# Working with God | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer

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

## Chapters

- 0:00 — Welcome and Message Introduction
- 1:24 — Working With God Actively
- 5:55 — Lazarus and God’s Partnership
- 12:45 — Possessing What God Gives
- 18:43 — Waiting, Expecting, and Serving
- 27:01 — Courage, Resistance, and Discipline
- 37:49 — Purpose, Healing, and Getting Up
- 45:31 — Words Matter and Closing Offers

## Transcript

**[0:00] Speaker A:** Hey, thanks for watching Joyce's YouTube channel. We pray you find encouragement and exactly what you're looking for here. Did you know that these videos that you watch for free are available with the help of our Joyce Meyer Ministries partners? As a result, people are learning how to apply God's word to their lives and come out of some really dark places. If God's using these teachings to bring you closer to him, let me encourage you to join us and become a partner today. Join the team that is sending his word around the world. You can do big things together with us. Scan our QR code now and begin sharing the love and knowledge of Jesus Christ everywhere. This program is supported by you, our viewers and our partners.

**[0:47] Speaker B:** One of the biggest things about the word is it'll work in your life if you work it. But, just hearing it is not enough. I do what I do because I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you. The key to everything is found in God's word. I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

**[1:24] Speaker B:** I love God's word because of what it's done in my life and I'm sure that you feel the same way. And I want to talk to you today about working with God. Working with God. You know, I think part of our problem is as we we hear what we should do in church, but then we don't go out and do it. I heard one all right. I'll say it again. We hear what we should do in church, but we don't always go out and do it.

**[2:01] Speaker B:** One of the biggest things about the word is it'll work in your life if you work it. But just hearing it is not enough. James says faith without works is dead.

**[2:20] Speaker B:** So we got to be careful that we don't just think that all I need is faith. Because if we have real faith, then we're going to have works that go with it. And maybe some people think I don't want to hear about work. I work work work work work. Well, I'm talking about special kind of works that make you happy. You're never happier than when you're serving God with your whole heart. Amen. You know what Jesus said in Revelation to the Apostle John that he'd rather you be hot or cold, but if you're lukewarm,

**[3:10] Speaker B:** I don't like what the rest of it says, but I will spew you out of my mouth. And uh actually the church that he was talking to knew very well what he meant because they didn't have a good water supply there, and so it was piped in from another place, and by the time it got there, it uh was lukewarm. It wasn't cold anymore. And so he used that analogy because he knew they would know what it meant. It just didn't taste good. So a lot of times they would it spit it back out. You know, I think we all at this point have concern about what we don't see among Christians.

**[4:11] Speaker B:** Maybe what we do see, but what we don't see also. And what we don't see is enough active Christians. We People They go to church, but it's out there where we need to act on the word of God. That's where people need to see it.

**[4:33] Speaker A:** Jesus said, "One commandment I give unto you, love one another as I have loved you. By this shall all men know by this, by us loving each other, by this shall all men know that you're my disciples." And so, God wants a partnership with us. We're partners with God. The Bible says we're his ambassadors. That he is making his appeal to the world through us. Imagine that. If you didn't have anything to do when you got saved, I guess he'd just beam you up to heaven and give you your mansion. But if he's left you here, that means there's something for you to do. Amen. You think

**[5:35] Speaker B:** You think that we're the ones that are supposed to be doing all the work, but that's not true. The Bible says that he's given the fivefold ministry to train up the believers that they might do the work of the ministry.

**[5:55] Speaker A:** Working with God, John chapter 11, verse 37. This is about the raising of Lazarus from the dead. But some of them said, "Could not he who opened a blind man's eyes have prevented this man from dying?" And of course, we know that he could have. He heard Lazarus was sick, and he waited on purpose until he died before he went to help. Now, Jesus again sighing repeatedly and deeply disquieted We often see Jesus sighing. You know what that is? It's just like I'm so tired of this.

**[6:46] Speaker B:** Not again. And we see that often that Jesus sighing. Repeatedly and deeply disquieted approached the tomb. And why Why was he sighing or why was he deeply disquieted? Because of the lack of faith that he was seeing. You say, "Yeah, but Lazarus was dead. He'd been dead 4 days."

