Get Over Your Sweet Little Self – Part 4
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When happiness eludes us, the Bible will always tell us why. Today on 15 Minutes in the Word, Joyce teaches candidly about learning to obey God's Word.
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00:00:00
Welcome to Fifty Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joy Smire.
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On today's program, Joy's will be teaching on the power of thank you.
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Every moment we are given is a gift from God.
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While we're not always in control of the circumstances, we can choose to have a thankful mindset, living each day full of joy and trusting that God is fulfilling the ultimate purpose of our story.
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Today, Joy's wants to encourage us to have a grateful heart, but when we actively practice Thanksgiving, it will be the key to finding freedom from bitterness and fear, and embracing God's best for us.
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Now here's Joy's with today's teaching.
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Another quick story, I'll tell it to you in the mini version.
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I bought a new red dress and it was still under the plastic because I never had worn it.
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I actually bought the dress one size too big for me because I liked it so much and that was the only size they had.
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It had dropped shoulders, so there was no seam on the shoulders, so you really couldn't tell that it was a little bit, you know, a little bit big.
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And I bought these really pretty red and silver earrings to go with it.
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I think I like the earrings better than the dress, and still hanging in my closet.
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One morning, I'm in my closet getting dressed.
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Your closet is not a great place to pray, ladies.
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I know the Bible says, "Go in your closet and shut the door."
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So I'm trying to get dressed, and I'm praying for this one certain lady who had been volunteering in our ministry for a long time, she was going to be at this meeting that I was conducting that morning.
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Oh, God, show me what I can do for Ruthan.
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Show me God and I can bless Ruthan, and immediately my eyes fell in that red dress.
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Now here, and I want you to hear this.
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Here's what I said, "Well, that can't be God, that dress is new."
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Come on, we're okay with giving away all of our raggy stuff and thinking we're really big givers because we take all this stuff to the goodwill that we wouldn't wear anymore.
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You're not giving 'til you feel it.
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Come on, I said, "You're not giving until you feel it."
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So long story short, I forgot about it a few weeks later, I'm praying for Ruthan.
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I was like Jonah, go to Nineveh.
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I went the opposite direction, got swallowed up by a whale.
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After God, he repented and God caused the whale to spit him up on dry ground.
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Next verse says, "And God said to Jonah, go to Nineveh."
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So give Ruthan the red dress.
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But God, I bought those pretty earrings to go with that dress.
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And he said, "Well, I was going to let you keep them, but if it's a bother, just give those to her too."
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So when Ruthan retired from the ministry, she gave me back the red dress.
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We have it at the ministry, it's one of our like memento things that we look at.
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I took it one day to the place where I'd buy my clothes that the lady had sold me this dress.
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I put it on and we had such a laugh.
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It was not even a pretty dress.
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Unless we were willing to die to self, we abide alone.
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We live isolated, lonely lives, very few people would call us friend.
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And when we're gone, nobody really cares that much that we're no longer here.
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We've traveled through life and the world is no better because we were here.
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Let me ask you, what are you leaving in this world as a legacy?
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My goal, good number of years ago, as I told the Lord, I want to leave at least 100 top quality books.
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Not Jesus, that people can read 100, 200 years after I'm gone.
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Well God does more than enough and I'm 135 now.
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You got a declared war on selfishness.
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Just make your mind up today.
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I refuse to live as a selfish self-centered person.
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I am not going to do it.
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And the only way you can beat selfishness and greed is to be an aggressive giver and a blesser of other people.
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We live in very self-centered times and the opportunity to be selfish is everywhere.
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Second Timothy 3, 1 and 2.
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But understand this, that in the last days we'll come and set in perilous times of great stress and trouble hard to deal with them hard to bear.
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Well can anybody say that they're pretty sure we're in those times right now?
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For people will be lovers of self, so this is telling us why we're in hard times.
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People will be lovers of self, utterly self-centered, lovers of money, aroused by an inordinate greedy desire for wealth, proud and arrogant, contemptuous boasters, they will be abusive blasts from a scoffing disobedient to parents,
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ungrateful, unholy and profane.
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These are the days we're living in right now.
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What a chance we have to shine.
