Living Without Frustration Joyce Meyer
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Living Without Frustration
How You Can Find Satisfaction in God’s Grace
Teaching Notes by Joyce Meyer Joyce Meyer Ministries P.O. Box 655 • Fenton, MO 63026 636-349-0303 • 1-800-727-9673 www.joycemeyer.org
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March 27-29, 2008 Memphis, Tennessee
LIVING WITHOUT FRUSTRATION I.
What Is Grace? A.
God’s riches at Christ’s expense l.
B.
C.
God’s power made available to us free of charge, enabling us to do with ease what we could never do on our own
Grace is power (God’s power). 1.
The power to save us from our sins
2.
The power to live a victorious, contented and fruitful life
Grace is God’s goodness which we do not deserve, but which we can receive by faith as a gift from God.
JM NOTE: Page nine of Grace book – read definition. II.
Life Is Frustrating Without Grace. A.
B.
I was frustrated. 1.
Trying to do something about something I could not do anything about
2.
Example: Trying to change myself
God’s Word actually frustrated me; I saw what I needed to be, I saw what I wasn’t – I tried and tried, and was ALWAYS DISAPPOINTED and FRUSTRATED.
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C.
I Peter 5:5 – God opposes, frustrates and defeats the proud; but He gives grace to the humble. God opposes our fleshly works.
D.
1.
God won’t let you do things right without Him – not without frustration, discontentment and stress.
2.
You may accomplish a thing, but it will just about kill you.
I Peter 5:6-7 – HUMBLE YOURSELVES. 1.
Get real. Be honest with yourself about yourself.
2.
Without God we are not the “hot shots” we would like to think we are. John 15:5 – Apart from Me
E.
III.
Isaiah 40:28-31 – Only God doesn’t eventually get worn out and fall apart.
Trade Trying For Trusting. A.
I tried to change myself, my husband, my children and friends. I tried to make my ministry grow. I tried to have a different personality. 1.
B.
Trust. 1.
C.
To be more like my pastor’s wife, my neighbor, Dave, etc.
Colossians 1:4 – Faith is the leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His (not your) POWER, WISDOM and GOODNESS.
James 4:6 – He gives us more and more grace to meet our evil tendencies.
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1.
IV.
Sin And Grace A.
Romans 1:7 – Grace and peace be multiplied to you. 1.
B.
There is no peace without grace – only worry, frustration, trying and failing, stress, etc.
Romans 5:15 – Grace and sin can’t even be compared. 1.
V.
There is plenty of grace (God’s power and help) available if we will STOP and receive it.
Grace is greater.
C.
Romans 5:20 – Where sin abounds – grace super-abounds. When sin increases, grace surpasses it.
D.
Ephesians 2:8-9 – Saved by grace.
Changing Ourselves – “How Can I Change?” A.
Galatians 3:2-5 – We cannot reach perfection through works of the flesh.
B.
II Corinthians 3:18 – We change from glory to glory, but it comes from the Lord. 1.
C.
Enjoy the glory you are in – do not live in comparison.
Philippians 1:6 – He began the work in you – HE must finish it. 1.
Deuteronomy 7:22 – Little by little to prevent pride
2.
I Peter 5:10 – After you suffer awhile
D.
I Thessalonians 5:22-24 – God Himself will do it.
E.
John 6:28-29 – Our work is to believe.
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VI.
1.
Our work is the work of faith.
2.
Believers enter REST.
Things I Tried To Change A.
My personality 1.
B.
My gifts and talents 1.
2. C.
I tried to be like Donna, and tried to be like Dave (merciful, sweet, easygoing, no worry, etc).
I tried to be like my neighbor. a.
Grow tomatoes.
b.
Sew clothes.
c.
Play guitar.
Romans 12:4-8 – Let us exercise our gifts according to the grace given us.
Every message I heard that convicted me, I tried to make it work. I tried to be quiet, nice, sweet and good. 1.
Psalm 127:1 – Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain.
2.
Isaiah 50:10-11 – Those who trust the Lord have the victory and are blessed.
3.
Isaiah 30:1-3, 14-18 – Works of the flesh can only end in misery. Those who are in their own works end up very miserable.
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VII. Changing Others A.
B.
My husband 1.
His personality
2.
His desires (sports, ministry)
3.