**[7:19] Speaker B:** Now, Jesus repeatedly sighing and deeply disquieted approached the tomb, and it was a cave a hole in the rock, and a boulder lay across the entrance to close it. Big boulder. And Jesus said to them, "Take away the stone." Now, I ask you a question. If he was getting ready to raise a man from the dead that had been dead 4 days, why did he need somebody else to roll away the stone? I mean, why didn't he just go You know, move Just move it out of the way. I find that to be interesting. But I've learned something from this that we find really running as a thread throughout the Bible. He told them to roll away the stone and then he raised Lazarus from the dead, but we're partners with God. He wanted them to have part of it. Let me tell you something.

**[8:31] Speaker B:** God will always do his part, but he won't do your part.

**[8:42] Speaker B:** You can't do his part and he won't do your part. Just a very simple example, in James 4:2, it says, "You have not because you ask not." So, God says, "I You're going to pray before I work."

**[9:08] Speaker B:** We can't just hope he does something where he says He said, "Ask." "Ask." So, they took away the stone. Well, first of all, it says,

**[9:23] Speaker B:** Jesus said, "Take away the stone." And Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "But Lord, by this time he is decaying and throws off an offensive odor, for he has been dead 4 days." Jesus said, "Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on me, you would see the glory of God?" So, they took away the stone. I love that. See, they did their part. He said before, "Take away the stone." Now, Martha comes and says, "Well, he's been dead 4 days already. Man, if you roll that, he's going to stink." But they rolled away the stone and lifted up and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you've heard me. Yes, I know you always hear and listen to me, but I have said this on account of and for the benefit of the people standing around, so that they may believe that you sent me, that you made me

**[10:18] Speaker B:** your messenger." And when he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." And out he walked. Now, I would just like to tell you that I believe, had they not rolled away the stone, that Lazarus would still be dead in that tomb.

**[10:38] Speaker A:** Amen.

**[10:39] Speaker B:** Great.

**[10:40] Speaker A:** Amen.

**[10:42] Speaker B:** I see some of you may not believe that. It's not that God couldn't have done it, but he works with and through people. Did you hear me?

**[11:02] Speaker A:** We quote that scripture a lot from Ephesians 3:20, that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all that you could ever dare to hope, ask, or think, but you know, there's a last there's a last line there that I I think we quote it, but I don't know if we believe it. And it says, "Through the power that worketh in you." Through the power that God can do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all that we could ever dare to hope, ask, or think through the power that worketh in you. In other words, many times I will pray about something, and God will show me something to do.

**[11:52] Speaker A:** He He doesn't always just or I would say he usually doesn't just do it while we do nothing. How many of you agree that a lot of times God just shows you what to do? And

**[12:15] Speaker A:** you get your answer, but it's because you listened to what God said. And I think that a lot of people today are not doing their part. I'm not saying it's you. I know you're all put together and shiny and probably don't even need this, but just in case or is a good reminder that God wants us to be active, not passive.

**[12:45] Speaker A:** The more passive you are, the more passive you get. The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few. Jesus said, "Pray for laborers to go out into the harvest. The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few." Joshua 1:1-3. After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of Nun, and that doesn't mean he didn't have parents. His dad's name was Nun.

**[13:23] Speaker B:** He says, "Moses, my servant is dead. So now, arise,

**[13:30] Speaker A:** take his place." The reason why he said that to him was because they were given 30 days to mourn someone that was dead. And then after 30 days, they had to go back to to living again. Not to say that if somebody you love dies that you only get 30 days to get over it, but I will say that if God left you here, then he still has something for you to do. So, you

**[14:05] Speaker B:** It's one thing It's one thing to grieve something that you've lost. It's another thing to let a spirit of grief get on you. Or that's all you do the rest of your life is grieve over what you've lost instead of rejoicing over what you have left. Amen. I personally plan to be doing this up in my 90s.

**[14:37] Speaker A:** We'll see what kind of plan God has, but that's what I'm planning for. I don't know, maybe I'll even be one of those sin- What is sentenarians or what- whatever What are you called when you're 100? Yeah, that.

