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I’m Joyce Meyer and I’m
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well welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life
and you know something God does want you
to enjoy your everyday life
not just when you’re going on a vacation
or you’re getting to do something
special but just your everyday Monday
Tuesday Wednesday normal everyday life
and you can do that but only if you live
according to the principles in God’s
word
and today’s teaching is going to be
really I think just a reminder of one of
those principles that’s very easy to
forget
I’m calling today’s teaching are you
gracious or grumpy
and everybody around here has been
laughing and saying well it depends on
brother I’ve had my coffee yet or not it
depends on what time of day it is it
depends on what’s going on but actually
God wants us to learn how to be stable
no matter what is going on
and to be gracious means to be
compassionate
and I want to talk to you today about
receiving God’s compassion for you
and about being compassionate toward
other people
you know God does not want us to be
hard-hearted he wants us to be
tender-hearted
so to be gracious means to be gentle
and I’m going to start off with a little
bit of honesty about me
I was raised in a very harsh household
and it has taken me a long time
to learn how to be gentle
it’s amazing how the way we’re raised
affects us and how long it takes us to
get over some of the things that we
learn I always say sometimes you have to
unlearn the wrong thing before you can
learn the right thing so when is the
last time you heard a sermon on
gentleness or compassion Isaiah 42 3.
a bruised Reed he will not break
in a smoldering Wick he will not snuff
out
in faithfulness he will bring forth
Justice now you know it’s very possible
to read a lot of these scriptures and
never really pay any attention to them
because what is a bruised Reed what is a
smoldering Wick and what in the world is
he talking about
well a bruised read in ancient times
Reeds were sometimes used for musical
instruments but when the Reed became
soft or cracked it became worthless and
was tossed aside
so
this is actually being applied to us
like if you were a bruised Reed
Jesus would not just toss you aside and
throw you away he is into healing and
restoration and I want you to realize
today that no matter what you have done
no matter how bad you may think it is
God is willing to be compassionate
toward you
gentle and forgiving
and he will restore you but you have to
be willing to receive that and a lot of
ourselves a lot of us punish ourselves
for things that God has already forgiven
us for
we need to learn how to receive the
things that Jesus died on the cross to
give us
and he died there yes so our sins could
be forgiven and we could spend eternity
with God
but he also died for other things and we
need to learn how to receive those
things a smoldering Wick
refers to when a candle burns all the
way down
the wick begins to smolder
and is no longer of any value
but like the bruise read or the
smoldering Wick broken people are often
cast aside
but not by Jesus people may cast us
aside but Jesus does not
to be gracious
means to be compassionate
and I want you to hang on to that word
because we’re going to talk about
compassion a lot today
compassionate merciful and gentle
compassion is a term that’s related to
gentleness not just gentleness and how
we talk
but gentleness really in our attitude
toward people and their faults and their
flaws and their sins everybody has
something
that’s not right about them every single
one of us have faults and flaws and we
really have a bad habit of getting into
judging one another while you this and
you that and you don’t and you should
and you shouldn’t
but we do it without remembering that we
also have weaknesses we we judge people
in the areas where we’re strong
but we forget about the areas where
we’re weak I know I have weaknesses and
man if you’re somebody who doesn’t have
any then I hope you’ll pray for me but I
think we all have weaknesses of some
kind if we didn’t have we wouldn’t need
Jesus
as a noun the difference between
compassion and gentleness is that
compassion
I want you to hear this because this is
important compassion is a deep awareness
of the suffering of another person
coupled with a desire to relieve it
it’s deep
awareness of somebody else’s suffering
but also a desire to do something about
it
while gentleness is just a state of
being gentle now the interesting thing I
find and I’ve got
four scriptures here I’m going to read
you
compassion
moves us to do something about a
person’s problem
it’s not just feeling sorry for them
well I really feel for you man I feel
sorry for that person but it’s what can
I do about this to help the person
and boy that is really what we need in
the body of Christ
we need people that are willing to help
one another and who will actually think
okay I heard about this person’s problem
God is there anything I can do to help
them
well one thing we can always do is pray
so if if there’s nothing else that you
can think of that you can do on a
practical level
prayer is really important prayer is
really powerful
and we should always pray for people
when we hear that they have a problem
don’t ever think that your prayers don’t
make any difference because I was
talking to somebody this morning and I
said every day that I live I am more and
more amazed by the power of Prayer
so I want to just encourage you today to
pray about as many things
as you can and you don’t have to wait
until you pray you can pray anytime
anywhere about anything and I think we
should pray right away when we hear
about something
Mark 1 41. and Jesus moved with
compassion
put forth his hand and touched him and
said unto him I will be thou clean now
this was a leper who had come to Jesus
and said if you can
will you heal me well of course Jesus
could and so he said I will be thou
clean
Jesus didn’t just say man I feel sorry
for you that you’re a leper he was moved
with compassion to do something about it
Matthew 14 14. and Jesus went forth and
saw a great multitude and was moved with
compassion toward them and he healed
they’re sick