Proverbs 21:1 – God changes the heart of the king the way He changes the watercourses.
My children 1.
Laura was messy and not motivated. I wanted her to be more like me.
2.
David was like me (strong personality), so I felt he challenged me continually. I didn’t want him to be like me.
C.
Romans 12:16 – Live in harmony by “adapting yourselves” to other people and things. 1.
All my life I was fighting something or someone until I learned to “adapt” and “go with the flow.”
2.
Learn to change what we can, accept what we cannot, and pray for wisdom to know the difference.
VIII. Changing Circumstances A.
The same principles apply.
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July 31, 1993 Tulsa, Oklahoma
Letting Go And Learning To Enjoy I.
II.
Free To Enjoy A.
John 10:10 – I came that you might have and enjoy life.
B.
John 17:13 – His joy perfected and completed in us.
C.
John 15:1-11 – I have told you these things that My joy might be in you.
Abide. A.
John 15:5 – Apart from Me you can do nothing. 1.
Branches off of the Vine quickly whither.
2.
Hang on the Vine.
JM NOTE: Use example of branches B.
Romans 11:17 – We were grafted in to share the richness and sap of the tree. 1.
To RECEIVE
2.
(Explain “grafted in”) We surrender – all the rest is God, and us receiving by faith.
C.
Receive versus get 1.
Get (defined/Webster’s) – To come into possession of, to obtain, to go after and obtain, to seize, to take by force. To acquire as a result of action or effort (works, works, and works).
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2.
Receive (defined/Webster’s) – To act as a receptacle or a container; to permit to enter; believe to be at home to visitors, to welcome or greet.
3.
Work done apart from grace equals works of the flesh and failure. a.
Works – Man’s energy trying to do God’s job. Example: Genesis 16 – Abram, Sarai and Hagar
b.
Work done “not by might, nor by power, but by God’s Spirit” equals success, joy, enjoyment, ease, etc.
4.
James 4:2 – You have not because you ask not.
5.
John 16:24 – Ask and receive that your joy may be full.
6.
John 3:27 – We can receive nothing unless it is granted from heaven. Ask and trust Let go and let God
7.
Things to be RECEIVED: a.
John 1:12 – Salvation – To as many as received Him, He gave power to become the sons of God.
b.
Acts 2:38; 8:17 – Holy Spirit – Have you received the Holy Spirit?
c.
Acts 10:43 – Forgiveness – Receive forgiveness in His name.
d.
John 1:16-17 – Favor, gifts, and spiritual blessing – All must be received and cannot be earned or deserved.
e.
God’s love – For God so loved that He gave.
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f.
III.
Romans 5:17 – Righteousness – Receive the free gift of righteousness.
Enter God’s Rest. A.
Hebrews 4:3 – Those who believe enter rest. 1.
B.
Faith causes one to receive by faith without seeing in the natural.
“Sit Down” – Seated in heavenly places 1.
Ephesians 2:6 – We are SEATED in heavenly places. NOT pacing in heavenly places
2.
3. C.
Jesus is seated in heavenly places. a.
Colossians 3:1
b.
Revelation 4:2-3, 9-10; 5:1, 7
Hebrews 1:3, 13
Seat/seated (defined/Webster’s) – A foundation on which one rests; to fix firmly in place. Rest (defined/Vine’s) – Not a rest from work, but IN work; not in activity, but rest while being active. 1.
Matthew 11:28 – Come unto Me all that labor, and I will give you rest.
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Receiving And Giving Grace I.
What Is Grace? A.
B.
C.
D.
Grace (defined) – Kindness, favor, bestowing pleasure freely to all. 1.
It is the opposite of struggling to earn or deserve a thing.
2.
It is God’s power offered freely to help us do whatever needs to be done with ease.
Can anything actually be easy in life? 1.
Matthew 11:28-30 – My yoke is easy!
2.
There is a way to do things in Christ that removes frustration!
Grace is the power and equipment for your job, calling, or station (situation) in life. 1.
Romans 12:6 – According to the grace (ability) given, let us use our gifts.
2.
I Corinthians 3:10 – The special endowment for my task!
3.
Philippians 4:13 – Whatever you need to do in life, YOU CAN DO IT.
4.
I despise seeing people I love waste their grace. a.