**[14:58] Speaker A:** So, when he when he told Joshua, "Moses is dead." I mean, Joshua had been mourning Moses 30 days. He knew he was dead. So, why did he say Moses is dead? He was basically saying it's time for you to get up now and get going. So, he said, "Moses is dead. Now, arise, get up, take his place, go over this Jordan, you and all this people into the land which I am giving them, the Israelites. I am giving them the land. Now, every place up on which the sole of your foot shall tread, that have I given to you as I promised." So, God said, "I gave it to you, but you got to go take it."

**[15:43] Speaker A:** Come on. How many things has God given you through Christ that you need to take?

**[15:53] Speaker A:** But we get lazy. We get passive, and we get this mistaken idea that God's going to do everything. Well, I'm just trusting God. Well, that sounds sweet.

**[16:12] Speaker A:** We trust God to do what we cannot do. But we do what he gives us the grace to do. Amen.

**[16:27] Speaker B:** I didn't just come here today assuming when I got up here God would give me something to say. I studied. And I went over the messages again yesterday. I went over them again this morning. I do my part. I make sure that I'm prepared to the best of my ability and that I trust God to anoint it and to

**[16:52] Speaker A:** make it what the people need to hear. But I do my part. You got to do your part. Amen. And I love this in Joshua. He gave them all the land. And he said, "Now, every place on which the sole of your foot treads, that have I given to you." It could have been out there. Maybe there's a lot more out there. But we decide to stop here.

**[17:21] Speaker B:** Oh, come on.

**[17:23] Speaker A:** Come on. If any of you have stopped short of all that God has for you, shame on you.

**[17:32] Speaker B:** Do it for Jesus' sake. You say, "Well, I've lost my joy." Well, you know what I say to you? Get up. Get up. Stop waiting for somebody to come along and make you happy and be happy. Amen.

**[17:59] Speaker A:** This morning I was teaching about anger and I said, You said, "Well, you made me mad." And I said, "No, you got mad." Nobody makes you anything. You decide to obey God and do it his way, or you decide to go with the flesh and do it your own way.

**[18:28] Speaker A:** And if we decide God's already given me that. Now God, show me what you want me to do. Start making that part of your prayers. God, what do you want me to do?

**[18:43] Speaker A:** We're not talking about works of the flesh. God hates works of the flesh. We're talking about working the works of God. Isaiah 40:31, we love that. They that wait upon the Lord and even that word wait is an active word. It's not a passive word. You don't just go somewhere and go

**[19:10] Speaker A:** I'm waiting on God.

**[19:14] Speaker B:** No, first of all, while you're waiting means to expect.

**[19:21] Speaker B:** Expect God to do something wonderful in your life every single day. Or if there's some specific thing you're believing for and waiting on God, you're expecting that thing to show up at any minute. Could be today. If I told you that I would come to your house for lunch tomorrow at such and such a time, say I we we said 12:00. I can guarantee you about 10 minutes to 12:00, you'd start looking.

**[20:03] Speaker B:** Amen. Wouldn't you? I mean, you would. We When it gets time for people to come, we

**[20:10] Speaker A:** we start looking. And that's what God wants us to be doing, not just well, I'm waiting on God. He wants us to be expecting, believing, thanking him ahead of time that he's doing

**[20:30] Speaker B:** what we ask him to do. Dodie Osteen,

**[20:39] Speaker B:** Joel Osteen's mother, was told years ago that she was dying with cancer. And uh I guess they told her that there was nothing they could do for her. So, she went home and and but her and John were faith people and so they believed that she was healed. They prayed for her to be healed and so they believed that their prayer was answered and that she was healed and that that healing would manifest. So, she was laying in bed one day

**[21:26] Speaker B:** and God said, "Well, if you're healed, get up and do something."

**[21:34] Speaker B:** And she just died at 92.

**[21:41] Speaker B:** That's all she did. She got up and started doing her housework and you know, I'm sure it was a little hard at times, but then she just got better and better and better and better. Wow. You know, Jesus had this habit of telling people to get up. I mean, it's all throughout the Bible. People laying at home depressed and all discouraged because you had a hard life. WELL, GET UP. GET UP. GET OUT IN THE WORLD AND part of it, and do something. Come on, you're fully God. Surely there's something better to do than just lay around and be bored and depressed.

