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Speaker 7: about this man. He was taking a walk through the
Speaker 7: woods with his friend when they suddenly encountered a huge
Speaker 7: grizzly bear about twenty yards in front of them. They
Speaker 7: both froze in their tracks as the bear intently stirred
Speaker 7: them down. They contemplated what they should do. Finally, the
Speaker 7: man said to his friend, I think we should run.
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Speaker 7: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 7: I want to talk to you today about keeping your joy.
Speaker 7: We all have opportunities to get upset and go around frustrated.
Speaker 7: Somebody was rude to us, Traffic was backed up, we
Speaker 7: can't find our car keys. Life is full of inconveniences, delays,
Speaker 7: and people that don't do right. We're never going to
Speaker 7: stop these things from happening. The key is how we
Speaker 7: handle them. The scripture says no man can take your joy.
Speaker 7: That means you control your joy. Nothing can take it
Speaker 7: from you. You have to give it away. Next time
Speaker 7: someone cuts you off in traffic, ask yourself, is this
Speaker 7: worth giving them my joy? That person that's rude to
Speaker 7: you on the phone that you've never met, are you
Speaker 7: going to give them your joy? That delay, that plan
Speaker 7: that didn't work out, that negative comment, You're going to
Speaker 7: let that sour your day. The reason some people are
Speaker 7: not happy is there constant lead giving away their joy.
Speaker 7: I was in a crowded parking lot one time waiting
Speaker 7: for a parking spot. The man was putting his groceries
Speaker 7: in his car and took him a couple of minutes.
Speaker 7: I had my blinker on patiently waiting. When he finally
Speaker 7: backed out, a car came from the wrong direction and
Speaker 7: pulled in right in front of me. They could clearly
Speaker 7: see that I was waiting. My first response was to
Speaker 7: haunt my horn and tell them what I thought. Then
Speaker 7: I noticed he was bigger than me. I thought to myself.
Speaker 7: I'll give you my parking spot, but I'm not going
Speaker 7: to give you my joy. I didn't like it. It
Speaker 7: wasn't fair. But I've learned to not let things I
Speaker 7: can't control sour my day. I've made up my mind.
Speaker 7: I'm going to be happy today. I'm going to enjoy
Speaker 7: my life. You can't control what people do, you can't
Speaker 7: control what they say, but you can control how you respond.
Speaker 7: My message is very simple. Quit giving away your joy.
Speaker 7: Quit letting the same people upset you. Quit letting the traffic,
Speaker 7: the delays, the things that don't work out frustrate you.
Speaker 7: You can't pray these things away. Have person at the
Speaker 7: office that gets on your nerves. I don't mean to
Speaker 7: be negative, but they may not change. They may be
Speaker 7: that way for the next twenty years. My challenge is,
Speaker 7: don't go twenty years giving them your joy. They may
Speaker 7: not change, but you can change. Life is too short
Speaker 7: to live frustrated upset over things we have no control.
Speaker 7: People have a right to have their opinion. You have
Speaker 7: the right to ignore it. People have the right to
Speaker 7: be rude. You have the right to stay happy. Quit
Speaker 7: letting their negative comments upset you. They wouldn't be talking
Speaker 7: about you if you weren't making a difference. Nobody talks
Speaker 7: about people that are not doing anything. They're talking about
Speaker 7: you because you're going places. They can see. There's something
Speaker 7: special about you. You have the favor of God. You're blessed,
Speaker 7: you're talented, you're anointed. Sometimes small minded people will try
Speaker 7: to push you down and discredit you. Don't pay any
Speaker 7: attention to it. That doesn't carry anyway. What they say
Speaker 7: cannot keep you from your destiny. That is simply a distraction.
Speaker 7: Every person has negative chatter. All your family members, unfortunately,
Speaker 7: are not going to be for you. George Burns said,
Speaker 7: happiness is having a loving, carrying, close knit family living
Speaker 7: in another city. Some of your relatives you have to
Speaker 7: love them from a distance. If they're sitting by you today,
Speaker 7: don't say amen. Now. All of your coworkers are not
Speaker 7: going to celebrate you. All of your friends are not
Speaker 7: going to be loyal. Some people can't handle your success.
