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Ministries have you been abandoned have
you been
rejected are you living with the results
of all of your mistakes and have no idea
what you’re supposed to
do well I can tell you what to do 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
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hurt well thank you for joining me today
on Enjoying Everyday Life I love to
teach the word of God because I know
what the word has done in my life and I
know that it will do the same thing for
you today I want to talk to you about
what I think is a very important subject
and one that I think a lot of people
don’t realize and it is one of those
good news subjects do you know that God
will meet you where you
are I think so often we think that we
have to get ourselves all fixed up
before we can go to God but if you will
cry out to God from where you’re at God
will meet you where you’re at as long as
you cry out to him in sincerity and I
have several biblical examples that I
want to share with you but the thing I
want you to realize is no matter what
kind of a mess you’re in no matter how
long you’ve been in it no matter what
your need is if you
sincerely want God to help you and
you’re ready to change your life you’re
ready to repent of your sins and to
repent means to turn away from that
means to you’re not going to go back to
that again with God’s help you’re going
to turn away from that wrong way of
living and you’re going to learn how to
live the way God wants you to live God
will meet you where you’re at and the
good news is is he loves you too much to
leave you where he met you he will
always help you get to where you need to
be now I want to say that again because
I think that’s really important God
loves you so much that he will come to
you in your mess and he will meet you
there but he will never leave you there
because he loves you too much to leave
you in the same mess he found you in he
will help you to change your life and he
will give you by his grace and mercy a
life really worth living there’s a story
in the Bible about Abraham and Sarah and
this was a couple that God had promised
a child they had not had a child of
their own and really when God made this
promise to them both of them were too
old to have
children Abraham
was 99 years old or close to a 100 and
Sarah had already she was past the
childbearing age and so in the natural
it was impossible but do you know that
God Specializes in
impossible a lot of things that aren’t
possible for anybody else are possible
for God with man it’s impossible
possible but With God all things are
possible and so God just wanted them to
believe him to trust him that he would
give them a child from Sarah’s
womb and that he would make Abraham the
father of many nations well like a lot
of us do he waited for quite a while in
his case he waited a good number of
years and nothing was happening and so
he got a plan of his own and we do that
don’t we when God’s plan is not seeming
to come to pass then we’ve always got a
backup plan a plan of our own and his
wife suggested that he take her
handmaiden
and get her
pregnant take her as a secondary wife
and then she would claim this child as
her own and raise the child as her own
and and so Abraham did it that was one
case where he should not have listened
to his wife it doesn’t make any sense
for any woman to want to give her
husband a secondary wife that can’t be
anything but trouble from the get-go but
sure enough Hagar the handmade did
become pregnant and as soon as she did
she looked with contempt upon her
mistress in other words she previously
had a submissive attitude she loved her
M mistress she’d do anything for her and
so because of the great attitude she had
Sarah thought well she’d continue to
have one but as soon as she had a a foot
up so to speak on Sarah or she was in a
situation now that where she could give
Abraham something he wanted that Sarah
couldn’t she got a bad attitude and the
child grew with them until he was about
13 years old and it was just starting to
be nothing but trouble trouble trouble
all the time and Sarah wanted Abraham to
make them leave she didn’t want them to
be together my now she had had the child
that God had promised them and they grew
together for a while but it was still
just trouble trouble trouble all the
time how many of you know when you do
something that God doesn’t want you to
do until it’s corrected it’s just
nothing but trouble trouble trouble all
the time and so here in Genesis
21 14-17 it says early the next morning
Abraham took some food and a skin of
water and gave them to
Hagar and he set them on her shoulders
and then sent her off with the boy and
she went on her way and wandered in the
desert of
berseba when the water in the skin was
gone she put the boy under one of the
bushes and then she went off and sat
down about a bow shot away for she
thought I cannot watch the boy die well
