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today 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
hurt well father we thank you for the
word today I love your word it’s changed
my life
dramatically and I know that it will
keep on changing it and I pray that
that’ll happen to people here today that
their lives will be changed as they
receive your word everybody say I
receive the word word I receive the word
okay now I always tell people don’t
listen to me just to listen to me but
listen with an attitude of whatever I
hear today I’m going to be obedient to
it and I’m going to go home and apply it
to my life you know just to know
something doesn’t do you any good if you
don’t do it we need to do it and I think
a lot of times we think well I’ll check
off my went to church this week box
but everybody will hear something today
that should and could cause at least a
little bit of change in your life
including me I want to talk to you this
morning about the journey to spiritual
maturity and you know being spiritually
mature is God’s will for us not
remaining baby
Christians but being spiritually mature
because little babies all they care
about themselves but God actually wants
us
to get ourselves off our mind not be
selfish and reach out to other people
help them
and be willing to do whatever God wants
us to do to help the kingdom grow
there’s really nothing that makes you
happier than helping other people as a
matter of fact I know personally that
you cannot be selfish and happy at the
same time it just doesn’t work and if
some of you are unhappy and can’t figure
out why it might just be because you
care more about what God can do for
you than what you can do for
God babies come in that way we usually
have big problems and we receive Christ
because we want him to fix them and
he’ll go along with that for a while but
after a while he wants a transition
where you say well now Lord I really
appreciate all you’ve done in my life
and I want to be of service to you Paul
told the Corinthian Church and keep in
mind that the Corinthians were had all
the gifts of the
Spirit they spoke in other tongues they
prophesied but he told them they were
babies so you you can have gifts but not
have fruit isn’t that
interesting you know people who have or
Opera in the gifts of the
Spirit you would think and they think
we’re the mature
group but not necessarily so a gift is
given to you but fruit you got to put a
little effort into that you got to work
with the Holy Spirit and everything you
need is in you as a seed
but you have to grow in those areas like
patience if you want
patience you got to be willing to have a
problem
first
amen if you want
humility
well you know how that goes you have to
be willing
to do something you don’t want to do or
apologize to somebody you don’t want to
apologize to but 1 Corinthians 3
1-3 however Brethren I could not talk to
you as to spiritual men but as to
non-spiritual Men of the flesh men and
women in whom the carnal nature
predominates I had to talk to you like
mere infants in the new life in Christ
and I’m reading from the
Amplified and it says in the Amplified
in parenthesis unable to talk yet and I
think that’s interesting that’s the only
translation that says that but Paul says
that twice in these three verses he says
I know that your
babies I can hear it by the way you
talk and you know that is true if you
want to locate how spiritually mature
somebody is is all you really have to do
is listen to them for a little
while amen because immature people
complain even though they’re
blessed they talk about other people
behind their back they gossip they
criticize they
judge
they very often won’t forgive people
that have hurt them they feel Justified
and hanging on to their anger they get
upset over Petty things that they don’t
need to get upset over and so I think
that’s interesting that you can even
listen to
yourself and locate yourself as far as
how spiritually material you are first
of all let me ask because there’s no
point in me preaching this if you don’t
think you need it how many of you
believe that it is very important that
we all grow in Christ and become
spiritually
mature
I fed you with milk not solid
food and when he’s talking about he’s
talking about the word of God as our
food
and some translations instead of saying
solid food say meat so the milk of the
word would be like Paul saying I had to
I had to always give you messages about
what God would do for
you messages about how much God loves
you and how blessed you’re going to
be what a great future God has planned
for you we all love those kinds of
messages and of course we need them but
we can’t live on
them we have to
have some of the meat of the word which
almost always brings some kind of
Correction in our
life amen and so I am committed
to I don’t teach people what they want
to hear but I teach them what they need
to
hear and there’s a difference see and um
the Bible says in the last days people
will have itching ears they’ll be
insecure and they’ll run to and fro
until they find somebody that’s saying
what they want to
hear and that’s that’s not good just
because your pastor says something that
makes you squirm in your seat a little
bit doesn’t mean that you don’t need to
hear it I personally love
deeper messages that confront me and
make me stop and think now like I said
we all need the what I call dessert
messages but we we need the we just need
a
balance you need a balance if somebody’s
just beating you up with the word every
week that gets old but if all you ever
hear is everything that God’s going to
do for you and how blessed you are than
really those messages encourage us but
we don’t
grow spiritually on those
messages I fed you with milk not solid
food for you were not yet strong enough
to be ready for it and even yet you are
not strong enough to be ready for it for
you are still
unspiritual having the nature of the
flesh because you’re under the control
