Life Is What You Make It! - Part 3
Joyce Meyer Enjoying Everyday Life® TV Audio Podcast
Joyce Meyer
4.7 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Do you know what to do when self-pity begins to creep in? Today, Joyce discusses ways to win the battle against whatever it is that's trying to steal your joy.
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| 0:00.0 | This program is paid for by people like you, the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries. |
| 0:05.8 | You can be saved and miserable. |
| 0:09.0 | You can be a miserable sinner or you can be a miserable saint. |
| 0:14.2 | And it's usually because of a lack of knowledge. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt. |
| 0:23.6 | Giving is what produces joy. |
| 0:29.6 | Getting may make you happy for a little bit, but then you're going to need to get something else to keep that going. |
| 0:36.6 | Then you're going to need to get something else. Then you're going to need to get something else. Then you're going to need to get something else to keep that going. |
| 0:40.3 | Then you're going to need to get something else. Then you're going to need to get something else. |
| 0:46.9 | 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, |
| 0:53.7 | if I can just have more money, if I can just have this, if I can just have that. |
| 0:58.9 | And I can tell you things have no ability to keep you happy. |
| 1:04.1 | Not that we don't want nice things, but God wants us to want him first. |
| 1:09.4 | And if we keep him first, the Bible promises us that he will add the |
| 1:14.8 | things delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart it's better |
| 1:21.4 | 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. |
| 1:36.9 | The Bible tells us what to do. Be thankful. Start thanking God for everything you can think of. |
| 1:47.5 | That's a blessing in your life. Every in here no matter what kind of problem you have you have more blessings than you have problems come on |
| 1:55.0 | you have more blessings than you have problems but what we do and it's Satan's plan, he wants us to focus on the problem |
| 2:05.8 | and forget about the blessings. The Bible says, looking away from all that will distract unto Jesus, |
| 2:16.5 | who is the author and the finisher of our faith. So we don't need to be |
| 2:20.7 | staring all the time in our problems. We need to pray about them, give them to God, cast our care on |
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