Standing Strong in Life | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt we have to stand while we're waiting Mark 11 23 says have faith in God Jesus answered truly I tell you if anyone says to this mountain go and throw yourself into the sea and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen it will be done for them therefore I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer believe that you have received it and it will be yours or another translation says and you will get it so you ask you believe that you have received what you cannot see yet you have it in your heart and then you will get it but there's one little thing he left out here and I don't know if you figured it out yet or not he does not tell you when you will get it [Applause] God will not fail you if you do not give up your faith God will not fail you [Applause] somebody needs to hear that today he may not do what you want him to do but if he doesn't he'll do something better that you just weren't smart enough to know how to ask for yet God is faithful it's not just a song that we sing Great Is Thy Faithfulness he is faithful I love this whatever you ask for in prayer believe that it is given to you and you will get it and I have to throw this in there and when you stand praying if you have anything against anyone wonder how many people we have in this building this morning that need to forgive somebody come on how many honest people do we have well let's see I know you know what I I don't say this to make you feel bad but that is just sad I mean it's sad when that many people I mean there was more with their hands up than down and some of you probably didn't put them up you should have some of you been mad so long you don't even know your I'm gonna tell you what if you want to enjoy your walk with God you've got to be quick to forgive nothing gets you out of the rest of God any quicker than being angry at somebody and refusing to forgive them come on whatever somebody did to you it's not anywhere close to as much as what we've done to Jesus but that's not my message today so we're going to have to just leave that alone and go on while you're standing while you're waiting stay in the rest of God verse 13 therefore put on God's complete armor that you might be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day of danger and having done all the crisis demands than you are to stand firmly in your place the word stand here if you look it up it's a similar word to what we use for abide so that's really not talking about like I'm holding on Jesus I'm just holding on waiting for you to come I said made me tired and I didn't even do it that long how many of you know what I mean it's not like gritting your teeth I'm holding on it's resting in God does anybody want to enter the rest of God [Applause] Jesus worked Six Days on the seventh day he rested and I think it's interesting to us to note that Adam was created on the sixth day so his first day of life was not a day of work it was a day of rest he started in rest and I said last night Christianity is not a big do it's a big done Jesus said it is done it is finished now all you need to do is believe it and watch me work in your life Christianity can be so frustrating or it can be so beautiful to enter the rest of God requires believing the Israelites never could enter the rest of God most of them because they wouldn't believe and their unbelief caused them to disobey so in Hebrews 4 it says there Still Remains a rest waiting and it's available today for any who will enter in I'm telling you that there's something available to you today it's already been bought and paid for with the blood of Jesus you don't have to be frustrated you don't have to struggle you don't have to be upset angry worried trying to figure everything out all you have to do is say God is good he loves me I'm in Christ and I know that he is faithful and at the right time he will do the just the right thing in my life can we do that thank you now all this waiting and standing what do we do during that period of time well we wait on God we worship we give thanks we keep doing what we know to do we keep being good to people we keep our commitments and we don't really do anything else unless God gives us something to do and sometimes he does I love that statement having done all the crisis demands so you do anything that God gives you to do and then when you've done what he's asked you to do it's dangerous to keep trying to do more because that's when you get into works of the flesh God loves work but he hates works of the Flesh and works of the flesh is me my energy trying to do what only God can do I didn't like sports I didn't want Dave to like sports we've been married 53 years Dave still likes Sports anything that bounces or rolls Dave watches it anything he watches Sports he don't even play like he's never played canvas and now he started watching tennis golf baseball football basketball bowling once in a while I mean just like anything well because I didn't like him I didn't want him to like him you cannot change people only God can change people amen we try to change our kids we try to change the person we're married to we tried we try to change everybody and in the process nothing's happening in us because we're too busy in everybody else's business to let God do anything in US amen so God gives us something to do and that's the work of God but we need to avoid works of the flesh do you do you know what I mean when I say works of the flesh how many of you know what I mean when I say that oh there's nothing more frustrating like trying to make your ministry grow I mean I was so frustrated for so many years I was trying to change Dave I was trying to change my kids I was trying to make my Ministry grow I was trying to change myself because every time I went to church whatever sermon I heard I needed it I had a problem with everything you could have a problem with does anybody here know anything about being a frustrated Christian you know God didn't Deliver Us from one kind of misery to give us another kind of misery so there's a story in the Bible about Lazarus that I think is just great that we want to take a few minutes to look at this morning so John Chapter 11 verse 1. now a man named Lazarus was sick and he was from Bethany the village of Mary and her sister Martha this Mary whose brother Lazarus now lays sick was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair so the sisters sent out word to Jesus look the one whom you love is sick and when he heard this Jesus said this sickness will not end in death no it is going to be for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it now now pay attention to this now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus so when he heard that Lazarus was sick he stayed where he was at two more days I'm sorry I don't feel very loved by that Jesus we told you we need you now and it says he loved them so much that he waited two more days because he wanted them to have a real problem by the time he got there see I know exactly what those laughs are you just got something right there see God wants us to have we don't even have a problem if it's one we can solve we're not in line for a miracle from God unless we are sorry so far over our head and so sometimes God just Waits and he lets it get worse and worse and worse well by the time he got there Lazarus had been dead four days he wasn't a little bit dead he was really dead