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 [Music] hurt you know right thinking can enable you and wrong thinking can disable you it's amazing what you won't do if you think you can't I mentioned that my mom knew that my dad was abusing me when I was growing up but she never did anything about it and 30 years after I left home she finally found the courage to say something to me and she said I'm sorry for what I let your dad do to you I didn't think that I could face the Scandal and I didn't think that I could take care of you and your brother so her thinking her wrong thinking her wrong mindset ruined many lives she could have just as easily said I believe I can do this and taken a step of faith and trusted God and things could have turned out differently for a lot of people now things have turned out good for me I stuck with God and fought through a lot of things but I had a brother N9 years younger than me who sadly ended his own life and things could have been different for him but he never had the right kind of training growing up and he got on drugs when he was 17 and on alcohol and just never could get free from it so it's very important that we realize how much our thoughts affect our actions our attitudes our moods they literally are the Forerunner for everything that we do are everything that we don't do now this teaching is taken from the story of the Israelites who the Bible plainly says in Deuteronomy 1:2 that it it is only 11 days journey from Horeb by way of Mount the a to cadesh Baria on canaan's Border yet Israel took 40 years to get there why would somebody take 40 years trying to make an 11-day trip any of you feel like you've been going around the same Mountain way too long in verse six of that same chapter God actually spoke through Moses and said you've stayed long enough at this mountain and so I want to start tonight by saying to some of you you've stayed long enough at the same [Music] place you've been feeling sorry for yourself way too long you've been blaming somebody else way too long you've been complaining way too long come on it's time for some change and I want you to remember this God can't change anything if we won't change it's useless to keep praying for God to change everything if you're not going to be willing to do or if I'm not going to be willing to do whatever God asked me to do so I actually have 10 of these wrong Minds sets and I'm going to try to turn them into the way that you should think rather than the way that you shouldn't think and I hope to get through all 10 by the time I leave tomorrow afternoon but if I don't we can always finish it on TV I want to talk to you tonight about getting your mind off of the road behind you letting go what lies behind and not basing your future on your past or or even on what's going on in your life right now see some of you are stuck you're just stuck you've been in the same place for so long going around and around the same Mountain that you've dug a rut and there's no way that you feel that you can get out of it but it's time for you to let God take you out of that place to a brand new beginning in your life [Applause] amen the Bible says that God called the Israelites out of Egypt to take them in to the promised land I brought you out to take you in God has brought you out of something to take you into something better but you know what you have to let go of the old in order to take hold of the new amen sometimes we feel pulled in two different directions because God's trying to pull us forward and we keep hanging on to what's back here you always have to give up something to get something amen you almost always have to leave something to go somewhere but the thing about God that well it's he knows what he's doing of course but it's it's not too easy is he'll call you out of something before he shows you what you're going into and so there comes fear like he told Abraham leave the place where you're at and go to the place that I will show you are there any of you like that right now you've let go of one thing behind you and now you just feel like you're just in total confusion and you don't know what's next or what you're going to do and well you know what you don't have to know because God [Applause] knows and all he really wants to hear from you is I trust you not why God why but I trust you now our mind has a lot to do with how fast we make it from Egypt through the Wilderness to the promised land I'm sure you've all heard of the promised land I don't know about you but after several years of being in church I got so tired of hearing about the promises but never feeling like I actually possessed them I heard about Freedom all the time but I wasn't free I heard that God wanted to bless me but financially we were just hand to mouth and paycheck to paycheck and I heard about all these things and I believed them or I thought I did but they never seemed to happen in my life anybody ever feel like that you just I mean just be honest you get a little tired of the rah rah rah in church and you know it's nice while you're there but when you go home you still got the same mess and you just you you want to possess the promises you don't want to just hear somebody talk about it you want to possess it well the Israelites wanted to possess what God called the promised land and it was a land that he said was flowing with milk and honey which meant every good thing God wants us to have every good thing the Bible says I is not here I has not seen ear has not heard all the good things that God already has made ready prepared and stored up for those who love [Applause] him but the in interesting thing about the word possess that the Israelites didn't understand