Keeping God First | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt it's silly to say that we don't have time for God and if we don't have time for him then he's not first in our lives do you think about God and His goodness fair amount in your life do you take time to thank God for your blessings even little ones that you can get out of bed and walk to the bathroom that you do have clean water being pumped into your house hot or cold do we thank God that somebody loves us

that we have somebody to eat with a lot of people that are married think well you know they're not happy and they want somebody else and you know there's probably some lonely woman that would take your guy if you really don't want [Applause] him might be happy just to have somebody to sit on and eat with can you say without hesitation that God is first in your life amen amen Deuteronomy 64-6 here o Israel the Lord our God is one Lord the only Lord and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart

with all your soul with all your mind and all your strength and these words which I am commanding you today shall be first in your own mind and your hearts Deuteronomy 5:7 you shall have no other gods before me now so we want to seek God first now the next first I want to to talk to you about is seeking God's will first I want to challenge you to really crave the will of God in your life your will be done but not mine that's an awesome prayer to pray that Jesus prayed in the Garden

of Gethsemane he said if you can remove this cup from me please do it kind of appears he didn't want to have to go through the death on the cross but he quickly said nevertheless that's a good word nevertheless might go something like this for a single lady who's 50 and never been married God I just really want to get married nevertheless I can be happy with just you your will be done Lord I really really really would love to have that promotion at at work and I feel like I've worked hard and I I've

earned it nevertheless I can be happy without it and I will be happy for whoever you give it to uhoh come on we're diving in deep this morning nevertheless let's start putting a few more nevertheless is in our prayers God wants to know what we want but he also wants to know that it's not the basis of our joy I just don't think I could be happy without this Matthew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God yeah let's see how many weird noises we can make today seeky first aim at and strive after first

of all hising Kingdom and his righteousness his way of doing and being right and then all of these things will be added unto you don't you like added seek God's ways and he provides all other things live to please the Lord make decisions that are pleasing to God don't live to please yourself don't even live to please other people now Paul did say that he made a lot of decisions in order to please other people so he would have an opportunity to lead them to Christ but he wasn't talking about being a man pleaser some

of you have allowed yourself to be manipulated and controlled by the whims and the desires of other people and you have gotten yourself in a real mess because you're now in the middle of having to do a bunch of things that you don't even feel like is God for your [Applause] life sounds like they need this over here more than you do so I'm just going to stay over here a [Applause] while listen now you're in a fix well what are you going to do you know if you confront the situation you might lose the

person or start a war well one thing's for sure you may have made a mistake that got you into this mess but you cannot stay in it or your whole life will be destroyed because you let other people use you can I give you a piece of advice you will not walk in the will of God unless you are willing occas Al to make somebody [Applause] mad and maybe I ought to say that to somebody else I don't know you know we make a lot of decisions because we don't want people to be mad at

us and the problem is if they're going to get mad at you because you don't decide what they want then they're probably don't care that much about you anyway I mean that's really probably the truth in the last five days I've had to say no to three requests two of those requests came from fairly close friends and it's not easy but I was in that prep for too long well can you do me a favor man yeah sure but then I was killing myself physically still had to do what I needed to do to take

care of this ministry because that was my main [Applause] responsibility if you don't learn to say no you will never walk in the will of [Applause] God and if I tell somebody I don't feel like God really I mean what I said to the one girl I mean she had a great response I said you know what I would love to come and help you and do that for you but I gave her the reasons why and I said but it just wouldn't be a wise decision for me and thankfully she was spiritually mature enough

to text me back and say well we would love to have you and I'm disappointed but wisdom has to Trump everything else now that's a true friend and somebody that I might do something far at another time in life you say well okay I'm already in that mess what am I supposed to do well first thing you need to pray and see what God says to you about how to get yourself out of this situation and then you made us have to sit down with the person and say listen I I've got a confession to

make I have a problem and I'm insecure and so because I want a relationship with you I have done many things that you wanted me to do that I didn't not feel right about and God is dealing with me about this and I've got to make some changes you know the way to adjust anything is to just tell the truth that doesn't mean they're going to like it if they're not a Believer they certainly won't understand it but you got to break free from manipulation and control we're to be led guided and controlled by the

