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Joyce Meyer: Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer - How Faith Works (Part 2) | July 14, 2026
- >> joyce: so our faith is actually seen through
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- Loving other people. which, you know,
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- I've taught on that and taught on it
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- And taught on it and taught on it and taught on it.
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- And i don't even think i've got it yet, so.
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- >> [audience chuckling]
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- >> joyce: we gotta keep teaching on it.
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- >> joyce: i'm joyce meyer.
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- I've seen god's power transform my own life,
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- And he will do it for you.
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- "now it occurred that while the people pressed upon jesus to
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- Hear the message of god, he was standing by the lake of
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- Gennesaret (the sea of galilee).
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- And he saw two boats drawn up by the lake, but the fishermen
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- Had gone down from their boats and were washing their nets."
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- In other words, they were done fishing.
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- They were cleaning up.
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- And getting into one of the boats, [the one] that belonged
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- Simon (peter), he requested him to draw a little bit away
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- From the shore.
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- And he sat down and continued
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- To teach the crowd [of people]."
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- He asked him to pull a little bit away from the shore because
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- Sound will bounce off of water
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- And react like some sort of a microphone or an amplifier.
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- "when he had stopped speaking, he said to (peter),
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- 'put out into the deep [water], and lower
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- Your nets for a haul.'
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- And (peter) answered, 'master, we have worked
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- All night [exhaustingly.]'"
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- "we're tired, really tired."
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- "'and we didn't catch a thing.
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- But on the ground of your word,
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- I will lower the nets [again.]'"
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- So, he didn't want to.
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- He didn't feel like it.
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- He didn't even think it would work.
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- But he did it because god said to do it.
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- And see, that's the way we need to live.
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- "i'm tired.
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- I don't want to.
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- I've been doing this all night.
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- It didn't work.
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- But on the ground of your word, i will lower the nets again."
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- And if you know the rest of the story, they caught so many
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- Fish, that they had to call their partners in
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- The other boats to come and help them bring in the catch.
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- Now, see, that's what we want.
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- We want to have so many blessings in our life that we
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- Have to share them with other people.
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- Because we can't handle them all by ourself.
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- Faith works along with patience.
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- They inherited because of faith and patience.
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- We love patience, don't we?
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- >> [audience chuckling]
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- >> joyce: no, nobody wants--
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- Nobody's gonna buy a book on patience or cd
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- On patience because they know the first thing they're
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- Gonna get is a trial.
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- But do you know that the greek,
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- Says--that greek word,
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- It's translated patience,
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- It says it's a fruit of the spirit
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- That only grows under trial.
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- You cannot get patience any other way, other than having
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- To wait through something difficult.
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- And patience, by the way-- well, it involves waiting,
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- But it's not waiting.
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- Patience is how you act while you wait.
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- It's the attitude.
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- I mean, if god's not doing anything, you have no choice
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- But to wait.
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- But how do you act while you wait?
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- I had a little test recently, and i didn't do quite as good
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- As i thought i would.
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: you know, sometimes we think
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- We're a little--
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- Maybe you've done real good for a long time, so now you think,
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- "oh, that--this will be okay."
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- And then you're like, not so patient.
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- Hebrews 10:36, "for you have need of steadfast patience
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- And endurance."
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- I think endure means to outlast the devil.
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- That's what i say.
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- "so that you may perform and fully accomplish
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- The will of god, and thus receive and carry away
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- And enjoy to the full what is promised."
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- So, you're not gonna
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- Get what is promised until you have patience and endurance.
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- You need to start thinking of yourself in terms of being just
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- A little bit tougher.
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- Do you know how foolish somebody in an african village,
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- In a hut, would think we were if we got depressed because our
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- Air conditioning went out for an hour?
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- >> [audience chuckling]
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- >> joyce: it's all relative.
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- Yeah.
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- Faith works and is energized by love.
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- Now, i'll just tell you, my opinion is, if you're gonna
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- Study anything in the bible, study love.