and I don't think we understand it a lot the word possess actually means to dispossess the current occupants so in other words they had to be ready for war in order to take that land that God promised them because enemies of God were already living on that land amen and so the Bible says that God took them the long hard way through the desert instead of a a route that was much shorter and he did it on purpose because they were not ready yet for war and see I've been getting real bothered in my spirit lately and so I know that I've got to do some preaching on this not all tonight but I'll mention it you know a lot of Christians aren't ready for war they're just sometimes I feel like I'm in a cosmic battle between Satan and God and they're both trying to win and I'm here in the middle deciding who I'm going to follow am I going to listen to the lies of Satan or am I going to believe the promises of God and stand firm and go with him you got to dispossess the current occupants before you can possess the promises of God and we got to be ready for war so God took them the long hard way because they weren't ready for that yet he knew that they were still too immature to really take a stand and not be moved by anything that they saw or felt and believe God and so they ended up out in the wilderness whining blaming complaining murmuring grumbling and you'll see when I get to the part on complaining that the word complain means to remain huh yeah complain and remain praise and be raised that's my own special quote The More We complain the more we stay right where we're at and so they just wandered around out there for 40 years when it was an 11-day Journey because they had wrong mindsets they had a wrong mental attitude they didn't know how to think right so before we get into the specifics of these different attitudes let's just talk for a minute about the Mind who who could stand it if I talked for a minute about the mind please do right okay well Proverbs 237 says as a man thinks in his heart so is he that's a very interesting scripture Colossians 31 and2 says if then you've been raised with Christ seek the things that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God set your mind on things that are above that means right things not on the things that are upon the earth now let's read it again set your mind and I really like what the Amplified says set your mind and keep it set see it's easy to go on a diet on Sunday night after dinner but the problem starts by Tuesday when you want to eat everything on the table and then eat the [Applause] table okay I'm going to tell you a secret you're not going to like this part but here it comes anyway if you want to have real Victory you're going to have to be willing to hurt a little bit [Music] and see the Israelites didn't want to hurt and we don't want to hurt so the devil gives us nine different ways to get out of hurting and you know even if you just take complaining you know if you're going through something and you just keep your mouth shut about it and you're just talking to God about it and not murmuring complaining it it's hard there it's like there's no relief valve for the pressure in our soul but if we can just tell somebody how bad we got it and how bad we feel and oh my gosh if they if they would just feel a little sorry for us now the flesh is like you got your fix and then you go around the mountain one more time I mean if you agree it's hard when you're hurting just to say God I just want to get through this and get it over with and so I'm going to just talk to you about it not Grumble and complain there's all different kinds of suffering but we I just I'm very concerned because it seems to me like of course it's not everybody there's a lot of you out there that are very strong and you stand firm and you stand your ground and you're awesome mature Christians but I think we all know that the majority are not like that and I think that people are just getting wimpier and weaker and you know they just can't take very much and they're ready to quit and you know if you don't do this today God then I'm out of here I'm I can't do this anymore everything's too hard and you know we've got to understand that you got to be ready for war the minute that you declare that you're going to walk with God the Devil comes after you I'm not going to stand here and tell you if you receive Christ tonight that all your problems are over some of them are over but a different kind is going to begin and you say Well then why do I want to receive Jesus because your worst day with him will be better than your Best Day Ever Was without [Applause] him because here's the thing without Christ you're stuck in the place you're at and your life is nothing but misery from now until you draw your last breath and if you haven't received Christ by the time you do that then the real misery starts yes there's a place called hell we don't talk enough about that either I'd rather scare the hell out of somebody than to sit and watch them go to hell amen and every once in a while we a good message Hellfire and brimstone like they used to call it would be good for us amen I mean what what what do people think they're doing I mean the the amount of time that you have here on Earth is absolutely nothing it's like one grain of sand on all the beaches in the world compared to forever and we need to spend our now time here getting ready for there and I tell you more than anything we need to get our eyes off of ourselves get your mind off yourself and on to what you can do for somebody else I love the song that Natalie sang tonight you can be a miracle everybody wants a miracle but how about being a miracle how about being one for somebody