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You can be saved and miserable. You can be a miserable sinner or you can be a miserable saint.

And it's usually because of a lack of knowledge.

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

Giving is what produces joy.

Getting may make you happy for a little bit, but then you're going to need to get something else to keep that going.

Then you're going to need to get something else. Then you're going to need to get something else.

Things have no ability to keep us happy. Matter of fact, the Bible says that one of the ways

that people are deceived is true riches, through thinking that if I can just get a bigger house,

if I can just have more money, if I can just have this, if I can just get a bigger house, if I can just have more money, if I can just

have this, if I can just have that. And I can tell you things have no ability to keep you

happy. Not that we don't want nice things, but God wants us to want him first. And if we keep

him first, the Bible promises us that he will add the things.

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

It's better than trying to get them for yourself.

Amen.

And so I knew that I know what to do when I start to even remotely feel sorry for myself,

the Bible tells us what to do, be thankful.

Start thanking God for everything you can think of that's a blessing in your life.

Every person in here, no matter what kind of problem you have, you have more blessings than you have problems.

Come on, you have more blessings than you have problems.

But what we do, and it's Satan's plan,

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