Matthew 15 32. then Jesus called the
disciples unto him and said I have
compassion on this multitude
because they continue to be with me now
three days and have had nothing to eat
and I will not send them away fasting
lest they faint along their way you know
it’s interesting Jesus was always
thinking about
the condition of people they’d been
listening to him teach for three days
and he said I’m not going to send them
away on a journey to go all the way home
since they haven’t had food so we’re
going to do something about it so they
don’t have a problem later on
Matthew 20 34 last one
so Jesus had compassion on them
and touched their eyes and immediately
their eyes received sight and they
followed him now I really want you to
think about the difference in feeling
sorry for somebody and having compassion
on them
and I don’t know maybe this is something
you’d never thought of
I know I hadn’t when God first started
showing me this
it doesn’t cost you anything to feel
sorry for somebody
that’s very easy to do I feel sorry for
you but if you’re moved with compassion
to do something
that’s going to cost you some time some
effort some money something
and we are selfish
that’s one of the biggest problems in
our world is selfishness and
self-centeredness and in our Western
Society
it is even more of a problem than it is
in some other places and I might even
say especially today
it seems like people are more and more
wrapped up in themselves now as
Christians
were in the world but we’re not supposed
to be like it
now remember that you’re in the world
but Jesus said not of the world that
means we’re not supposed to be like the
world
don’t be conformed to this world but be
transformed by the entire renewal of
your mind
this book right here
the Bible
is full of God’s will for our life
and it’s full of things that we should
do and things that we should not do
and
selfish people just want to do what they
want to do
but you know just because I want to do
something doesn’t mean it’s going to be
good for me to do it
and the thing I want you to realize
about the word of God is that everything
that God asks you to do or not to do
it’s not really for him
it’s for us
I’m going to have my best life and
you’re going to have your best life if
we do
things the way God tells us to do them
so he’s telling us that
to be compassionate is a good thing
it’s going to help me if I’m
compassionate I’m going to feel better
about my life if I’m compassion
when you see hurting people
or you see somebody in need are you
moved with compassion
or do you just say I really feel for you
I’m sorry for people doesn’t cost us
anything but helping people does
Psalm 116 5-7
the Lord is gracious and righteous
our God is full of compassion
well I don’t know about you but I am so
glad today that I serve a god that is
compassionate
he’s not legalistic he’s not harsh and
hard-hearted
but when I make mistakes he’s
understanding
he’s long-suffering
slow to anger and moves with compassion
and I just have a feeling I thought
about this before I started even
teaching today
I’m sure there are people today watching
that
you’ve done some things in your life
that
were really bad things that you just
wish you wouldn’t have done but you
can’t go back now and undo them
but you can receive God’s compassion
you know there’s a story in the Bible
about
a guy that we call the Prodigal Son
and it was it’s about a man a wealthy
man who had two sons and
The Inheritance that he was going to
leave would have been split between
these two sons there was the older
brother and the younger brother
well the younger brother came to his
father and said I want my inheritance
now well in that culture
that was like a really bad thing because
it was equivalent to saying I wish you
were dead
now you know our children know they’re
going to get whatever we have
when Jesus takes us home but
I sure wouldn’t want him to come now and
say I wish you were dead so I could have
whatever you’re going to leave me
and that was actually basically
how they came across to his father but
his father gave him his portion
of The Inheritance and he went away and
he wasted it on loose and Reckless
living
he ended up
wasting all the money
his life got so bad that he ended up
working for a pig farmer
and the only thing he had to eat was the
same thing that the pigs were eating
well I love the way the Bible says it it
says and he came to himself
are
he came to his right mind
and you know sometimes the way we live
we act like we’re out of our mind or
like we’ve lost our mind and
he came to himself he came to his right
mind and he said I know what I’m going
to do
I am going to go back to my father and
I’m going to tell him father I have
sinned
I’ve disrespected you I’ve done what was
not right
is there any way that I can come back
home can you possibly forgive me
well interestingly enough his father saw
him when he was still a long way off and
he was running toward him well in those
days older men did not run it was
considered disrespectful but he was so
joyous to see his son that he forgot
about everything except just getting to
his boy
and you know what that’s the way God
feels about you today and every single
day
and he received his son with open arms
he threw a big party for him he gave him
a special robe he gave him a special
ring it was a wonderful reunion and you
know what I want you to know today that
no matter how far away from God you
might be
he is running toward you with open arms
and maybe using my mouth right now to
tell you come home you’re welcome to
come home and rather you just did
something wrong yesterday and you’re
feeling bad about it today
or rather you’re somebody that
accidentally turned this program on and
you are far far away from God
let me tell you something you don’t have
to try to make the distance to get back
to him he is running toward you God
loves you and he loves you with a
perfect love and he understands you and
I love that about God in Hebrews 4 15
and 16 it says we have a high priest who
understands our weaknesses and our
infirmities because he’s been tempted in
all points just like we have yet without
sinning I don’t know about you
but as a woman it always means a lot to
me if I go to Dave and I’m talking to