we can see that she already had made her
mind up they weren’t going to make it
and the boy was going to die and as she
sat there she began to sob and
apparently the boy was crying too and
the Bible says God heard the boy
crying and the angel of God called a
Hagar from heaven and said to her what
is the matter Hagar do not be afraid God
has heard the boy
crying and he will meet him where he is
that the Amplified says he will meet him
where he is and that’s the title of the
message I want to bring you today is God
will meet you where you are now this boy
was in a mess his life looked like it
was all but
over and he cried out to God you know
sometimes all we have to do is cry out
to God and he will meet us right where
we’re at and he’ll help us get to where
we need to be God heard Ishmael where he
was
and he actually promised him promotion
and a good life and all Ishmael did was
cry out he didn’t do anything else he
just cried
out 2 Chronicles 20:9 it says if
Calamity comes upon
us whether the sword of judgment or
plague or famine we will stand in your
presence before the temple that bears
your name and we will cry out to you and
in our distress and you will hear us and
save us well you know I think anybody
can cry out to God it doesn’t take any
special training to do that you just say
oh God I need you God you’re the only
one that can help me God I need your
help I’m crying out to you I want you in
my life I want you to come and get
involved in my
life and I hope that there are many
people that I’m talking to today that
you will really be convicted by what I’m
saying and you’ll realize that you are
in a mess in your life and maybe you’ve
been trying to fix that mess yourself
and I’ll tell you you cannot you need
God’s help and God will come and help
you if you will cry out to him he’ll
begin to unravel the situation in your
life and it may not all happen overnight
but if you’ll Surrender Your Life to him
let him come into your life forgive your
sins and give you a brand new start God
will meet you where you’re at and he
will help you get to where you need to
be Psalm 372 and3 says I cry out to God
most high to God who vindicates
me you might uh remember well I don’t
know if you’re watching the program when
I shared this or not but I CED I shared
about blind Bemus who cried out to Jesus
Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me
and the people told him to be quiet and
says he cried out all the more and God
healed him crying out to God is pretty
easy sometimes we cry to our friends and
we cry to ourself and we feel sorry for
oursel but what about crying out to God
and saying God whatever you want me to
do I’ll do it just show me what to do
and I I want to be obedient to you I cry
out to God most high he sends from
heaven and he saves me
me rebuking those who hotly pursue me
God sends forth his love and his
faithfulness and one last one Psalm
865 you Lord are forgiving and good
abounding in love to all who call upon
you God met Ishmael in his rejection he
met him in his abandonment and he
promised him promotion and I can pretty
much say the same thing happened to me
I’d been abused in my childhood sexually
abused by my father abandoned by my
mother spent many years in complete
misery and lived in a total atmosphere
of fear and violent angry behavior and I
cried out to God and he met me where I
was at and he helped me change my life
it didn’t happen overnight but I am a
totally different person now and those
things that happened to me in my
childhood when I think back about that
little girl it’s almost as if she’s
Somebody That I Used to Know not me I’m
a brand new creature in Christ because
the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 If
any man is in
Christ any man who receives Christ is
considered to be in him if any man is in
Christ he is a new creature all things
pass away and All Things become brand
new you become new spiritual clay and if
you’ll be soft and pliable in the hands
of God he will mold a brand new life for
you it’s not too late for
you well where are
you are you lost in problems tragedy or
sin are you
lonely are you sick and perhaps afraid
of
death have you been abandoned have you
been
rejected
are you living with the results of all
of your mistakes and have no idea what
you’re supposed to
do well I can tell you what to do cry
out to God and he will meet you where
you’re
at and step by step little by
little God will teach
you and he’ll begin to show you how to
make right choices and live the right
way but you have to make a start by
surrendering your life to God you don’t
just cry out to him and expect God to
come and help you if you’re not ready to
surrender your life to
him and you know I I felt even before I
started to share this message for today
that today many people are going to give
their life to Jesus Christ and you do
have to give it to him he he wants
everybody but not everybody will receive
