# Don't Give Up Yet-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

**Channel:** Joyce Meyer Ministries
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOujmS308T8
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/JOujmS308T8

## Chapters

- 0:01 — God's Presence and Unconditional Love
- 5:00 — Seeing God's Love in Daily Life
- 14:14 — Fear Not and Stand Courageous
- 23:32 — Jesus' Identity and True Meditation
- 33:00 — Rewards, Healing, and Forgiveness
- 40:30 — Seeking Rewards and Closing Offers

## Transcript

**[0:01] Speaker A:** So this is so good. What does God want out of you?

**[0:06] Speaker B:** What does God expect out of you? He wants you to believe that he is that he exists. That he is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. And he wants you just to believe the promises that he has put in his word. Well, I believe I could do that. What about you? But we stay too busy trying to do stuff that God's already done that we don't need to do. So last night we talked about faith and I'm sure I got off into a whole bunch of other stuff. And this morning I want to talk about the fact that God is. And that's an amazing subject. I I hope that God will say something through me that will get you to realize how amazing it is that God has chosen you, a believer, to be his home.

**[1:08] Speaker A:** The mystery of the ages is Christ in me, the hope of glory. God lives in you. Amen.

**[1:23] Speaker B:** So you never go anywhere without God.

**[1:29] Speaker A:** You can't even go to the bathroom by yourself. It goes think we But see, this doesn't become a reality to us unless we think about it.

**[1:42] Speaker B:** We need to think about it. God is with me. Say that maybe 50 times a day. God is with me. He is. He's here right now.

**[1:54] Speaker A:** Be conscious and aware of God's presence. And that's a good thing to pray for. God, help me to be conscious and aware that you are with me all the time, no matter what I'm doing. He's just not with you in church. Matter of fact, a lot of the churches around today, Jesus wouldn't be seen caught in them.

**[2:24] Speaker A:** A lot of them might be a little too religious for him. He wasn't very religious. Jesus colored outside the lines. He did things that nobody had ever done before. He did shocking things. And he certainly didn't worry about what anybody thought.

**[2:43] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[2:44] Speaker A:** Amen. And we have the privilege of being the home of God. That's one of the reasons why you need to take care of yourself. Don't treat yourself like a pile of trash. Ruin your health and be miserable all the time. Get a smile on your face. You represent God. You're the only Jesus that some people are ever going to see.

**[3:05] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[3:07] Speaker A:** Actually, there's a scripture in 1 John 4:16 that was very life-changing for me. I really needed a revelation on how much God loved me. And I could read it. I could say it to people, but it still wasn't as real to me as it needed to be. Once you know that you know that you know that God loves you unconditionally and he will never stop, let me tell you, it changes some things. For one thing, it casts out fear.

**[3:45] Speaker B:** Only the perfect love of God can cast out fear. And you'll see as we read some scriptures today, the only reason that the Bible ever gives for us not to fear is because he's with us.

**[4:00] Speaker A:** Yay. Even though I go through the valley of the shadow of death, I will have no fear because you're with me

**[4:07] Speaker B:** over and over and over. You don't have to be afraid because I'm with you. You don't have to know what God's going to do to solve your problem. It doesn't matter because he knows and he's with you and he loves you. He's very fond of you. You're his favorite. Did you know that?

**[4:23] Speaker A:** Isn't that cool that every one of us can be God's favorite?

**[4:27] Speaker B:** Come on, say it. I'm God's favorite. Now, I don't suggest that you go walking around the neighborhood saying that, but you can say it at home. I'm God's favorite. I'm his favorite child. The apple of his eye. That's what the Bible says. You're the apple of his eye.

**[4:49] Speaker A:** But in 1 John 3:16, the Bible says, the Amplified Bible says, be conscious and aware of God's love.

**[5:00] Speaker A:** Wow, was that ever life-changing for me because I started seeing that a lot of the things, just the cool little things that happened in my life that it wasn't just, "Wow, what a coincidence, but it was actually God showing his love for me." I mean, little things that might not make any sense to anybody else, but things I had maybe asked God to do for me. One one day I I said to somebody, I would I' I'd love to have some zucchini bread. Well, I wasn't going to bake it, that's for sure. And if I would have if I would have, nobody would have eaten it. But now, listen. as God is my witness. About a week later, somebody came to one of my meetings with a box and said, "I felt like God told me to bake you some zucchini bread, so I hope you like it."

