Joyce Meyer Teachings
Joyce Meyer - What Do You Think – Part 1
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But you know, what we think is extremely important, especially what we think consistently. Now, I'm not saying that every little thought that floats to your mind becomes a reality in your life, but certainly things that we think consistently, the Bible actually says in Proverbs 23, 7, as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Or as he thinks in his heart, so does he become. So I like to put it a different way where the mind goes, the man follows. We all know that if you think about something long enough, like your favorite dessert, you're probably going to go get it. Even if you have to get in your car and make a trip, it's amazing if we think about something long enough, how it affects all of our emotions and all of our desires, and if you think about what somebody did to you that hurt you for a long period of time, pretty soon you're going to be upset, you're going to feel nuts in your stomach, you're going to get tense in your neck. And so our thoughts affect us. I actually could call this Christianity 101 because our thoughts are really the foundation for so many things in our life. And certainly they are the foundation for any kind of victory that we ever hope to have in our life. Now, some of you came here this weekend looking for victory. You came looking for a breakthrough. You came looking to not just hear about the promises of God, but you actually want to walk and live in those promises. And I can tell you that unless our thinking changes, nothing else in our life ever changes. Can anybody say amen to that? Do you agree that we probably have more trouble with our mind than anything else? Okay, but you can learn to do your own thinking. It is a process, takes determination, it takes study, but we can learn to do our own thinking and we can actually come to the point where we pretty quickly recognize with the help of the Holy Spirit when we have stinking thinking and where we're actually thinking, according to the will of God. 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That means more choices for voters in the primary and general election. Get the facts, elections belong to the voters, not political parties. - Paid for by veterans for all voters, Anthony Haas registered agent. The use of military rank and job titles does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense of this ballot measure. What we consistently think. Romans 12 to is a very wonderful and a foundational scripture in the Word of God. Let's look at it together. Do not be conformed to this world. Don't be like the world. Don't act like the world. Don't think like the world. There's many things that the world does that they think is fine that we cannot and should not do. And I think that also this weekend we need to make some decisions about where we're gonna stand in these days that we live in. Do not be conformed to this world, this age. Fashioned after an adapted to its external superficial, I might as well say meaningless customs. But be transformed, don't be conformed, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind. So if I wanna be changed, if you wanna be changed, then my mind has to change before anything else in my life is going to change. And God will help me with that. God will help you with that. He will teach us how to think. And the Holy Spirit is so wonderful that He comes to live inside of us and He will even remind us when we're not thinking, right? And then He will even remind us what we should be thinking if we have enough of the word in us to rise up and confront the wrong thing. You know, I spent years judging other people. I can remember one of my favorite things to do was go out to the mall, sit on the bench, and just sit there and judge everybody as they walked by. (audience laughing) I mean, I enjoyed it. It was like, well, look at that stupid hair day well. Man, how could that girl get a guy like that? You know, it's just like, I didn't know these people and I would just judge them and criticize them. Come on, don't tell me none of you have ever done it. How many of you like the people watch? Man, thank you. And now, honestly, when I have judgmental thoughts, which I do because the devil offers all of us stinking, thinking, all of us. And get this, he always will. This is one area that's never going to just get good. And we're never going to have another temptation or never have to stand against any kind of wrong thoughts. So if you've been a Christian 40 years and you're still having some problems with your mind here and there, or sometimes you find yourself saying, "I feel like I'm losing my mind." Really, in a way, we are losing our mind when we give the control of it over to the enemy and we don't resist wrong thoughts that are coming against us. And the best way, the very best way to resist wrong thoughts is to open your mouth and speak out loud a portion of scripture that you have learned that you know confronts that wrong thought. And the thought stops immediately because what, if you're speaking, that's going through your mind. So the thing that the enemy's trying to put in your mind has to go away. So some days I have to speak the word almost all day long. There are times when we have little attacks, there's times when we have major attacks. You know, most of you know and if you don't, you'll find out on Saturday morning that Darlene has gone through a great battle with cancer and she's cancer free now. We thank God for that. - We wear our work day by day, stitch by stitch. At Dickies, we believe work is what we're made of. So whether you're gearing up for a new project or looking to add some tried and true work wear to your collection, remember that Dickies has been standing the test of time for a reason. 