Speaker 7: They'll make remarks trying to bait you into conflict, trying
Speaker 7: to get you upset. Here's the key. Don't get involved
Speaker 7: in battles that are not between you and your destiny.
Speaker 7: Most of the conflict we engage in is a distraction.
Speaker 7: The enemy would love to get you off course, offended,
Speaker 7: trying to straighten people out, trying to convince them that
Speaker 7: you're okay. Your job is not to change people's mind
Speaker 7: about you. Your job is not to try to make
Speaker 7: people like you. Your job is to run your race
Speaker 7: to be who God called you to be, and not
Speaker 7: worry about the critics and the naysayers. God will cause
Speaker 7: the right people to like you. Well. One of the
Speaker 7: best things I've learned is everybody is not supposed to
Speaker 7: like you. Everybody is not supposed to approve you. Some
Speaker 7: people are ordained by God, not by the enemy, but
Speaker 7: by God to not be For you. To accept that
Speaker 7: everyone is not going to accept you. We see it
Speaker 7: in the scripture. Joseph's brothers weren't supposed to be for Joseph.
Speaker 7: They were ordained to betray him. Without their betrayal, Joseph
Speaker 7: would have never made it to the palace to help
Speaker 7: the Israelites during the famine. Quit being sour because somebody
Speaker 7: betrayed you. How do you know that's not leading you
Speaker 7: to your palace? How do you know that disappointment is
Speaker 7: not a part of God's plan to take you to
Speaker 7: the next level of your destiny. King Saul was ordained
Speaker 7: to not like David. If he would have celebrated David
Speaker 7: been happy for his success, David would have never taken
Speaker 7: the throne. Are you upset because someone is not for you?
Speaker 7: When the truth is God has ordained them to not
Speaker 7: be for you. When Nehemiah was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem,
Speaker 7: there were two men san Ballot and Tobias that didn't
Speaker 7: like what he was doing. They stood at the bottom
Speaker 7: of the mountain and constantly shouted insults at Nemiyah. They
Speaker 7: were trying to bait him into conflict, get him upset. Frustrated,
Speaker 7: Neamiyah understood this principle. He said, no thanks, I'm not
Speaker 7: giving you my joy. You may not like me, but
Speaker 7: you not liking me has nothing to do with me
Speaker 7: fulfilling my destiny. I'm gonna stay focused on what God's
Speaker 7: called me to do. If Namiyah would have come off
Speaker 7: the mountain, God upset went down there to straighten them out.
Speaker 7: Even if he won, even if he shut them up,
Speaker 7: he wouldn't have finished the wall when he did. All
Speaker 7: the chatter that comes against you is a distraction. It's
Speaker 7: to get you upset, so you get involved in battles
Speaker 7: that don't matter. Then you look up and you're not
Speaker 7: accomplishing what you should do yourself a favor, don't pay
Speaker 7: any attention to it. Quit being upset by people who
Speaker 7: are not for you. People that make negative comments, trying
Speaker 7: to marginalize you, push you down. What they say doesn't
Speaker 7: determine your destiny. They are simply a distraction. That's just noise.
Speaker 7: Don't give it the time of day. See some people,
Speaker 7: no matter what you do, they are not going to
Speaker 7: like you. Even if you changed and did everything they wanted,
Speaker 7: they would still find some reason why you don't measure up.
Speaker 7: You have to be at peace with people not being
Speaker 7: at peace with you. You don't need their approval to
Speaker 7: fulfill your purpose. You don't have to have them before
Speaker 7: you to become who God's created you to be. But
Speaker 7: if you get distracted trying to wind them over, spending
Speaker 7: your valuable time trying to convince them to be for you,
Speaker 7: then you will miss the fullness of your destiny. Don't
Speaker 7: take the bank. Don't let them get you riled up.