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- 'cause the bible pretty much says, if you study love, then
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- You will keep all the rest of the commandments.
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- Because love does no harm to its neighbor.
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- We won't hurt each
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- Other like we do if we walk in love.
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- You're not gonna stay mad at anybody if you walk in love.
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- You're gonna share what you have with other people if you
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- Walk in love.
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- Love is the greatest thing in the world.
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- "now abides faith, hope, and love.
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- The greatest of these is love."
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- Little book by henry drummond, "love's the greatest thing
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- In the world."
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- Galatians 5:6 says, "for [if we are]
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- In christ jesus, neither
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- Circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything."
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- And paul said that because they were arguing all the time
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- About, "are you circumcised? you're not circumcised.
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- You're circumcised. you're not circumcised."
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- He said, "neither one of them--
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- They don't count for anything.
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- They don't--
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- You're not better because you're circumcised
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- Or worse because you're not."
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- He said, "the only thing that matters
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- Is faith activated and energized and expressed
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- And working through love."
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- So, our faith is actually seen through loving other people.
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- Which, you know, i've taught on that, and taught on it,
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- And taught on it, and taught on it, and taught on it.
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- And i don't even think i've got it yet, so--
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- >> [audience chuckling]
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- >> joyce: i gotta keep teaching on it.
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- I've come a long way, but i'm not where i wanna be.
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- You know,
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- I have the gift of giving, so giving is pretty easy for me.
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- But when it comes to sacrificing my time,
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- Because it's something i don't have a lot of,
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- That's another story.
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: then i've gotta get into faith.
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- Now, mark 11:23-26.
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- I don't know why we don't pay more attention to this.
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- It's like--
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- "jesus said to them, 'have faith
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- In god [constantly.]
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- Truly i tell you, whoever says to this mountain, "be lifted up
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- And thrown in the sea," and doesn't doubt at all in his
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- Heart, but believes that what he says will take place,
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- It will be done for him.
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- For this reason, i'm telling you,
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- Whatever you ask for in prayer--
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- I'm telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer,
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- Believe (and be confident)
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- That it is granted to you and you will [get it].'"
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- You got a-- see?
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- Believe that it--that god has said, "yes,"
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- And you will get it.
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- The only thing it doesn't tell you is when you'll get it.
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: and that's a little caveat in there, see.
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- There's a promise that you'll get it, but we don't know when.
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- I mean, for abraham, it was 20 years.
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- For joseph, it was 13 years.
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- For david, it was 20 years.
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- It takes about 20 years to grow us up enough to be able
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- To handle what god's promised to give.
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- Amen?
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- I mean, naturally, when god spoke to me that i was gonna go
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- All over the world and teach the word, i thought, "roll out
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- Of bed in the morning and let's get going."
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: but i had a lot of dying
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- To self to do and didn't know anything about love,
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- Didn't know anything about the fruit of the spirit.
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- I had a gift that could get me somewhere, but no character
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- To keep me there once i got there.
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- See?
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- So, god kept saying,
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- "no, no, no, not yet, not yet, not yet."
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- And then when it was his time, bang!
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- We could hardly keep up with the growth.
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- "believe
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- That you have it and you will get it.
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- And whenever you stand praying--" see, these are
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- Together, so they-- he's still talking about that faith.
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- "and whenever you stand praying, if you have anything
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- Against anyone, forgive him and let it drop."
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- "(leave it, let it go), in order that your father who is
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- In heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and
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- Shortcomings and let them drop.
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- But if you do not forgive, neither will your father in
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- Heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings."
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- That-- i mean, that scripture should
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- Put a little reverential fear of awe in us.
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- Right?
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- I mean, it scares me for all the people that are holding
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- Unforgiveness against someone, or they're bitter.
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- Because everything else they try to do spiritually is just
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- A waste of time.
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- "well, you don't know what they did to me."
