God Will Meet You Where You Are | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

I do what I do because I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you the key to everything is found in God's word I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you [Music] hurt well thank you for joining me today on Enjoying Everyday Life I love to teach the word of God because I know what the word has done in my life and I know that it will do the same thing for you today I want to talk to you about what I think is a

very important subject and one that I think a lot of people don't realize and it is one of those good news subjects do you know that God will meet you where you are I think so often we think that we have to get ourselves all fixed up before or we can go to God but if you will cry out to God from where you're at God will meet you where you're at as long as you cry out to him in sincerity and I have several biblical examples that I want to share with you but the

thing I want you to realize is no matter what kind of a mess you're in no matter how long you've been in it no matter what your need is if you sincerely want God to help you and you're ready to change your life you're ready to repent of your sins and to repent means to turn away from that means to you're not going to go back to that again with God's help you're going to turn away from that wrong way of living and you're going to learn how to live the way God wants you to

live God will meet you where you're at and the good news is is he loves you too much to leave you where he met you he will always help you get to where you need to be now I want to say that again because I think that's really important God loves you so much that he will come to you in your mess and he will meet you there but he will never leave you there because he loves you too much to leave you in the same mess he found you in he will help you to

change your life and he will give you by his grace and mercy a life really worth living there's a story in the Bible about Abraham and Sarah and this was a couple that God had promised a child they had not had a child of their own and really when God made this promise to them both of them were too old to have children Abraham was 99 years old or close to a 100 and Sarah had already she was past the childbearing age and so in the natural it was impossible but do you know that God

SP specializes in impossible a lot of things that aren't possible for anybody else are possible for God with man it's impossible but With God all things are possible and so God just wanted them to believe him to trust him that he would give them a child from Sarah's womb and that he would make Abraham the father of many nations well like a lot of us do he waited for quite a while in his case he waited a good number of years and nothing was happening and so he got a plan of his own and we

do that don't we when God's plan is not seeming to come to pass then we've always got a backup plan a plan of our own and his wife suggested that he take her handmaiden and get her pregnant take her is a secondary wife and then she would claim this child as her own and raise the child as her own and so Abraham did it that was one case where he should not have listened to his wife it doesn't make any sense for any woman to want to give her husband a secondary wife that can't be

anything but trouble from the get-go but sure enough Hagar the handmade did become pregnant and as soon soon as she did she looked with contempt upon her mistress in other words she previously had a submissive attitude she loved her M mistress she'd do anything for her and so because of the great attitude she had Sarah thought well she'd continue to have one but as soon as she had a a foot up so to speak on Sarah or she was in a situation now that where she could give Abraham something he wanted that Sarah couldn't she

got a bad attitude and the child grew with them until he was about 13 years old and it was just starting to be nothing but trouble trouble trouble all the time and Sarah wanted Abraham to make them leave she didn't want them to be together by now she had had the child that God had promised them and they grew together for a while but it was still just trouble trouble trouble all the time how many of you know when you do something that God doesn't want you to do until it's correct Ed it's just nothing

but trouble trouble trouble all the time and so here in Genesis 21 14 through 17 it says early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar and he set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy and she went on her way and wandered in the desert of berseba when the water in the skin was gone she put the boy under one of the bushes and then she went off and sat down about a bow shot away for she thought I cannot watch

the boy die well we can see that she already had made her mind up they weren't going to make it and the boy was going to die and as she sat there she began to sob and apparently the boy was crying too and the Bible says God heard the boy crying and the angel of God called a Hagar from heaven and said to her what is the matter Hagar do not be afraid God has heard the boy crying and he will meet him where he is that the Amplified says he will meet him where he

is and that's the title of the message I want to bring you today is God will meet you where you are now this boy was in a mess his life looked like it was all but over and he cried out to God you know sometimes all we have to do is cry out to God and he will meet us right where we're at and he'll help us get to where we need to be God heard Ishmael where he was and he actually promised him promotion and a good life and all Ishmael did was cry out

he didn't do anything else he just cried out 2 Chronicles 20:9 it says if Calamity comes upon us whether the sword of judgment or plague our famine we will stand in your presence before the temple that bears your name and we will cry out to you in our distress and you will hear us and save us well you know I think anybody can cry out to God it doesn't take any special training to do that you just say oh God I need you God you're the only one that can help me God I need your

help I'm crying out to you I want you in my life I want you to come and get involved in my life and I hope that there are many people that I'm talking to today that you will really be convicted by what I'm saying and you'll realize that you are in a mess in your life and maybe you've been trying to fix that mess yourself and I'll tell you you cannot you need God's help and God will come and help you if you will cry out to him he'll begin to unravel the situation in your

life and it may not all happen overnight but if you'll Surrender Your Life to him let him come into your life forgive your sins and give you a brand new start God will meet you where you're at and he will help you get to where you need to be Psalm 372 and3 says I cry out to God most high to God who vindicates me you might uh remember well I don't know I know if you're watching the program when I shared this or not but I CED I shared about blind Bemus who cried out to

