Welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with New York Times Best Selling Author, Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Right and Wrong Mindsets.

We can learn to think positively about absolutely everything.

It takes practice saying no to negative thoughts.

But when we replace stinking thinking with the Word of God, we'll start winning the battlefield of the mind.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Okay, I'm going to tell you a secret. You're not going to like this part, but here it comes anyway.

If you want to have real victory, you're going to have to be willing to hurt a little bit.

And see, the Israelites didn't want to hurt, and we don't want to hurt.

So the devil gives us nine different ways to get out of hurting.

And even if you just take complaining, if you're going through something, and you just keep your mouth shut about it,

and you're just talking to God about it, and not murmuring and complaining, it's hard.

There's no relief valve for the pressure in our soul.

But if we can just tell somebody, how bad we got it, and how bad we feel,

oh my gosh, if they would just feel a little sorry for us now, the flesh is like,

you got your fix, and then you go around the mountain one more time.

And if you agree, it's hard when you're hurting just to say, God, I just want to get through this and get it over with.

And so I'm going to just talk to you about it, not grumble and complain.

There's all different kinds of suffering, but I'm very concerned because it seems to me like,

and of course it's not everybody. There's a lot of you out there that are very strong, and you stand firm, and you stand your ground,

and you're awesome mature Christians. But I think we all know that the majority are not like that.

And I think that people are just getting wimpier and weaker, and they just can't take very much, and they're ready to quit.

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