Release Your Faith | Joyce Meyer

the following program is paid for by the friends and partners of Joyce Meyer ministries how do we show humility but not worry all I'm saying when I worry is excuse me god I think I can take care of this I got an idea the Bible says that worry and the cares and anxieties of the world the deceitfulness of riches choke the word spend all that time that you're spending worrying meditating on the Word of God fight the good fight get out your Bible and start saying some stuff out loud your own voice will disrupt the wrong thoughts you're having you'll believe more of what you say than what anybody else says make a decision you're not going to live in worry humans are the only species of creation that worries and we are supposed to be the most intelligent we're like the cream of the crop everybody else gets it trees don't worry birds don't worry rabbits don't worry flowers don't worry lions don't worry pigs don't worry cows don't worry oh but our smart ones the wise munch the intelligent group we worry nobody else worries Matthew 25 or Matthew 6 I'm sorry the practicality of how not to worry learn how to get some humility learn what you can do and what you can't do do what God tells you to do but stay away from trying to do anything he didn't tell you to do do what you can do God will do what you can't do Matthew 6 therefore I tell you stop being perpetually uneasy anxious and worried about your life the next time you start to worry just have a little talk with yourself as all right stop it right now just stop it talk to yourself say this is not going to do any good I've been there done that I'm not going to waste this day tormenting myself and making myself miserable thinking about this thing over and over and over god I cast it on you I give it to you and then you know what you should do go get involved in something else that will take your your time and your mind something that's going to be happy something that's going to be helpful something that's going to be joyful and peaceful amen therefore I tell you stop being perpetually uneasy anxious and worried about your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink are about your body of what you shall put on is not life greater in quality than food and the body far above and more excellent than clothes now here we go look at the birds birds don't worry have you ever seen a bird sitting on a branch having a breakdown wondering where the next one was going to come down from look at the birds of the air they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them are you not worth more than they are and then he goes on and on and talks about the flowers and even Solomon and all of his glory was not dressed as beautifully as one of the flowers and verse 31 says therefore do not worry and be anxious saying if you worry it's going to come out of your mouth so Satan puts wrong thoughts in our head hoping they will come out of our mouths because our words are powerful far beyond what we can even imagine and when we start saying things we either give God permission to work or we give the enemy permission to work can I tell you that again when we start saying things in the middle Jesus said let's go to the other side we're now in the middle we're in the storm and we're going to say something so what we say can either give God permission to work what we need to be saying is God I trust you Eileen and rely on you I don't like this it doesn't feel good but I believe that you are in control and I trust that this will all work out good in the end give me the grace to be stable in it now God can go to work but on the other hand if you open your mouth it I don't what are we gonna do better we're gonna drown now the enemy's going on woo got him again what is Psalm 91 1 & 2 say he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty whose power no foe can come against I will say of the Lord what are you saying of the Lord I will say of the Lord he is my refuge my fortress my high tower in him I will put my trust on him I will lean and rely I will say of the Lord what are we saying about the Lord worries a thief it steals your peace it steals your joy and more than anything it steals your today today this is the day the Lord has made I can't guarantee you're going to get another one I hope you do I hope I do I think I will but what if I don't I don't want to waste the last one that I had the present is the greatest present that God ever gives us the moment that we have is to be enjoyed we don't worry and waste this moment worrying about one that's already gone and we can't do anything about our worrying about one that's coming up that we don't have any control over yet that's why you got to leave the past and the future in God's hands letting go of what lies behind having faith for the future and enjoy the moment enjoy the moment come on and then he goes on here verse 34 so don't worry or be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow we'll have worries and anxieties of its own sufficient for each day is its own trouble you know any of the disciples that were worriers I mean I bet they were ready for the mental institution before long because he just really pulled some stuff if you ever hang out with Jesus you have no home no place to lay your head you never know where you're going to be from one night to the next jesus said follow me and he didn't say how long they were going to be gone when they get to see their families next they didn't ask what hotel they were going to stay in what the insurance benefits were Jesus just said follow me and they went and followed him they got to carry no extra food he told him to feed 5,000 people and they said we don't have anything he said what do you have they found a little boy's lunch give it to me and he made it grown in Luke chapter 10 he sent the disciples out two by two seventy of them to go out and heal the sick and preach the gospel and he said do not take a purse with you do not take an extra bag do not take an extra pair of sandals don't even he said stay so focused that you don't even slow down your journey by stopping along the way to wish somebody well Wow Hemme he sent these guys out to do a job but he said I don't want you worrying about anything I don't want you getting caught up and wondering about what's going to happen tomorrow he's trying to make a point when he sends us to do something he will provide for us what we need and we don't need to be worrying about it you know it's so exciting when I say we have a worldwide ministry and we're on television in two thirds of the world and we're preaching in 40 languages and we have mission works all over the world one three hundred and some-odd radio station forwarded to my television station if I didn't know how to trust God I would be a complete lunatic total 100 percent lunatic you have no idea how much money it takes every month to keep something like this up and running you know God taught me he took me the long hard way and taught me some things in the beginning how to believe for my socks and my underwear and my skillets and my wash rags and the other thing that will keep you from worrying in addition to being humble two things learn that you can't fix it you need to say to yourself real often you know