A very talented person, but so insecure they are paralyzed.
b.
Touchy, lazy or stupid
Grace is received through faith.
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1.
Not through doubt and unbelief, worry or reasoning and negativity
2.
By grace are you saved through faith – it is a gift of God. Saved from sin, hell and every other misery
E.
F.
Keep believing and stay plugged into your power source. 1.
Romans 1:17 – From faith to faith
2.
Must understand righteousness.
Faith is positive; it believes the best! 1.
Two attitudes a.
Do you see what you have, or what others have that you don’t have?
b.
Do you rehearse (talk about and practice for) your problems or your possibilities?
c.
What are you expecting out of life? Are you aggressively believing for good things, or merely waiting to see what you get?
d.
2.
1)
Faith is not passive.
2)
Waiting on God properly is not passive – it is spiritual activity that affects the spiritual realm.
You might say, “Thomas was a disciple and he was negative,” but there is no book of Thomas in the Bible.
Get honest – what percent of the time are you positive? a.
That is the percent of power you have.
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b.
II.
Maybe you look like a lamp with the dimmer switch on!
Grace For Specific Situations – Tailor-Made Grace A.
B.
Grace to be bold 1.
Romans 15:15
2.
Romans 12:3
Grace for confrontation 1.
Matthew 18:15-16 – Most of the time people are afraid to confront, and instead they gossip.
2.
Instead of saying, “I hate confrontation,” say, “I have grace to confront issues when I really need to.”
3.
Paul was out ministering fourteen years before he went to present himself, and his message, to the other apostles. a.
Galatians 2:1-14 Especially see Verses 10-14.
b.
C.
He confronted Peter about hypocrisy. It didn’t seem to destroy their relationship (it may have helped it).
Difficult marriage – If you’re going to stay, be happy while God works. 1.
Pray and be careful how you talk about your spouse and the situation.
2.
You can waste your grace by saying things that turn the power off.
3.
I Samuel: Chapter 25 – Abigail
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Verses 25, 37-40 – She was married to a fool, but her good attitude got her a king! D.
III.
Persecution for trying to do what is right 1.
Matthew 5:10-12
2.
II Timothy 3:12
3.
Mark 10:28-30 – Receive a 100-fold return with persecution.
E.
Do you have a financial need? God will give you grace – it is available!
F.
A health problem? Grace is available!
G.
More responsibility than you think you can stand? Grace is available!
One Day At A Time A.
Exodus 16:15-21 – Even supernatural provision comes one day at a time. 1.
Gather your grace (power, strength and ability) daily.
2.
Psalm 63:1 (NKJV) – O God, You are my God; early will I seek You…
3.
Psalm 108:2-3 – I will rise up early, and I will praise you.
4.
Proverbs 8:17 – …those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. Early – before anything else.
5. B.
I doubt that the Israelites procrastinated about gathering their manna for the day.
Don’t waste today’s grace trying to get tomorrow’s. 1.
Matthew 6:34 – Worry
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C.
Don’t waste today’s grace being mad, sad, depressed, discouraged, or disgusted about what did or did not happen yesterday! 1.
IV.
Let go of what lies behind and get on with life.
Power Gone Sour A.
Sampson – a specially gifted man who wasted his grace. 1.
B.
C.
He had unbelievable strength.
Some of his feats: 1.
Killed a lion bare-handed.
2.
Slew thirty armed men.
3.
Caught 300 foxes, tied their tails together with a torch between their tails, and sent them to the enemy’s camp and burned everything up.
4.
Killed 1000 men with the jawbone of a donkey.
Judges 16:1 – He saw a harlot and went to her. 1.
Delilah found the secret of his strength.
2.
It was due to him being dedicated as a Nazarite, and one vow he took was to never cut his hair.
3.
Delilah cut it while he was sleeping. a.
Judges 16:20 – He did not realize he had lost what he had – he wasted his grace.
b.
Judges 16:30 – God let him die in victory, but his life was wasted.
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How To Avoid A Power Outage Two Ways to Live I.
Two Covenants A.
Galatians 4:22-23 – Two women – two covenants 1.
How do you want to live? a.
Ordinary – natural
b.
Supernatural The power is never out in this realm.
B.
Genesis 15:1-6 – Shows us the supernatural 1.