of ordinary impulses I’ll just say
quickly do you let your emotion control
you or do you control
them do you do what you think what you
want what you feel or are you able to
move beyond that we I’ve written a
couple of books on emotions and one is
called managing your emotions I think
it’s out of print now and then another
one is called living beyond your
feelings and we all have feelings
they’re not going to go away you know if
somebody insults me I’m still going to
feel like I want to tell them off
or let them know they’re not going to
treat me that way but a spiritually
mature Christian can
have emotions and yet not act on them if
they know it’s not something that God
would want them to do so I’ll just leave
that with you and you
can do what you want to with it
for as long as there is Envy jealousy
wranglings and factions among you and
wranglings and factions are
strife and strife is
arguing heated
arguments living in
disagreement and the part that I like
about Strife that I think a lot of
people don’t understand is it says it’s
an angry undercurrent
in other words it’s one of those things
where we’re smiling at each other but
underneath there’s all this you know you
you can have a church that looks good on
the outside but underneath there’s all
this gossip and goofiness and what
happens then is that that prevents the
anointing and so everybody can say the
right thing but it doesn’t really do
anybody any good when we began our min
Ministry which has been 40 years ago
I’ve been teaching 45 years but I wasn’t
in full-time Ministry until 40 years
and God spoke to my heart said there’s
three things I want you to do and if you
do them I’ll bless your
ministry do what you do with
excellence and that doesn’t mean
Perfection it just means to take what
you have and do the best you can with it
we should be excellent
people who always go the extra mile we
don’t sweep the dirt under the rug we
clean things out and do things the way
they’re supposed to be done be a person
of Integrity that means
honest that means that you keep your
word and boy do we have a huge problem
today with people not keeping their word
how many of you have had an appointment
with a Workman to come and repair
something at your house and he didn’t
show up and didn’t even bother to call
you and let you know
okay well back when I was a teenager
like in the 50s you never heard of
anything like that people just I mean
even people that weren’t saved didn’t do
stuff like that and it’s it’s just
getting to be such a problem in the
world today that it’s just really
ridiculous and the thing that we all
have to be careful of is that we don’t
float along with the
world we don’t just kind of go with the
current but we’ll make the effort to to
swim upstream so to
speak and always do what you know is
right keep your word if you tell
somebody I’ll call you back tomorrow
call them back
tomorrow and then he said Keep The
Strife out of your life out of your
marriage and out of your ministry and
those are three core values at Joyce
Meyer Ministry we still teach
them today we teach them to
all new employees and we just do not not
put up with strife and that means if
there’s somebody there that’s causing
trouble and we
can’t get them to stop then we just
really won’t keep them because Strife is
like a cancer if you don’t stop it it
will eat away at everything until it
kills it and you if you’re going to go
to church and you’re going to trust God
for things you need to keep The Strife
out of your
family because Psalm 1 133 says where
there is
Unity there is
blessing and the anointing of God and I
don’t know about you but I want both of
those he said you’re behaving yourself
like
unchanged men once a person is born
again they should change but spiritual
maturity is Journey it’s not just a once
and done thing if you still have areas
where you need to grow do not feel the
least bit bad about it I have areas
where I need to grow God’s not concerned
if we’ve not arrived but he is concerned
if we’re making no
progress see we should just you
shouldn’t be today like you were a year
ago and 5 years from now you shouldn’t
be like you are right now we all need to
be concerned about ourselves if we don’t
see any growth any spiritual growth in
us and the Bible says that when he
returns we will all be changed in the
twinkling of an eye so whatever is still
wrong with us when Jesus comes back
he’ll fix all
that that’s
great that doesn’t mean you get to wait
till
then well then I can just put it off
till then
no there should be nobody in here today
that’s mad at
anybody forgiveness is the heart of the
gospel God forgives
us completely quickly forgets our sins
removes them as far as the East is from
the west and when somebody hurt your
feelings and makes you mad on Monday by
Wednesday or Thursday you shouldn’t even
be able to remember what it was got you
upset you just you let go of
it you say well they don’t deserve it
well maybe they don’t but you deserve
peace
amen and uh I found a very interesting
scripture I mean I’ve seen this hundreds
of times it’s not like the first time I
ever saw it but it’s amazing how we can
look at scriptures
and just see new things in them that
ever happened to you where you just you
see new things it’s Isaiah 43:25 and God
says that he forgives our sins and
forgets them for his own
sake I thought that was so interesting
he forgives us for his own
sake and we need to forgive other people
for our own sake so that’s just kind of
an aside don’t want to take time
preaching on that but you know if you’re
in here today and you’re mad at somebody
I really pray that you’ll lay that down
and get rid of
it before you leave it’s not not going
to change the person you’re mad at
they’re probably out having a good time
and don’t care that you’re upset and so
you’re just tormenting yourself
now this is a part of this message that
is very
important now Paul tells them why
they’re still spiritually
immature and I I want you to listen to