Speaker 7: Jesus said, blessed are the meek. They will inherit the
Speaker 7: Earth doesn't mean weak. Meekness means strength under control. When
Speaker 7: you ignore negative comments, you don't pay attention to the sand,
Speaker 7: ballots and tobias is of life. You're not being weak,
Speaker 7: you're being meek. You have the power to fight. You
Speaker 7: have the strength to straighten them out, to tell them
Speaker 7: what you feel. But your strength is under control. You're
Speaker 7: not wasting time engaged in battles that are not between
Speaker 7: you and your God given destiny. I've learned when you
Speaker 7: stay on the high road, God will take care of
Speaker 7: your enemies. God can defend you better than you can
Speaker 7: defend yourself. In the scripture, Elisha was traveling from Jericho
Speaker 7: to Bethel. Along the way, a group of young men
Speaker 7: came out and started making fun of him because he
Speaker 7: was bald. The scripture says they were mocking him, saying, gold, baldygo.
Speaker 7: You didn't know that was in the Bible, did you?
Speaker 7: You know? Elisha was annoyed. He could have gotten upset,
Speaker 7: thought I'm gonna go straighten them out. I'll show you
Speaker 7: what I thought. Instead, he remained calm. He understood this principle.
Speaker 7: They couldn't take his joy. They were baiting him, trying
Speaker 7: to get him distracted. He just stayed focused and continued
Speaker 7: doing what God called him to do. While those young
Speaker 7: men were making fun of him, two bears came out
Speaker 7: of the woods and tore them to pieces. That tells
Speaker 7: me two things. Number one, don't make fun of all people.
Speaker 7: Number Two, you don't have to straighten people out. God
Speaker 7: will be your vindicator. God knows how to take care
Speaker 7: of the opposition. He sees what they're doing, He hears
Speaker 7: the disrespect. If you'll stay in peace, God will fight
Speaker 7: your battles. When God does it, I can assure you
Speaker 7: it will be better than anything you could have done.
Speaker 7: But your feelings will want to pay people back. Feelings
Speaker 7: will tell us go in there, get even, stand up
Speaker 7: for yourself. If you let feelings rule, you'll get upset.
Speaker 7: You'll end up giving away your joy. Don't get on
Speaker 7: board with your feelings. The Psalmist said God has given
Speaker 7: us the power to remain calm in times of adversity.
Speaker 7: It doesn't say God will keep us from all the adversity,
Speaker 7: from the opposition, the sand balance, the negative chatter. It
Speaker 7: says they will come. We'll have opportunities to get upset,
Speaker 7: but God has given us power to stay calm. Now,
Speaker 7: quit telling yourself I can't help it. This person at
Speaker 7: the office, they just get on my nerves. You have
Speaker 7: the power to stay calm. That doesn't have to keep
Speaker 7: upsetting you. That is a learned behavior. They say something negative,
Speaker 7: I get offended. Traffic is bad, I get upset. The
Speaker 7: clerk is rude. I can't help it, Joel, I just
Speaker 7: go off. I just let them have it. The problem
Speaker 7: is you have strength, but it's not a control. You
Speaker 7: need to relearn how to respond. You need to develop
Speaker 7: some new habits. Next time something happens that you don't like,
Speaker 7: pause for a moment and say, Father, thank you that
Speaker 7: you've given me the power to remain calm. Think you
Speaker 7: that I have a spirit of discipline and self control.
Speaker 7: You don't have to let the same things keep upsetting
Speaker 7: you year after year. Change your approach. I met a
Speaker 7: gentleman in another state at a restaurant. Was very windy outside,
Speaker 7: and when he walked in the door, the person in
Speaker 7: front of him let the door slam right in his face.
Speaker 7: This man had been hot tempered his whole life. Normally,
Speaker 7: he would have confronted them and told them what he thought,
Speaker 7: but he'd been listening to our programs, and just when
Speaker 7: he was about to lose his cool, he heard my
Speaker 7: voice saying stay calm and let God fight your battles.
Speaker 7: He paused for a moment and decided to let it go.
Speaker 7: He walked away like nothing happened. We came in the
Speaker 7: restaurant and sat down. I was sitting a few tables away.