**[22:41] Speaker B:** They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. God's not going to do it for you. He gives you the power to do it. You can't do it without him, but he won't do it without you.

**[23:06] Speaker A:** Amen.

**[23:13] Speaker A:** We had what we believed was a miracle last week. My son-in-law who just turned 50 had um

**[23:28] Speaker A:** He'd been acting a little bit unusual. His wife said, "I think he's just getting old."

**[23:35] Speaker B:** And uh He was just getting quieter and Anyway, one morning he had a seizure. First miracle, he was in the bathroom, the potty room of it. And he had this seizure, and he could have easily hit his head on the toilet and

**[24:00] Speaker A:** killed himself. He fell in such a way where he didn't do that. They took him to the hospital,

**[24:11] Speaker A:** did some tests, and told him he had a tumor that was about a fourth the size of his brain. And they said, "We do not understand how you could not be having serious problems because it was the frontal lobe which controls personality, walking, what they said he'd had no no trouble walking. You You fit He never had any trouble at all. None. And so he had brain surgery and went home 2 days later.

**[24:55] Speaker B:** Two days all all kinds of miracles. All kinds of things that God is doing things all the time and you need to be part of it. They shall run and not be weary. You're the they. God gives the strength.

**[25:18] Speaker B:** You know, you won't be happy if you just sit around do nothing all the time. You say, "Well, what do you want me to do?" I want you to serve God with your whole heart and be ready every day to do anything he asks you to do.

**[25:35] Speaker A:** Anything that he asks you to do. When When I say working for God, I'm not just talking about being an usher or being a greeter. That's good, but I'm talking about working for God every single day of your life where you get up in the morning and say, "I belong to you. I give my whole self to you. Whatever you want me to do today, I'LL DO IT."

**[26:03] Speaker B:** AND I I DO THINGS ON PURPOSE. I'll maybe I'll just call a couple of people and encourage them or send an email and encourage somebody. You don't have to wait for God to tell you everything. Think. He's given you a brain.

**[26:21] Speaker A:** How many people do you know? Watch. Pay attention to people. See who's hurting. See See who's When When you come to church, don't just come to get something, come to give something. Well, I'm going to get my blessing. Well, you've been blessed so many times, you just got blessings flowing out of you. Now, the idea is to get blessed and then start giving it away. Giving it away. Amen.

**[27:01] Speaker A:** Joshua Have not I commanded you be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. God is omnipresent. He's with everybody all at the same time, all the time, everywhere, no matter where you're at. When you go home, he'll be with you. And when I leave to go eat, he'll be with me. He's everywhere all the time. Isn't that awesome? Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people saying, "Pass through the camp and command the people, prepare your provisions for within 3 days you shall pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving you." Now, something good if you've never learned this. God told them to possess the land. The word possess, if you look it up, it what it means is you must first dispossess the current occupants.

**[28:22] Speaker A:** You know why they spent 40 years in the wilderness? The scripture says that God could have led them the short way, but he didn't because they were not ready for war.

**[28:37] Speaker A:** So, they wandered around out there for 40 years. Murmuring, complaining. Only two of the people that went in to the wilderness with Moses came out. Everybody else that came out had been born while they were out there. All the rest of them died wandering around, complaining, murmuring.

**[29:03] Speaker B:** And sure enough, every time things got hard, they'd want to go back to Egypt. And that's exactly why the Bible says that God led them the long, hard way.

**[29:14] Speaker B:** God gave them the land, but they had to take it. Exodus 13:17. When Pharaoh let the people go, God led them not by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer, for God said, "Lest the people change their purpose when they see war and return to Egypt." Some of you are not possessing what's yours because you're not ready for war.

**[29:42] Speaker B:** You want it to all be easy.

**[29:49] Speaker B:** See, you clap.

**[29:52] Speaker A:** If I tell you I've been in teaching the word of God for 50 years, you'll clap. Go ahead.

**[30:01] Speaker A:** But let me tell you, it has not been easy. There's nothing about it that's been easy. It's been wonderful, and I wouldn't have wanted to have done anything else. But if you think the devil gets after you,

**[30:20] Speaker B:** you ought to be somebody that's preaching the gospel and changing lives and see if he don't come after you. We We We ought to not be so wimpy and

**[30:36] Speaker A:** toughen up a little bit. We've gotten a little bit too touchy.

**[30:42] Speaker A:** Well, that's just that's hard. That's just too hard. Come on, you're full of the Holy GHOST AND POWER.