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- To be honest, this covers everything.
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- Compare what's been done to you to what was done to jesus.
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- You'll get over thinking that you can't stand it pretty quick.
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- Oh, you get such a victory over the devil when you forgive.
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- That's what gives you power.
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- Forgiveness is power.
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- True faith is always at rest.
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- True faith knows it's done.
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- It's not anxious about when it's gonna happen.
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- Faith is a force that needs to be released.
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- You believe.
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- You add your prayers to it.
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- You believe,
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- You add your confession to it.
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- "if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth
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- That jesus is lord, you will be saved."
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- And i tend to think the way god starts things--
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- The law of first things,
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- He continues that way.
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- See, that's the same way we live.
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- We believe in our heart and we confess with our mouth.
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- And god goes to work.
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- "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
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- Of things unseen."
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- Faith perceives as real fact
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- What is not revealed to the senses.
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- I remember the first time that i had that kind of faith.
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- It was the day i was filled with the holy spirit.
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- And i had gone to work that morning like usual, and dave
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- And i had had an argument like usual.
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: and i was tired of it, like usual.
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- You know, i think sometimes before god can do anything in
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- Our life, we have to come to the end of ourselves.
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- There's almost like a giving up, "okay, whatever you want."
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- And i just was like, "i can't do this anymore.
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- You gotta do something."
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- And i didn't care what it was, as long as he did something.
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- And i had this faith that god was gonna do something.
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- I didn't know what it was.
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- But i called dave and i was excited
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- And i had heard god say something to me that had never
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- Happened before.
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- And i was just like, i knew god was gonna do something,
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- But i didn't know what.
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- And i was coming home from work, i hit the gravois, 270 exit.
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- Gonna make a left there and come down 30.
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- And i felt like god
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- Unscrewed my head and filled me full of liquid love
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- And put my head back on and let me loose.
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- And i loved everything, even weeds.
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- I remember looking at--
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: i did.
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- I mean, i was like drunk on love.
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- I remember looking at a field of weeds and said,
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- "oh, god made those.
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- They're so beautiful."
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- Well, we bowled in a league on friday nights
- 00:13:28.097 --> 00:13:32.468
- With a group of people who were lovely, but not spirit-filled.
- 00:13:32.468 --> 00:13:36.238
- And i didn't even know what had happened to me, so i didn't
- 00:13:36.238 --> 00:13:39.408
- Know i'd been filled with the spirit.
- 00:13:39.408 --> 00:13:41.277
- I just knew it felt wonderful.
- 00:13:41.277 --> 00:13:43.879
- But it--
- 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.248
- I remember right before the holy spirit filled me, i said
- 00:13:46.248 --> 00:13:52.454
- To the lord, "i don't know what you're gonna do,
- 00:13:52.454 --> 00:13:55.925
- But i don't care because i know you're gonna do something.
- 00:13:55.925 --> 00:13:59.795
- I don't know when you're gonna do it, but i don't care because
- 00:13:59.795 --> 00:14:02.831
- I know you're gonna do it."
- 00:14:02.831 --> 00:14:04.633
- And that's what faith is.
- 00:14:04.633 --> 00:14:07.436
- And i had never had that kind of faith before.
- 00:14:07.436 --> 00:14:11.373
- I mean, you just--you know that god's gonna do something.
- 00:14:11.373 --> 00:14:16.946
- It didn't matter to me if i waited 10 years,
- 00:14:16.946 --> 00:14:19.748
- 'cause i already had it.
- 00:14:19.748 --> 00:14:22.284
- See, when you already have it,
- 00:14:22.284 --> 00:14:25.888
- Then the devil can't take it away from you.
- 00:14:25.888 --> 00:14:30.526
- Faith does so many things.
- 00:14:30.526 --> 00:14:33.762
- It saves us, restores us to health.
- 00:14:33.762 --> 00:14:38.200
- This whole ministry is a result of faith.
- 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.037
- Faith provides.