**[6:03] Speaker A:** Woohoo!

**[6:09] Speaker A:** A week and a half ago in Florida, we were driving in the car and a guy ran a stoplight and he was about to hit my side of the car.

**[6:23] Speaker A:** And somehow by God's grace and mercy, my driver turned just the right way and that guy turned just the right way. And I mean, he missed us. I don't think you could have dropped a hair between us and him. Well, I don't just take that as gee, wasn't I lucky. No, God protected me. You say, "Well, what what about the people that aren't protected?" You know, I can't answer all those questions. We can't answer every question about why God does some things for some people and some things for others. God has a He has a reason for everything he does. And even though we don't understand it and it may not seem fair, there is a promise in the Bible that I believe with all my heart and it's Romans 8:28. All things all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose.

**[7:20] Speaker A:** They may not feel good to us. They may hurt. They may seem unfair. They may seem unjust. But God, if you love him and want his will, will work it out for your good. I don't know how he does it, but he can do anything he wants to because he's God.

**[7:42] Speaker A:** So, start paying attention to all the little thing, all the little ways that God shows you his love. How many of you can think of little things like that that God does for you? See, even if you even if you told somebody else, they wouldn't even get it because it's just a thing between you and God.

**[8:00] Speaker B:** It's just a thing. He does it for you.

**[8:04] Speaker A:** Boy, relationship with God gets exciting.

**[8:08] Speaker B:** When we start seeing all these things, all the years that I just went to church once a week and acted like an idiot the rest of the week,

**[8:17] Speaker A:** come on. Why go to church on Sunday and act like the devil on Monday? I mean, we're supposed to be doing life with God.

**[8:26] Speaker B:** He's with you all the time. I will never leave you nor forsake you, but I will be with you right until the very end of times. God is. Don't believe that God exists, but that he exists everywhere. Everywhere. Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, "I am who I am." Moses kept saying, "Who should I tell people you are? What's your name? How can I tell them who you are?" And God says, 'I am who I am, and this is what you are to say to the Israelites. I am has sent me to you. God didn't even try to explain who he was to Moses because it's over our heads. We wouldn't get it. He just says, "I am." And God is he is omnipotent, all powerful. He is omnisient, all knowing. He is omnipresent everywhere, all the time at the same time.

**[9:29] Speaker A:** See, that's why Jesus said, "You're going to be better off when I go away." You know why? You know why he said that? Because Jesus was in a body just like this one, and he could only be one place at one time.

**[9:42] Speaker B:** But the Holy Ghost,

**[9:47] Speaker A:** But the Holy Ghost, We don't we don't talk enough about the Holy Spirit like we should today.

**[9:57] Speaker B:** He's not just the third person of the Trinity. He's God also.

**[10:02] Speaker A:** And Jesus said, "I'm going to send you a comforter. I'm going to send you a helper."

**[10:11] Speaker B:** And he told the disciples, "Go to the upper room and wait." basically saying, "Don't try to do anything without this help I'm going to send you." They didn't even know what they were waiting on. But on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost fell, Peter, who was a big coward previously, went out into the streets and preached and 3,000 people got saved that day.

**[10:34] Speaker A:** Let me tell you something. When you let the power of God touch your life, it's not just going to be normal everyday living. We can live supernatural

**[10:45] Speaker B:** lives. Not just natural but supernatural.

**[10:50] Speaker A:** Amen.

**[10:52] Speaker B:** And so now Jesus went away and he sent the Holy Spirit and we can be filled with the Holy Spirit. And boy, wow, do you know what we can do for the kingdom of God if each and every person who calls themselves a Christian would just get out in the world and act like one?

**[11:19] Speaker B:** Just what about if every Christian was just kind to one person every day?

**[11:28] Speaker A:** Kindness is so amazing. And people are hurting so bad, they just need kindness.

**[11:36] Speaker B:** Or what about when you hear that somebody that you work with has a need? Let me let me tell you something that I think aggravates God. I I remember hearing a story at work about this girl who didn't have a bed. She was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. And the woman that was telling me about it said, "Well, but we're all praying for her." And I thought, well, why don't you just buy her a mattress? Why do we need to pray about God doing things that we could easily do ourselves and just don't want to let go of a few bucks? Come on.

