JOYCE MEYER SAID IN OTHER WORDS, IT GETS IN THERE AND YOU KEEP IT THERE AND YOU STAY ANGRY AND YOU STAY ANGRY. WHY IS IT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT IF A PERSON GETS ANGRY AND STAYS ANGRY, IT’S FOOLISH? BECAUSE NUMBER ONE, IT’S NOT THE WILL OF GOD, NUMBER TWO, IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE, NUMBER THREE, THE PERSON YOU’RE MAD AT IS PROBABLY OUT HAVING A GOOD TIME AND DOESN’T EVEN CARE THAT YOU’RE UPSET. I THINK THAT’S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS RIGHT THERE. THE WORD “FOOLISH” MEANS WITHOUT COMMON SENSE; ONE WHO DOES NOT GOVERN HIMSELF, HE DOES NOT GOVERN HIS EMOTIONS, HE LETS HIS EMOTIONS RULE; OR SOMEONE WHO IS UNWISE IN THEIR CHOICES. COMMON SENSE.
JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES THINK PASTOR BRIAN WAS REALLY TALKING ABOUT COMMON SENSE IN THE FIRST POINT OF HIS MESSAGE THIS MORNING. THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT MAYBE I DON’T HAVE AND A LOT OF THINGS I CAN’T DO, BUT I THINK PROBABLY THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT HAS BEEN IN MY FAVOR ALL THESE YEARS IS I DO JUST HAVE A LOT OF COMMON SENSE. I MAYBE DON’T HAVE ALL THE EDUCATION SOMEBODY ELSE DOES BUT I JUST THINK I HAVE A LOT OF COMMON SENSE. I BELIEVE DAVE HAS A LOT OF COMMON SENSE. I THINK COMMON SENSE IS MORE VALUABLE THAN EDUCATION, I THINK IT’S MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY. SEE, COMMON SENSE SAYS YOU DON’T BUY MORE THAN YOU CAN PAY FOR. (applause)
JOYCE MEYER ONLINE. COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE IN RELATIONSHIP, YOU CAN’T GET YOUR WAY ALL THE TIME. I WASN’T JUST BORN WITH THAT COMMON SENSE. I CAME ABOUT IT THE HARD WAY. (laughing) I HAD SOME YEARS WHEN I SPENT MORE THAN I HAD AND ENDED UP IN DEBT AND HAD TO THEN GO FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY HARDLY ANYTHING TO GET THE CREDIT CARD DEBT PAID OFF AND I LEARNED FROM THAT EXPERIENCE THAT COMMON SENSE SAYS YOU DON’T BUY MORE THAN YOU CAN PAY FOR.
Joyce Meyer – As always, we’re offering you some resources to help you — a dvd teaching entitled “what kind of influence are you having?” I think we all need to ask ourselves that. We all are having some kind of an influence, so how are you influencing your children? How are you influencing your neighbors? How are you influencing the people at the market where you go? The people at your job? We need to ask ourselves that.
