Nothing Is Hidden from God | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer

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provides Everlasting benefits to you and those waiting to see these messages this program is made possible by the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries I'm Joyce Meyer I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you well thank you for joining me today on Enjoying Everyday Life where I will be sharing God's word with you which is the truth truth and we need that today because there's so much deception in the world so perk up both your little spiritual ears and get ready to hear something that I think is going to

help you today and really for the next couple of days I'm going to be teaching on nothing is hidden from God I think that you know how we are if we think somebody's watching we behave better don't we we put on our best behavior when somebody's watching watching and um I remember an incident long time ago when back when I was still in my not so Godly days and uh I was frustrated and hollering at the kids and my pastor rang the doorbell you never saw anybody straighten up so fast in all your life I

mean I was just like pastor so nice to see you oh the kids they're great yeah come on in and uh so really when we it's amazing I really kind of learned from that experience that you know we think sometimes we can't control ourselves but you really can if you want to enough and it's amazing how we'll act in front of some people but if somebody comes around that we want to impress or that we don't want to be disappointed with us we can act pretty good well the thing is is God sees everything and

I think that if we can learn that we live before what I call an audience of one realizing that God sees everything all the time we should be on our best behavior all the time and so God sees everything so we should learn to live as if we believe that nothing is hidden from him do nothing that you wouldn't do in front of him because nothing is hidden from him God sees not only what we do but he sees the heart of a person so he sees the real us he sees all knows all and

is everywhere all the time so that's cool he can watch all of us all the time Proverbs 15:3 the the eyes of the Lord are everywhere keeping watch on the wicked and the good so we don't even really need to be concerned about all the wicked people and all the things that they do because they're not getting by with anything either God sees it all Hebrews 4:13 nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom now listen to these last few words we

must give account see the day will come and sometimes we don't like to talk about these things but the day will come it's actually called Judgment Day and uh when we will stand before God and give an account of Our Lives it says in I think it's Romans 12:14 that every man will stand before God and give an account of himself and so we don't be need to be so concerned about what somebody else is doing and judging them we all because we're not going to be asked to give an account for them I always

think God's not going to ask me to answer for Dave so I just need to make sure that I'm doing what I should be doing because God's only going to ask me about me and then Psalm 139 I've actually got 12 verses here it's it's such an amazing Psalm and if we really pay attention to what it says it's pretty awesome aome you have searched me Lord and you know me and When God says he knows you that's not like oh yeah I know her I was like I know you you know when I sit

and when I Rise you perceive my thoughts a far off so God knows even what we're going to think before we think it wow I don't even know that about myself you discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar with all my ways and I love this one before a word is even on my tongue you know it completely so God knows what we're going to say before we're going to say it he knows what we're going to think before we even think it you hem me in behind and before and you

lay your hand upon me I'm I'm real fond of that have you ever felt like God had you in a place where you couldn't get away and he was dealing with you no way you're going to get away from it such knowledge is too wonderful for me it's too lofty to attain where can I go from your spirit where can I flee from your presence if I go to heaven you're there if I make my bed in the depths you're there if I rise on the wings of the Dawn if I settle on the far

side of the seed even there your hand will guide me and then I love this one if I say well surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become like night around me even the darkness will not be dark to you God the night will shine like the day for darkness is the same as light to you so God sees everything knows everything and if we really would think about that every day God's going to see everything that I do and maybe think about it a few times I think it would help us

be on our best behavior Psalm 9411 says the Lord knows the thoughts of man that they are but a breath and then Matthew 12:25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them every Kingdom divided against itself will be ruined and every city or household divided against itself will not stand so you know a lot of times we may think we go on our house and close the door and God doesn't know what's going on in in there but he knows everything behind closed doors and one of the things that we need to be really careful

of is Strife in Proverbs 6 it says there's six things the Lord hates and the seventh is an Abomination unto him and the seventh one now get this is he who SWS Discord among his brethren in order to have peace I do think you have to work at it because the devil is always trying to stir up some kind of trouble if you want to know where the devil's going to be it's anywhere where anything good is happening that's always where he's going to be Paul said I try to do evil I I try to

do good and evil always shows up now Jesus had a lot to say to Hypocrites and hypocrites are people who protect to be one thing on the outside but inside there's something else and we all know that you can smile at a person and be thinking that outfit really looks stupid on you so just think about that God sees what's going on inside of us and that's what's important to him much more important than any pretense of godliness or supposed religiosity and the Pharisees you know I'm fair you see the Pharisees were very much religious