and Jesus said to them roll away the stone let's look at verse what do you want to look at here verse 38 once more deeply moved he came to the tomb and the cave was covered over with a large Rock and he said take away the stone now I'm going to ask you a question if he was getting ready to raise a man from the dead why would he need somebody else to take away the stone because we're partners with God and if we don't do the part he gives us to do he won't do the part that only he can do amen we're not going to sit around and do nothing the thing is is to stop doing your own thing long enough to hear what God wants you to do and do that and so Martha right away said Lord you don't get it you don't want to roll away the stone because he has been dead four days and by now he is thinking he was stinking dead not just dead stinking dead but Jesus didn't change his mind and so they rolled away the stone and I want to just tell you if they would not have rolled away the stone Lazarus would still be in there today and there's a lot of things that have not happened in your life although you've been praying your sweet little head off because you have not done the part that God has given you to do [Applause] sometimes when I'm waiting for a breakthrough God will put on my heart to to give something extra or special or to do something for somebody and it's not always something I want to do sometimes it's more than I want to do or it's for somebody I don't even want to do it for how do you like that when God makes you just be outrageously good to somebody that you don't even particularly like are even worse if it's somebody that you've had a problem with who has hurt you now all right you ever had that one um yeah here we go that's right get a new coat and you love it love it love it I loved it oh I loved it and God told me to give it to somebody who had hurt me really bad and I was like that is the devil are you tracking with me you understand what I'm saying we have so we have selected here and you don't we only hear what we want to hear and we ignore the stuff we don't want to hear so God puts it on our heart to do different things that are just simply acts of faith they might not make any sense to anybody else but it's that you have to take and I'm honestly and I know this by the spirit of God some of you are waiting for a breakthrough but there is somebody that you need to forgive and your prayer is not going to be answered until you forgive [Applause] maybe there's somebody that you need to go make things right with hmm if you're mistreating people you're not going to get your prayers answered maybe for some of you gossip is a problem well I won't go there how about jealousy you know what God is not going to give you what you want until you can be happy to see somebody else get it [Applause] well I'm just making myself happy this morning I believe the devil's a liar I can still preach okay now listen we're not done with Lazarus so Jesus said Lazarus come out and out he came but then he said another thing and this is particularly important for some of you here today he said take off the grave clothes see some of you you've been born again a long time but you're still wearing grave clothes you're still wearing the old filthy rags of the old life amen our religion just a religious you know putting on errors and praise the Lord thank you Jesus glory to God I mean I know I used to do it you've heard me tell these stories go to church fight with Dave all the way there as soon as we get to the parking lot get out my church face put it on praise the Lord glory to God stand in the front row sing the words on the overhead and all the while while I'm supposedly worshiping God I'm thinking if he thinks I'm going to cook him anything to eat today he has got another thing coming [Applause] that's that's not Christianity that's just a dead person dressed up come on now don't make me get mean having done all the crisis demands you are to stand firmly in your place but I'm telling you that Christianity although being a I mean it takes a strong person to be a full-on Christian in our world today let me tell you something this is not for wimps I hate it when people say oh you Christians you just need a crutch now well what's yours drugs alcohol you know [Laughter] I'm getting some good stuff out of this crowd today I got one over there one back here and one out here yeah Jesus is my crutch I lean on him for everything I rely on him for everything [Applause] so I don't have to lean on all the other stuff that people are leaning on but I want you to listen to me Christianity can be so easy and peaceful and restful if we'll just do it God's way you being frustrated and upset is not going to get you what you want one minute quicker you might as well just say God my times are in your hands you do what you want to when you want to and then in the meantime just enjoy the life that Jesus died to give you amen you know maybe you're in here today and you're not seated in Christ because you've never received Christ as your savior maybe you've been laying down in life and if you don't make the right decision today you'll go out laying down and you'll still be laying down a year from now it's time for you to Take off Your Grave clothes and start living the life that Jesus purchased for you to live you can have right standing with God that means that you can know that God loves you and approves of you even though you don't do everything right because he is a God who sees our hearts today today by one decision all of your sins can be washed away not only the ones you have done but anything you will do wrong in the future your name can be written in the Lamb's Book of Life slate washed clean paid in full you can begin your journey of resting in God instead of fighting and struggling with everything Jesus already died for you your sins are already paid for you don't need to wait until you get good enough Jesus came for people just like me and just like you and we just want to pray with people today that want to surrender your life to Christ or maybe there's some here you've backslidden and you tried to serve God at one time but you've Fallen away and so we just we just want to pray with you and it's very simple if you're ready to repent of your sins and that means to turn around and go in another Direction if you're ready to live for Christ and be a Christ follower I want you to raise your hand up and we're going to pray with you come on all over the place all over the place amen okay now look at me just a minute if you meant that and you put your hand up I'm going to ask you to stand up come on stand up amen come on look at that all over the building people standing okay see I only ask you to stand because if you won't take a stand in here you'll never go take one out in the world the biggest thing that we need to do is learn how to think like God thinks and the only way you can do that is by knowing the word of God in words to live by Joyce Meyer shares how studying the word of God transformed her life experience a deeper and more meaningful relationship with God through the captivating collection of verses in this beautiful hardcover book by Joyce Meyer discover the transformative power of His word words to live by from Joyce Meyer get your YouTube exclusive offer today go to joycemeyer.org words and the number two have you ever been trapped in a 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Published: Fri Jul 28 2023