him because not everybody will humble
themselves and say yes God you’re right
and I’ve wrong I’ve lived my life all
wrong and I want to
change I am a sinner and I I I’m sorry
for my sins I’m sorry for the way I
lived and and I want you in my life will
you forgive me and come into my life and
be my Lord and my savior and the moment
you do that in sincerity God will come
into you he’ll make you his home your
sins will be washed away moved as far as
the East is from the west and he will
remember them no more now that doesn’t
mean that in instantly everything in
your life is going to be fixed but it
does mean that it’s a brand new
beginning for you old things have passed
away God’s forgiven you and then you can
start working with God to have the
circumstances in your life
changed into a life that is going to be
pleasant and enjoyable now I have a
pretty large portion of scripture that I
want to share with you and normally I
don’t try to share this many scriptures
because people kind of lose their focus
but Psalm
139
1-8 are absolutely phenomenal and I
think they’re going to really encourage
you if you’ll pay
attention you have searched me Lord and
you know me well when God says he knows
you let me tell you he knows
you you know a lot of
people that even work here might say
well I know Joyce well they may know me
but they don’t know me like Dave does
and Dave doesn’t even know me like God
does When God says he knows you let me
tell you there’s nothing about you that
God doesn’t know he knows things about
you that you haven’t even
admitted you know when I sit down and
you know when I get up you perceive my
thoughts a far off just think about that
God knows everything about you he sees
everything that you do you discern my
going out and my lying down you are
familiar God with all my ways in other
words there’s nothing about you that’s
surprising or shocking to
God before a word is on my tongue Lord
you know it completely God knows what
we’re going to say before we even say it
he knows what we’re going to think
before we even think it nobody knows you
like God knows
you you hem me in behind and
before and you lay your hand upon me
your you ever feel like that that God’s
got you in a place where you can’t go
forward and you can’t go backward you’re
just there waiting for God to do
something well he will if you just keep
crying out to
him such knowledge is too wonderful for
me it’s too lofty for me to obtain let
me tell you the work that God does in
our life is too wonderful for us to even
begin to understand it where can I go
from your spirit God where can I flee
from or hide from your presence if I go
to heaven you’re there if I make my bed
in the depths you are
there if I rise on the wings of the Dawn
or I settle on the far side of the sea
God you are
there even then your hand will guide me
your right hand will hold me fast can I
tell you there’s nowhere where you can
get away from God he is everywhere all
the time and his hand is upon you
and God’s got a plan for your life and
I’m just going to say this the best way
I know how to the gentlest way I know
how to if you persist in going your own
way your life is going to be pretty
miserable but if you’ll surrender your
life to Christ
today you can know a life that you
cannot even begin to imagine right
now if I say surely the darkness will
hide
me and the light will become night
around
me even the darkness will not be dark to
God there’s nowhere we can hide from God
you can’t hide in the dark you can’t go
high enough or deep
enough God knows every place where we’re
at and he knows everything that we
do now listen to this for you God did
create my inmost
being you knit me together in my
mother’s womb god with his very own hand
purposely knit you together in your
mother’s womb you are not a
mistake God Made You specially there’s
nobody else on earth like you nobody has
your fingerprints nobody has your
DNA don’t let the devil or anybody else
convince you that you’re a mistake that
there’s no plan or no purpose for you if
that’s what you’ve been thinking then
your thinking has been all wrong because
God wants you he has a plan for you and
a purpose for your
life I praise you because I am fearfully
and wonderfully
made your works are wonderful and I know
that quite well I love the boldness of
the psalmist David he said you created
me wonderful are your works I mean what
was he saying other than God you have
made me a
wonder I am wonderful the way you have
made me is wonderful so right now today
you can stop being against yourself you
can stop hating yourself and rejecting
yourself and thinking that you’re not
okay because you’re not like everybody
else right now today you can accept
yourself as someone handmade handpicked
by God made very special and God has a
special plan for your
life your eyes saw my unfarmed substance
and all the days ordained for me were
written in your book before one of them
even came into being I love