Speaker 7: He came over and said, Joel, if you had not
Speaker 7: been in my head, I would have let them have
Speaker 7: it like this. Man. You may have been trained to
Speaker 7: respond a certain way. You grew up seeing people lose
Speaker 7: their cool, get upset, offended. Why don't you try a
Speaker 7: different approach. When you let people upset you, you are
Speaker 7: giving away your power. You are letting them control you.
Speaker 7: If they push this button, you get offended. That button
Speaker 7: you get upset. This other button they bait you into conflict.
Speaker 7: Why don't you turn those buttons off? Life is so
Speaker 7: much more freeing when you're not controlled by what people say.
Speaker 7: You're not offended when someone's upset, You're not soured because
Speaker 7: traffic was bad. You have tapped in to the power
Speaker 7: to remain calm. A friend of mine named David Polly
Speaker 7: wrote a book called the Law of the gold garbage truck.
Speaker 7: He was in a taxi cab in New York City
Speaker 7: headed to a meeting. A car pulled out right in
Speaker 7: front of them. The taxi driver had to slam on
Speaker 7: his brakes swerve to the left, missing the car by inches.
Speaker 7: The driver of the other car put his head out
Speaker 7: the window, started screaming and yelling. He was so angry,
Speaker 7: so upset, shaking his fist. The funny thing, it was
Speaker 7: his fault. The taxi driver just smiled, waved real big
Speaker 7: and drove on. Didn't give it the time of day.
Speaker 7: David was in the back seat, and he was so impressed.
Speaker 7: He said, that man almost totaled your car, almost sent
Speaker 7: us both to the hospital. I can't believe you didn't
Speaker 7: yell back at him. How did you keep your cool?
Speaker 7: The taxi driver gave an insightful answer. He said, I
Speaker 7: found many people are like garbage trucks. They go around
Speaker 7: full of anger, full of frustration, full of bitterness. As
Speaker 7: their garbage piles up up, they need somewhere to dump it.
Speaker 7: Sometimes they'll dump it on you, but you can't take
Speaker 7: it personally. It has nothing to do with you. Just smile,
Speaker 7: wish them well and move on. Here's the key. Successful
Speaker 7: people don't let garbage trucks overtake their day. If someone
Speaker 7: dumps a load on you, don't get upset. If you
Speaker 7: make that mistake, you'll end up carrying around their garbage
Speaker 7: and eventually you'll dump it on someone else. You have
Speaker 7: to keep your lid on. These days, many people are
Speaker 7: dumping frustration, disrespect, criticism, bitterness. We can't stop them from
Speaker 7: dumping it, but we can keep them from affecting us.
Speaker 7: Years ago, Victoria and I were at the airport. We
Speaker 7: were going through the security checkpoint. We put our bags
Speaker 7: on the X ray machine. The security officer sent them
Speaker 7: both back and said, you have liquids in there that
Speaker 7: you have to remove. Victoria said, oh yeah, I forgot
Speaker 7: to take my water out. Well, I thought he was
Speaker 7: only talking to Victoria. So I just stood there and
Speaker 7: didn't do anything. You would have thought I had committed
Speaker 7: a major crime. He was like totally insulted. He practically screamed, sir,
Speaker 7: what are you doing standing there? I told you to
Speaker 7: open the bag and do it now. Thought man, he's
Speaker 7: got a big garbage truck, and he was full of frustration,
Speaker 7: full of stress, and full of a lot of other stuff.
Speaker 7: But I didn't say it. You just thought it. But
Speaker 7: I took care of it. As I passed by me,
Speaker 7: I said sorry about that. I thought you were just
Speaker 7: talking to her. Have a good dame. Didn't mean it,
Speaker 7: but at least I said it. But I thought to myself,
Speaker 7: I'm keeping my lid on. I don't need his garbage.
Speaker 7: I don't need that poison. We have enough things of
Speaker 7: our own to deal with. You don't need somebody else's bitterness,
Speaker 7: their sour attitude, their pressure. Keep your lid on tight.