**[30:54] Speaker B:** GUESS WHAT? YOU'RE ANOINTED FOR HARD.

**[31:02] Speaker A:** YOU CAN DO THINGS THAT NOBODY else can do. Because God lives in you. If God be for me, who can be against me? If God is on my side, whom shall I fear?

**[31:19] Speaker B:** Paul said something that I love. He said,

**[31:24] Speaker B:** "Not that I have now attained this ideal or already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of and grasp and make my own that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has laid hold of me and made me his own." Did you get that? He said, "Jesus died to make many things available to me, and I'm pressing on to have every one of them."

**[31:58] Speaker A:** He was determined to take hold of the things that Jesus died for him to take hold of. And that glorifies God when you do that. But, you know, if if you have a problem with guilt, you feel guilty all the time, then find out who you are in Christ. Study righteousness until it's such a part of you that the devil might as well not even bother you with that. I mean, I suffered with guilt for years and years and years because of being sexually abused by my father.

**[32:43] Speaker A:** Just felt guilty.

**[32:47] Speaker A:** Like it was my fault. And

**[32:51] Speaker B:** I felt guilty for so long that I didn't feel right if I didn't feel wrong.

**[32:59] Speaker B:** And man, when I learned about righteousness. But I may I would not I would imagine that I have said a million times in my life, I am the righteousness of God in Christ. You got to confess the word, study the word. The word of God is your food. It's what Just like you eat regular food for your body, you eat the word of God for your spiritual strength. It strengthens you. And don't just read it and gloss over it. Study it and meditate on some of these scriptures. God would rather you read one verse and understand it than to read 10 chapters in a day and not understand anything. And I know I tried that. I was going to read the Bible through in a year and I had a program at our church and everybody was reading the Bible through in a year and you had to read two in the old, two in

**[34:00] Speaker B:** the new, one in Proverbs, one in Psalms.

**[34:03] Speaker A:** And we all got a calendar that you know, you checked off after you did your reading. Well, I put my calendar on the refrigerator. I was

**[34:15] Speaker B:** real proud every time I'd walk past it and have all those check marks.

**[34:23] Speaker B:** And I liked it when people came in the house and said, "Oh, what's that?" I said, "Oh, I'm reading the Bible through this year."

**[34:30] Speaker A:** But I'll tell you what, when I started getting gaping holes in my calendar, because I was trying to do it myself, not asking God to help me. Come on. And you can't do it without him. Apart from me, ye can do nothing. Nothing. It's in John 15:5. Apart from me, you can do nothing. You can't even you you can't understand the word without God. You certainly aren't going to read the Bible through in a year without God. You'll get to Leviticus and give up.

**[35:19] Speaker B:** I mean, I'm sorry, Lord, you know my heart, but

**[35:26] Speaker B:** if I read the Bible through again in a year, I might have to skip Leviticus. I don't know. I had somebody tell me they loved Leviticus, and I thought, "What kind of person are you?"

**[35:41] Speaker A:** It's just so full of laws and rules and regulations and more laws and more I'm like, every page is a new law. No wonder those poor people were worn out.

**[35:59] Speaker A:** Then when I started getting those gaping holes in that calendar, I just wanted to just get by it. I took it down so the people that come into my house didn't see it. Cuz now I wasn't so proud anymore. See, we do even a lot of the things we do, we do for the wrong reason. I wasn't reading it through in a year because I felt like God led me to do it. I was doing it so when the pastor asked on Sunday morning, "Who's reading the Bible through in a year?" I could stand up with everybody else. Now, I think reading the Bible through every year is great. If that's what God's called you to do, but I'm not built that way. I'm a studier. And so I try. But I get stuck on some and then off I'm off looking up 25 scriptures about that.

