Your Mind and Your Mouth | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

today i am excited to share the word of god with you so let's get started [Music] what are you waiting for in your life are you waiting for more trouble or are you really waiting for good news i love good news i tell god all the time send me some good news i love good news my staff knows i love good news so when they hear anything good they'll call me i've got some good news are you waiting for a miracle from god are you waiting for god to surprise you with something amazing or are you just kind of hanging up out waiting to see what's going to happen i don't know we'll see i want you to listen to this scripture this is the amplified version of isaiah 30 18. and therefore the lord earnestly waits to be good to you now that i'm kind of ad-libbing this because it's pretty long so i want you to see this the lord is waiting to be good to you wow we should say here i am says he's expecting looking and longing to be good to you god is good and he wants to be good to somebody therefore he lifts himself up that he might have mercy on you and show loving kindness to you for the lord is a god of justice that's part of his character and that means that he makes wrong things right wow we should clap for that god makes wrong things right so even when people mistreat you if you put your trust in god god will be your vindicator he will make the wrong situation right blessed happy fortunate and to be envied are all those who wait for him now listen who expect look and long for him for his favor his love his peace his joy and his matchless unbroken companionship so what this scripture is saying and i love it is god is waiting to be good to somebody but he has to find somebody who's waiting for him to be good to them well if i were you i would say god you don't have to look any further here i am but don't let this just be something that you get excited about it today and do today let this become part of your everyday life think and believe and expect and declare out of your mouth that good things are going to happen to you and i always say to god not because i'm good but because you're good what about self-talk how do you talk to yourself what kind of thoughts do you have about yourself you know if you think all kinds of negative downgrading things about yourself you're not going to have joy what about your imagination what goes on in your imagination do you imagine all kinds of bad things happening our old nature produces evil imaginations but we can daily put on a new nature the bible says ephesians 4 23 i think it is it says daily put on a new renewed thinking and renewed attitudes the bible says we can cast down wrong imaginations if you catch yourself sometimes our mind will just drift off into wherever sometimes i this doesn't happen very often but i'll catch myself just thinking about some of the things my dad did to me when i was a little girl well you know what i stop that immediately and i say no that's in my past that's gone that's forgotten that's forgiven good things are going to happen to me you do not have to just think whatever falls in your head you can choose your thinking and when you catch yourself thinking wrong things you can stop it and think on something good second corinthians 10 4 and 5 the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through god to the pulling down of strongholds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts exalts itself against the knowledge of god and bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of jesus christ oh my goodness this is so good thinking good things don't think bad things about other people romans 12 says don't think more highly of yourself than you ought to but see yourself through the grace of god you know maybe you're very talented or you're extremely smart or you know very creative you know people that don't have those gifts well don't don't think you're better than them because you have those gifts and they don't you have those gifts because god gave them to you and if anything it should humble you not make you feel better than somebody else every time we put somebody else down we're really thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to let's talk about the mouth for a few minutes here before we run out of time i know you wouldn't want me to forget that proverbs 18 20 and 21 a man's moral self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth you eat your words and with the consequences of his words he must be satisfied whether good or evil so words have consequences and he said whatever you speak you're going to be full of and you're going to have to be satisfied with the result you get from the words that you speak and boy we just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk and a lot of times we don't realize that every word we say we're selling a seed that's going to bring some kind of harvest in our life death and life are in the power of the tongue wow you can minister death or life to others but you can also minister death or life to yourself so if you think right and talk right it's going to increase your joy but let's just say that you talk about you excessively talk about everything that's going on in the world you talk about everything you don't like about your job and everything you don't like about your boss and all the people you don't like that you work with and your neighbors you don't like and everything that's wrong well you're not you're not going to be joyful and don't be saying i lost my joy you didn't lose it you gave it away talk about good things think about good things if you hear anything good about anybody talk about that everybody you know no matter how they might irritate you they have good things in their life that you can talk about as far as i'm concerned that's a wow scripture the power of life and death is in the tongue and they who indulge it will eat the fruit of it rather for life or death and i love first peter 3 10 let him who wants to enjoy life and see good whether a parent or not keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile if you want to enjoy your life you got to keep your tongue free from evil proverbs 21 9 says it's better to dwell in the corner of a house top on a flat oriental roof exposed to all kinds of bad weather than in a house shared with a nagging quarrelsome and fault-finding woman i don't understand why they always blame it on the woman but i can tell you it would be miserable to live in a house with a woman like that and i used to be a woman like that but it would also be miserable to live in the house with a man like that or even if you have kids like that bring joy into your home don't just fill it full of every negative thing that you can find to fill it full of be joyful and then the favorite james 3. we all stumble in many ways but anyone who is never at fault and what they say is perfect they keep their whole body in check so he's saying if you can control your mouth you control your whole body and then he gives some really good examples if we put a bit in the mouth of a horse which is just a little piece of metal we can make them obey us and turn the whole animal in any direction we want to go in or take a ship they're large and driven by strong winds and yet they're steered by a very small rudder that determines what direction they go in likewise the tongue is a small part of the body but it makes a great boast consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark in other words boy just one word can cause so much trouble but you know what one word can also bring so much joy i want you to enjoy your life god wants you to enjoy your life and i believe you want to enjoy your life and i think there's some people watching today that you really really really really really needed to hear this in the world there will be tribulation jesus said cheer up i have overcome the world you may be going through a really rough time right now but i can tell you that being sad is only going to make it worse it's not going to make it better want to hear more from joyce on this topic we've got you covered visit us in the joyce meyer app or at joycemeyer.org today [Music]

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Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Wed May 11 2022