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First published in hardcover and ebook in May 2023

First Trade Paperback Edition: November 2024

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover as follows:

Names: Meyer, Joyce, 1943- author.

Title: Overcoming every problem : 40 promises from God’s word to strengthen you through life’s greatest challenges / Joyce Meyer.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : FaithWords, 2023.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022053151 | ISBN 9781546029151 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781546004653 (large print) | ISBN 9781546029144 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Trust in God—Christianity. | Spiritual life—Christianity.

Classification: LCC BV4637 .M447 2023 | DDC 242/.2—dc23/eng/20230123

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022053151

ISBNs: 978-1-5460-2916-8 (trade paperback), 978-1-5460-2914-4 (ebook)

E3-20240903-JV-PC-REV

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

1. God’s Word teaches truth

2. God’s Word is life, healing, and health to all who find it

3. God’s Word heals and delivers

4. God’s Word protects us

5. Meditating on God’s Word brings wisdom, prosperity, and success

6. God’s Word brings stability, fruitfulness, and prosperity

7. God’s Word upholds, guides, maintains, and propels the universe

8. God’s Word has the power to create

9. God’s Word brings blessing to those who order their conduct and conversation according to it

10. God’s Word cleanses and purifies

11. God’s Word reduces our capacity to sin and strengthens us against temptation

12. God’s Word renews and revives us

13. God’s Word enables us to walk at liberty and at ease

14. God’s Word is filled with promises of His mercy and grace

15. God’s Word gives us good judgment, wise and right discernment, and knowledge

16. God’s Word is better than thousands of gold and silver pieces

17. God’s Word makes us wiser than our enemies

18. God’s Word gives us light and shows us how to live

19. God’s Word accomplishes God’s purpose

20. God’s Word gives us hope

21. God’s Word brings light and dispels darkness

22. God’s Word brings direction and shows us what to do

23. Jesus is the Word

24. God’s Word, implanted in our hearts, has the power to save our souls

25. God’s Word strengthens us

26. God’s Word melts the hard heart

27. God’s Word often brings persecution

28. God’s Word transforms us into His image

29. God’s Word is a weapon against the devil, and it is armor that protects us in warfare

30. God’s Word renews our mind

31. God’s Word destroys mental strongholds and teaches us the truth

32. God’s Word divides soul and spirit

33. God’s Word comforts and consoles us

34. God’s Word helps us see the error of our ways and turn in God’s direction

35. God’s Word causes us to have joy even in the midst of our trouble and anguish

36. God’s Word gives us great peace

37. God’s Word abiding in our hearts makes us victorious over the evil one

38. We are born again by God’s living and enduring Word

39. God’s Word is good news, and it endures forever

40. God’s Word contains self-fulfilling power

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Conclusion

Notes

About the Author

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Other Books by Joyce Meyer

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Introduction

God’s Word, the Bible, has helped me overcome many problems and has changed my life and the lives of millions of other people. Jesus is the Word made flesh who came to dwell on earth, among us (John 1:14). He came to save us from our sins and to give us an abundant life filled with every blessing we can imagine (Matthew 1:21; John 10:10). I always knew Jesus died to save me from my sins, but I was not aware that He also died for me to have an abundant life, a life I could enjoy.

God’s Word does many things for us if we study it, believe it, and apply it to our lives. People are destroyed because they lack knowledge (Hosea 4:6). I have studied God’s Word for more than forty years, and it has been the best investment of time I could have made. I am amazed at what I did not know in my early years as a Christian and therefore could not apply to my life. I went to church each week in those days, but I did not study God’s Word for myself. Spending time on our own studying God’s Word is necessary for us to grow in our faith. Hearing others teach God’s Word is important too, but studying it for ourselves is what plants it deeply in our hearts.

I had a lot of dysfunctional behavior in my life due to being sexually abused by my father and abandoned to the abuse by my mother, but God has healed my wounded soul through the power of His Word. Perhaps you have also been hurt in various ways. No matter what has caused your pain or how deep the wounds may be, I can assure you that God will also heal you and teach you how to be an overcomer in life if you ask Him to and apply His Word to your life. John 8:31–32 says that if we continue in God’s Word, we will know the truth and the truth will make us free. However, just reading it doesn’t make us free; we must apply it and do what it instructs us to do.

One good example is the subject of forgiving those who have hurt us. Jesus says we must forgive our enemies, pray for them, and bless them (Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27–28). This seems to be unfair, and it is difficult emotionally, so most people simply don’t do it. Someone who has hurt you may not deserve your forgiveness, but you deserve peace. Forgiving them will give you peace. Many people are filled with bitterness, resentment, and unforgiveness, which opens a door for their enemy, Satan, to enter their lives and bring destruction. They may be familiar with the Word, but because they are not willing to apply it, it won’t bring the freedom and healing that they need.

God always shows us what to do, and He gives us the strength and courage to do it. However, we still have to act on it. He will not force us to do things His way, because He has given us free will. My prayer is that as you see in this book all the wonderful things God’s Word promises to do for you, you will want to study it and apply it to your life. If you do, I can promise you that you will never be sorry.

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

1 John 5:4–5