else and yes if you do that you will live a sacrificial life but you'll be so full and fruitful on the inside you see a Wilderness can be a literal place like a desert but many people have a Wilderness in their soul everything is dry and Barren and no matter what they do even even people there's so many unhappy Christians and really that's an oxymoron I mean Christians should be the happiest people on the face of the Earth and yet they're [Applause] not it's because we really just forget that the enemy is after us all the time he's not going to win the purpose that Jesus came was to destroy the works of the wicked one we've already got the victory but we are going to have to stand our ground and we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves [Applause] us that's why we need to get a little bit sassy with our souls and say why I so downcast oh my soul get a smile on your face body and get out there and count your blessings and stop whining over every little thing that goes wrong in your life you say well Joyce if you had my life you wouldn't be standing up there saying that well you don't know what my life is like you don't know I tell you there's a lot more to it than this little part right here that I can tell you for sure if you think the devil gets after you you ought to try preaching this stuff and see if he gets after you so you got you got to set your mind I am going all the way through to Victory I am not going to quit I am not going to give up by the grace of God I am going to be who God wants me to be do what he wants me to do and have what he wants me to [Applause] have and that's why it doesn't matter anything that's happened to you previous to this moment right here if it's bad stuff you didn't like you need to let go of it and you need to say this is the first day of the rest of my life and I am not going to live the rest of it like I've lived the previous part of [Applause] it mindsets are an interesting thing you need to you we we set ourselves up sometimes for just a bad day yeah I don't want anybody to take this wrong cuz I know sometimes the an the anniversary of the death of a loved one can be painful for people but my aunt who's gone home to be with the Lord she every year I mean this was still like 15 20 years after my uncle passed and he was a Christian man she knew he was in heaven she would plan to have a bad day on that day I mean she would tell me two weeks out now you know honey next so and so is when Uncle Marvin passed and you know that's going to be a hard day for me well I understand understand that things like that can be hard but I also understand that a little bit of right thinking can change that amen how many of you agree that sometimes we just set ourselves up for disaster just with our own thoughts okay so Dave how's it going to be for you if you would ever get to the point where you can't play golf and he said oh I've I've already thought about that and I've just made my mind up that I'll just be happy anyway now you know what most people would do oh I don't know what I'll do if I can't play golf my gosh I'll be so bored if I just you he's like no I've already made my mind up I can be happy anyway you know what some of you need to take that little bit of advice right there and instead of deciding you can't be happy if your situation doesn't change come on the minute you say I cannot be happy if this doesn't change you've thrown down the gauntlet in the devil's face and he's going to turn the heat up remember the guys in the fiery furnace the furnace got turned up seven times hotter than before the minute you say if this doesn't change I can't be happy the enemy will come against you with everything he's got to make you unhappy but what if you say if nothing ever changes I'm going to be happy amen huh what if you what if you say if nothing ever changes I'm going to be happy because my joy is not in my circumstances it's in the [Music] [Applause] Lord have you been looking for a 365-day devotional well look no further than the promises for your everyday life devotional from Joyce Meyer there a focus verse for all 365 days of the year along with a prayer starter get your copy of promises for your everyday life devotional at Joy me.org 365 devvo the biggest thing that we need to do is learn how to think like God thinks and the only way you can do that is by knowing the word of God in words to live by Joyce Meyer shares how studying the word of God transformed her life experience a deeper and more meaningful relationship with God through the captivating collection of verses in this beautiful hard cover book by Joyce Meyer discover the transformative power of His word words to live by from Joyce Meer get your YouTube exclusive offer today go to Joy meyer.org slw wordss and the number two have you ever been trapped in a never-ending frenzy where every passing moment feels like a blur leaving you gasping for a chance to pause and catch your breath in her insightful book pursuing peace Joyce Meyer explores the importance of seeking peace at all costs this beautiful heart cover Edition is filled with meaningful scriptures and uplifting quotes from Joyce providing valuable guidance for living a peaceful lifestyle so grab a cup of coffee find a comfortable spot and embark on your journey to find peace remember this limited time YouTube offer won't last long go to Joy me.org pursuit to get your copy today and start your Pursuit Of [Music] Peace the Mind actually is the battlefield that's where we win or lose the war with Satan he said all he gets to say rest of the day mind you start asking God to heal you and he will restore it's the God of all comfort and I am so grateful that I know how to call on God