I'm not smart enough to figure this out so I'm not gonna waste my time trying can we try that they say I'm not smart enough to figure this out you don't sound convinced let's try it again some of you even had some really weird look something I'm not some irony to me it's like we really want to be the one who's in control come on say it with a smile I'm not smart enough to figure this out now that doesn't mean you're done we have wisdom from God and he'll show us what we need to see at the right time but he doesn't want us trying to get it with our brain amen then the other thing that you have to have if you're going to not worry first thing is humility the second thing you have to have is experience with God we hear the saying all the time there's no teacher better than experience and it's just not going to do you're not ever going to learn to worry if you don't step out on the promises of God and see what God will do that's exactly why the Bible says even regarding tithing and giving in Malachi it says bring all the tithes the full tenth of your income and your offerings into the storehouse so there might be meat in my house in due season to meet your needs and to meet other people's needs and I will open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so great that you cannot contain it and then he and I will rebuke the Devourer for your sake and then he says try me try me and prove it so he's saying if you don't believe it try it do it and see what God does you how many of you know that you cannot outgive God how many of you have seen amazing things happen in your life through giving oh my gosh it's just like so amazing so amazing and so I got experience with God back in those early days I remember having this pathetic little prayer list god I need 12 washcloths I was dish rag I needed new dish rag so bad and Dave and I just did not have any money I mean I had quit my job to prepare for ministry and you know I thought that one sacrifice should just bring us like you know into this huge level of abundance and instead I mean we're believing God for our socks and underwear for you God's going to test your little heart to see if you're doing what you're doing for the right reason one person understood that over here in this section today everybody wants to get paid for every move they make you know but back when I was coming up there was a whole lot of volunteering amen I think the Bible called it being a servant like serving we had so many needs and God always met those basic needs but we didn't have no high level of living I had to shop at garage sales for many years and go with my two or three bucks and believe God to find my kids tennis shoes and in the meantime I'm out preaching how God wants to bless us and prosper us and how we walked by faith and sometimes seem kind of silly to be preaching it and yet feeling like it wasn't even working for me but I was in the middle did you hear me I was in the middle I had got in the boat Jesus said let us cross over to the other side but we weren't on the other side yet I was in the middle and what I did in the middle determine if I would ever get to the other side and it determined how long it would take me to get to the other side and I can tell you that I messed around in the boat way too long but I'm trying to help you not to make some of the same mistakes that I did and what did I learned I learned I am not smart enough to solve my own problems I learned I cannot change my husband I cannot change my kids I cannot run the world it is too difficult God if you can't do this it is never going to get done but one thing I'm not doing I am NOT tormenting myself one more day let me ask you a question look at momma Joyce why should you make yourself miserable over somebody else's bad choice now look here comes another good one if you're living with somebody that does not want to be happy why let it steal your joy you ought to drive them nuts and be joyful enough for both of you amen come on don't be codependent on other people's messes well if you're not happy I can't be happy listen I was not happy a long time and my husband stayed happy every day oh he was happiness about drove me crazy I mean the man absolutely would not be miserable with me he just refused he was like I'm gonna enjoy myself you can do what you want - oh the rage inside of me because you know miserable people want to make everybody else miserable they want to control everybody else with their misery come on you know the thing if mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy but actually Dave stability of keeping his joy no matter what was going on and no matter what I was doing was one of the things that caused me to have breakthrough in my life and you don't need to get in somebody else's mess with them and let them make you miserable you need to remain stable so they can see that their circumstances don't have to control and all those years God provided for us so faithfully different way every month we were 40 dollars short a month of even being able to pay our bills and every month God would come through some some way somehow I mean it was just like those days when I look back they were so precious that's what develops relationship between you and God when you have nobody to go to but God we didn't have parents that we could go to for help we didn't have sisters and brothers that we could go to for help we had God we had God now I could have gone back to work and forgotten the whole ministry thing because I was suffering we were sacrificing but all how many of you know I'm so glad today that I didn't that I made it through the middle man I'm glad I made it through the middle and I want you to make it through the middle but I'd like you to make it quicker than I did and I'm telling you you don't need to frustrate yourself about all the things you're frustrating yourself about it's useless be anxious for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God and the peace that passes understanding shall keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus unto life everlasting cast all your care on him for he careth for you but before that in first Peter 5:6 it says humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that in due time he might exalt you casting all your care on him how do we show humility by not worrying all I'm saying when I worry is excuse me God I think I can take care of this I got an idea I bet it's really funny when we tell God what we're suggesting he do I caught myself about to do that the other day and I certainly know better by now well my god you could do this stop worrying about stuff that you don't even need to be trying to deal with whirring whirring whirring have the gift of not knowing a lot of stuff I don't know and I'm so cool with it now but I used to have to try to figure it out I love proverbs 3:5 through 7 trusting the Lord with all your heart and mind and lean not to your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path be not wise in your own eyes there it is again don't even think you're smart enough to figure out your problems how many of you are worried errs and figure out errs are you getting a revelation today how silly it is to torment yourself now you don't meet me sharing with you does not gonna mean