**[12:17] Speaker B:** I I mean it. Let's just stop all that stuff. I mean, if you know somebody that needs something and you can do it or you can get together with four or five other people and do it, There's a man I know that he and his wife, they know a widow, and her house is paid for, but she can't pay her taxes at the end of every year. And so, every year there's four or five of us that get together, pull our money, and pay her taxes every year so she can have a place to live. We don't need to pray about that.

**[12:49] Speaker A:** If you can do it, do it.

**[12:51] Speaker B:** You know why? Generous people are happy people. What if every Christian just got generous?

**[13:02] Speaker A:** Wow. It's kind of interesting, you know, with not right now not being able to pass any kind of offering receptacle. It's it's interesting to see how many people will actually take the trouble to remember to leave their offering before they leave. And that's an important part of what we do in our church services. We should remember that. And if you forget, then mail it in. Whether it's your home church or something like this, don't just use it as an easy excuse to not give, but make sure that you do it.

**[13:51] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[13:52] Speaker A:** Let me say it again. And what would happen in our society if every person who calls themselves a Christian would actually get out in the world and act like one? You know what? You can preach a better sermon with your actions than you ever could with your mouth.

**[14:14] Speaker A:** Matter of fact, it's worse to go around with a bumper sticker on your car, acting like an idiot that it would be if you just took it off your car. We don't need to be having said, "I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian." Just act like one.

**[14:32] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[14:34] Speaker A:** Just act like one. Be kind to people. Be good to people. Don't be easily offended. Forgive quickly. Help people when they need help.

**[14:44] Speaker B:** Acts 10:38 says, "See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and fire, who went about doing good."

**[14:54] Speaker A:** I love that. What did Jesus do? He just went about doing good. I believe I could do that.

**[15:01] Speaker B:** I believe I could do that. Wouldn't it be fun if we just got up every day and got ourselves off our mind and just said, "God, show me somebody that I can help today.

**[15:10] Speaker A:** Show me what I can do to be a blessing today." You can bring people into the kingdom just by behaving like a Christian.

**[15:17] Speaker B:** Hello. Hey, I'm going to let loose today cuz I won't be back for a while.

**[15:31] Speaker B:** God has no limits. He has no restrictions.

**[15:35] Speaker A:** He can do anything, anytime, anywhere for anybody. God has no limits. He has no restrictions. He can do anything, anytime, anywhere, for anybody.

**[15:54] Speaker A:** Deuteronomy 3:16 says, "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them. For the Lord your God says, so the Lord your God goes with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you."

**[16:12] Speaker B:** Never leave you nor forsake you. And over and over and over, it's just everywhere. Isaiah 41, do not fear, for I am with you. Matter of fact, I want to read you some of this because this is just too good not to.

**[16:29] Speaker B:** Isaiah 41, we'll start in verse 10. Fear not. There's nothing to fear, for I am with you. Don't look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen, and I love this, and harden you to difficulties. Every time you go through something hard, it makes it easier for you to go through it the next time.

**[16:58] Speaker A:** Do you understand that? If you're going through something hard right now, don't be so sad about it. Rejoice a little bit.

**[17:07] Speaker B:** The devil's just helping you get stronger for the next thing. Pretty soon, he won't be able to control you at all.

**[17:16] Speaker A:** Hallelujah.

**[17:22] Speaker B:** Don't look around you in terror and be dismayed. For I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will hold you up and retain you with my victorious right hand of rightness and justice. Behold, all they who are enraged and inflamed against you shall be put to shame and confounded. They who strive against you shall be as nothing, and they shall perish.

**[17:50] Speaker A:** Man, you ought to be liking this.

**[17:56] Speaker A:** You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them. Those who war against you shall be as nothing, as nothing at all. For I am the Lord your God. I hold your right hand. I I say to you, fear not. I will help you.

**[18:16] Speaker A:** Come on, let's act like we believe it.

**[18:23] Speaker A:** And then look at verse 15. Oh, this just gets me. Behold, I will make you to be a new sharp threshing instrument which has teeth, and you shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and you shall make the hills like shaft. I mean, he's saying, listen, ev everything you're going through, and I know some of you are going through some really hard times right now. We all we we're all going to do that. It's going to happen to everybody. You've been through hard things. I've been through hard things. It doesn't go on forever. But as you mature and you get stronger and you believe less and less of the lies of the devil and you really believe the word of God and you stand on that, the devil can't control you anymore. You'll be that new threshing machine with sharp teeth

**[19:27] Speaker B:** and he'll be running away from you instead of you running away from him.

**[19:31] Speaker A:** Amen.

**[19:32] Speaker B:** Come on. Are we believing the word today?

**[19:42] Speaker B:** Rejoice in the Lord. And again I say rejoice. Paul was in prison when he wrote that. and the prison that he was in, the sewer system in the city ran through it. And when he wrote that, there's a good possibility he was standing in something you wouldn't want to stand in.

