Joyce Meyer said that it’s only our stuff that has changed, and if we start expecting god to do something, we’re going to see him move in a mighty way because expectation has a lot to do with faith and believing. How can we say we’re in faith and have a negative attitude? How can we say we’re in faith and be hopeless and depressed and discouraged and downtrodden all the time?
I’m not saying that those things don’t attack us. That’s why we need each other and that’s why the actual gift of edification and exhortation is so important in the body of Christ. The devil tries to lie to everybody and everybody needs to be encouraged. Everybody needs to be encouraged. Prisoners of hope. I made my mind up a few years ago: I’m going to be a prisoner of hope. I’ve wasted enough of my life being negative and critical and disappointed and always looking at something wrong. Even just the things that the devil comes against us with – the attacks of the devil – we might as well learn to be happy while those things are going on. I don’t want to be discouraging to you, but even when you get rid of the problem you have, you’re just going to get another one. - Joyce Meyer Online.
I know we don’t like to hear that, but you know what? Paul said: I have learned how to be content whether I am abased or abounding. I think if we can just keep a solid full level of hope and joy whatever is going on, we’re not even going to be touched by it, we aren’t going to care that much. It’s really not our circumstances that steal our joy; it’s our attitude toward our circumstances that steal our joy. Amen? Amen!: If you’ve got your mind made up that you just cannot be happy until your circumstance changes, you know what? I could probably just prophesy to you today: your circumstance won’t change and you’ll never be happy because our joy cannot be based on our circumstances.
Joyce Meyer Ministries – Even if you never get an opportunity to “preach” to somebody, if you live right, in front of them, loving them, when their need gets great enough.