but yet Jesus told them you're like whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones wow he said you clean the outside of the cup but the inside is filthy and then he said if you clean the inside then the outside will automatically be clean so I do think and you can nod or shake your head but I think that we pay a lot more attention to what we do and what people see us do than we do what's going on inside of us all the time and so God cares about our attitudes and nobody has to

have a bad attitude your attitude belongs to you and nobody can make you have a bad one if you don't want to have a bad one and I tell you good attitude is so valuable I always say I would rather have somebody work for me that maybe is not quite as skilled but has a good attitude than somebody who is just brilliant but has a stinky bad attitude I met somebody out in the hall the other day and I asked him how long have you been working for us and he said 25 years and and

uh I said well you must like it here he said I don't have one thing to complain about and I thought I like you see it's so easy to find the one thing to complain about without thinking about the multitudes of things that we have to be thankful for and whether you know it or not complaining is a sin because you don't do it by faith and whatever is not of faith is sin God wants us to be thankful not murmuring and complaining so Matthew 23: 25-28 and Matthew 23 the whole chapter is a great

chapter to read woe to you teachers of the law and I always have said I don't know what woe is but I know I don't want any of it but it's actually I looked it up it's like kind of the worst kind of misery you can have woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees you Hypocrites you clean the outside of the cup in the dish but inside you're full of greed and self-indulgence blind Pharisees first clean the inside of the cup and the dish and then the outside will be clean so if we

pay more attention to to what's going on inside of us everything on the outside that people see that just kind of takes care of itself because what's in US Works its way out of us woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees you Hypocrites you're like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside you're full of dead men's bones and everything unclean I always say you can dress it up and take it to church but that doesn't really say much about what's going on inside of you're the real person I

don't know if you're anything like me or not but I can remember Dave and I years ago years ago we don't do this anymore years ago arguing all the way to church arguing with the kids but boy as soon as we got in the church we became Mr and Mrs holy and I can remember looking at the words of a worship song on the overhead and mouthing the words while Thinking Inside if Dave thinks I'm fixing him anything to eat today he's got another thought coming for all I care he can starve he's just going

to go home watch football and I'm going to have to clean the house all day and so I was like I surrender all so you know that but God really wasn't even hearing that what he was hearing was what was going on inside of me so if we want to be real Christians we have to pay attention to what's going on in us because God is a god of Hearts the same way that you are on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside he said you're full of hypocrisy and wickedness

now I want to talk to a little bit today about not compromising that's it's so easy to do to compromise well everybody else does it well you're not everybody else and you're not going to answer for everybody else and I remember crabbing one time to the Lord about I felt like he was there were so many things that he wouldn't let me do and I knew other preachers that you know maybe it was a movie that I wanted to go see and I just didn't feel like God wanted me to go see it because of

something that was in it but I knew all kinds of other ministers that were going to see it and thought it was great and so I was crabbing complaining to the Lord why are you so strict with me and all these other people do it and they seem to have good Ministries and he said look you've asked me for a lot do you want it or not so you have to remember that if you want God to to do what you have asked him to do in your life then compromise is not the way to

go and compromise and we're all we're all tempted to do it it the temptation to compromise is around us all the time we know better than to gossip about other people but it is so tempting or isn't it amazing how our ears perk up when we hear somebody say did you hear it is so hard to just walk away and think no I don't want to it's like we just want to know we that you know the because I fell and broke my leg this year and had the problem with my other leg from a

blood CAU from back surgery when we put it on TV for the F for the first time we did it on one of the talk it out shows and they called the show the fall of Joyce Meyer and we got more hits on that show than anything we've ever put on the air you know why cuz people thought I'd fallen into sin boy they wanted to know everything about it you know wonder what we'd get if we put on there the Hol of Joyce Meyer you know probably like I ain't going to watch that so

compromise if you really if you look at the definition and this was really just puts a little bit of the fear of God in you compromise me means to go just a little bit below what you know is right oo just a little bit below what you know is right you know we need to teach more about Holiness because God is a holy God and he expects us to be holy and I'm concerned because I don't I think it's so tempting for pastors and Bible teachers to teach people what they think they want to hear