**[20:02] Speaker A:** And he says, "Rejoice in the Lord." And again, I say, "Rejoice." I'm still working on that one, but um I'm going toward it. Let me tell you a little something about fear. I got to tell you this real quick. Fear. Fear not is a little different than maybe what you think it is. When the Bible says fear not, and it does say it over and over and over and over, they I don't know if they're correct, but I've heard that it says 365 times, fear not. One for every day of the year. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but it is in the Bible a lot. A lot. Fear not. God doesn't want us to be afraid. He wants us to be bold and full of faith and have confidence and believe that he loves us and believe that we're winners and no matter what the devil brings against us, he will not win in the end.

**[20:59] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[21:03] Speaker B:** But fear not doesn't mean not to feel fear. It doesn't mean not to shake or tremble. Fear not literally means don't run.

**[21:20] Speaker A:** That's what it means. Don't Don't run away from things. I'm with you. Confront them. It's time for us to stop running from things and not facing things. It's time to deal with issues in your life.

**[21:36] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[21:38] Speaker A:** And not just keep hiding from them. Amen.

**[21:41] Speaker B:** It's our secrets that make us sick.

**[21:45] Speaker A:** It doesn't bother me at all to tell openly and loudly what happened to me in my life. Because I believe it's miraculous what God has done in me.

**[21:59] Speaker B:** I think it's amazing what God has done in me and what he's done for me and what he's done and is doing for many of you. Many of you, I mean, many of us should be locked up somewhere just with hardly any mind at all. And here we are, decent human beings that are making a difference in the world because there's no problem in our lives that God cannot conquer. But we can't be running away from things. Courage means to stand still and face issues, not to run away from them. Is anybody in this building today running from something that maybe you need to. It's just time. It's time to deal with things. If you got an issue between you and somebody else, just deal with it.

**[22:59] Speaker A:** Deal with it. Be the first one to apologize. It won't kill you. It may feel like it will, but it won't. You'll live through it. Matthew 28:20, one of the last things that Jesus said to his disciples, "And teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you, and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age." Get it again? There's nowhere that you go that God is not with you.

**[23:32] Speaker A:** The seven I ams of Jesus taken from the New King James Study Bible. I am the bread of life. As bread sustains physical life, so Christ offers and sustains spiritual life. I am the light of the world. to a world lost in darkness. Christ offers himself as a gate, as a guide. And you know, the world today is a pretty dark place. But I see a light out there.

**[24:03] Speaker B:** And the devil's trying to put it out, but he can't put it out because it's in my heart. I see it. He can't take it away from me.

**[24:12] Speaker A:** I don't care what the world does. I've already read the end of the book and we win. Amen. Come on.

**[24:28] Speaker A:** You know what Jesus is doing right now? He said, "I go to prepare a place for you

**[24:34] Speaker B:** that where you where I am, you may be also." In my father's house, there are many mansions. Oh, I can imagine what it looks like there. But I I I like fancy stuff. I I hope mine is really fancy. Just deck it out, Jesus.

**[24:59] Speaker B:** The light of the world.

**[25:04] Speaker B:** I am the door of the sheep. Jesus protects his followers as shepherds protect their flocks from predators. I am the resurrection and the life. I love this. Death is not the final word for those who are in Christ.

**[25:23] Speaker B:** Come on. You don't have to be afraid of death. We don't have to be afraid of it. For the for the believer, honestly, life only begins after death. Amen.

**[25:39] Speaker A:** I mean, whatever it is we think we're doing now that we call living, I mean, it's nothing compared to what's going to be like when we get in his presence and with him.