Jesus Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me and the people told him to be quiet and says he cried out all the more and God healed him crying out to God is pretty easy sometimes we cry to our friends and we cry to ourself and we feel sorry for oursel but what about crying out to God and saying God whatever you want me to do I'll do it just show me what to do and I I want to be obedient to you I cry out to God most high he sends from heaven and

he saves me rebuking those who hotly pursue me God sends forth his love and his faithfulness and one last one Psalm 865 you Lord are forgiving and good abounding in love to all who call upon you God met Ishmael in his rejection he met him in his abandonment and he promised him promotion and I can pretty much say the same thing happened to me I'd been abused in my childhood sexually abused by my father abandoned by my mother spent many years in complete misery and lived in a total atmosphere of fear and violent angry behavior

and I cried out to God and he met me where I was at and he helped me change my life it didn't happen overnight but I am a totally different person now and those things that happen to me in my childhood when I think back about that little girl it's almost as if she's Somebody That I Used to Know not me I'm a brand new creature in Christ because the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 If any man is in Christ any man who receives Christ is considered to be in him if any man is

in Christ he is a new creature old things pass away and All Things become brand new you become new spiritual clay and if you'll be soft and pliable in the hands of God he will mold a brand new life for you it's not too late for you well where are you are you lost in problems tragedy or sin are you lonely are you sick and perhaps afraid of death have you been abandoned have you been rejected are you living with the results of all of your mistakes and have no idea what you're supposed to do

well I can tell you what to do cry out to God and he will meet you where you're at and step by step little by little God will teach you and he'll begin to show you how to make right choices and live the right way but you have to make a start by surrendering your life to God you don't just cry out to him and expect God to come and help you if you're not ready to surrender your life to him and you know I I felt even before I started to share this message for

today that today many people are going to give their life to Jesus Christ and you do have to give it to him he he wants everybody but not everybody will receive him because not everybody will humble themselves and say yes God you're right and I've wrong I've lived my life all wrong and I want to change I am a sinner and I I I'm sorry for my sins I'm sorry for the way I lived and and I want you in my life will you forgive me and come into my life and be my Lord and

my savior and the moment you do that in sincerity God will come into you he'll make you his home your sins will be washed away moved as far as the East is from the west and he will remember them no more now that doesn't mean that instantly everything in your life is going to be fixed but it does mean that it's a brand new beginning for you old things have passed away God's forgiven you and then you can start working with God to have the circumstances in your life changed into a life that is going

to be pleasant and enjoyable now I have a pretty large portion of scripture that I want to share with you and normally I don't try to share this many scriptures because people kind of lose their focus but Psalm 139 1 through 18 are absolutely phenomenal and I think they're going to really encourage you if you'll pay attention you have searched me Lord and you know me well when God says he knows you let me tell you he knows you you know a lot of people that even work here might say well I know Joyce well

they may know me but they don't know me like Dave does and Dave doesn't even know me like God does When God says he knows you let me tell you there's nothing about you that God doesn't know he knows things about you that you haven't even admitted you know when I sit down and you know when I get up you perceive my thoughts are far off just think about that God knows everything about you he sees everything that you do you discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar God with all my

ways in other words there's nothing about you that's surprising or shocking to God before a word is on my tongue Lord you know it completely God knows what we're going to say before we even say it he knows what we're going to think before we even think it nobody no body knows you like God knows you you hem me in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me you ever feel like that that God's got you in a place where you can't go forward and you can't go backward you're just there waiting for

