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I’m Joyce Meyer I’ve seen God’s power
transform my own life and he will do it
for
you this morning I want to talk to you
about being interrupted by
God yes well we can kind of see that
everybody needs that
right you know um most of
us have some kind of a plan for the day
I mean I know there are people who just
kind of fly by the seat of their pants
and they never know what they’re going
to do but you know most of us have some
kind of a plan and how about
if we start the day by lifting our plan
up to God and say now this is what I
have
planned but I just want you to know I’m
available for
you and if at any time you need to
interrupt my plan because you need me to
do something
else then please help me hear you and be
quick to obey how many of you think that
sounds
good you know I always say that if you
want to be used by God you don’t need
ability you just need
availability you’d be amazed how many
people think they can’t do anything for
God because they can’t find any special
talent they have but God can give you
the talent to do whatever he wants you
to do if you’re just
available interrupted by God God rarely
asks us to do anything when it’s
convenient actually when he calls he
seems to not care too much at all about
what we’re
doing because whatever we’re doing is
not as important as what God wants us to
do I must say that one more time
whatever we’re doing is not nearly as
important as what God wants us to do
amen
so Paul told Timothy to preach the
gospel in season or out whether it was
convenient or
inconvenient but there’s a little
something else I want you to see about 2
Timothy
4:2 because I think in some instances
we’ve gotten a little bit off track and
if we go to church and we hear anything
other than something that just makes us
feel good then we don’t like the sermon
but Paul told Timothy preach the word be
ready in season and out
reprove which means correct
rebuke which means correct a little bit
harder and exort which means to edify
and make people feel good about
themselves but I tell you if if if you
go to a church where your behavior is
never confronted
and where you can always just be really
comfortable I think sometimes well I
kind of enjoy making people squirm in
their seats a little bit you know it’s
kind of you you can kind of tell when
you’re saying something that people
would really rather not hear but you
know it’s the stuff that we would rather
not hear that we need to
hear and you know most people who teach
or preach they love it when people say
amen or they’re shaking their heads and
Dave always tells me don’t be so
concerned about everybody clapping and
saying amen about everything you say
they clap for the stuff they already
know and agree
with when they’re
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quiet come on when they’re quiet you’re
saying something that’s kind of like
uh-oh am I understanding this right you
know a lot of times when God begins to
deal with us about something that is
going to be a little a little bit
uncomfortable for us we we tell God oh
no not that I’m I’m not ready for that
yet but whatever God wants to deal with
us
about there’s an anointing at that
time for God to deal with us about that
thing and many times we want to wait for
our own
timing and then things can be really
really really difficult you know after
we’re born again our number one job is
to grow
up
amen and we need more mature Christians
and mature Christians are
stable they’re not up and down and all
over the place based on what their
circumstances are
doing
and mature Christians are
very
prompt about obeying God because they
know that God is smarter than they are
and that his way is always best
well Felix was a man who’d been hearing
about the gospel and hearing about Paul
in particular and he wanted to learn
more and so in Acts 24:25 it says and as
he reasoned Paul went to him and he says
and he reasoned with him about
righteousness which I guess challenged
Felix’s behavior and about
self-control and he tried to talk to him
about the upcoming judgment you see I
think we need to be reminded more often
that the day will come for every one of
us not some of us every one of us when
we will stand before
God and give an
account of our
life the day will
come for every one of us
and I think we need to think about that
sometimes when we will stand before God
and give an account of Our Lives now
obviously if we’re True Believers in
Jesus
Christ this judgment is not going to be
about whether or not we’re going to get
into heaven but I think for
Christians it’s important what we do
with our
time I think it’s important how we treat
people how many of you think that how
you treat people is important to God can
I tell you something I think it’s the
most important thing to
God I think the way we treat other
people especially people who can’t do
anything for
us especially people who can’t do
anything for us I think it says more
about our character than probably
anything
else we need to get about the business
of loving one another and not just
talking about loving one another amen
so I guess in a way today is a little
bit about calling all of us to a higher
level of
obedience and uh obedience really is
always a
sacrifice it’s some kind of
sacrifice if God asked me to do
something for somebody it’s going to
take some of my time it’s going to take
some of my money it’s going to take some
of my effort if I want to grow
tomatoes which I don’t but if I
did and I had a package of tomato
seeds I could not ever have a garden
full of tomatoes unless I sacrificed my