Holy Spirit not by somebody else live to please the Lord Colossians 1:10 that you may walk live and conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord fully pleasing to him and Desiring to please him in All Things ladies I I think we need to please God in the way we dress you don't need to go to work and be a temptation to somebody else especially not to somebody else's husband [Applause] amen boy I could just get off in a ditch here and I've got a lot of things that I want to do but Colossians

3:4 says that he is our very life whoa I love that all right what else do I want to say to you here now you know there's a lot of other things in the Bible that say that if we do this first then God will do that they're all kind of related to the principle of sewing and reaping you don't reap till you sew you can't no farmer is going to get upset because he sowed no seed and now doesn't have a harvest so here's just a few I found in the Bible forgive others and

you will be forgiven amen yep that's a good one okay now listen you we would be shocked to know how many people in this room today are mad at somebody amen and you think you're justified in your anger well we may get angry the feeling of anger is not sin but staying angry and acting on the anger is [Applause] sin this particular issue is doing more damage to the body of Christ as a whole and to the power that we should have as a church than any other single thing unforgiveness bitterness resentment the Bible says

pray for your enemies and bless them it doesn't say you have to like them it doesn't say you have to have ooey gooey feelings when you get around them love is not a way we feel it's a decision we make on how we're going to treat people and how we're going to talk about them and my gosh all the people watching on TV today Lord have mercy how many people are you mad at wow you just let me tell you something being mad at somebody is not going to change them it changes you doesn't change

them it changes you it ruins your life it poisons your life well bless God I'm just not going to let them get by with that well God says if you will do things his way he will be your Vindicator so do you want your brand of Justice or God's see here again back to last night's message we go by feelings but I feel I feel I feel well get with God and pray until you can control those feelings You're More Than A Feeling Just because you feel something doesn't mean you have to be that way

Mark 11 for this reason I'm telling you whatever you ask for in prayer we're talking prayer power here believe trust and be confident that it is granted to you and you will get it verse 25 and whenever you stand praying if you have anything against anyone oh my gosh anything against anyone anything against anyone anything little things big things things that you think you're justified in if you have anything against anyone forgive him and Let It Drop leave it and let it go pray for the person put them in God's hands walk away from the

hatred the bitterness the resentment and get about living your life okay listen in order that your father also would forgive you your own failings and shortcomings you know millions of people pray the Lord's Prayer and they don't even understand what they're praying father forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us do we really want God to forgive us the same way we forgive other people woo boy this is time well spent today be merciful first and then you will receive Mercy my I see when you sew a good seed you're not

only likely to get a harvest from God but you'll get get also get a harvest from people I believe if because we love God we show Mercy to people and mercy always goes to people who don't deserve it that's what Mercy is Mercy is kindness beyond anything that's even reasonable so if you're waiting to find somebody that deserves Mercy you've got the whole wrong idea about Mercy Mercy is given to somebody who has not done what is right and you decide to just cut them a break maybe you decide to believe the best or to

just drop it and let it go how many times do you have to mention to your husband that he left his socks on the floor again you could be merciful and pick them up and then see what God does for you okay moving on I don't want to get too personal here yeah God has dealt with me even about things like that Joyce do you have to just keep mentioning it see even if we forgive somebody we want to mention to them that we did forgive them are you there we don't want anybody to think

they got by with anything if I'm going to be merciful you're going to know I'm merciful and you are going to appreciate my Mercy oh boy it is so hard to just do what's right and keep your mouth shut now here's something else the Bible tells us which is pretty valuable it's another first don't ignore your own faults while pointing out the faults of others really are you trying to tell me that I have more wrong with me than the person I'm criticizing Matthew 7:5 you hypocrite first everybody say first first first get the beam

of Timber out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the tiny Speck out of your brother's eye oh [Applause] my let him who is without sin among you you cast the first stone only those who are perfected should criticize anybody else man you guys are making me tired [Applause] first [Music] humble yourself under the mighty hand and then God will help you pray first and then you will receive don't plan first and then when you're out in the middle of doing what you want to do pray for God to make

it work no first we pray about everything acknowledging God in all of our ways and he will direct our path first give first and then you will receive H where were the claps on that for goodness sakes you don't have to get nervous we've already received the offering Luke 6:38 give and gifts will be given unto you good measure pressed down shaken together and running over will men give back into your bosom for with the same measure you use when you deal out to others it will be dealt back to you again first Malachi 3:10:

11 bring all the tithe the whole tenth of your income into the storehouse woo that's all the tithers that are clapping by the way that there may be food in my house and prove Me Now by it God is saying I dare you to start tithing and bringing offerings and see what I'll do for you you say well wait a minute I tithing is under the law that's Old Testament okay well boy I got a good answer for that you want to hear my [Applause] answer even if it was under the law and they were

giving 10% what in the world should we be doing by Grace okay you want to say tithing is under the law then why don't you just forget 10% and do [Applause] 20 breathe we got five more [Applause] minutes bring all the tide the whole tenth of your income into the Storehouse that there might be food in my house and prove Me Now by it says the Lord of hosts if I will not after you have first done this open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing so great that you will not be

able to contain it and I will rebuke the Devourer for your sake and I will rebuke the devour for your sake the little boy gave his lunch the last that he had and went home with 12 baskets full of leftovers there's nothing that says the little boy took him home but I believe Jesus gave him to him that's all right God you are much greater than I am I'll give you my little bit if you'll give me your leftovers amen how many of you would be happy with God's leftovers yeah just throw me a little

leftovers obey first and then experience radical outrageous blessings in your [Applause] life are you there obey first and then experience radical outrageous blessings in your life believe first and then you will receive well I'm not going to believe it unless I can see it well then you'll never see it cuz that's the way God's economy is first you believe in your heart and you keep a good confession while you're waiting and then boy suddenly come on suddenly all of a sudden you can shout and holler it works it works it works it works it works

stand right where you're at keep your head bowed for a moment I feel that I need to do this if you're here today and you've not received Jesus Christ as your savior you're not sure that you're right with God you you don't know for sure that you'd go to heaven if you died today you say I want to have this kind of intimate relationship with God that you're talking about I want to surrender my life to Christ today maybe somebody brought you maybe you came because you saw the meeting advertised I don't know maybe you're

just one of those good old church people you've been doing the church thing but you don't really have this relationship that God wants to have with you if that's you and you'd like us just to pray with you and help you receive Christ as your savior would you slip your hand up nice and high and let me see where you're at okay hands hands hands hands hands hands hands all over the place hands hands and more hands on anybody else real quickly don't put it off bless you brother okay now all of you that raise

your hand nobody's looking at you but me just slip your hands up to the Lord Lord and surrender and everybody pray this prayer with me please say father God I believe in you father God I Believe In You Jesus I Believe In You Jesus I believe in you I know that I'm a sinner I know that I'm a sinner and I deserve punishment I deserve punishment but I'm sorry for my sins but I'm sorry for my sins and I believe I believe that you died for me on the cross that you died for me on

the cross that you took all of my sin upon yourself you all my on yourself and that you're willing to forgive me you're willing to forgive me Jesus I receive you today Jesus I receive you today come and live in me come and live in me I receive you as my savior I receive you as my Savor and I receive you as my Lord I rece you as my Lord I want to be a Christian I want to be a Christian now I give myself to you I give myself to you please take me just

the way I am please take me just the way I am and now make me what you want me to be and make me what you want me to be I'm now saved I'm now saved I'm born again I'm born again I'm loved I'm loved I'm forgiven I'm forgiven I'm on my way to heaven on way and I'm going to enjoy the journey I'm going to enjoy the journey amen okay now listen if you want to get this little book it's about how to begin your life with Christ you call the office on Monday so

I receive Christ in the meeting can I have that book I pray for you that you will never backslide and this will be the beginning of many wonderful things for you amen bless you have you been looking for a 365-day devotional well look no further than the promises for your everyday life devotional from Joyce Meyer there's a focus verse for all 365 days of the year along with a prayer starter get your copy of promises for your everyday life devotional at Joy me.org 365 devvo the biggest thing that we need to do is learn how

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Peace the Mind actually is the battlefield that's where we win or lose the war with Satan he said all he gets to say the rest of the day is mine you start asking God to heal you and he will restore it's the God of all comfort and I am so grateful that I know how to call on God