this Hebrews
5:13 for everyone who continues to feed
on
milk the baby Christians is obviously
unexperienced
inexperienced and unskilled in the
doctrine of
righteousness of conforming to the
Divine will in thought purpose and
action for he is a mere infant not able
to talk yet now why is righteousness so
important
to spiritual maturity well first of
all we are made right with God by his
grace and mercy when Jesus died for us
the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:21 he
that knew no sin became sin that we
might be made the righteousness of God
in him one thing you need to know about
God is he never expects us to do
anything without giving us the ability
to do
it so he’s not gonna tell you do this
right do that right do this right do
that
right without giving you the ability to
do it so he makes us all right with him
right from the very beginning right from
the very start of your walk with God you
are made right with
God and that
is gosh it took me so long to finally
believe that God wasn’t mad at
me and I’ll tell you why it is so so
important because you can’t unless you
believe that you’re right with God you
can’t do anything
right but if you
believe that you’re
righteous then you’ll produce right
Behavior a peach tree makes peaches
because it’s a peach
tree it’s very simple we produce what we
really believe that we
are and so you can’t really conce
consistently produce right Behavior if
you’re guilty and condemned all the time
and always thinking that God is mad at
you even when you’re doing things
wrong you still are the righteousness of
God in Christ there’s a difference in
your who and your do who you are is your
you’re right with God what you do is
another story and God’s going to work on
that here’s the reason why righteousness
is so
important we cannot mature spiritually
without
correction you’re not all happy about
that that was a pretty puny
clap we cannot mature without correction
from
God and God will try first to correct us
himself but if we do not
listen he will then try to correct us
through somebody
else confronting us personally or in
preaching maybe there’s something God’s
been dealing with you about and you have
just been being stubborn about it and
then maybe God will bring a speaker in
or your pastor will say the same thing
that God’s been saying to you and
hopefully that’s
enough to get us to get in line then how
many of you are with me and you
understand what I’m saying okay
well correction is very hard for most
people to receive it’s a little bit
easier to receive it from God than from
people but if he gets around to having a
deal with us through
people it’s very hard because only a
humble
person can truly receive correction and
say you’re
right don’t make excuses for it the
minute we make excuses we’re just
undoing the whole thing
because an excuse is a reason stuff for
the
lie so what we need to do is say you’re
right there’s no excuse for what I did
and I want God to work with me and help
me when Jesus ascended on high he sent
us a
helper the Holy Spirit and the Holy
Spirit is the
agent the definition says in the Greek
he’s the agent in sanctification in
other words we are already made holy at
the new birth because God can’t be
anywhere that’s not holy when the Bush
was on fire God said to Moses take your
shoes off you’re standing on Holy Ground
well why is a bush and a bunch of dirt
Holy Ground because God was there so
wherever God is has to be Sanctified and
he lives in us so he has to do a work in
us before he can come and live in US you
understand me so what you have on the
inside may be very different than the
way you’re
behaving and so the work of the holy
spirit is to help
you he’s our teacher our
guide is to help you and to help me get
what’s in
us to the outside of us you know Paul
said work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling well we don’t we’re
not Sav by our works so he can’t mean
that because he plainly taught that
you’re not saved by works but by Grace
so what in the world did he mean work
out your own salvation he says with fear
and
trembling not on your
own but with the help of God we can’t
change just because we want to we need
God’s
help so we from the moment that we’re
born again and God puts all this good
stuff in us then we have to a word a lot
of people don’t like today
work I’m still scratching my head over
all these jobs that are open and they
can’t get anybody to fill them I I don’t
I do not know how people are not
working and living I can’t I just
scratch my head we stay in hotels all
the time and now most of them don’t even
have
housekeeping because they can’t get
anybody to work no Bellman no
housekeeping you want if you get too
much trash in your room if you start it
out in the hall they may come by and get
it
but
nothing and it’s getting that way
everywhere half a restaurants or half of
the restaurant will be closed because
they don’t have enough workers anyway if
if you want or I want to be what God
wants me to be I might have to put out a
little
effort just praying
is not enough get the job done I need to
study the word I need to cooperate with
God I need to pay attention to my
spiritual life if I sin I need to
repent if I hurt somebody else I need to
go back and apologize are you all with
me Joyce said it earlier there’s really
nothing that makes a person happier than
helping other people I know that it’s
true it’s true in my own life and
basically
that’s what partnership with Joyce Meer
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we all grow in Christ and become
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wonderful things in our lives and then
for that to go through us and out into
other people we can’t wait to hear from
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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 rest of the day is M 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
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