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welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with
New York Times bestselling author Joyce
Meyer on today’s program Joyce will be
teaching from her series trust God and
do good the answer to everything is that
simple trust God and do good it’s so
freeing to believe God has everything
under control because that means we can
spend less time worrying and more time
trying to help others now here’s Joyce
with today’s teaching all right I’m
teaching this weekend on
choosing to trust
God you know trusting God is not
something that we just wait to feel like
doing is something we choose to
do you all have trust it’s just a matter
where you put
it have you ever spent or let’s say
Wasted Years in your life trusting
yourself found out that didn’t work very
good didn’t
you have you ever put your trust in
somebody else that just really shocked
and surprised you and just disappointed
you and really hurt you okay
um maybe you had your trust in your
money and all of a sudden something
happened and whoops you didn’t have that
anymore there’s so many things that
people can put their trust in that’s
just not
stable and you know God loves us so much
that he really won’t let
us keep our trust in other things and
simultaneously try to have a great
relationship with him so the minute that
you begin to get even a little bit
serious about your relationship with
God God’s going to start messing in your
life and touching some things and
changing some things that sometimes you
would rather he stay out
of
Amen you don’t want to pray God do what
you want to do in my life if you don’t
mean
it you don’t want to sing I surrender
all if you don’t mean it because God is
on a serious
mission and he wants you and he wants
all of you he doesn’t just want a Sunday
morning
you he wants all of you in him we live
and move and have our being I’m liking
that scripture more and more and more
the more I think about it he is our
life what do we have if we don’t have
Jesus and so tonight I want to talk
about trus in God when you don’t
understand it’s one thing to trust God
for
something this room is full of people
tonight and lots of people watching by
TV that you’re trusting God far
something you’re ask asking God to
change something in your life to give
you something or to make something go
away that’s unpleasant you’re trusting
God to change somebody else in your life
it’s one thing to trust God to give you
something or to do something it’s
another thing entirely to trust God
through
something are to continue trusting God
when he’s not giving you what you
want when everything around you is
shaking and you just do not understand
what is going
on I would imagine that we have people
here tonight and lots of them that you
feel like literally everything in your
life is shaking right
now got anybody all right now see for
some of you it’s just a thing here or
there but some of you I mean it’s
like what is going on and you just
don’t understand but I can tell you from
many years of experience and the only
way you really learn how to trust God is
through experience by the
way we all start
out wanting to trust God and the only
way we learn how to trust God Is by
having a reason to have to trust
God and then as we do trust him we see
his faithfulness and then little by
little as we journey with
God and our walk with him is a journey
as we journey with God we gain
experience now the way you trust God now
if you’ve been born again for 5 years is
nothing compared to the way you’ll trust
God another five years go by or another
10 years go by or another 20 years go by
and we will never 100% completely trust
until Jesus comes back to get
us but thankfully we can continue to
grow trusting God is a
decision and I want to encourage those
of you tonight that feel like everything
in your life is shaking that your only
real
answer is to trust God and to keep on
trusting God and to keep on trusting God
and yes it’s difficult when you don’t
understand what’s going on and it’s
especially difficult when what’s going
on in your life just does not seem
fair isn’t it hard when you think that
you’re doing what you should be doing
and yet you’re not getting the right
result and it’s especially hard when you
see somebody else that’s not doing what
they should be
doing seemingly getting a better result
than you are we can’t go over all the
material from this morning but and I
don’t say this all the time
but if I were you I would get a copy of
this morning’s teaching because I think
it’s it’s probably one of the best
things that God’s given me in a long
time there was just a real strong
anointing on the message this morning
so and I can’t even really tell you what
all happened it was
just it’s just worth having but I talked
about making that choice to trust God
and you know I’m sure everybody would
say oh yeah this I choose to trust God
but you know what you don’t even have a
clue what you’re doing until all of a
sudden you get some trouble that you
don’t
understand and that’s when you got to
choose I’m going to
keep trusting
God in Hebrews 12: 26 which is where
we’re going to
begin talks about how God shakes things
in our life until only those things that
cannot be shaken
remain so that
means God’s going to work with us until
we let go of all the unstable things in
our life and we’re only hanging on to
the rock of our Salvation that cannot be
moved let me give you an example I like
examples Jesus taught in Parables and I
just think we need practical
examples many years ago when my Ministry
was in the very beginning
stages I had a group of I thought
friends have you ever had any people
that you thought were friends and then
found out they weren’t do you know
people like that are dangerous to
you when you put your confidence in
people that really are not who you think
they are it’s a constant open door for
the devil to work through them to get to
you and so many times in God’s mercy he
will remove those people from our lives
and initially we may not understand
it’s very difficult when something is
stripped out of your life that you’re
not ready to give up
yet
amen and so I had the this group of
women they helped me in my women’s
ministry there was about 12 of them and
I just thought they were my best friends
ever they would never hurt me they’ll
always be for me well that’s the first
mistake
there’s nobody on this Earth that’s
breathing that will never hurt
you I don’t care how much they love you
as human beings we do not have the
ability to never ever ever hurt somebody
or disappoint somebody that we’re in
relationship with so you’re setting
yourself up for a lot of pain if you’re
looking at anybody
thinking you’ll never hurt me I can
always always depend on you don’t don’t
give that trust to anybody but
Jesus he is the only one that deserves
that kind of total complete radical
trust and don’t ever look at anybody and
think I don’t know what I’d do without
you I don’t know what I’d do without you
the only one you want to say that to is
Jesus I don’t know what I would do
without
you and so long story short I had a
relationship ship with these ladies for
a long time and we were just having fun
just having fun being in I think really
playing at being in Ministry at that
point I still couldn’t even really tell
you what happened I know now that it was
God just revealing their
weaknesses not that I didn’t have a
bunch of my own I did
but God was going to promote me to new
levels in Ministry he had a plan for my
life and I couldn’t take those people
with me do you know every place where
the bus stops somebody has to get
off
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amen and
so the bus was
stopped and God was ready to take me to
my next destination but there were some
people that needed to get off the
bus and I didn’t know it so long story
short I found out they were talking
about me behind my back I found out that
one of them was after my job I found out
that they were telling lies about me and
look at me when I tell you that I was
devastated and
heartbroken I couldn’t believe it
because they were
Christians now I had come from worldly
relationships where people did that kind
of stuff but these were
Christians so don’t even look at your
Christian friend friends and think you
will never hurt me and it’s not even
that people are mean they’re just
people they’re just fleshly people and
so that’s a time when I can remember
when man was my world
shaken I mean shaken I did not
understand what was going on the pain in
my soul was so deep but part of the
thing that you have to realize is is
that what you don’t understand now
things that you’re going through right
now that you do not understand you
cannot make any sense out of it all
later
on I promise you later on you will look
back and say now I get
it now I get it
amen and please believe me when I say
that a lot of the things that you think
are
terrible actually in
reality are
good I didn’t think I’d get much of a
clap on
that and the things that aren’t good God
can work for
good but now listen we’re partners with
God he doesn’t just work everything out
for
good we trust him and he works
everything out for good we trust God and
he works everything out for good so for
those of you tonight either here in the
building or watching from home and you
feel like everything in your world is
shaking I
understand what you’re going through but
I can tell you that many of those things
that are shaking are things that you
don’t really need in your life
anyway they’re not stable things and
God’s going to give you something that
is stable which is more of him do you
know the less of other stuff you have
the more of God there’s room far in your
life I remember one time moaning oh God
I just don’t have anybody but
you poor Joy just stuck with God isn’t
that
terrible find the joy of trusting God at
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