**[25:50] Speaker B:** I'm planning a seminar

**[25:55] Speaker B:** and it's going to be Moses and Abraham and me and Jacob and Isaac.

**[26:09] Speaker B:** And I think we'll have it in a big stadium with every seat full.

**[26:19] Speaker A:** Don't be Don't be worrying about tomorrow. Just live today. Live life one day at a time. God loves you. He's with you all the time. He will never leave you. I am the good shepherd. He's committed to caring for and watching over us. I am the way, the truth, and the life. He is the source of all truth. And I am the vine. John 15:1 and5. By attaching ourselves to Christ, we enable his life to flow in and through us. Then we cannot help but bear fruit that will honor the father. And I like to just do a little example. You know, Jesus said that he's the vine and we're the branches. And so you might say, "He's like the trunk of the tree and we're the branches." And let's just say you're peach tree. Well, have you ever seen a peach tree standing there going,

**[27:26] Speaker A:** "Trying to get some peaches here." But

**[27:34] Speaker A:** I mean, that's the way I lived for years.

**[27:40] Speaker A:** I'm trying to be good. I'm I'm trying to change. I'm trying to be a good wife.

**[27:51] Speaker A:** But if we just hang there,

**[27:57] Speaker A:** if the branch just hangs on the vine, that life comes up through that vine and into those branches and peaches.

**[28:19] Speaker B:** We need to relax and believe and stop trying to make all these things happen ourself.

**[28:27] Speaker A:** God's not pleased when you're going through your life, I'm trying so hard, God, I'm trying so hard. We all tell, "But God, I'm trying so hard. I' I've done everything I know how to do, God, and I just just nothing's working. I'm trying so hard." And then then we do this. I give up.

**[28:49] Speaker A:** I just give up. One time I was doing my thing and I got in the floor. God, I just I give up and honestly I heard God say, "Really?"

**[29:12] Speaker A:** I mean, he sounded excited and I didn't quite get that at first cuz I was really trying to get him to feel sorry for me. And God is not going to feel sorry for us. Because we have got the goods. We don't need pity. We need faith. We need to believe what the word says and start acting like it. And God just showed me the only time he gets to work are for those few minutes in life here and there when we quit. Come on, turn some stuff over to God.

**[29:48] Speaker B:** How many of you have got a kid you need to turn over to God? Would any day be any better than today?

**[30:00] Speaker B:** Why not just turn it over to God? I had to turn something over to God last week and then I remembered I turned it over to him before somehow or another. I took it back. So I said, "Well, God, I hope it sticks this time. I'm sorry I took it back, but and you know, just just giving it to God made me feel so much better. It's just like

**[30:28] Speaker A:** those who have believed do enter the rest of God.

**[30:33] Speaker B:** That supernatural beautiful rest of God were right in the midst of the most terrible thing. You can have this peace and rest. But only as you believe.

**[30:49] Speaker A:** What must I do to please God? Believe. Amen.

**[30:57] Speaker B:** Have faith. Believe his word. Believe that he is. Believe that he is the rewarder. Now, let's talk about that a little bit before I run out of time here. I think this is funny. You know, I wrote down here, practice being present where you are, and you will always sense that God is there. Amen.

**[31:24] Speaker A:** Say it again, Joyce.

**[31:25] Speaker B:** Practice being present where you are. Do you know how hard it is to just

**[31:32] Speaker A:** stay focused on what you're doing?

**[31:37] Speaker B:** Now,

**[31:39] Speaker A:** I don't multitask as good as I used to. My brain can't keep up with it anymore. But I'm really kind of glad because it's so much more peaceful than trying to do nine things at once. Now, here's the thing that I think is funny. The world thinks that they have found something amazing. They call it mindfulness.

**[32:10] Speaker A:** And it's it's now becoming this big industry where they're having seminars to teach mindfulness. And they're and oh they think they think they've discovered something amazing in meditation.

**[32:29] Speaker A:** Read the book.

**[32:38] Speaker A:** I mean, God said, "If you meditate on my word day and night,

**[32:45] Speaker B:** everything you lay your hand to will prosper and succeed. Meditation is all over the Bible. And now Christians have gotten afraid of it.

**[33:00] Speaker B:** We had the answers all along. Mindfulness is in the Bible.

**[33:08] Speaker A:** That's no new thing that they've come up with.

**[33:11] Speaker B:** It's in Ecclesiastes 5:1 amplified. Keep your foot. Give your mind to what you are doing.

**[33:19] Speaker A:** Right there. Don't you think it's funny when the experts come up with some big thing that God's been telling telling us for thousands of years?