- 00:14:42.037 --> 00:14:44.840
- Faith delivers.
- 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:46.942
- Faith changes.
- 00:14:46.942 --> 00:14:49.945
- Faith doesn't change, but it changes us.
- 00:14:49.945 --> 00:14:52.748
- And then lastly, i will say--
- 00:14:52.748 --> 00:14:55.484
- Well, no, i got a little more than lastly there.
- 00:14:55.484 --> 00:14:57.686
- >> [audience laughing]
- 00:14:57.686 --> 00:14:59.989
- >> joyce: that's all right.
- 00:14:59.989 --> 00:15:01.523
- I've only got a few minutes left.
- 00:15:01.523 --> 00:15:03.292
- Faith protects us from all the fiery darts of the enemy.
- 00:15:03.292 --> 00:15:06.729
- Ephesians 6 gives us a plan for spiritual warfare.
- 00:15:06.729 --> 00:15:10.399
- And it says, "lift up the shield of faith."
- 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.135
- See, there's that action again.
- 00:15:13.135 --> 00:15:15.604
- God gives us the shield of faith.
- 00:15:15.604 --> 00:15:18.073
- Now, we gotta use it.
- 00:15:18.073 --> 00:15:19.575
- We gotta lift it up.
- 00:15:19.575 --> 00:15:21.477
- The devil lies to you.
- 00:15:21.477 --> 00:15:22.811
- You need to know enough of the word to say,
- 00:15:22.811 --> 00:15:25.014
- "it is written."
- 00:15:25.014 --> 00:15:26.582
- That's how jesus defeated him in the wilderness.
- 00:15:26.582 --> 00:15:29.485
- "it is written.
- 00:15:29.485 --> 00:15:30.586
- It is written."
- 00:15:30.586 --> 00:15:33.856
- We receive all of god's blessings through faith.
- 00:15:33.856 --> 00:15:37.659
- Made right with god by faith, justified by faith, sanctified
- 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:41.130
- By faith, reconciled by faith.
- 00:15:41.130 --> 00:15:44.767
- I like that.
- 00:15:44.767 --> 00:15:45.634
- My account with god is balanced.
- 00:15:45.634 --> 00:15:49.772
- See, i don't have to feel like
- 00:15:49.772 --> 00:15:52.641
- I owe him something all the time.
- 00:15:52.641 --> 00:15:54.676
- Your account with god is balanced.
- 00:15:54.676 --> 00:16:00.416
- You can do great things by faith.
- 00:16:00.416 --> 00:16:03.218
- Faith isn't the purchase price,
- 00:16:03.218 --> 00:16:05.220
- But it's the hand that receives it.
- 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:07.322
- And faith grows and increases.
- 00:16:07.322 --> 00:16:11.894
- It's interesting, this scripture says--
- 00:16:11.894 --> 00:16:14.463
- In the same scripture where it says,
- 00:16:14.463 --> 00:16:16.398
- "faith is growing," it says, "love is growing."
- 00:16:16.398 --> 00:16:22.371
- Paul wrote to the thessalonians and said,
- 00:16:22.371 --> 00:16:24.640
- "we ought and indeed are obligated
- 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:27.376
- [as those in debt] to give thanks always to god
- 00:16:27.376 --> 00:16:30.112
- For you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is
- 00:16:30.112 --> 00:16:33.882
- Growing exceedingly and the love of every one of you toward
- 00:16:33.882 --> 00:16:37.219
- The other is increasing and abounds."
- 00:16:37.219 --> 00:16:41.323
- You can never love too much.
- 00:16:41.323 --> 00:16:46.228
- The more you use your faith, the more it grows.
- 00:16:46.228 --> 00:16:51.500
- God stretches you.
- 00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:56.004
- And then when you get real comfortable with that--
- 00:16:56.004 --> 00:16:59.875
- >> [audience laughing]
- 00:16:59.875 --> 00:17:02.077
- He'll stretch you again.
