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I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere every hurt.

Well, thank you for joining me today on enjoying everyday life.

And I'm excited to share the subject that I'm going to be sharing today.

It's called Blessed in the Mess.

Do any of you have a mess going on in your life?

Is there anybody here that would say my finances are a mess, my health is a mess, my

marriage is a mess, my house is a mess, my closet's a mess, my basement's a mess, you know. Life is interesting, life is great, but life is full of challenges.

And if you don't learn how to not let those things upset you and make you unhappy,

you will probably spend the biggest part of your life unhappy because we do just have things going on

pretty much on a semi-regular basis and there's nobody that doesn't have trouble.

Jesus said in the world there will be tribulation to promise.

But then he said cheer up.

And he didn't mean cheer up when the mess is over he meant to

cheer up in the middle of it and the way of course that we can do that is by

really believing and having faith that it will turn out

okay that nothing lasts forever and especially that God will work something good out of it.

Now I have come to the point in my life after 45 years of experience with God that I can say I really, really, really believe that.

I've had so many times when I've had very difficult things going on and just thought,

what in the world, what's the purpose in this, you know, and then later on looked back and saw that there was good that was worked out of it.

And I like to say that we live life forward but we understand it backward.

How many of you can look back at things that happened in your life that were very difficult,

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