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This is the best time ever to turn your light on, because it is so dark out there that people are looking, people are desperate.
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Why do you think so many people are committing suicide?
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Why do you think so many people are so angry that they're about ready to explode all the time?
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They know that something is wrong in the world and they don't even know enough to know what it is.
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I don't know if you realize how valuable what I'm telling you here today is.
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Most people in the world are told, take care of yourself.
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Take care of number one.
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If you don't take care of yourself, nobody else will.
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And I'm here telling you today, forget about yourself, lose sight of yourself and reach out to other people.
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Now let me tell you a little story that I think is just beautiful.
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In John 13, Jesus, well, actually I'm going to read it and let you see it, because it will just be better that way.
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So I guess my question would be, have you washed any feet lately?
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John 13, 17 verses, let's see if you can focus that long.
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He was just before the Passover festival and Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.
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Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them all the way to the end.
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Now he knew he was ready to leave and he wanted to leave them the best example that they could be left with, to be practiced as they lived their life.
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The evening meal was in progress and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon is going to scare it to betray Jesus.
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Jesus knew, I love this, Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power.
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He knew he didn't have to do what he was getting ready to do.
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He's the King of kings, the Lord of lords, all power belongs to him.
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See, real power can serve.
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The greatest among you is the servant of all.
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We've got it backwards.
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See the world thinks that being a servant is a lowly position.
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But God says the opposite, but you see, Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God.
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He knew that he was only here for a period of time, for a purpose.
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Come on.
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You were born because it was God's will for you to be born.
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And if you're a believer in Christ, you know where you're going to go when your life here is over.
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So you're what, passing through.
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This is not your home.
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You are passing through that God has a purpose for you.
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I love that Jesus knowing where he came from and knowing where he was going took off his outer garment and put on a servant's towel and knelt down,
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got on his knees in front of these disciples and began to wash their dirty, stinky feet.
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I'm sorry, but I've not seen too many men with cute feet.
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Most of them, their second toe is longer than their big toe.
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I know Dave's is, it's kind of like a home.
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When they wore sandals and the roads were not paved and so their feet were dirty, dirty.
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And he washed their feet.
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When he got to Peter, verse six, Peter said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
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And Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I'm doing, but later you will understand."
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And I said, "Peter, you shall never wash my feet."
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Let's don't overly spiritualize that what he's saying is unless we do things for one another.
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Then there is no real relationship.
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You have no part in me.
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I have no part in you.
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I wonder if anybody in the world is ready to have a real relationship where you lay your life down for each other.
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And you consider serving and doing what would be considered a menial task.
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I was watching my program on TV the other day.
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I actually learned from myself.
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And I talked about a morning when I felt like, you know, mornings are like,
00:12:05
I got to have my coffee and my quiet.
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I don't want to talk to anybody.
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I don't want to do anything for anybody.
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I just need to have at least an hour with the Lord and my coffee before I can act decent.
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Amen.
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My pastor Tommy says, "Thank God for caffeine until the anointing kicks in."
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So I remember God, I heard this on my program.
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God put it on my heart that morning to make Dave a fruit salad.
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He likes fruit salad, so he likes all this stuff cut up.
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I'm talking maybe six or seven things.
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Cut up and put in a bowl.
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Well, I did not want to make him a fruit salad.
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I wanted to go sit in my chair and pray about being a servant.
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I wanted to go sit in my chair and pray about walking in love.
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I didn't want to actually do it.
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Thanks for listening, let's choose to live with an attitude of gratitude.
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As we daily express our thanks, it will not only help us realize how God is working in our lives, but it will help lift our burdens and give us a new perspective.
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Thankfully this releases joy, has a powerful effect on our prayers, and keeps us focused on the positive aspects of life.
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Make a new and firm commitment to being more thankful than you ever have been.
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For more resources from Joyce, visit joysmeyer.org.
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Can God use a simple concept to help us through life's challenges?
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I've written a book called The Power of Thank You.
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Such a simple book, such a simple principle, but life changes.
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Learn to be a grateful person.
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I believe it's going to add a lot of joy to your life.
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The Power of Thank You.
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What are your copies today at joysmeyer.org?
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Thank you for listening to 15 Minutes in the Word with Joyce.
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