**[37:04] Speaker A:** I do believe that you should read your Bible every day.

**[37:11] Speaker A:** And if you if going through it every every year is the way you want to do it, I think that's good. But guess what? You're free. You don't have to do it this way everybody else does it. Amen.

**[37:27] Speaker B:** You don't have to pray the way that everybody else prays. Do everything the way they do it. He who has been set free is free indeed. Free Not Not free to do nothing, but free to follow the Holy Spirit in their life.

**[37:49] Speaker B:** I'm in the middle of about four messages now and I got to figure out how to get out of them. Oh, there we go. We're back on track.

**[38:03] Speaker B:** Well, what is our purpose? Our purpose is to love God, to glorify Him, to enjoy God. Matter of fact, some of the old mystics have said that the greatest call in your life is to enjoy God. Just to enjoy God. Ephesians 2:10. Now, these are scriptures honestly and truly unless you study them, you're not ever going to get out of them what's what's meant to give you. For we are God's own handiwork, workmanship, recreated in Christ Jesus born anew that we may do Everybody say do.

**[38:55] Speaker A:** Do.

**[38:56] Speaker B:** Those good works

**[38:59] Speaker A:** which God predestined and planned beforehand for us. Now, don't be confused about what it means to be predestined. Predestined doesn't mean it's just going to happen no matter what. Predestined means that's God's will. That's what he wants. But you still got to do the doing. That you may do those good works which God predestined and planned ahead of time. Taking paths which he prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them. He's prepared everything and all we got to do is walk in it. Take it and enjoy it. If you have to, do war for it. How many of you know what I mean by that? Sometimes doing war is just refusing to give up.

**[39:57] Speaker B:** Just get it through your head, devil. I'm not giving up. I am not giving up.

**[40:05] Speaker A:** I No matter how hard it is or how long it takes, I am not giving up.

**[40:15] Speaker B:** The righteous man falls and gets up again seven times. You don't just get to fall and lay there. You have to get up.

**[40:27] Speaker A:** All right. I've got more message than time. I have to tell you this share this one scripture with you and you'll get my point. John 5:1-8. Now, there was a Jewish festival for which Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And there in Jerusalem was a pool

**[40:54] Speaker A:** called Bethesda. Had five porches and in those porches lay sick people. Some blind, some crippled, some paralyzed waiting for the bubbling up of the water because when the water bubbled once a year, whoever fell in the pool first got healed.

**[41:23] Speaker A:** Now, there was a man there who'd been laying there 38 years. That's a long time to lay around.

**[41:35] Speaker A:** There was a certain man there who'd suffered with a lingering disorder for 38 years and when Jesus noticed him lying there helpless, he was helpless. Knowing that he'd already been a long time in that condition, he said to him, Jesus already knew how long he'd been like that, but he was trying to wake the man up. He said to him, "How long have you been here?"

**[42:02] Speaker A:** "Do you want to get well? Are you really in earnest about getting well?" Come on. The invalid said, "Sir, I have nobody oh I have nobody when the water's moving to put me in the pool."

**[42:26] Speaker A:** Why are we always looking for somebody to do for us what we ought to be doing for ourselves?

**[42:36] Speaker B:** "I have nobody to put me in the pool. And every time I try to get in, somebody gets ahead of me.

**[42:48] Speaker B:** So, I guess I'll just lay here another year and see if next year somebody helps me. Jesus did not say, "Oh, oh." "Oh, no." "Wait, no, really? Oh, man, that is just not right." He looked at me AND SAID, "GET UP."

**[43:17] Speaker B:** You say, "Wait a minute, Joyce. What do you What do you expect out of the guy? He was crippled." Well, let me tell you something. In 38 years, I could have squiggled over to the edge of that pool.

**[43:34] Speaker B:** And at the first bubble, I was falling in. Amen.

**[43:44] Speaker A:** Come on, you got to take what belongs to you.

**[43:49] Speaker B:** And you got to get a little backbone, not wishbone.

**[43:55] Speaker A:** And stand up and make your mind up. "Jesus, what you died to give me, I'm going TO HAVE IT."

**[44:07] Speaker B:** DON'T JUST SIT AROUND AND feel sorry for yourself and wait for somebody else to come along and help you do it. Work with God. Make your mind up you're going to work with God. You can't not a part from him. You lean on him and rely on him for everything. He gives you the grace to do whatever you do, but don't waste your grace.

