This program is paid for by people like you,

the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

You're never free until you no longer have a need to impress people.

We don't need to live to impress one another.

We need to learn how to be free to be ourselves.

I'm Joyce Meyer.

I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

Is there anybody here who ever has any stress in your life? Some people put up both hands.

Well, the world is not going to change. I want you to listen. The world is not going to change.

I want you to listen, the world is not going to change.

I prayed for years for God to change my circumstances,

and then I found out it was actually me he wanted to change.

So, would you be willing to change if your circumstances never changed?

Because you see, it's not really our circumstances that upset us.

It's the way we react to our circumstances that upset us.

I'm going to tell this half of the congregation that.

Because we think, well, if I just didn't have this circumstance, but see, then you

wouldn't be in the world. Because Jesus said in the world, you will have tribulation.

Cheer up. I've overcome the world, you will have tribulation. Cheer up.

I've overcome the world.

And so

we really need to get it through our heads

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