**[33:34] Speaker A:** God is a rewarder. Oo, I love this. It's important for us to remember that God is good. He rewards right choices and he rewards right behavior. And I am living in the rewards of God. And many of you are too. this whole thing that took place with my father with the incest for I don't know 13 to 15 years I don't remember exactly and it was regular and it was bad and my mother knew about it but she was afraid of him and so she didn't do anything about it and that made it even worse so I was pretty lonely growing I reached out to a couple of relatives and they didn't want to get involved.

**[34:34] Speaker A:** You know why incest back in the 50s? Nobody talked about that.

**[34:42] Speaker B:** I think I'm one of the first people to start talking about this publicly and out loud. Now, a lot of people do, but I mean to talk about this, something like this in church 40 years ago was like, God, what are you doing? Well, I'm telling the truth

**[35:08] Speaker A:** because it's only the truth that's going to make you free. And I had to deal with all that junk. I couldn't hide from it. I couldn't run from it. I had to face my father and talk to him about what he did to me. I had to forgive him. And it took me a few gorounds, but we finally got it done, me and God together.

**[35:30] Speaker B:** And then God told me to take care of my mom and dad until they died. And I thought that was the devil. Nope. Nope. God is not going to ask me to do that. But oh yes, God will ask you to do that. I was praying for his salvation. God wanted to save him, but he said, "We're going to throw a little love in here." Remember, we talked last night about how faith and love work together.

**[35:59] Speaker A:** And people laugh when I say this, but it's true. I mean, they were old and not in good shape. And I thought, "Well, yeah, I can do this for two or three years." Well, it was like 13 years.

**[36:15] Speaker A:** And I didn't enjoy it. I didn't like it, but I did it because I love God.

**[36:23] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[36:30] Speaker B:** And I mean, we took good care of them. First, we bought them a nice little house, and then when they got to where they couldn't keep up with that, we put them in assisted living. And then when they can no longer do that, we put them in nursing home and between me and my kids, they got visited at least once a week. We kept them in nice clothes. I did what was right before God. And I can tell you, I think it was in the spirit one of the most powerful things that I ever did. And I think it affected this ministry in a very positive way. And I'm telling you, I don't care how hard it is, you forgive people that have hurt you, and it will be the most powerful act that you will ever do.

**[37:28] Speaker A:** God has done things for me that like I wanted to go to college, but I couldn't go to college. I I just had to get out and go to work right away. get away from my dad. And I didn't go to college, but I have four degrees. They've been given to me. Now,

**[37:56] Speaker A:** I appreciate it. I probably wouldn't have don't appreciate it as much as somebody who actually went to school, but I know that it was a gift from God.

**[38:08] Speaker B:** Four different universities have given me honorary scholarships because of all my writing. And my teachers recognized I had a writing gift and they wanted me to apply for a journalism scholarship. Well, of course, that was out of the question for me because once again, I had to just get out of the house and get away from my father. Well, it's a funny thing. I never took a class on writing, never got to go to college with that scholarship, but somehow without knowing how to, I've written 130 books.

**[38:52] Speaker B:** I mean, God is funny. Come on.

**[39:02] Speaker B:** And I I had a bunch of ministers wives want me to get together with them. And one of the questions they wanted to know was, "How do I write a book?" I couldn't even tell them.

**[39:16] Speaker B:** I I don't know. I just pick a subject and

**[39:22] Speaker B:** when I sit down I don't have the slightest clue what I'm going to say. Now I get material. I do research and you know I mean I'm not just stupid but most of it just comes out of my spirit. It's just simple everyday full of my life stuff and I just think it's hilarious. I was on the platform one time with Martin Smith. He you remember them? They used to be delirious. Now he's

**[39:53] Speaker A:** does some something else. But here I almost failed English

**[40:04] Speaker A:** and I'm talking in 130 languages now around the world every day. And he failed music. Come on. God uses the weak and the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

**[40:30] Speaker A:** And I want to tell you to start asking God for the rewards that he's promised you in his in his word. you you get a concordance or it it's so easy today to study. Get out that computer, get out a search, pick out a search engine and just put in there, show me every scripture in the Bible about God being a rewarder. And you will be amazed how many places it says that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. When you make a a right hard choice,

**[41:13] Speaker B:** you can figure on a reward coming your way.

**[41:23] Speaker B:** I don't do right things to get a reward, but I sure was glad when I found out they were available.

**[41:32] Speaker A:** And I'm I'm b I'm I'm not bashful. If there's anything in there that God says I can have, I'm gonna go for it.

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