that it's just automatically gonna stop I mean you're gonna have to confront this stuff and stand against it you're gonna have to make some declarations I will not leave I will not live and worry I will not live and worry I will enjoy my life I will have peace God has left it for me and I am going to heaven in Jesus name I'm not gonna live my life miserable I cannot even imagine people who followed Jesus around what they thought we have the situation one day where he went to a well found a woman there said give me drink in John chapter 4 she said well why are you a Jew asking me a Samaritan for water because they had absolutely nothing to do with each other and then she's sitting on top of that I'm a woman and men didn't talk to women they didn't know back then that was a no-no tune so he says we'll give me some water so she's already confused and then he just takes it to another level and he said well if you knew it was you were talking to you you'd ask me for water and I would give you living water because the water you're drinking will never quench your thirst but I've got water that I could give you if you drink that living water you'll never get thirsty again whoa talk about a mind bender and she comes with questions again while where's your bucket you have a bucket that's what I would have said well yeah where you gonna get your water you don't even have a bucket and then she said oh he said go call your husband he said I don't have a husband and he said well you said that right you've had four and the guy you're living with now you're not married using her home about that time the disciples showed up and they were astonished that he was talking this woman but they were too afraid to say anything and then the next thing that John chapter four says and they said to him rabbi you need to eat 'is that all I'm meat to eat that you know not of yeah well where is it out all my meat is to do the will of my father let me tell you something if you want to know everything and you're gonna hang out with Jesus you are in for a hard journey because there's going to be a whole lot of stuff that is not gonna make one bit of sense to you and you're gonna have to have the gift of trust I trust you God I trust you like the blind man trying to get over there to the water you know Jesus rubs mud on the guy's eyes and he's blind he tells him to go washing a pool of water excuse me I'm fine how am I supposed to get there God just wants you to go just start moving if I can just get people moving in some direction who helped us Jesus do your responsibilities cast your care Ephesians six is talking about spiritual warfare and it says do all the crisis demands then stand firmly in your place it's not that you don't do anything dave says that this man I love it do your responsibilities cast your care what is my responsibility when I'm in the storm pray say do whatever God tells me to do my part is to pray keep a good confession stay positive don't start complaining in your storms whew I wish I had about another hour to speak I'm complaining don't start feeling sorry for yourself don't get jealous of other people who don't have your problems that must be nice to have no problems I mean before I learned better you know the way I was raised I resented it and you know when I would come across people that had these little Pollyanna upbringing as I would think that must be nice they have good parents must be nice must be nice you got to lose the attitude God's got an individual plan for each one of us and the way he works with you will not be like the way he works with anybody else but just because he's not doing for you the way he did for them doesn't mean that what he does for you is going to be inferior keep your commitments if at all possible walk during the storms in your life that's so important so many people today do not know how to keep their commitments you got to do what you said you would do especially when it's hard to do I said you got to do what you said you would do especially when it's hard to do I think I need to say that one more time you got to do what you said you would do especially when it's hard to do and then extremely important all the time that you're in the storms in your life one of the most important things for you to do in the middle is keep reaching out to other people keep being a blessing to other people keep sowing that seed of time and service and love and encouragement to other people so you can keep having a harvest in your life there's something for you to do but it's not worry it's not reason it's trusting God reaching out to others and some 37 talks about the wicked and the evil times and it says trust in the Lord and do good so simple we complicate what am I supposed to do trust God and do good trust God and do good I don't know how long it will take you to get to the other side but I do know this we're going to the other side amen we are going to the other side you are looking at somebody that is going to the other side can I get a witness is anybody going to the other well as we talked about today when we step out in faith we always have a beginning and hopefully we have an end but it's really what happens in the middle that makes all the difference in the world and the reason I say hopefully we have an end is because if we don't make the right decisions in the middle of our faith or while we're waiting to see the fulfillment of the promises of God then many people turn back and never get to the end of their dreams and their visions and so I really want to encourage you in the midst of whatever you're doing you're believing God but cast your care on him and believe that if you'll just keep doing what you know that you should do day after day after day after day you're going to get to the end and it's going to be beautiful I love to say that it's not what we do once that gives us a good result it's what we do right over and over and over and over again so maybe you're watching today and you feel like you've been trying to do what's right but you're getting a little weary well the Bible says be not weary in well-doing for in due season you shall reap if you faint not today we're offering three CDs in audio series called unleashing the power of faith and a long way that my book do it afraid and I believe both of these resources are really important for you to help you understand the power of faith that God has put in your spirit and how to release it on how to not let fear rule your life the Joyce Meyer ministries conference store is coming to Raleigh North Carolina August 18th 19th and 20th at the RBC Center with worship by Matt Redman then Atlanta Georgia September 29 30th and October 1st at the arena at Gwinnett center with worship by fused worship admission is free and open to everyone can anybody here get a revelation tonight oh why you have problems in your life for more information and a complete conference lineup visit us online at joyce meyer org or call toll-free one 800 pictures finish get everything that god wants you to have we're going back to basics is teaching is for everyone and i don't want you to miss any of it so please stay with us the proceeding was paid for by the friends and 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Published: Tue Jul 23 2013