Speaker 7: Let those things bounce off of you. Your destiny is
Speaker 7: too great, Your time is too important to go around
Speaker 7: way down with other people's garbage. You can't keep it
Speaker 7: from coming, but you can keep it from getting in you.
Speaker 7: The longer I live, the more I realize how valuable
Speaker 7: each day is. We're not always going to be here.
Speaker 7: It's easy to live upset, offended, frustrated. But most of
Speaker 7: the things that are upsetting us, in the big picture,
Speaker 7: they don't really matter. Traffic was backed up, took you
Speaker 7: an hour to get home, should have taken you thirty minutes.
Speaker 7: Is that worth losing your joy over your alive? You're healthy,
Speaker 7: God's given your breath to breathe. He's given you a
Speaker 7: family to love. Somebody was rude to you. They made
Speaker 7: you look bad, they said something negative? Is that earth
Speaker 7: going around? Defended? Discouraged? What if we found out we
Speaker 7: only had a month to live? I wonder how many
Speaker 7: things we're allowing to upset us now? If we found
Speaker 7: out our time was limited, we wouldn't even pay attention
Speaker 7: to it. Can I tell you our time is limited?
Speaker 7: The scripture says our life is like a mist. We're
Speaker 7: here for a moment, then we're gone. That little quirk
Speaker 7: your spouse does that gets on your nerves. If we
Speaker 7: knew we weren't going to be here in a month,
Speaker 7: we wouldn't let it bother us. We would focus on
Speaker 7: all the things right, not on the few things wrong.
Speaker 7: We wouldn't complain about driving in traffic. We'd be happy
Speaker 7: to be in the traffic. We're alive. We got another
Speaker 7: day to enjoy life. Well, I've got to go to work.
Speaker 7: Not me. I get to go to work. Some people
Speaker 7: don't have a job. Some people are in the hospital,
Speaker 7: some people aren't able to work. I'm grateful to be employed.
Speaker 7: Well it's Sunday. I gotta go to church again. Not me.
Speaker 7: I get to go to church. God's been good to me.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go back and say thank you. Not only
Speaker 7: that I get to go to Lakewood, I get to
Speaker 7: listen to that good looking minister. But Joe, my boss
Speaker 7: is not fair. He's hard to get along with. This
Speaker 7: is not the position that I want. The truth is,
Speaker 7: somebody would love to have your job. Somebody would gladly
Speaker 7: trade places with you. It may not be perfect, but
Speaker 7: keep the right perspective. God's blessed you with a job.
Speaker 7: Don't let it sour your life. If you will pass
Speaker 7: the test of being happy where you are, then God
Speaker 7: can open some new doors. But if you don't get
Speaker 7: happy there, you probably won't get to where you want
Speaker 7: to be. And your boss may not be fair. I'm
Speaker 7: not making excuses for him. I'm asking you to quit
Speaker 7: giving him your joy. He doesn't control your happiness. You
Speaker 7: control your happiness. But if you let a grouchy boss,
Speaker 7: a grouchy neighbor, a bitter relative steal your joy keep
Speaker 7: you from being happy, it is not their fault. It
Speaker 7: is your fault. You are as happy as you want
Speaker 7: to be. You have to put your foot down and say,
Speaker 7: this is the day the Lord has made. I am
Speaker 7: not going to live sour, defeated, depressed. I am not
Speaker 7: going to let what people do or don't do, what
Speaker 7: they say or don't say, what I have or not have,
Speaker 7: keep me from being happy. I've made up my mind.
Speaker 7: I'm going to enjoy this day. It dishonors God to
Speaker 7: go through the day upset, frustrated, bitter. God gave you
Speaker 7: breath to be here. He could have chosen anyone, but
Speaker 7: he chose you, and he chose me. One way we
Speaker 7: honor God is by being happy, living grateful, having a
Speaker 7: good attitude, seeing the best in life. A couple of
Speaker 7: months ago, I was driving to the office during the
Speaker 7: week to meet some people, and I was in a hurry.