that Dave has God has a
book and he’s written every day of all
of our lives in that book before we ever
show up on planet
Earth how precious are your thoughts
toward me oh God now listen to this how
vast is the sum of them if I were to
count
them they would outnumber the grains of
sand and when I awake I’m still with you
God has you on his mind all the
time there’s never been a moment in your
life when God has not loved you and
there will never be a moment in his life
when he will love you any more than he
does right now and you say well that
can’t be possible God can’t possibly
love me not with the things I’ve done
well God is love it’s not something he
does sometimes and doesn’t do other
times he is love and what he wants us to
do is respond to that love Jesus said if
you love me you’ll obey me he wants us
to learn his word and live a life of
obedience to him he didn’t say if you
obey me I will love you he said if you
love me you will obey me and the reason
why people don’t obey God is because
they don’t love him enough to obey him
the more you fall in love with Jesus the
more and more you’re going to want to do
what he wants you to
do Revelations 3 says I behold I stand
at the door and
knock if anyone hears my voice and opens
the door well guess what the door knob
is on your side of the door he’s not
going to break the door down and make
you accept him but if you’ll open the
door he says he will come in and eat
with
you and you will eat with him well what
does eating signify in the Bible
intimacy close
relationship covenants were sealed with
a meal the Passover was instituted with
a meal we remember the Lord’s body and
his blood that was broken and shed
through a
meal Jesus wants to eat with you he
wants intimate personal relationship
ship with you you know the Bible is full
of redemption
stories God is a god of redemption that
means that he bought us back from the
enemy God wants
you he’s paid the price for you the
devil may have you convinced that he
still owns you but he does not because
Jesus bought you back with his own
blood and he descended into hell and he
took the keys of hell and death away
from Satan and he’s given us
Authority the enemy has no right to run
your life anymore if you won’t let
him Noah is a great story of
redemption and I just noticed this that
you Noah’s story is
in Genesis 67 and
8 and it says here God warned of coming
judgment and he said that those who
repented of their sin and believed would
be
saved he told Noah to build an ark to
contain those who would believe however
after years of preaching listen to this
after years of preaching only eight
Souls entered the ark Noah and his
family now you today I’m preaching to
you and I hope that you will listen to
what I say and that there won’t have to
be somebody else next year or another 5
years from now that will come along and
preach
again you don’t want to keep saying no
to God and keep saying no to
God all the people that were alive in
Noah’s day they were preached to they
were told that judgment is coming Jesus
is coming back and they did not listen
they continued to live their own lives
and do their own thing I’m pleading with
you today to no longer live your own
life and do your your own thing but to
turn your life over to Jesus
Christ who loved you so much that he
died for
you God loved you so much that he sent
his only son to Die For You Jesus said
in John 1010 the thief comes to steal
kill and destroy but I came that you
might have and enjoy your life and have
it in abundance to the full until it
overflows Saul who became Paul he’s a
great story of
redemption Mary of magdala who was full
of
demons became a close friend of Jesus’s
and traveled with him Mary The
Prostitute became a close friend of
Jesus and traveled with him Peter who
denied Jesus became one of the greatest
Apostles just because you’ve made
mistakes doesn’t mean that it’s too late
for you and it’s not too too late for
me if you’ve not received Christ as your
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Christ I’ve told you today on the
program how to receive Jesus just tell
him that you’re a sinner and you want
him to come into your
life that you’re tired of living the way
you are you’re tired of running from God
and you want to repent of your sins you
want to turn away from that life Jesus I
love you I give my life to you come and
live in me and he’ll do that but there
are some things you need to understand
about that so call us and let us talk to
you thank you so much for listening to
me today and for those of you who need
it let this be a day of great change in
your life God bless you
I get to have a relationship with him
not because of anything I’ve done or who
I am but because of who he is I’m
starting to experience all the things he
died for it’s something really that you
feel and it’s in your heart and when you
do it’s amazing begin your new way of
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