God to do something well he will if you just keep crying out to him such knowledge is too wonderful for me it's too lofty for me to obtain let me tell you the work that God does in our life is too wonderful for us to even begin to understand it where can I go from your spirit God where can I flee from or hide from your presence if I go to heaven you're there if I make my bed in the depths you are there if I rise on the wings of the Dawn or I settle

on the far side of the sea God you are there even then your hand will guide me your right hand will hold me fast can I tell you there's nowhere where you can get away from God he is everywhere all the time and his hand is upon you and God's got a plan for your life and I'm just going to say this the best way I knew how to the gentlest way I know how to if you persist in going your own way your life is going to be pretty miserable but if you'll surrender your

life to Christ today you can can know a life that you cannot even begin to imagine right now if I say surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become night around me even the darkness will not be dark to God there's nowhere we can hide from God you can't hide in the dark you can't go high enough or deep enough God knows every place where we're at and he knows everything that we do now listen to this for you God did create my inmost being you knit me together in my mother's womb

god with his very own hand purposely knit you together in your mother's womb you are not a mistake God Made You specially there's nobody else on earth like you nobody has your fingerprints and nobody has your DNA don't let the devil or anybody else can Vince you that you're a mistake that there's no plan or no purpose for you if that's what you've been thinking then your thinking has been all wrong because God wants you he has a plan for you and a purpose for your life I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully

made your works are wonderful and I know that quite well I love the boldness of the psalmist David he said you created me wonderful are your works I mean what was he saying other than God you have made me a wonder I am wonderful the way you have made me is wonderful so right now today you can stop being against yourself you can stop hating yourself and rejecting yourself and thinking that you're not okay because you're not like everybody else right now today you can accept yourself as someone handmade hand picked by God made very

special and God has a special plan for your life your eyes saw my unfarmed substance and all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them even came into being I love that Dave has God has a book and he's written every day of all of our lives in that book before we ever show up on planet Earth how precious are your thoughts toward me oh God now listen to this how vast is the sum of them if I were to count them they would outnumber the grains of sand and

when iwake I'm still with you God has you on his mind all the time there's never been a moment in your life when God has not loved you and there will never never be a moment in his life when he will love you any more than he does right now you say well that can't be possible God can't possibly love me not with the things I've done well God is love it's not something he does sometimes and doesn't do other times he is love and what he wants us to do is respond to that love

Jesus said if you love me you'll obey me he wants us to learn his word and live a life of obedience to him he did didn't say if you obey me I will love you he said if you love me you will obey me and the reason why people don't obey God is because they don't love him enough to obey him the more you fall in love with Jesus the more and more you're going to want to do what he wants you to do Revelations 3 says I behold I stand at the door and knock

if anyone hears my voice and opens the door well guess what the door knob is on your side of the door he's not going to break the door down and make you accept him but if you'll open the door he says he will come in and eat with you and you will eat with him well what does eating signify in the Bible intimacy close relationship covenants were sealed with a meal the Passover was instituted with a meal we remember the Lord's body and his blood blood that was broken and shed through a meal Jesus wants

to eat with you he wants intimate personal relationship with you you know the Bible is full of redemption stories God is a god of redemption that means that he bought us back from the enemy God wants you he's paid the price for you the devil may have you convinced that he still own you but he does not because Jesus bought you back with his own blood and he descended into hell and he took the keys of hell and death away from Satan and he's given us Authority the enemy has no right to run your life

anymore if you won't let him Noah is a great story of redemption and I just noticed this that you Noah's story is in Genesis 67 and 8 and it says here God warned of coming judgment and he said that those who repented of their sin and believed would be saved he told Noah to build an ark to contain those who would believe however after years of preaching listen to this after years of preaching only eight Souls entered the ark Noah and his family now you today I'm preaching to you and I hope that you will

listen to what I say and that there won't have to be somebody else next year or another five years from now that will come along and preach again you don't want to keep saying no to God and keep saying no to God all the people that were alive in Noah's day they were preached to they were told that judgment is coming Jesus is coming back and they did not listen they continued to live their own lives and do their own thing I'm pleading with you today to no longer live your own life and do your

own thing but to turn your life over to Jesus Christ who loved you so much that he died for you God loved you so much that he sent his only son to Die For You Jesus said in John 10:10 the thief comes to steal kill and destroy but I came that you might have and enjoy your life and have it in abundance to the full until it overflows Saul who became Paul he's a great story of redemption Mary of magdala who was full of demons became a close friend of Jesus's and traveled with him Mary

The Prostitute became a close friend of Jesus and traveled with him Peter who denied Jesus became one of the greatest Apostles just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean that it's too late for you and it's not too late for me have you been looking for a 365-day devotional well look no further than the promises for your everyday life devotional from Joyce Meyer that'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 devotion at Joy me.org 365d the biggest thing that we

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