Staying Strong | Joyce Meyer

all right proverbs 18 14. great scripture the strong spirit of a man will sustain him in bodily pain and trouble but a weak and a broken spirit who can raise it up or who can bear it if we stay strong spiritually then really no matter what comes against us we will make it through that doesn't mean it's going to be easy that doesn't mean there's going to be no pain involved but truly truly we can do all things through christ who is our strength yes you can make it through whatever you're going through right now and you know what you can get so strong in spirit that you can be going through really really difficult things and while you are you're still reaching out and helping other people and they don't even know what you're going through [Applause] did you hear me we don't have to be the kind of people that every time we have a problem we fall apart we can be strong in the lord and in the power of his might but it's going to take some maintenance some regular doing of what we should be doing not just waiting until all of a sudden we feel like we're falling apart and quick quick trying to get to where we need to be ephesians chapter 6 is a chapter in the bible about how to defeat the devil and we all love those kinds of messages everybody likes to think that they've got the power and they can defeat the enemy and in ephesians 6 11 through 18 it teaches us about putting on the full armor of god and putting on peace and you know all the different facets of armor that we can put on which causes us to be victorious against the enemy but verse 10 is one that we might not pay as much attention to as we should and that precedes all the others and it simply says be strong in the lord be strong to your youness union or your oneness or your fellowship with him draw your strength from him that strength which his boundless light provides so the first thing to realize today before we go even further is whatever strength you hope to have in life it's got to be in god he is our strength he doesn't just give us strength he is our strength and the minute that you have any sign of difficulty even before you have difficulty every day pray early god give me the strength today to deal with whatever i need to deal with because i believe that i can do all things through christ who is my strength and i like what the amplified bible says about that scripture it says i'm ready for anything i'm equal to anything through him who infuses inner strength into me let's be the kind of people that are ready for anything we don't even know what it is yet but we're ready for whatever comes our way and we already know we're going to have the victory before we ever have the problem what does it mean to be more than a conqueror i believe that's what it means that you are so convinced in spirit of who you are in christ that you already know you're going to win the battle before the battle ever even comes your way see not one of us in this building today knows exactly what our future holds we don't know what's going to happen this afternoon tonight tomorrow we trust god but we don't know we don't know what we may be called upon to endure or to go through and we need to be strong-minded we need to be strong mentally we need to be strong in god we need to be we need to stay strong in spirit because the world needs to see a body of people that are stable that are not just up and down and all over the place depending on what their circumstances are they need to see a smile on our face when we've got the same kind of problems that they have god doesn't guarantee us faith in god relationship with god doesn't guarantee us that we're not going to have problems it doesn't mean that we're not going to deal with some of the same things that other people deal with but it does mean that there is a place in him paul said it was his determined purpose to know him and the power of his resurrection that lifted him out from among the dead even while he was in the body he didn't say i'm believing to never have a problem he said i'm believing that when i have problems i can rise above it you know the apostle paul went through a lot of things and the whole time he did he still ministered to other people amen david went through a time which if we think about this for a minute it's found in first samuel chapter 30. i'm not going to turn there i'll just tell you the story but david and his men i guess had been off to some kind of battle and they came home to ziklag and you know when you've already been in a battle and you come home you don't want to come home to some big disappointment i mean even at the end of a day's work you don't want to come home to some big disappointment you want to come home and rest and relax so they'd been fighting a battle and they came home and they found out that their enemies the amalekites had raided their city and burned the whole thing with fire and had taken the women and the children captive and david even found out that his own wife had been taken captive and so not only did they have this disappointment to deal with the loss of their family the loss of their city but now all the men turned against david they blamed him because their families had been killed and i love what the bible says in verse six just think about what david was going to at this point and it says and david was greatly distressed for the men spoke of stoning him because the souls of them all were bitterly grieved each man for his sons and daughters and david what did david do david encouraged and strengthened himself in the lord his god the minute that we have problems we don't need to go to the phone we need to go to the throne whatever you need to do whatever you're facing right now and some of you are going through some really difficult things whatever it is that you're facing right now i want to tell you you can do it you have got what it takes come on you have got what it takes i said you can do it you have got what it takes come on we got to get rid of this weak wimpy pitiful pathetic it's too much for me kind of attitude god is on your side you are more than a conqueror you are a warrior you have authority over the enemy and i'm telling you that you can do whatever you need to do through christ who is your strength the moment and i have to practice this the moment that you hear any kind of i can't the mind is the battlefield satan puts thought in our mind and if he can get us to believe them then we're already on our way out i can't the minute you hear that you need to open your mouth and say i can do whatever i need to do through christ who is my strength you know there's something that nobody can do for you but you and that's refused to give up god can't do that for you your pastor can't do that for you your friends can't do that for you only you can find that place in you that says i'm not quitting and i'm not giving up i don't care how many times i have to keep doing what's right until i get a result i am not going to stop doing what's right i say sometimes you may have to treat somebody right for a long time that's not treating you right before you see a change in them but don't give up don't we all love isaiah 40 29-31 he gives power to the faint and the weary to him who has no might he increases his strength causing it to multiply and making it to abound even young men shall faint and be weary and selected young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted but they that wait upon the lord see you love that scripture what are you doing here today you've taken time out of your weekend to come and wait on the lord you're just you being here is saying god i need you i don't want to face next week without you i hope you're not here today just to put in your weekly time with god but you came because you wanted to be strong in spirit you wanted to hear the word you wanted to be in this corporate fellowship [Music] i don't know if you have any idea how blessed you are just to be able to come to a place like this and just sit here just sit here i told some of the people with me this morning you know being able to come and just sit in a church service like i did this morning is something i don't get to do very often because usually i'm not just doing the teaching i'm running the whole service and so it's a different kind of a situation when you're doing that because you're you're thinking you're praying you're you're preparing you're planning and i so enjoyed just being here this morning see you don't you don't realize maybe how blessed you are it doesn't matter whether you think you got a word from god or not just be blessed to just be here and just soak up god's anointing and soak up his presence you know why it's making you strong for the things that are ahead you never waste your time in the house of god you never waste your time when you hear the word [Music] the day that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and they shall not faint [Applause] amen this is a real thing and then the bible even says in isaiah 41 that when you're going through terrible things you don't have to fear because i'm with you isaiah 41 10 fear not there's nothing to fear i'm with you don't look around you in terror and be dismayed for i am your god i will strengthen you and even an extra promise i will harden you to difficulties in other words every time you go through something what doesn't kill you makes you stronger come on how many times do we say well god this is just gonna kill me i just can't do this god and yet you're still here and you know what you're stronger than you were before

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Length: 12min 50sec (770 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 19 2020