- 00:17:02.077 --> 00:17:03.378
- You have no idea how far you can go.
- 00:17:03.378 --> 00:17:08.183
- Satan's a liar!
- 00:17:08.183 --> 00:17:13.489
- When you're believing and the devil says, "you're never gonna
- 00:17:13.489 --> 00:17:17.025
- Get what you're trusting god for.
- 00:17:17.025 --> 00:17:18.594
- It's not gonna happen for you because god's mad at you."
- 00:17:18.594 --> 00:17:24.032
- "it's too late for you.
- 00:17:24.032 --> 00:17:25.968
- You already made too many mistakes."
- 00:17:25.968 --> 00:17:28.871
- That's when you need to know to say, "it is written."
- 00:17:28.871 --> 00:17:34.543
- And then lastly, the bible tells us there are times where
- 00:17:34.543 --> 00:17:37.279
- We're gonna have to fight the good fight of faith.
- 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.549
- Amen?
- 00:17:40.549 --> 00:17:41.683
- >> audience: amen.
- 00:17:41.683 --> 00:17:42.751
- >> joyce: and so, we're gonna stand firm.
- 00:17:42.751 --> 00:17:45.954
- 1 peter 5:9 says, "withstand him;
- 00:17:45.954 --> 00:17:49.158
- Be firm in faith [against his onset--
- 00:17:49.158 --> 00:17:51.226
- Be rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined],
- 00:17:51.226 --> 00:17:55.264
- Knowing the same identical sufferings are appointed
- 00:17:55.264 --> 00:17:58.200
- To your brotherhood (the whole body of christians)
- 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:01.003
- Throughout the world."
- 00:18:01.003 --> 00:18:02.538
- So you see, you're
- 00:18:02.538 --> 00:18:03.739
- Not the only one going through something.
- 00:18:03.739 --> 00:18:06.175
- But you can be one of the ones that helps the ones that are
- 00:18:06.175 --> 00:18:09.912
- Going through something.
- 00:18:09.912 --> 00:18:11.813
- You don't have to always be the one in the prayer line.
- 00:18:11.813 --> 00:18:14.850
- You can be the one praying over the people in the prayer line.
- 00:18:14.850 --> 00:18:19.488
- And see, we need to be growing
- 00:18:19.488 --> 00:18:21.523
- To the point where we don't always need something.
- 00:18:21.523 --> 00:18:24.960
- I mean, we always need god.
- 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.062
- We need him to help us every single day.
- 00:18:27.062 --> 00:18:29.097
- But the fivefold ministry is given to train
- 00:18:29.097 --> 00:18:33.936
- Up the body of believers that they might
- 00:18:33.936 --> 00:18:36.738
- Go out and do the work of the ministry.
- 00:18:36.738 --> 00:18:39.474
- And everybody looks to their minister to do all the doing
- 00:18:39.474 --> 00:18:43.478
- Of everything, and that's not even what the bible says.
- 00:18:43.478 --> 00:18:46.982
- So, guess what?
- 00:18:46.982 --> 00:18:48.417
- I'm not gonna do it all.
- 00:18:48.417 --> 00:18:50.085
- >> [audience laughing]
- 00:18:50.085 --> 00:18:51.753
- >> joyce: not anymore.
- 00:18:51.753 --> 00:18:53.322
- I did for a long time, but i've gotten smarter
- 00:18:53.322 --> 00:18:55.624
- Than that now.
- 00:18:55.624 --> 00:18:57.192
- I'm maximizing.
- 00:18:57.192 --> 00:19:00.662
- Working smarter, not harder.
- 00:19:00.662 --> 00:19:03.532
- Amen?
- 00:19:03.532 --> 00:19:04.666
- All right, let's pray for everybody watching.
- 00:19:04.666 --> 00:19:07.035
- Father, we pray for everybody that's
- 00:19:07.035 --> 00:19:09.504
- Hearing these teachings on faith.