him about something that’s really
bothering me and he says I understand
God understands you
there’s people that need to hear that
today God understands you and he has
compassion
on you he’s moved with compassion to
help you he wants to bring restoration
into your life and there’s nothing you
have done that’s so bad that it can keep
you separated from the love of God
my my
the Lord is gracious and righteous our
God is full of compassion
the Lord protects the unwary
when I was brought low he saved me
return to your rest my soul
the Lord has been good to you the word
unwary means not aware of possible
dangers Thoughtless unthinking and
simple minded he protects those who just
weren’t paying attention and got
themselves into trouble and
now they’re coming to him and he’s more
than ready to help you well one of our
favorite scriptures one I go to often
and I hope you do too if you’re familiar
with the Bible is Matthew 11 28-30
come unto me all you
get that come to me
all you who labor and are heavy laden
and overburdened
and I will cause you to rest you know
that could be three-fourths of our
viewing audience today
I mean the world we live in today it’s
easy to get stressed out and
overburdened and feel like you just
can’t take anymore and you can’t go on
it might not even be with sin it might
just be with your life
and he says I will ease and relieve and
refresh your souls
wow I don’t know about you but I can use
some of that almost every day
take my yoke upon you and learn of me
now here it comes for I am gentle
meek
and humble lowly in heart and you will
find rest relief and ease and
refreshment and Recreation and blessed
quiet for your souls now you know I
could just do a whole series on just
that scripture but I won’t
my yoke is wholesome useful good it’s
not harsh hard sharp and pressing God is
not a harsh hard
God he is compassionate full of Mercy
slow to anger and always full of love
well you know in our world today
gentle gracious compassionate and
merciful is not how I would describe it
and you know many leaders many people in
leadership whether it’s
Church leadership or leadership and
business
their hard driven type A choleric
personalities and they have a goal in
mind and sometimes they can kind of walk
all over other people trying to reach
their goal
and I have to admit that
45 years ago when I first started in
Ministry I was like that
and I really
feel sorry and feel bad about anybody
that I heard and I know that I did hurt
some people
I just so was so full of my vision and
what I felt like God wanted me to do
that I probably just was not always as
nice as I should have been to people and
if you’re watching and you’re one of the
people I wasn’t so nice to I’m so sorry
if you knew me now I’m a different
person
you know what changes us I experience
God’s compassion toward me
and that has softened my heart and made
me compassionate toward other people I
have experienced his patience with me
and it has helped me to be more patient
with other people although I admit
that’s an area where I’m still growing
Paul said an overseer must be gentle
First Timothy 3 1-3
here’s a trustworthy saying
whoever aspires to be an overseer or a
leader
desires a noble task it’s a good thing
now the overseer
the leader is to be above reproach
faithful to his wife
our husband temperate
self-controlled respectable hospitable
able to teach not given to drunkenness
not violent but gentle not quarrelsome
not a lover of money
you know there are qualifications for
leadership and my concern is today
in the church
many people are put in a position of
leadership because they’re talented
but they’re not spiritually mature
and the Bible actually says do not put a
new convert in leadership lest he
becomes stupefied with pride
and end up hurting people
Paul said in first Thessalonians 2 7
but we were gentle among you like a
nursing mother taking care of her own
children
so many beautiful scriptures now how
about this
we’re to be gentle with those that are
found to be in sin
are you critical and judgmental
are you compassionate toward other
people who are in sin
have you been gossiping about somebody
or judging them critically
you know the Bible says in First
Corinthians 13 which is a love chapter
that we are to always believe the best
of every person
and God has given me the grace in the
last two or three years to be able to do
that and I’ll tell you it has helped me
so much I am so much happier
and I have so much stress relieved from
me
when I
am
I believe the best about people and it
is my choice you say well Joyce what if
you believe the best and they did have
ill intent in mind well you know what
even if they did that’s between them and
God I’m happy when I believe the best
and I want to be happy I’ve spent too
much of my life being unhappy what about
you
are you somebody that needs to be
happier and more content than what you
are
well if you are then today’s teaching if
you apply it should really help you
Brethren if any person is overtaken and
misconduct or sin of any sort
you who are spiritual
who are responsive to and controlled by
the spirit and that’s what it means to
be spiritual
it doesn’t mean you have a lot of Bibles
and you’ve underlined them all and you
go to church every week it means that
you are controlled by the Holy Spirit
you should set him right and restore and
reinstate him well we like that set him
right that’s right no listen without any
sense of superiority
and with all gentleness keeping an
attentive eye on yourself lest you also
be tempted wow
you know
as an authority here at the ministry
there have been many times when I’ve
needed to correct people
and I love to start out with
things are doing right
and I like to also share with people
some things that I’ve done wrong in the
past
then bring the correction in
and if you season it with a little sugar
it’s much easier to swallow
you know correction is not easy because
we all have a little bit of Pride and we
want people to think well of us not not
bad
so when you have to correct people even
if your children
you know I found it was very effective
with my children to admit to them my
mistakes
be gentle with people be compassionate
be loving
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