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You know that you can change your level of joy, and I can change my level of joy by simply learning to focus on what we do have rather than

focusing on what we do not have.

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

Tonight I want to talk about the disappointment of unrealistic expectations.

I want you to think about what that means because I tell everybody all the time to be full of hope

and that means to expect that God is going to do something great in your life. So I'm for dreaming, for big vision, expecting God to do the impossible,

but we set ourselves up for disappointment when we are believing for things that not even the Bible

tells us is a reality.

And I found 10, I'm sure there's a lot more but I really think that many

times if you'll be really open and listen to this that it's not really other people that make us unhappy. It's what we expect out of those

people. Like I used to expect Dave to make me happy all the time.

And after several years of that,

God said, will you stop trying to give Dave the responsibility for

your joy? Come on maybe some maybe somebody here is doing that you're you're

like you're mad because somebody that you're in relationship with is not keeping you

happy but maybe you need to take responsibility for your own joy and decide to be happy in the Lord.

We have to take responsibility for our own stuff.

So that took a big load off of Dave when I finally stopped

depending on him. Are some people, they expect other people to make them feel good about

themselves all the time.

And you know that can just wear somebody out.

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