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Every voter has the freedom to vote for any candidate, no matter which party. The Colorado plan advances four candidates to the general election, not two. That means more choices for voters in the primary and general election. Get the facts, elections belong to the voters, not political parties. - Paid for by veterans for all voters, Anthony Haas registered agent. The use of military rank and job titles does not imply endorsement by the department of the army or the department of defense of this ballot measure. - You know those dreams you just don't wanna wake up from? But you gotta roll out a bit to make them happen. Putting in hours and hours, exhausted, you wanna give up. But you don't, you keep going, you hang in there because you don't wanna save your dreams for your sleep. Do you have one of those? Be okay, financial. We go above so you can go beyond. Be okay, financial, and we go above so you can go beyond our trademarks of B-O-K-F-N-A member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. (audience applauding) - But I remember a couple of texts that I got from her saying, "Man, the battlefield of the mind." Boy, what a battle it is when everything that you believe is being tested and nothing makes any sense. I mean, Satan is gonna use every opportunity to bombard your mind with every lie and every kind of negative thinking that you've ever heard of in your whole life. Amen? When I was writing the book, The Mind Connection, I was sitting out of town at a place where I do some of my writing and I was having a physical issue and it was annoying and it wasn't going away. And then I got some kind of news from somebody that I didn't particularly care for. And I'm trying to write this book and all this positive thinking, you know? And I'm telling you the truth. For two days, I felt like my mind had been kidnapped. I mean, I actually felt like the enemy just came in and took it and I couldn't find it, I couldn't get it back no matter what. And I'm gonna teach you tonight what to do during those times. I'm gonna teach you how to fight the devil and win. Actually, I'm gonna teach you how to fight like a Christian. Amen. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed and changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by its new ideals and its new attitudes so that you may prove for yourselves what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in his sight for you. Now, I wish that I had the words to tell you and convince you what an amazingly good plan that God has for your life. I mean, the plan that God has for you is so awesome. None of us could believe the great plan that God has for us if he were just to open it up all to us at once. But I think that if you compare all the Christians in the world to the number of people who actually really fulfill their destiny, I think it's probably pitifully few. I'm not saying that there aren't any. There's probably even a lot, but compared to all the believers in the world, all the people who say I'm a Christian around the world, the people who actually walk in victory, who actually spiritually mature and grow up and become what they're supposed to be in God, do all that God wants them to do and have all that God wants them to have. I think, let's just say at least, there's not nearly as many as there should be. Amen. How many of you agree with that? There's not nearly as many as there should be. (congregation applauding) The renewing of our mind according to the word of God is one of the most important things that we need to deal with in our life. Every day, very few days go by that I don't say God put a watch over my mouth list, I sin against you with my tongue and let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight and every day of my life. - A message paid for by veterans for all voters. 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And I wonder how many people go to church week after week after week, year after year after year and never hear anything about what their own thoughts are doing to them. Many of you, that would be your testimony here tonight. I can't stand here and assume that all of you have heard messages like this over and over. But because I know some of you have never heard these kinds of things. And I remember how jaw-dropping it was to me when I began to hear these kinds of things and even began to learn that I actually could do my own thinking, though I didn't have to just sit and meditate on whatever fell in my head. That with the help of the Holy Spirit, I could actually say, no, I'm not gonna think that because I know what that's gonna produce in my life. And I will think this because this is what God tells me to think. Amen? How many of you have found this life changing? (audience cheering) But even if you know these things, how many of you don't mind hearing it again? (audience laughing) And if you don't need it, I'll just preach to myself 'cause I need it, that's for sure. I talked about how I could sit and just judge people and judge 'em and judge 'em and never even be convicted by it at all. But