Stop Complaining

Joyce Meyers @ Lakewood Church

• If you're going to complain about something, then don't bother praying about it.
• A lot of people will never get to where they want to be If they keep complaining about where you are.
• You have to be disciplined about walking in the spirit. Being thankful is a powerful way to do that.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 NIV: Rejoice always,pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.  Do not quench the Spirit.
• You don't have to feel something to be something.
• The Lord's response to Habakkuk's Complaints
• Habakkuk 2:2-3 NIV
• Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.  For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
• When you have a complaint get a vision.
• Philippians 4:6 NIV
• Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
• Learn to go with the flow and be happy where you are because complaining isn't going to solve anything. Joyce wasted crackers on the floor and no matter how upset she would have gotten, that wouldn't have gotten the crackers off the floor.
• Is your problem your problems or is your attitude toward your problem your problem?
• Numbers 21:4-8 AMP
• And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient (depressed, much discouraged), because [of the trials] of the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and we loathe this light (contemptible, unsubstantial) manna. Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died. And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord, that He may take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent [of bronze] and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.
• Obedience is better than sacrifice: It's great to have access to forgiveness but why can't we get out right the first time.
• 1 Corinthians 10:9-11 NIV
• We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.  These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
• You have to be thankful on purpose.
• We can't blend in, we have to stand out.

• Philippians 2:14-15 NIV
• Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, "children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation." Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky