Be Patient With Yourself-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

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well thank you for joining us today on

Enjoying Everyday Life and the subject

that I want to talk to you about today

is one that I think will really help you

enjoy your life more I’m going to talk

to you today about being patient with

yourself see good

already already makes me feel like I can

relax be patient with

yourself you know the Bible says that we

are to work out our Salvation it doesn’t

say we’re to work for our

Salvation because salvation is a free

gift given to us by the grace of God

that is received by us through

faith we can’t save ourselves we can’t

do anything to be good enough to deserve

or earn what Jesus did for us it’s a

gift we receive it by

Faith but once we have that salvation

once God

has given us everything that we

need he’s put it on the inside of us

then the Bible says that we are to work

it out work out your

salvation not in your own strength for

it is God who is all the while working

inside of you so it’s really talking

about spiritual maturity our growing up

just like our children grow

up we all were a child at one time but

we had to grow up so we grow and mature

spiritually Philippians 2:12 and13

therefore my dear friends as you have

always obeyed not only in my presence

but now much more in my absence continue

to work out your salvation with fear and

trembling you see God wants what’s in in

us to be worked out into our soul and

then seen through our bodies so people

can

see the image of Christ shining through

US Bible tells us in Romans 8 I believe

it is that we are destined to be

transformed into the image of Jesus

Christ that image has been captured on

the inside of us but now it has to be

brought to fullness or to fruition so

people can see Jesus working through us

we are to be Christlike in our character

if we don’t grow

spiritually then no matter what Jesus

died for us to have we’re never going to

have it or really enjoy

it I like what I I read in the book that

I’m reading by Billy Graham recently he

said

we have been Sanctified which means made

holy in

perfected we are being

Sanctified and we will be perfectly

Sanctified which means

glorified when Christ come comes to

bring us to our Heavenly home so I love

that we have it spiritually but this

sanctification our Holiness our

spiritual maturity is something that the

Holy Spirit then works not only in US

but through us and out of us and it

happens in degrees and stages and it

just takes

time and so you’re going to enjoy your

life a lot more if you learn to be

patient with

yourself while you’re growing the Bible

says from glory to glory to glory so I

always encourage

people you’re in a glory right

now but it may not be the same Glory

that somebody else you know is in they

could be behind you in their spiritual

growth they could be ahead of you in

their spiritual growth but we don’t need

to worry about where other people are we

only need to let God deal with us and

please get this be patient with yourself

you are not going to enjoy your journey

with God yes I said it’s a journey you

know how little kids are you get in the

car to take them on a long trip are we

there yet are we there yet are we there

yet and we’re kind of the same way with

God we always want things to go faster

than what they do work out your

salvation with fear and trembling not in

your own strength for it is God who is

all the while at work in you so our what

we’re to do is

cooperate with the work that the holy

spirit is trying to do in us and the

Bible uses the word yield quite a bit we

are to yield you know when you’re

driving and you see a yield sign it

means that you have to yield to other

traffic that’s going to be crossing your

path well we need to always yield to the

Holy Spirit anytime he crosses our path

and wants us to do something we don’t

want to do or to stop doing something

that’s wrong that we want to continue

doing being obedient to

God sounds hard sometimes but it is the

best thing that we can possibly do

because that’s when full Joy comes now

the Bible says in Matthew

5:48 be perfect even as your father in

Heaven is

perfect well that scripture used to

really put pressure on me because I I

would try so hard to do everything right

and yet it just never really worked out

that I was doing everything right and

I’m sure you had the same experience

when we fall in love with Jesus we want

to do things right and sometimes it

seems like the more we try to do what’s

right the more we end up doing what’s

wrong and I did not understand what was

wrong well for one thing I was trying to

do it by myself instead of asking God to

help me but I’m so thankful for the

Amplified translation of Matthew 5:48

because here’s what it means to be

perfect you there for must be perfect

now here it comes growing into complete

maturity of godliness in

mind and character having re

reached the proper height of virtue and

integrity even as your father in Heaven

is perfect so be ye perfect keep growing

in God keep cooperating with the Holy

Spirit and little by little from glory

to glory there will be changes

that the holy spirit will make in you

and each one of those changes will help

you be more into more conformed into the

image of Jesus Christ now I like to use

this example sometimes and this is a

pathetic example but we’re going to say

that that this mold represents Jesus we

are to be molded into the image of

Christ well the word of God says that if

any man be in Christ he’s a new creature

all things have passed away and All

Things become brand new so I like to say

that we’re like new spiritual clay in

other words all the old things that

passed away and God’s got a brand new

canvas to start with and he does a

perfect work on the inside of us as a

believer in God you have all the fruit

of the spirit in you you have been made

right with God through Christ you’ve got

a perfect heart toward God but your

behavior may not be perfect yet so

therefore this work of the Holy Spirit

has to be done in you some of it is not

real comfortable matter of fact I would

say a lot of it is not uncomfortable and

that depends how uncomfortable it is

depends really on how stubborn we are

how fast we yield so we’re going to say

this is us this new spiritual clay and

there is a molding process remember it

says that we’re destined to be molded

into the image of Jesus Christ now if

this clay had feelings I’m sure right

now it would be saying that doesn’t feel

very good stop it stop it stop it but

God can’t stop he has to continue doing

the work so we can become what he wants

us to be so let’s just say now I’m still

not quite the right shape I got to keep

at this just a little

bit about to get there okay now

wow all right now I can be molded into

the image of Jesus but what’s going to

happen here well I’m going to find that

there’s too much of me to fit into the

image of Christ so some things are going

to have to go maybe I talk too much

about things I shouldn’t be talking

about so God has to deal with me and

that part of me has to go maybe my

thoughts are not what they should be and

it’s hurting me more than I could ever

imagine so God begins to deal with me

about my thoughts and that has to go or

maybe I’m full of self-pity and I just

waste days sitting around feeling sorry

for myself and so that’s the next thing

God deals with me about you know God

doesn’t deal with us about everything

all at once he deals with us as the

timing is right and he just keeps it up

and keeps it up and keeps it up up until

eventually well there we are you know

what it takes a lifetime to get it

perfected but we have nothing better to

do than to work with God cooperating

with the Holy Spirit to be all that God

wants us to be doesn’t that sound good

right now how many of you want to be all

that God want you to

be and you’re ready to take up your

cross and follow him to take up your

cross doesn’t mean that you’re going to

have all kinds of horrible tragic things

happen in your life I believe that

taking up the cross is being willing to

live an unselfish life that’s not

centered around us but is centered

around the will of

God don’t be stubborn

yield be clay that’s soft and moldable

you’re a new creature I had the the team

here get me new clay because I didn’t

want to start with some old hard dried

up Clay If any man be in Christ he is a

new creature he’s new spiritual clay all

that he

needs he has he just needs to let the

Holy Spirit work with him and get rid of

things that are only going to hurt him

but he doesn’t yet know that that’s all

they’re going to do now you know I’ve

got a Polaroid camera here

so I’m sure you know how these things

work you let’s just say I’m going to

take a picture of Amanda over here she’s

over there behind the camera and you

can’t see her but I can see her so I’m

going

to now I have captured Her

Image but this is going to take about 10

minutes of being exposed to the light

before I can see this image

well the image of Christ has been

captured on the inside of you but it’s

going to take more than 10

minutes it’s going to take years for

that full image of Christ to be seen

through you matter of fact if I just

stood here for 10 minutes and watched

this gradually very

gradually I’d start to see something and

at first I would say what is that that

that doesn’t look like it’s going to be

anything but

ultimately I’m going to have a picture

of Amanda and when it comes through I’ll

show it to you now here’s a regular

camera like I guess a lot of people

still use these but people used to use

these and I did something to it it’s

making a noise here so this kind of

camera you’re not going to get as faster

a result as we did with that Polaroid

camera that’s more of a

new new design but the older cameras you

took your

picture the shutter opens long enough to

let the light in when the light comes

into your life you get that Glimpse that

image of what you can be in Christ but

then this film has to go through even a

longer process

and it has to be taken into a dark

room isn’t that interesting that the

picture fully develops in a dark room

before anybody can actually see what it

is well some of you may not like this

but that dark room represents some of

the difficult things that we go through

that we probably don’t understand and

don’t like and don’t want

that even confuse us and we just don’t

get it but it’s in those more difficult

times that we really grow in our walk

with God you know

patience the Greek dictionary says is a

fruit of the spirit that grows only

under

trial how can you learn to be patient if

you don’t have anything to be patient

about most people have no interest at

all and praying for patience because

they know what’s going to happen when

they do they’re going to have trouble

and I understand that I prayed for years

and years and years for God to make me

patient and I felt like nothing at all

was happening well what was happening I

was growing in patience and you know

there’s so many stories in the Bible

about people who went through difficult

times and they came out on the other

side very very Victorious ious James 1:3

says be assured and understand that the

trial and the proving of your faith

bring out endurance and steadfastness

and patience well I’ve very often said

they brought a lot of stuff out of me

before we ever got around to patience

you know you never really know the real

you until you watch how you react and

respond in difficulty that’s where you

can really see the character of a person

when they don’t get their way or when

something unjust happens to them and God

asked them to walk in love toward the

person that treated them

unjustly I don’t know what you might be

going through right now but there’s a

pretty good chance that many of you

maybe even most of you are going through

some kind of difficulty in your life

even right now and I want to encourage

you during this time not when it’s over

and your problems are all fixed but

during this time to let people will see

Christ shining through

you every time that you’re in a dark

place something wonderful happens if you

don’t give up your

faith in

Daniel it said there were three men

Shadrach Meshach and abedo they were

friends of

Daniel who were thrown into the furnace

of Affliction or the fiery

furnace because they refus to Bow Down

and Worship the king they they were

determined to worship God and God

alone and because of that there was a

furious command given to throw them into

the furnace well they made a right

decision and the King got so mad he said

turn that furnace up seven times hotter

than it normally is now you know what

it’s really challenging when you do the

right thing and it seems that you get a

totally wrong

result perhaps maybe you just first

start giving of your finances to the

work of the Lord and it looks to you

like all of a sudden you’re having

nothing but one financial problem after

another well that can be a test to see

if you’re giving just to get something

else or if you’re giving because you

really love God and just want to see his

gospel preached so if you stick with it

and you keep sewing and giving what God

tells you to give you will reap and do

time if you don’t faint and quit and

give up you know we didn’t get in the

trouble that we find ourselves in or

have our lives messed up the way they

are with one mistake and we’re not going

to get out of trouble through one right

choice we have to continue in the word

of God and we have to keep doing what’s

right and keep doing what’s right and

keep doing what’s right and eventually

wow all of a sudden we’re not the person

that we used to be we’ve learned how to

behave the way way that Jesus

behaves

well as we read these Scriptures it says

so these men wearing their

robes were bound and thrown in to the

fiery furnace now I want you to get that

they were bound when they went into the

furnace and these three men firmly tied

fell into the furnace then the king

leaped to his feet in amazement and

asked his advisers weren’t there three

men that we tied and threw into the fire

and they said certainly your majesty and

he said well look I see four men

loose I love that they went in Bound

they came out loosed and you know that’s

the way it is with our problems we can

go in with some kind of bondage in our

life and it may have even been that very

bondage that caused a problem in our

life God’s been dealing with us and

dealing with us but we have not yielded

we have not submitted we have not obeyed

and so this trial comes

along and maybe it’s just the enemy

trying to destroy us and God permits it

because he knows that he’s going to work

something good out of it that’s going to

make you a better person and help you be

more spiritually mature they went in

Bound but they came out loosed and guess

what the king saw well we put three men

in there but now I see four men in there

and one of them looks like a son of the

Gods you know what you’re never going to

be alone in the dark places of your life

Jesus is always going to be right there

with you whether you feel like he is or

he isn’t and for those of you that are

struggling right now even as you watch

me you may have tears streaming down

your face but let me tell you that Jesus

is with you right now and he has a plan

to bring good out of this situation that

you’re going through I really want you

to get a hold of that today

this is going to end well I can’t tell

you when but I know if you don’t give up

if you keep believing God will keep

working

now Lamentations 3:6 says you made me to

dwell in darkness like those long

dead Psalm 94:12 and13 says bless bless

happy fortunate to be envied is the man

whom you discipline and instruct oh Lord

and teach out of your law now listen to

this that you may give him the power to

keep himself calm in the days of

adversity I love that might as well say

that he’s saying you’re going to go

through things you don’t like and go

through things you don’t like and go

through things you don’t like until you

learn how to be calm during those times

see God wants us to be so spiritually

mature that we don’t behave any

different when we’re in times of trial

than we do when everything is going

wonderful in our life that’s called

stability Jesus didn’t get upset in the

storm he stayed peaceful the disciples

got upset they still had some growing to

do and I love this

scripture Isaiah 453 I will give you the

treasures of Darkness isn’t that

beautiful that just makes me feel so

good you say Joyce what in the world

does that mean well it means that even

in these dark and difficult places in

our life there are Treasures in there

that we’re going to come out with and

you will come out what you’re going

through right now is not the end it may

be the very beginning of something more

wonderful than what you can even imagine

and I know when you’re hurting you may

think lady you are crazy there’s no way

that anything good can be worked out of

this well I share on a regular basis as

part of my testimony that I was sexually

abused by my father abandoned to the

abuse by my by my mother who knew what

was happening and didn’t do anything

about it abused sexually by several

other family members because there was a

spirit of incest in my father’s

bloodline and at the time I thought I

would never have a decent life I

couldn’t think of anything worse than

what was I was going through and I

prayed and I asked God for deliverance

he didn’t deliver me but he did get me

through it and you know what I have such

a wonderful life now and God has used

the things that happened to me to help

literally millions of people all over

the world whether you’ve gone through

something like that or whether you’re

hurting in some other way pain is pain

but I’m living proof and many of you are

too that God can take anything bad that

happens in your life and he can turn it

around for good let your mess become

your message let your mess become your

Miracle Matthew

10:27 what you tell in the dark you will

speak in the daylight and you know what

that’s exactly what I’m doing today what

I learned in the dark times of my life I

am now speaking in the daylight and I

believe that what I’m saying today is

helping people all over the Earth this

message is going out by television in

over a hundred languages how wonderful

is that I only speak English but through

technology and through

translators we can get this to people in

all kinds of languages and you know what

no matter where you live in the earth we

we all have the same kinds of problems

they may not be exactly the

same but pain is pain and we all go

through dark times and we all need to

know that we’re going to come out on the

other side much better than what we were

when we went in and you need to be

patient in the process of change that

God is working in you because being

impatient is only going to make it worse

well do we have a picture of Amanda yet

yep there she is just as sure as I’m

standing here there’s Amanda well we

still got to take the film out of this

and take it to the dark room and let it

develop in there I hope you’re seeing my

analogies here of what God is trying to

teach us today you know what God loves

you so much and he’s never going to let

anything happen in your life that’s not

going to work out for your good if you

continue to trust him you know if you

watch the program yesterday I started

doing a teaching about being patient

with

yourself during spiritual

growth that God does a great work on the

inside of us when we’re born

again if any man be in Christ he’s a new

creature old things pass away All Things

become new I said we become like new

spiritual clay but there’s a

work that has to be done to get the good

things in US worked out through our soul

and even seen through our bodies because

no matter how much good stuff I have on

the inside of me if the world can’t see

it it’s not going to help them so our

Behavior I want everybody to get that

our behavior is very important it’s

wonderful to say you have a good heart

or my heart was right

and that’s

great not putting that down at all but

we need to move Beyond just having a

right heart to also having right

behavior and that is a

process it’s going to take

time and while you’re growing you can

enjoy where you’re at on the way to

where you’re

going you need to celebrate the progress

you’ve made and not just always always

focus on how far you have to

go Jesus

said when he left the Earth that he

would send the Holy Spirit and he said

you’ll be better off if I go away

because if I don’t go away I can’t send

the Holy Spirit well let me ask you how

could we possibly be better off without

Jesus well he was in one human body and

could only be one place at one time

working with one person but the holy

spirit is a spirit and he can be living

in each one of us and working with each

one of

us all at the same

time I’m just going to have big faith

today and say I believe there’s at least

a million people watching the TV program

today and you know what all of you are

in a little different place spiritually

some of you have not even accepted

Christ as your savior yet some of you

are like little baby Christians you were

just recently born again some of you

have been walking with God for many many

many years and you are perhaps very

spiritually mature but there’s people

all along the path in different

circumstances and you know what you’re

all going to hear what I say but you may

hear it differently depending on where

you’re at in the Lord and one of the

things that I want to tell you right off

the bat is that there are no overnight

successes

everybody wants to start something and

be a success and have it great and

wonderful all at

once you know we’re so interested today

in instant everything you can get

instant pudding

and instant film development and instant

coffee and just instant

anything but you cannot get instant

spiritual maturity please hear

that you can microwave stuff today you

can zap

it what used to maybe take hours to cook

in the oven can be cooked in a short

period of time in a microwave but there

is no microwave spiritual

maturity we have to go through to get

through Deuteronomy 7:22 says that God

delivers us from our enemies little by

little wo don’t you don’t I don’t I just

don’t like that word little I much

prefer the word

big I’d rather go from Big to bigger and

from great to Greater but this says that

we’re going to defeat our enemies little

by little and interestingly enough the

scripture in Deuteronomy 7:22 says the

Lord your God will drive out those

Nations before you little by little you

will not be allowed to eliminate them

all at once

otherwise the beasts of the field will

multiply around you now if I look at

that spiritually and see what kind of

lesson I’m supposed to get spiritually I

believe that what God wants us to

understand is that if we had quick

deliverance from all of our problems all

at once we would be so

proud and you know what

happens when you’re proud

you begin to take the credit that

belongs only to God for

yourself and honestly when you’re

delivered from something quickly you do

not understand why perhaps it takes

somebody else such a long time to do

what you did

quickly this is just an example my

husband and I both smoke cigarettes when

we first started our journey with

god

well I don’t believe there’s going to be

a smoking section in heaven neither do I

think that it’s going to send a person

to hell but it’s just not a good thing

it’s not a healthy thing and it’s

usually not even really a good witness

well I had always said I just know I

could never quit smoking I could never

quit smoking if I ever quit smoking I’d

gain weight well I had already talked

myself into a hole before I ever started

trying to dig my way out of

it Dave on the other hand

said Lord I’m not even going to try to

quit until you take the desire away from

me you know what Dave quit smoking the

next day and never had a problem with it

after that but oh no not me I suffered I

had a hard time I’d quit and start and

quit and start well you know what I

didn’t understand why Dave got it so

easy and it was so hard for me but then

God began to reveal to me that many

times he had had to allow me to go

through things so I would understand

what the people that I was going to

teach were going

through so I get it if you come to me

and say I’m having a hard time getting

over this or I’m having a hard time

giving this up or giving that up so God

wanted to use me in one way and Dave in

another way so he could deal with Dave

in a different way than he could deal

with me you know what God has an

individual plan for you and don’t look

at how he deals with somebody else and

have a bad attitude because he’s dealing

with you differently than he is with

them and if something happened for you

really

fast don’t be judgmental and critical

toward people that don’t get it quite as

fast as you did God has to deliver us

little by little so we don’t get into

Pride transformation takes time the word

transformation

in the Greek is the same it’s it’s a

word word

metamorpho from which we get our word

metamorphous and that’s what we talk

about when we talk about a caterpillar a

worm a lowly worm crawling around on the

ground becomes a beautiful

amazing one-of-a-kind

butterfly I don’t think there could be

any better analogy of what happens to

the person who comes to Christ as a

lowly worm with nothing but

sin and eventually they’re turned in to

the image of Jesus

Christ well you know it’s interesting

about this metamorphous

because this worm that’s crawling around

on the ground when it comes time for

this change to take

place and maybe some of you you’re like

I know I need I know I just need change

I don’t even know what it is that I need

well maybe you need to surrender your

life to Christ or maybe you have

surrendered your life to Christ but

there’s a lot of things in your life

that you have not surrendered

yet you’ve taken him as your savior but

haven’t made him your

lord there’s a lot of areas in you that

he can’t fill because they’re still full

of you so I believe that everybody

watching today hope is going to be shown

something by God that will help them

grow spiritually in some area in your

life the caterpillar ultimately when it

knows that it’s time for this change

crawls up a tree and gets on a

branch I’ve heard it said usually the

back side of the

branch and they spin a cocoon around

them themselves eles attaching

themselves to the

branch and then just it appears if

you’re watching it nothing nothing

happens do you feel like that right now

like man nothing is happening in my life

I’ve prayed I’ve crawled up on my Branch

I’m waiting for God to do something and

nothing is happening but you know if you

could see inside that cocoon you could

see that a lot is is

happening God’s got something prepared

for you but now he has to prepare you

for what he has

prepared maybe God has some great thing

for you to do in life but you’re not

ready quite yet what he has for you is

prepared but you’re not prepared invite

God to do in your life what he wants to

do and ask him every day to cooperate

with him rather than fighting with him

oh God help me help me cooperate with

the work that you want to do in me I’ve

even prayed things like God if you have

to tie me to your altar so I can’t get

away from you no matter how bad I want

to run from what you’re doing in my

life and it’s said that that worm

completely turns into

liquid which is kind of indicative of

what has to happen to us sometime we

just have to just turn into just

like whatever you want God and then this

butterfly begins to develop well I heard

a story about a man who

saw this butterfly struggling in the

Cocoon trying to get

out if you watch it all the way through

the process you can see the struggle as

it tries to break through the

Cocoon and he helped the butterfly

thought he was

by opening the Cocoon before it was

ready come on there’s a message here I

want you to get this and you know what

the butterfly

died don’t try to rush what God’s

doing let it take all the time it needs

to take and be patient just enjoy where

you’re at on the way to where you’re

going and on those days when you get

very discouraged remind yourself that

even though you don’t see it

you don’t see any sign of it at all God

is doing a work in you Philippians 1:6

says that he that hath begun a good work

in

you is well able to bring it to its

finish you know there’s a story in the

Bible about

transformation we call it the story of

the prodical son but let’s take a look

at this story today Jesus said there was

a man who had two Sons Luke

15 beginning in verse 11 and the younger

one said to his father father give me my

share of the

estate so the father divided the

property between his two sons now the

very fact that the boy asked for his

share of the estate before it was time

shows spiritual

immaturity in those days to ask your

father for your inheritance while he was

still alive was equivalent to saying I

wish you were

dead we get in such a big hurry about

getting things that we’re not ready to

have

yet so many of us think we’re ready for

promotion we’re ready for this we’re

ready for Ministry we’re ready we’re

ready well you know what you’re ready

when God says you’re ready and when he

says you’re ready when he sees you’re

ready he will open the right doors for

you at the right time and you’ll be able

to be a true success

not somebody who has a false start and

ends up getting

disqualified not long after that after

that the younger son set got together

all that he had and he set off for a

distant country and there he squandered

his wealth in Wild Living Well that

proves where he was at spiritually

doesn’t it after he had spent everything

there was a severe famine that came on

the whole country and he began to be in

need so he went and he hired himself out

to a citizen of that country who sent

him in the field to feed

pigs my my and he he was so hungry it

said he longed to fill his stomach with

the same thing the pigs were

eating my my my here we go from this

young boy living on a wonderful estate

with his father who loved him very

much and I’m sure there was great

joy and he had a great

life but because he wanted what he

shouldn’t have had before he should have

had it now we find

him being willing to eat with

pigs when he came to his senses and

thank God we can always come to our

senses isn’t that

good maybe somebody right now is going

to come to their senses and say what am

I

doing maybe you’re one of the ones

that’s doing something that’s similar to

eating with the

pigs and he said when he when he came to

his senses he said how many of my

father’s hired servants have food to

spare and here I am starving to

death I will go

back to my father isn’t that good news

that you you can always go back to

God he’s waiting for you he wants you

back if you’ve backslid or Fallen away

from

him if once you were serving God and

then you chose a life of sin again the

devil will try to tell you that God will

never have you back but he is a

liar and God is waiting for you to come

home he said I will say father I have

sinned against you against heaven and

against you and I’m no longer worthy to

be called your son just make me like one

of your hired servants he left in Pride

and he came back in

humility that’s what a

trip that ends up the way his did

wanting to eat with the pigs will do to

you that’s what time in a dark place

will do for you the Bible talks about I

will give you the treasures of Darkness

you know this boy was in a very dark

place but it had a great out come

because he went in in Pride and he came

out with humility humility is a

beautiful thing humble yourself under

the mighty hand of God that in due time

he may exalt

you come on somebody needs to hear that

again humble yourself under the mighty

hand of God that in due time he may

exalt you stop trying to make something

happen yourself and be willing to pray

about it and wait on God’s perfect

timing in your

life so he got up and he went to his

father while he was still a long way

off his father saw him and was filled

with compassion for him and he ran to

his son now the thing that’s so amazing

about this is in this culture old men

did not

run it was considered like

just an improper thing to do but the

father got so excited he didn’t care

what anybody thought he ran to his son

and you know what if you’re even

thinking about turning in God’s

direction today he is so

excited that he’s already waiting for

you with open arms he’s running toward

you and all you have to do is take a

step in the right

direction there’s a phone number on your

screen and if you want to have a

relationship with God through Christ

you’re ready to receive Christ as your

savior we i’ like you to call that

number and somebody will pray with

you and you can invite Jesus Christ into

