When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Part 1
Joyce Meyer Enjoying Everyday Life® TV Audio Podcast
Joyce Meyer
4.7 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Difficult circumstances are great opportunities for personal growth. Get tips to help you approach life's tests with a peaceful attitude.
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| 0:00.0 | This program is supported by you, our viewers, and our partners. |
| 0:05.6 | We need to learn that these things that we go through have a purpose. |
| 0:11.7 | We may not know what that purpose is, but if it's nothing other than for us to get experience, |
| 0:18.9 | it's worth it. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt. |
| 0:32.0 | How many of you know that it's very, very important that we make every effort that we can to be positive in life. |
| 0:46.5 | Some people, to be honest, you could solve all your problems if you would just change from being negative to positive. |
| 0:58.5 | God's positive. |
| 1:00.6 | There's nothing negative at all about him. |
| 1:05.3 | And so I just want to encourage you to make a decision to say good things about your life and good things about your family |
| 1:14.4 | and good things about your future and just make that effort, make a Holy Ghost effort to be |
| 1:21.1 | positive. |
| 1:21.7 | And I heard a little story that I thought was cute. |
| 1:24.8 | There was a woman that was a very positive lady and she was starting to lose |
| 1:31.2 | some of her hair. And one morning she got up and she only had three hairs on her head. And being |
| 1:41.3 | positive, wanting to have the best outlook, she said, well, I think today I'll just |
| 1:45.5 | braid my hair. |
| 1:47.5 | So she braided her hair. |
| 1:49.2 | And the next day she got up, she only had two hairs on her head. |
| 1:53.7 | She said, well, I think today I'll just put my hair in pig tails. |
| 1:59.5 | So she put it in pig tails. |
| 2:02.0 | The next day, this poor woman woke up, and she only had one hair left on her head. |
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