- 00:19:09.504 --> 00:19:12.841
- And i ask you to
- 00:19:12.841 --> 00:19:16.011
- Plant this deep in their hearts.
- 00:19:16.011 --> 00:19:19.348
- And let them study more on their own about faith and read
- 00:19:19.348 --> 00:19:22.684
- Some books on faith and really let it become like bedrock
- 00:19:22.684 --> 00:19:27.055
- In their soul so they will
- 00:19:27.055 --> 00:19:32.294
- Always have faith working in their behalf.
- 00:19:32.294 --> 00:19:36.098
- We thank you for what you've done for us in christ.
- 00:19:36.098 --> 00:19:40.669
- And jesus, we wanna be just like you.
- 00:19:40.669 --> 00:19:44.606
- Help us do your will at all times.
- 00:19:44.606 --> 00:19:47.442
- In jesus' name, amen.
- 00:19:47.442 --> 00:19:50.412
- All right, give god a praise.
- 00:19:50.412 --> 00:19:52.514
- >> announcer: coming up, we have a story
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- You don't wanna miss.
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- >> [♪♪]
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- >> joyce: well, we're all getting older every day,
- 00:20:01.790 --> 00:20:04.192
- But you know what?
- 00:20:04.192 --> 00:20:05.093
- Age is just a number. old is a mindset.
- 00:20:05.093 --> 00:20:07.996
- I wish that someone would've told me when i was 20 or 30,
- 00:20:07.996 --> 00:20:11.867
- The things that i'm trying to tell you now.
- 00:20:11.867 --> 00:20:14.069
- You see, early on,
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- My mode was to get as much
- 00:20:15.103 --> 00:20:16.605
- Done as i possibly could.
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- Nobody was gonna tell me,
- 00:20:18.373 --> 00:20:20.375
- "you can't handle life."
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- Until one day i was forced
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- To slow down and rest.
- 00:20:22.744 --> 00:20:23.712
- This go-go mentality was not sustainable.
- 00:20:23.712 --> 00:20:26.448
- And it was taking a toll on my body and threatening
- 00:20:26.448 --> 00:20:29.518
- How many years i had left.
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- That's why i'm happy to share with you
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- What i've learned in my book,
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- “how to age without getting old.”
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- I share with you some things that i've gone through
- 00:20:36.024 --> 00:20:38.527
- Personally, and the things i believe i could've done
- 00:20:38.527 --> 00:20:40.829
- That would've helped me to avoid some of those
- 00:20:40.829 --> 00:20:42.597
- Painful experiences.
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- >> joyce: there's one thing about getting
- 00:21:06.988 --> 00:21:08.590
- Older folks, you know more.
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- And we all say, “oh, if i could just
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- Be young again and know what i know now.”
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- >> [audience applauding]
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- >> joyce: now, you know this isn't just a book
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- For someone that is 65 or 70 years old.
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- I wanna share with you practical ways to live
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- This incredible life that god has given us,
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- At all ages.
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- We can change the way we think about
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- Getting older.
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- You used to do, but you can still
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- Do something.
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- And equipping yourself with knowledge now,
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- Into place, as you age into your
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- Latter years.
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- >> vanessa: i actually didn't want to live anymore,
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- And i didn't want to be a mom anymore
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- And i just wanted to quit.
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- I just thought, "i don't want this
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- Life anymore.
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- I don't want it. i don't know how.
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- It's too much."
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- Deep down i think, "i'm unlovable."
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- I'm always trying to be good enough.
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- I don't want to make mistakes.
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- I'm really afraid of being rejected.
- 00:23:46.047 --> 00:23:48.216
- I'm constantly condemning myself,
- 00:23:48.216 --> 00:23:50.619
- Putting myself down.
- 00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:53.588
- It's something; a habit.
- 00:23:53.588 --> 00:23:56.391
- And i'm doing it all day.