seed and so seed of
course can be money it can be time but I
believe that every Act of obedience or
disobedience is a seed that we seow that
will bring a harvest in our life it’ll
either bring a harvest that we really
like or it will bring a harvest that we
don’t like the word convenient and let
me just say that I think in our society
we’re pretty addicted to convenience and
comfort does anybody
agree I said to my daughter two or three
months ago I said you know what I’ve
realized about
myself she said what I Saidi really
don’t like to be uncomfortable
and I most of us you know we
just we’re just not always very tough
you know you go to some of these other
places like third world countries or
developing countries and and I mean the
things that they don’t
have and many of them are happier than
we
are with all the stuff that we’ve got
matter of fact one of the things we
complain about is all the stuff we have
that we have to take care of
so
um we need to get ready to obey God
quickly and do whatever it is he wants
us to do in Ecclesiastes
11:4 it says he who observes the wind
will not seow and he who regards the
clouds will not reap and really what
that is basically saying is if
you when God asks you to do something if
you won’t do it unless all of your
circumstances are
perfect then you’ll never end up sewing
and if you don’t sew you’ll never end up
reaping so we we need to get the
understanding
that God purposely puts us in positions
very often in life where we won’t like
it and it’s not convenient and it’s not
comfortable
and even though we do not understand the
purpose there is a purpose for what God
is doing and it’s usually got something
to do with our spiritual growth now I’ll
tell you a
story there was a great preacher around
the turn of the century called Billy
Sunday anybody hear Billy Sunday okay he
was like the Billy Graham of that day
and he had been a professional baseball
player and um he heard the gospel
got saved and felt called to be an
evangelist and so he just became a great
great great man of
God now leaving that there for a minute
there
was a local pastor pastor of a local
Church in Chicago which is where Billy
Sunday was also from and one
night he woke up in the middle of the
night and felt like God was telling him
to go down to the Chicago train station
and preach in the middle of the night
well he thought well that’s silly and
rolled over and went back to sleep and
it wasn’t very long and same thing
happened again and he thought well that
that’s ridiculous what sense does that
make rolled over and went back to sleep
and in a few minutes woke up and still
felt the same thing I wonder how many
times God gives us an opportunity to do
something but because we think it’s
silly or it doesn’t make any
sense we just kind of blow it off and
don’t do it well I guess the man was
mature enough to finally realize it was
God talking to him and although it
didn’t make any sense at all he gets up
in the middle of the night gets dressed
goes down to the train station and he
ends up actually one level below where
the trains were running and there was
nobody down there but he just preached
a a gospel message just a plain basic
gospel message as far as he knew he was
not preaching to anybody didn’t see
anybody didn’t hear anybody went back
home went to bed never had any idea why
he was there or what was going on well
years later he went to a Billy Sunday
meeting and Billy told how he was
saved and he said yeah one night in the
middle of the night I was at the Chicago
train
station and uh I heard somebody preach
and I couldn’t see them but I heard him
preaching the
gospel and that’s when I received Christ
and God called me to be an
[Applause]
evangelist so I want you to remember
that when you’re out and about you are
the hands and feet of Jesus and I can
tell you the work that needs to be done
in the world is not going to be done by
a handful of preachers on a
platform
we have to train you up that you go out
and do the work of the
ministry and so I’d like you to really
just make a decision today that you’re
going to agree with God to be promptly
obedient to what he tells you and I’m
not suggesting just doing stupid things
without checking it out or you know if
something sounds really weird then I
would pray about it more than once but
always remember just because it doesn’t
make any sense to you doesn’t mean that
it’s not
God just because it doesn’t make any
sense to
you doesn’t mean that it’s not God we
try to apply our human
understanding to what we sense in our
heart that God wants but God’s thoughts
are above our thoughts and his ways are
above our ways I remember a time when I
was going to lunch with a
friend and I had another friend that I
went to lunch with a lot her and I
actually spent a lot of time together
and now I’m going to lunch with this
other person but I kept feeling like I
should invite this other friend to
go and um in one way I really kind of
wanted to spend some private time with
this other friend but because I really
felt like it was God I thought okay so I
called her and I asked her her name was
Joan I said Joe would You’ like to go to
lunch with me and so and so today she
said oh I would love to I appreciate you
asking but I’m spending the day with my
mom well I was a
younger believer then and so that kind
of confused me and I said to God well
you know I thought you I felt so
sure that you told me to ask her to
lunch he said I did I didn’t tell you
she’d go I just told you to ask
[Applause]
her come on is anybody ready to start
obeying God
even if it doesn’t really