your life to be your lord and your

savior come on God’s arms are open he’s

waiting for you to come back to

Him Father I’ve sinned against heaven

and against

you I’m no longer worthy to be called

your son and the father long way off saw

the boy and was running toward him the

son said father I’ve sinned against

heaven and against you I’m no longer

worthy to be called your son but the

father said to his servants quick bring

the best robe and put it on him put a

ring on his finger and sandals on his

feet bring the fatted calf and kill it

let’s have a feast and celebrate you

know what I can guarantee you that this

boy when he came back was still far from

perfect but he’d made a little bit of

progress

and God said let’s have a party and

let’s

celebrate well you know what I really

believe strongly in celebrating your

progress instead of being depressed and

discouraged about how far you have to

go well there was another brother there

he’s called the elder

brother that pretty much tells us he was

older than the younger boy

and obviously should have had more

wisdom do you realize that the more

years you live the more wisdom you

should

have well he heard the sound of the

music and he got all

upset what what does this

mean and so the servants told him your

brother’s come back your father’s having

a big party he’s killed the fatted calf

blah blah

blah and boy the elder brother got mad

you know he’s like that old sour

religious person who wants everybody to

earn and deserve

everything and he was mad because he

didn’t think the brother deserved a

party you know what God will do things

for you that you don’t deserve when you

deserve punishment he’ll give you Mercy

if you’re willing to ask for

it so the father begged him to come into

the party but it said he would not go

in you know what some of you because of

wrong attitudes there’s a party going on

that God’s invited you to but you’re

staying on the outside saying I won’t go

in because maybe there’s somebody in the

party that you don’t think deserves to

be there don’t be so quick to judge

other people when God is blessing

someone and you don’t think they deserve

it you have no idea what’s going on in

that person’s life and you need to be

willing to accept what God is doing not

what you think he should

do and then you know he started

complaining to his father I’ve done this

and I’ve done that and you know this son

of yours wasted all your money with

loose women and blah blah blah and you

never gave me a party and I love this he

said my son you are always with me and

everything I have is yours but we had to

celebrate and be glad because this

brother of yours was dead and he is

alive again

wow don’t miss out on what God has for

you because you’ve got some Sour stiff

attitude maybe a little resentful

because things haven’t gone the way you

wanted them to in your life and then you

see somebody else come along

and it seems to you like things are

really easy for them and they were hard

for

you you know many times it’s hard on

older

siblings when there’s a baby of the

family who seems to have everything so

easy and things were harder on them

growing

up we went through some of that and I’m

sure many of you have

too don’t be like that be glad for

people that don’t have to go through

what you want through and be happy for

the blessings that God is giving them in

their

life the Bible says that we have to

continue

if you ever want to get to the end of

where God’s trying to take you in the

realm of spiritual maturity if you ever

want to be what God really wants you to

be and have what he wants you to

have then you have to

continue you continue in the word of God

you continue spending time with God you

continue in prayer you continue doing

what’s right instead of doing what’s

wrong Galatians 6:9 says says let us not

become weary in well-doing for in due

time you shall reap if you faint

not John 8:31-32

if you continue in my

word you are really my disciples and you

will know the truth and the truth will

make you free I can tell you flipping my

program on every now and then and

watching it you may enjoy it and you’re

it’s there for you you watch it anytime

you want to and I believe it’ll help you

but if there’s any way you can the way

you’re going to get the most help is if

you can watch it every day every single

day and reading your Bible once in a

while whenever you’re desperate well

that’s good but you won’t have as many

desperate times if you’ll stay in the

word of God on a regular basis and

another thing the Bible says that we’re

to continue in is to

continue in the love of God in other

words all the time remember that God

loves

you well you know

what if you’re going to grow in God you

may have to rearrange your

priorities seek ye first the kingdom of

God and his righteousness and all these

other things will be added unto

you rearrange things in your life so you

have lots of God time lots of time to

study the word and time to pray and

spend with God and time to do things for

other

people God’s got a wonderful future plan

for you and he wants you to be fully

formed into the image of Jesus Christ

the holy spirit is doing a work in you

and you need to be patient and let him

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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 mind you start

asking God to heal you and he will

restore is the God of all comfort and I

am so grateful that I know how to call

on God

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