Abraham believed God!
2.
Romans 4:18-22 – What is impossible with man is possible with God.
3.
Romans 15:13 – Joy and peace come through believing. When you’ve lost them, ask yourself what you’re believing.
4. C.
Isaac, the “child of promise” – the supernatural child’s name means laughter.
Genesis 16:1-9 – Ordinary – natural 1.
We see man’s fleshly ideas of how to get what he wants.
2.
We see strife, and loss of joy and peace.
3.
Blame, running away in fear
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4.
II.
Eventually we see Ishmael, whose name means “man of war.”
Living By Faith (Trust, Reliance And Total Leaning On God) A.
Matthew 13:58 – Jesus could have done more if they would have had more faith. 1.
B.
C.
Faith can increase by using what you have.
Hebrews 4:3, 11 – Throughout God’s Word, we see people who believed God and those who did not. 1.
We also see the results!
2.
What are the results of the way you have chosen to live?
Matthew 14:28-31 – Peter got out of the boat and walked on water by faith. 1.
History is filled with testimonies of people who did great things by faith in God! IMPOSSIBLE THINGS, UNLESS GOD IS INVOLVED!
D.
No matter how many miracles we hear about, read about or even see with our own eyes, our natural tendency is to doubt, worry and reason! 1.
E.
Matthew 16:5-10 – They worried about lunch, yet they had just witnessed the feeding (miraculous feeding) of the 4000 and the 5000 (twelve loaves of bread fed 9000).
Walking in or living by faith requires steps: 1.
Knowing God’s Word and character.
2.
Taking a chance – stepping out.
3.
Being patient.
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III.
4.
Staying positive.
5.
Great faith requires experience with God’s faithfulness.
When You’re Waiting, You Are Tempted To SHORT CIRCUIT Your Faith. A.
When you see nothing changing, and you feel nothing changing, and you are really tired of waiting:
JM NOTE: I know how you feel.
B.
C.
1.
The enemy says, “What are you going to do – you need to do something!”
2.
But you can’t do anything if, you honestly don’t know what to do.
Tempted to give up (giving up is aborting your dream). 1.
The answer to temptation is to pray, pray, pray.
2.
Determination
Don’t focus on the problem. 1.
I got a cortisone shot in my elbow. and the doctor distracted me by asking about my dog.
2.
Mark 5:35-36 – When Jesus heard negative reports, He ignored them.
3.
How many problems (especially relationship problems) could you have avoided in life by ignoring what someone said or did? Be careful what you focus on.
D.
Killing giants is easy if you know how to do it.
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1.
Don’t expect the giant to give up easily!
2.
I Samuel 17:32-50 – David kills Goliath. a.
Verse 33 – He had to get past the discouragement of other people.
b.
Verses 34-37 – He had to keep thinking and talking about other victories that he had in the past.
c.
Verses 39-40 – He had to get past everyone’s advice on how to do it and follow his heart.
d.
Verses 42-43 – He had to get past the enemy making fun of him: “Who do you think you are?”
e.
Verses 45-47 – He had to get bold and aggressive.
f.
Verse 48 – When the appointed time came to act, he had to act quickly Don’t miss your moment.
E.
IV.
David was anointed to be king twenty years before he was crowned. 1.
If he had given up when he saw Goliath, he would still be waiting!
2.
It’s the twenty years that mess us up.
3.
Abraham waited twenty years for Isaac.
Do What You Can Do And God Will Do What You Can’t Do. A.
You can’t change a grouchy, unbelieving spouse, child or friend…but: 1.
You can keep being a blessing everywhere you go.
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B.
C.
D.
Maybe you can’t make your boss realize you really should have that promotion and huge raise that goes with it…but: 1.
You can keep praying. (See Luke 18:1 and John 11:40.)
2.
You can keep being thankful for what you have!
Maybe you can’t change the world, the government, violence, war or hatred…but: 1.
You can be a light (even one) in a dark place.
2.
You can keep loving Jesus every day.
3.
You can be the one person you know who keeps their word, is positive and smiles most of the time.
You can be the one house in the neighborhood that has power (grace) when it is dark everywhere else! BE FAITHFUL TO DO WHAT YOU CAN DO AND GOD WILL DO WHAT YOU CAN’T DO!
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