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And the less we have ourselves on our mind, guess what, the happier we're going to be.

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

I want to talk today about the power of serving others.

You know, this year we've called it a year of thanks at Joyce Meyer Ministries.

And we've done a lot of special things even at the office like in our in our ministry bookstore all year.

We've had people post little notes of things that they're thankful for and so the windows are just covered with all these little sticky notes because the Bible says be thankful and say so.

And but it's important not to just say so with words, but to also say so with our actions.

And I believe that one of the greatest ways, one of the most practical ways that we can say, thank you, God, for everything that you've done for me, is to do something to help somebody else.

Amen?

The word servant has, it kind of comes across sometimes in a way that we don't like. It kind of has an unpleasant, unimportant, even belittling feeling to us.

We see it as a low position, perhaps something that you do if you can't do anything else.

But Jesus said it is actually the greatest thing of all.

He that is the greatest is the servant of all.

But I don't believe that servanthood is just a job that you go get where you, whatever,

you know, you're the janitor in the school, or you cook for somebody, or you're doing

some kind of a task that we might term serving. But I believe that no matter what we're doing,

that if we do it with the attitude of being a servant, that that's what God's talking about.

I am, right now, I have full authority in this room.

So I guess the way the world looks at it, you could look at it like, you know,

pretty important up there today.

She's got the stage, she's got everybody, you know, looking at her.

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