**[44:31] Speaker B:** Huh? Don't waste your grace.

**[44:36] Speaker A:** Father, help us to be active and alert, listening for your voice to tell us what you want us to do. And whatever our part is, God, please give us the gumption to get up and do it. And people that have just been passive and

**[45:01] Speaker B:** waiting for somebody else to do it, or they don't even know what they've been doing, just Help them, Lord, to get something out of this today and to realize that if they'll just get up And a lot of times we got to get up on the inside before we can get up on the outside.

**[45:22] Speaker A:** I pray for you in Jesus' name that you will not miss one

**[45:26] Speaker B:** thing that Jesus died to give you. Amen.

**[45:31] Speaker B:** Amen.

**[45:35] Speaker B:** Defeat Satan with words. Thoughts turn into words, and all that turns into actions. The power of life and death is in the tongue. The power of life and death. Just think about it. I have the power to make you happy or to make you sad. I have the power to build you up or to tear you down. Just with words. Just words.

**[45:57] Speaker A:** Choose your words on purpose with Joyce's illustrated teaching Your Words Matter, a 28-day, four-week study featuring Joyce's messages, guided scriptures, and thought-provoking questions.

**[46:09] Speaker B:** Some of us are talkers and use a lot of words to express ourselves, while others don't say much at all. Regardless of how many words we use every day, it's the words we choose to say that really matter. Call attention to things that are said that don't line up with what God says about us, and learn to speak life-changing truths from God's word with Joyce's insightful study Your Words Matter.

**[46:38] Speaker A:** When you repeat the promises of God and the word of God over your life, and you come into agreement with those things, and then that's what bears fruit in your life.

**[46:48] Speaker B:** Request Your Words Matter today for a gift of $30 or more, and we'll also send you My Prayer Journal, a convenient journal to record your prayer requests and track God's faithful answers to them. Call us at 1-800-709-2895.

**[47:05] Speaker B:** Go online to joycemeyer.org or use the QR code on your screen.

**[47:09] Speaker A:** Change the way you speak and see the difference it makes with your words matter. Connect positive thoughts to what's spoken out of our hearts and line up with God's promises with this valuable book. And remember, when you give to get this, your financial gift is making it possible for Joyce Meyer Ministries Hand of Hope to share Christ and love people all around the world. We're doing it together. So, thank you for your support. Together, we're making a difference in many, many lives.

**[47:43] Speaker B:** Speak positively and purposefully with Your Words Matter and the My Prayer Journal. Call us at 1-800-709-2895. Go online to joycemeyer.org or use the QR code on your screen.

**[48:05] Speaker A:** Twas the month before Christmas and all through the cheer was something more meaningful drawing us near.

**[48:12] Speaker B:** In reality, during the Christmas season, there aren't many silent nights, are there? We race from one thing to the next and when we aren't in perpetual motion, our minds are racing.

**[48:25] Speaker A:** This is a season to behold something truly precious. That's why together we wrote our first ever Christmas devotional, Come and Behold Him. 25 days of drawing near to Jesus.

**[48:37] Speaker B:** These daily devotions will open your eyes, heal your aching heart, and remind us all not to lose sight of God in all the holiday glitter.

**[48:45] Speaker A:** Each entry is a beautifully illustrated piece of art, something you will want to keep for years to come and give as gifts to people that you love.

**[48:54] Speaker B:** This Christmas can mean more. Come and Behold Him, a devotional by Joyce Meyer and Ginger Stucky. Get your copy today.

**[49:21] Speaker A:** We hope you enjoyed today's program. We are so grateful to our Joyce Meyer Ministries partners who make this and all we do possible, including sharing God's word and offering help to people in need all over the world. This program is supported by you, our viewers and our partners.

**[49:43] Speaker B:** Thank you for spending time with us. If you want more encouragement from Joyce, check out all of the great videos we have available for you right here on YouTube or go to joycemeyer.org for the latest updates from Joyce Meyer Ministries. And one last thing, don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and turn on notifications so you don't miss out on anything.