I call them dessert messages you know what's what's going to make you happy and want to come back next week but we people called to preach the word we're going to be held accountable to God if we don't tell people the truth and tell them what we really believe God is telling us to teach and that doesn't mean that you have to be hard on people and always just preach against something but we can't just let people think that they can do whatever they want to do anytime they want to do it and because God

is a gracious God and a merciful god that that it's okay to do that we need to call people to a higher standard and so I'm saying today stop compromising pay attention to what's going on inside of you because God cares more about that than he does what's going on outside of you you know let's just say you get in a bad mood today you get depressed or whatever sometimes if you'll just think about what you've been thinking about or even what you've been talking about you can locate your own problem pretty quick because the

things that we think can either make us happy or they can drag us down and make us sad same way with the things that we hear now our motives are very important and people always get quiet when you talk about motives because our motives are not don't have anything to do with what we're doing it's why we're doing what we're doing that's the thing that's important to God why am I doing it is this something that I don't I mean you know whatever you sign up to do something you agree to do something is this

something that I'm doing because I really believe that God wants me to do it or am I doing it as a people pleaser because I just don't want somebody to get mad at me you know you can't be a god pleaser and a people pleaser the Apostle Paul said you can find it in Galatians 1:10 if I would have been trying to be popular with people I would not now be an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ that's there again something that should put the fear of God in us yes I mean anybody who wants

to fulfill the call of God on their life you have I mean there's nothing wrong with wanting to please people and make people happy but if pleasing the person is going to displease God then we're supposed to be led by the Holy Spirit and he doesn't always lead you to do what people want you to do and I tell people a lot of times because everybody today is so busy busy busy busy and stressed out because of their schedule and you know if you would write down everything you're doing and do two things cross off

everything that's not bearing fruit it's just sucking up your time and not bearing fruit you know you can even have a friend that supposedly comes to you for counseling all the time and you can feel good about that because somebody wants your advice but but if that if they just keep coming and crabbing about the same thing they don't really want to be helped they just want to talk about their problem and it's not doing anything for you it's not it doesn't bear any fruit in your life or my life and so if you cross

off everything that's not bearing any fruit and if you cross off everything that you're doing for a motive that's not right you know sometimes we do things to be well thought of sometimes we do things to be seen by other people and so in Matthew 6 Jesus covers all of that and these are just good scriptures to go and read be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them it doesn't mean you can't do a good deed in front of somebody else but it says if your motive is

to be seen by them then don't do that if you do you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven I don't want to lose my reward you know so when you give to the needy don't announce it with trumpets as the Hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets to be honored by others motive truly I tell you they have received their reward in full already and I this is a favorite of mine when you give to the needy don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing

now what does that mean well this is what I feel like God showed me it's like if I do something good even let's just say we go out on a weekend and we just we just have a knockdown great conference I mean it's awesome I preached good people were saved it was just awesome uh maybe in the process we were able to help couple of people there that were poor and needy and so it just all around was just a great conference well you know God doesn't want me to sit on Sunday and just ruminate

and think on how great I was how much everybody oh I got a standing ovation they they clapped they applauded and so you you don't even get to sit around and think about how good you are after you're good you just come out of the Shadows I heard this one time love stays in the shadows until it's needed then it steps out of the shadows and does what needs to be done and then goes back into the Shadows good that's Lovely isn't it and uh so we have to even I think that's what it means

don't let your left hand know what your right hand's doing don't wallow in your goodness amen see to it that your giving is done in secret and that doesn't mean that you know everything you do has to be a big secret sometimes to be honest it blesses somebody to know that it's beneficial for them to know that you're doing something for them but you still don't have to blow a trumpet and announce it to everybody tell everybody what you do in secret God will reward you in the open I love that so when you pray

don't be like the Hypocrites for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others motive again truly I tell you they have received the reward in full but when you pray go into your room close the door pray to your father father who is unseen then your father who sees in secret will reward you in the open you know if you get up every morning and you pray the first three hours you're up you don't really need to tell anybody that you don't need to take the

newest little Christian at church to breakfast and say well how long do you pray five minutes well yeah how long do you pray well at least 3 hours well right away you've put condemnation on her and she feels like she can never measure up to you and it stunts her growth you you didn't start with three hours motives are very very important God bless you and have a great rest of the [Music] day I do not have one day of my life that goes by that I don't confess the word of God out love well

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