now I know the word of God that says, judge not lest you be judged. And I've studied judging other people and I've read the scripture that says to mind your own business and I've studied about love. And so now if I start to judge somebody, which I did just, you know, not that long ago, these judgmental thoughts. Matter of fact, I was actually sitting in a meeting somewhere and one of the people was on the platform, I was having a little opinion about. (audience laughing) But immediately the Holy Spirit rose up in me and I said, and this is what I do, I said to myself, say I've learned to preach to myself, I said to myself, Joyce, it's not your business. You need to talk to yourself. Amen. So actually you'll see this, if you see the interview that I did on TV and you're gonna see this anyway, so Matt doesn't mind if I share it. Matt Krauch was actually in that same meeting. He shared that he had been in a meeting recently and how this person was on the platform and they'd obviously had a lot of work done on their face. And so he was like being judgmental and thinking, oh my gosh, I wonder if her face was gonna crack. And I'm... - A message paid for by veterans for all voters. Listen to this message from Ted Delacath, former Army infantryman and Ranger qualified platoon leader active in the Army Reserves. - When I enlisted in the Army, I swore an oath to this country, not any political party. That's why I'm interested in citizens ballot measures around the country to reduce the power of political parties. Colorado votes on one too. Right now, election rules allow political insiders to hand pick party nominees. It's the reason we're usually stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. Colorado's plan creates an open primary where all candidates appear on one primary ballot. Every voter has the freedom to vote for any candidate, no matter which party. The Colorado plan advances four candidates to the general election, not two. That means more choices for voters in the primary and general election. Get the facts. Elections belong to the voters, not political parties. - Paid for by veterans for all voters, Anthony Haas registered agent. The use of military rank and job titles is not in plan endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense of this ballot measure. - I do immediately. I knew immediately what he was talking about because I had a little struggle with the same thing. Only here's the difference. Matt just went ahead thinking it through and then he actually started making jokes about her to the other people that were with him. Now that's a real no-no. - The truth is everybody has a problem with selfishness at times. But getting what we want doesn't ultimately satisfy. It only leaves us wanting more. Today we're offering Joyce's newest book, "What About Me?" Because facing self-centeredness can be life-changing. Request "What About Me" at joysmire.org for a gift of any amount. Or call toll-free at 1-800-789-0089. Your gift today and your partnership with Joyce Meyer Ministries allows us to share the love of Christ around the world. Thank you for listening to "Enjoying Everyday Life." Have a blessed day. - A message paid for by veterans for all voters. Listen to this message from Ted Delacath, former Army infantrymen and Ranger qualified platoon leader active in the Army Reserves. - When I enlist in the Army, I swore an oath to this country, not any political party. That's why I'm interested in citizens' ballot measures around the country to reduce the power of political parties. Colorado votes on 1-2. Right now, election rules allow political insiders to hand-pick party nominees. It's the reason we're usually stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. - Colorado's plan creates an open primary where all candidates appear on one primary ballot. Every voter has the freedom to vote for any candidate, no matter which party. The Colorado plan advances four candidates to the general election, not two. That means more choices for voters in the primary and general election. Get the facts. Elections belong to the voters, not political parties. - Paid for by veterans for all voters, Anthony Haas registered agent. The use of military rank and job titles does not implant endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense of this ballot measure. A message paid for by veterans for all voters. Listen to this message from Ted Delacath, former Army infantrymen and Ranger qualified platoon leader active in the Army reserves. - When I enlist in the Army, I swore an oath to this country, not any political party. That's why I'm interested in citizens' ballot measures around the country to reduce the power of political parties. Colorado votes on 1-2. Right now, election rules allow political insiders to hand-pick party nominees. It's the reason we're usually stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. Colorado's plan creates an open primary where all candidates appear on one primary ballot. Every voter has the freedom to vote for any candidate, no matter which party. The Colorado plan advances four candidates to the general election, not two. That means more choices for voters in the primary and general election. Get the facts. Elections belong to the voters, not political parties. - Paid for by veterans for all voters, Anthony Haas registered agent. The use of military rank and job titles does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense of this ballot measure.