A new attitude by Joyce Meyer

But the point is every single time – now listen to me – every time they had an inconvenience, they murmured. We just don’t handle it very well when we’re inconvenienced, do we? When we have to wait a little longer than we think we should, or we don’t get it just the way we want it, or we don’t get it just when we think we ought to have it, our first response is to murmur.

We need to get a new attitude – and I say “we” – this is for all of us, me included – we need to get a new attitude that basically says: Well, you know what? If I believe god’s in control, then maybe what I’m going through right now is good for me.  Maybe it’s helping me practice my faith muscles. Maybe it’s squeezing my fruit. You know, you never know how juicy a piece of fruit is until you squeeze it. We can look good on the outside with all of our bumper stickers and Christian jewelry and translations of the bible and our “Christianese” language, but when somebody squeezes our fruit, how Christian are we? I’ve got some people over here agreeing with me; I’m going to preach to you. If they don’t perk up over there, I’m going to preach to you over here.

I mean, isn’t that true? When our fruit is squeezed… Yeah! I remember going to the store one time. I was hungry and I was trying to eat right so I took the trouble to stop at the grocery store, go in and buy some fruit. So I bought… I mean, this orange was beautiful. Oh, perfect color and big. I mean, it looked gorgeous. I remember it was kind of expensive, but I bought it anyway. I got out to my car and I was ready to eat my healthy, nutritious meal and I tore it open and it was so dried up inside, I thought: How could anything look that good… Remember, now, murmur means to remain, to stay overnight, to stay permanently. This was quite a revelation to me years ago when God first showed me this; that the main reason why they stayed out in the wilderness for 40 years was because they had a stinkin’ lousy attitude.  And it always came out of their mouth.

Joyce Meyer – You’ve already preconditioned yourself to believe that, and now if they don’t, you have a problem with God. So, look at it the other way.”