our problems right and it's not harsh because we've all been there yeah i mean we all need to tell ourselves that and to be reminded of that so and it really you know to be jealous of what somebody else has is really foolish because first of all you don't know what they did to get what they've got you don't know what that person has gone through you know maybe they've had a very very difficult time and god is blessing them for some reason that's only between yeah them and god you know the thing i think we all have to realize is god is not going to hold me accountable for anybody but me that's important in romans 14 it says every man will give an account of himself but god's not going to ask me you know why dave didn't do this that or something else or why ginger didn't do this that or something else you know i can pray and that's what we really need to do we need to do a lot more praying in faith believing that god can make the changes that need to be made and keep our hands off of it and let god do what he wants to do with us that's that's really good because it's not like there are only a certain amount of breakthroughs and god's going to use one on someone else and you're not going to get it yeah so um this question from debbie from california says i feel like god has forgotten about me while i'm waiting for my breakthrough isn't my problem important to him has he given up on me well you know i think about when the disciples were in the storm and at the end of mark chapter 4 jesus said let us cross over to the other side or not not the very end but a few verses up let us cross over to the other side and they got they were in the boat and the very next thing that happened the amplified bible says a storm of hurricane proportions so it wasn't just a little star it was a big storm and the disciples were frightened they were really upset and jesus was asleep yeah now how often do we feel like well you're asleep you know david in the psalms he he cries out god when when are you you know how long am i gonna have to wait but then i love if you read that whole story chapter 5 verse 1 says and they they arrived on the other side so when jesus says something he said let us go to the other side it doesn't matter how many storms you have in between what he says will come to pass if you don't give up and i think this you know why does god hide from us well one to make us seek him which a lot of times people don't if it's all convenient and he promises when we do that we'll find him yeah seek me and you'll find me and actually it says uh seek and keep on seeking seeking in the amplified ask and keep on asking and so there is a persistence sometimes that that we need to go through and um i think the other reason why sometimes god hides from us or doesn't give us our breakthrough right away is it stretches our faith you know faith doesn't grow if you don't have to use it so sometimes god will literally put us in a position where we faith is all we have yeah and faith is the substance of things hoped for it's it's not what you already see or what you already have or even what you already feel yeah it's what you have in your heart and i've certainly been there i think we've probably all been there our faith has really been stretched and after it's over because there is such benefit in looking back right you don't see it especially don't feel it when you're in it but there's such good that god had for me in that time right so much to teach me um don't always enjoy it but all of that the reason is always for our benefit oh absolutely and you know then you you have to say well you know gee i really wouldn't be where i am now if i wouldn't have learned those things that i learned yeah through that so above all we need to believe that god is good all the time and that everything that he asks us to do or not to do is for our benefit yeah all right let's do one more that all right lillian says i'm struggling to believe in god's promises i know i need to trust that he has a good plan for me but i don't every time i trust him for a breakthrough it doesn't happen so how do i keep trusting him in a situation like this well gee that's just like such an easy question it's like you know she's asking me how she can have faith and that that's something that she has to decide you know because faith is not a feeling you know you you you either say i mean what do you have if you don't have god really i mean what else what else is a person right now does she do i'm either going to you know the bible says only a fool says there is no god and so i don't know why she's having trouble believing the promises of god but i do know one thing nothing will ever change if she doesn't put her faith in something that god says and maybe she needs to look around a little bit better at what god has done instead of just maybe whatever it is she's fixated on that god hasn't done yeah because i don't i mean you're not you're not going to find anybody who believes in god who hasn't had some good things happen in their life and so a lot of times it's not that god needs to do something else we need to fix our focus and see what he is doing and you know that's something that i prayed just this morning god let me see today what you're doing in my life because i think a lot of times we just we don't see it yeah you know we think it's a coincidence or this or that or something else and so um i just does build our faith i guess the bottom line of my answer to her is look around and see what god has done and it will increase your faith to believe that if he can do that then he can do something else exactly and his word does say that he's not a respecter of persons that he loves us all completely there is breakthrough coming because he can do all things god is not a man that he should lie and i think just to sum this up today i believe if he wanted one key to break through i would say it's not to ever give up [Music] i think persistence yeah and sticking with it just keep on keeping on you know be not weary and well doing for in due season you shall reap if you faint not well thank you you're welcome well today we're offering you two teachings on cd the keys to breakthrough and the power of simple prayer you know i think sometimes we complicate prayer we get it in our head that it's got to be a certain way in a certain posture and you know certain words but god wants you to be comfortable when you pray and he wants you to talk to him like you would a good friend and so get these two teachings today on cd and learn more about the keys to break through and and learn how you can enjoy your prayer life a lot more we really appreciate you being with us today and we'll pray for you and we ask that you pray for us and uh remember that we love to hear from you god bless you the first key to breakthrough is first of all pray we always pray that's part of everything and then don't just pray for god to fix it for you pray for god to show you truth to show you what the real issue is prayer and breakthrough go hand in hand and that's why today's offer includes joyce's book the power of simple prayer along with keys to breakthrough on two cds how many of you need a breakthrough in your life whether it's financial health or 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Published: Tue Mar 23 2021