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How many shovels of dirt have been thrown on your back in your life?

Are you going to let it bury you?

Or are you going to shake it off and get on top of it?

I do what I do because I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

The key to everything is found in God's word.

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

I'm having to look back at a lot of things and, man, we talk about the early years and I wish sometime I had the time to just sit down and try to make people understand what it was like. I mean, it was just almost downright

silly. But I had, I had a dream. And I didn't give it to myself. God gave it to me. I was

making my bed when God spoke to me. And he really spoke to me more with a desire, an overwhelming desire to teach his word. I was listening to a teaching cassette, the first one I'd ever heard. And I was so impressed by what I was hearing, and it just blew up in me.

Someday, I'm going to do that, and I'm going to go all over the world and teach the word.

And from that day until this, I've never quit.

But I taught five years a home Bible study, 25 people, my

living room for. I didn't get paid for that. I quit my full-time job in order to be able to study,

and for six years, we needed a miracle every month just to pay our bills. Oh yeah. There's sacrifice if you want to serve God.

But there's also great rewards.

Amen.

Great rewards.

I just want to encourage you today.

Even if you don't have some big dream for your life, you might be raising a child

that's going to be a world changer.

Whatever you're doing, it is very important.

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