Speaker 7: I had left a little bit late, but I knew
Speaker 7: I could still make it on time if I didn't
Speaker 7: have any delays. And I had driven this route a
Speaker 7: thousand times. I was almost here a few blocks away,
Speaker 7: stopped at the intersection. I was in the left turn lane.
Speaker 7: This light is very short. You have to stay right
Speaker 7: behind the car in front of you to trigger it
Speaker 7: to stay green. Well, I was the third car back waiting.
Speaker 7: The problem was the car in front of me left
Speaker 7: about two car links between it and the first car.
Speaker 7: There was this huge gap. The light turned green, just
Speaker 7: like I thought. The first car went through turn red
Speaker 7: before the second car could make it. I could feel
Speaker 7: myself starting to get up tight. I heard that voice say, joy,
Speaker 7: keep your calm, keep your joy. I thought, I don't
Speaker 7: want to hear one of my messages right now. I'm
Speaker 7: in a hurry. We sat there waiting for a couple
Speaker 7: of minutes, seemed like an hour. About that time, the
Speaker 7: lady in the car in front of me got out
Speaker 7: and started walking toward the back. I thought, she's going
Speaker 7: to get something out of her trunk real quick. She
Speaker 7: came over to me. I rolled down the window. She said,
Speaker 7: are you Joels. I want to say no, I'm fred
Speaker 7: I said, yes, I am. Out of the corner of
Speaker 7: my eye, saw the light go green back to red.
Speaker 7: We missed another one. She said, I love you. I
Speaker 7: watch you on television. I have all your books. Would
Speaker 7: you sign one for me? I said, you mean like now?
Speaker 7: She said yeah, I got it in my car and
Speaker 7: get it real quick. I said, I love to sign
Speaker 7: your book in the middle of an intersection. By now,
Speaker 7: people were honking. Wasn't just me. Everybody had lost their job.
Speaker 7: I signed your book, made it to the office about
Speaker 7: ten minutes late. The problem is I forgot my key
Speaker 7: fob to get in, and I knocked on the door
Speaker 7: and knocked, Nobody answered. Called a staff member, It went
Speaker 7: to voicemail. Never goes to voicemail. Called another one, another
Speaker 7: one hot outside. Ten minutes later, when I finally got in,
Speaker 7: I just dripping with sweat. Had my meeting. All went well.
Speaker 7: Later that night, I went up to the hospital to
Speaker 7: visit a friend that's fighting cancer. It's a serious situation.
Speaker 7: We had time to pray together, and on the way out,
Speaker 7: I prayed with several other families where they had loved
Speaker 7: ones didn't look good. They were very concerned. I left
Speaker 7: there with a different perspective. I had been frustrated that
Speaker 7: day by delays, by traffic, by not having keys. I
Speaker 7: realized those were small things that wasn't worth losing my
Speaker 7: joy over. I wasn't believing for a loved one to
Speaker 7: make it In the big picture, what was frustrating me
Speaker 7: really didn't matter. I wonder, if you're doing life me
Speaker 7: letting insignificant things steal your joy. Traffic negative comments. You
Speaker 7: can't find something, keep it in perspective that's not worth
Speaker 7: losing your joy over. Don't let the small, insignificant things
Speaker 7: keep you from seeing the gift of this day. In
Speaker 7: the scripture, Habaccuk said it this way, Though the fig
Speaker 7: tree does not blossom, and there be no fruit on
Speaker 7: the vine, Though my olive crops fell, and my fields
Speaker 7: produce no food. Though there are no sheep in the pen,
Speaker 7: though there are no cattle in the stalls, What am
Speaker 7: I gonna do? Get depressed, complain, feel sorry for myself?
Speaker 7: He said, Yet will I rejoice in the Lord. I
Speaker 7: will be joyful in the God of my salvation. He
Speaker 7: was saying, everything's come against me, had bad breaks, business
Speaker 7: is down, my income is low. Surely that's a reason
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Speaker 7: like him, Yet, will I rejoice in the Lord. We
Speaker 7: should make this decision every morning. I will be joyful today.
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