- 00:23:56.391 --> 00:23:58.760
- I think it's because when i condemn myself,
- 00:23:58.760 --> 00:24:04.032
- Then i cannot give someone else the chance to condemn
- 00:24:04.032 --> 00:24:07.736
- Me because i already did.
- 00:24:07.736 --> 00:24:09.638
- So, i'm already condemned.
- 00:24:09.638 --> 00:24:11.139
- So, if you condemn me, i already did,
- 00:24:11.139 --> 00:24:14.142
- So i won't get hurt.
- 00:24:14.142 --> 00:24:15.677
- I tried so hard to be a good mom,
- 00:24:15.677 --> 00:24:19.281
- And i tried so hard to be a good wife,
- 00:24:19.281 --> 00:24:22.083
- And i tried so hard to be a good christian.
- 00:24:22.083 --> 00:24:25.820
- And i had so many problems myself,
- 00:24:25.820 --> 00:24:30.025
- So many issues with anxiety and fear.
- 00:24:30.025 --> 00:24:35.397
- And i was completely overwhelmed,
- 00:24:35.397 --> 00:24:39.601
- And it was so, way too much.
- 00:24:39.601 --> 00:24:43.772
- I remember, i was in a holiday home all by myself because
- 00:24:43.772 --> 00:24:50.245
- It was too much.
- 00:24:50.245 --> 00:24:51.813
- A woman in church recommended joyce meyer and i watched
- 00:24:51.813 --> 00:24:56.217
- A video and i think i didn't get through the whole video
- 00:24:56.217 --> 00:25:01.890
- The first time because in the beginning it was so--
- 00:25:01.890 --> 00:25:05.160
- What i never heard.
- 00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:07.362
- She was so honest about herself, and she was not perfect.
- 00:25:07.362 --> 00:25:12.434
- She had problems just like me, but she had overcome it
- 00:25:12.434 --> 00:25:17.472
- And she gave hope.
- 00:25:17.472 --> 00:25:19.107
- I knew i had to chew on that.
- 00:25:19.107 --> 00:25:22.277
- I had to let it land, and to get to start to believe
- 00:25:22.277 --> 00:25:26.181
- Those things she said.
- 00:25:26.181 --> 00:25:27.816
- I think i also sent in a prayer request,
- 00:25:27.816 --> 00:25:31.086
- And it really works.
- 00:25:31.086 --> 00:25:32.887
- I was starting to believe that god had my situation and that
- 00:25:32.887 --> 00:25:39.861
- I didn't have to be afraid, and that god said,
- 00:25:39.861 --> 00:25:43.732
- "you're a good mom," and i didn't believe it.
- 00:25:43.732 --> 00:25:46.267
- But i thought, "well, if god says i'm a good mom,
- 00:25:46.267 --> 00:25:49.137
- Then i better believe that i'm a good mom."
- 00:25:49.137 --> 00:25:53.375
- God is so kind because he started to confirm it.
- 00:25:53.375 --> 00:25:57.679
- And i remember that my daughter said,
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- "mom, you're a good mom."
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- And i thought, "i'm a good mom. she says, i'm a good mom."
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- And i thought, "that's a gift."
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- So, god started to transform me,
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- And my thinking.
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- And i like all the way god also
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- Transformed my behavior.
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- So, i started to change, and my husband started
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- To see that i change.
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- And--well, he says, "i have
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- A completely different wife, now,"
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- And he's so proud of me. [laughing]
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- When you realize that god loves you,
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- That he has taken care of things and that you're his child,
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- I can't describe it.
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- Because when you really start to believe it,
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- Then it changes everything, and things fall off of you
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- Because, you know, "i'm loved."
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- It's so important to know that you're loved.
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- >> announcer: we hope you enjoyed today's program.
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- We are so grateful to our joyce meyer
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- Ministries partners who make this
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- And all we do possible, including sharing
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- God's word and offering help
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- To people in need all over the world.
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