Power Thoughts

Joyce: All of us tend to make excuses for why we can’t do things, like “it’s too hard” or “I don’t know how” or “I have nobody to help me” but today we’re gonna learn that we really need to throw away our excuses and begin to do what God is telling us to do. (music)

What in the world does it mean to be more than a conqueror? I mean, a conqueror I get, but how can you be more than a conqueror?  I’ve thought about that for a lot of years and this is what I feel god has put on my heart; I’m not saying that nobody could expand on it. I think to be more than a conqueror means that you have such confidence that no matter what comes up in your life, that through Christ you can handle it, that you know before you ever get a problem that you’re going to have the victory. So therefore, you don’t dread things, you don’t fear things, you don’t fear the unknown, you don’t live in anxiety about what’s going to happen in situations because you already have that foundational knowing on the inside of you; it doesn’t really matter what it is. Through Christ I’m ready for anything, I’m equal to anything, through him who infuses inner strength into me. Now I am telling you that if you will begin to think that power thought several times a day — even before you get up in the morning, lie in bed and just let it roll over and over in your mind: whatever I need to do today, I can do it. I don’t know what’s going to come up in my day today, but whatever it is I’m ready for it. I don’t even need to know the answer because I’ve got the one who knows everything that I will need to know. Go to Judges, chapter 6.

I have to tell you this story. I’ve told it a couple of times but I still think it’s so hilarious. About two months after I first started working out, I was sitting on a boat. We were riding out in the water and I scratched the back of my leg and I felt a lump. I thought: oh, is that a growth? I’m telling you the truth.