Three people got that, so here we go again. You choose to do what’s right, then your feelings catch up with your decision. If I’m mad at Dave… I still get mad at Dave once in a while; not very often because we’ve been together long enough now I’ve already figured out it doesn’t do any good anyway. When you’re married 40 years, you just finally figure this comes with the package. Praise the Lord. He has to put up with me, I have to put up with him, let’s just all be happy and go on about our business. But occasionally I’ll still get mad at Dave. And the minute you get mad at somebody, you don’t want to talk to them, you don’t want to be around them. “Shut you out of my life.” and I know, I know that I know that I know that what I need to do is just go ahead, go into the room where he’s at… I mean, I prayed the official forgiveness prayer. ”Well, now, lord, I forgive Dave because I know I can’t stay mad. I know that’s not your will, so I forgive him in Jesus’ name.” Well, now what am I going to do? What am I going to do? Am I going to stay in the other room and not talk to him and act like I’m about ten years old? Or am I going to act like I’ve been saved half my life, been in the word 32 years, and go ahead and just take authority over my feelings and get in there and talk to the man and sit down and smile? I can choose to do that no matter how I feel, and I do it for Jesus because I know that’s what he wants me to do. And when I do it, I am telling you the truth, it’s not five minutes and I don’t feel the way I felt at all anymore because when you choose what’s right, your feelings will catch up with it. Let me just throw this out for good measure: if you would just stop talking about your problems… We talk about it and talk about it, talk about it and think about it, think about it and talk about it, talk about it and think about it, think about it and talk about it, talk about it think about it and talk about it, and think about it. Then we wonder why we don’t have any joy. “I don’t understand, Lord, I’ve just lost my joy.” I found this statement and man, I got excited about this.
Joyce Meyer Online – All of that is part of it but you know the one thing that stands between you and real freedom is disciplining yourself to study.