make a lot of sense to you see I believe
that
life can and should be and will be a
real
Adventure if we really every day say to
God I’m available for you whatever you
want it could be smiling at
someone it could be telling somebody
that the color they’ve got on looks good
on them I don’t think we realize how
many people out in the world are
desperate just to believe that somebody
sees them
so we’re going to obey God whether it’s
convenient or whether it’s inconvenient
now let’s look at a few people that God
called at very inconvenient times and
see how they responded oh and by the way
do you know that as far as I can tell
every person that Jesus healed he was
was on his way to do something
else come on I want you to understand
that he was headed to Jerusalem and
blind bardus Cried Out Jesus thou son of
David help me and the Bible says the
Amplified Bible says and Jesus Stood
Still don’t you love that he’s going
somewhere and he stood
still I wonder how many times we’re in a
rush to get somewhere that’s really not
even all that
important and we passed by the man lying
on the side of the road
bleeding because we’ve got our
plan and we don’t want to be
inconvenienced wonder how many more
people we could help if we were willing
to make a little bit of a
sacrifice to do it Matthew 4:1
18-22 while walking by the Sea of
Galilee Jesus saw two brothers Simon
who’s called Peter and Andrew his
brother casting a Ned into the sea for
they were fishermen and he said to them
follow me and I will make you fishes of
men immediately they left their Nets and
followed him now you know we read this
stuff and I don’t think that we think
that much about it but if you really
stop and think about
this how amazing is
that they didn’t I guess didn’t know who
Jesus was maybe they’d heard about him
maybe they hadn’t heard about him and I
don’t know maybe we could say Well there
must have been something really special
about Jesus that people would do that
but whatever the case is they had a
plan these people were businessmen they
had fishing businesses if we go on and
read verse 21 says and going on from
there he saw two other brothers James
the son of Zebedee and John his brother
in the boat with Zebedee their father
mending their Nets and he called them
and immediately they left the boat and
their
father and followed
him they just walked off from everything
like when God called Abram to leave
everything that he knew and was
comfortable with and go to a place that
I will show you he wouldn’t even tell
him where he was where he was going to
send him and if we get around to it
you’ll see I mean Abraham basically just
wandered around for years and years and
you know he’d pitch a tent one place and
then pretty soon God tell him to move
and he’d pitch a tent somewhere else and
God would tell him to move and you know
he’s doing all this
stuff because God had told him if you’ll
do this I’ll bless you and I’ll make you
a blessing well how many of us are
willing to wait for
[Applause]
years the test of
faith we don’t get what we want want the
moment that we want
it God bads us the long hard way because
many times we’re not
ready for the thing that God’s got ready
for
us God may have something really major
for you to do but maybe you’re not
spiritually mature enough yet to handle
it so God has to take you a couple of
trips in the
wilderness come
on cuz we don’t grow up in our good
times we grow up in hard times
that’s when we do our growing when it’s
inconvenient when it’s
uncomfortable when people are not
treating us nice and we love them anyway
when they keep hurting us over and over
and because God said to we forgive them
even though we don’t think it’s right or
fair and it doesn’t feel good we need to
start doing things just because God said
to do it and we don’t have to know why
or when we’re going to get a
breakthrough
not everything that God asks us to do is
convenient but everything God asks us to
do he does give us the grace to do
[Applause]
it I always say that God gives you the
grace for the
place even like if you’re raising a
special needs child I believe that God
will give you the grace to do that I
know a young woman this has two special
needs children they’re twins and and and
then she has two other boys and it’s
it’s
amazing what it takes for her to take
care of all these kids and you you just
you look at people and you think I don’t
know how you do
it I just don’t know how you do it well
people do whatever God wants them to do
by the grace of God which means he gives
us the ability to do it maybe right now
and you’re kind of you’re in kind of a
difficult marriage but you
you believe God wants you to stick it
out well you know what you don’t have to
be miserable and unhappy the whole time
you’re in that situation if you’re in
the place God wants you to be in then
he’ll give you the grace to be in that
place and that means that you can be in
an uncomfortable place and still have
joy come on there’s somebody that I’m
trying to talk to this
morning can you not be comfortable and
still be happy
I see not too many heads going this way
you’re kind of
like yeah well I’m not perfect at it
either remember I got the Revelation a
few weeks ago that I don’t like being
uncomfortable so if you don’t need this
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the Mind actually is the battlefield
that’s where we win or lose the war with
Satan he said all he gets to
say is the last days M you start asking
God to heal you and he will restore he
the God of all comfort and I am so
grateful that I know how to call on
God
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