Wow! This is such a beautiful message given by Joyce Meyer that I want to share with you describing God's love for us all. We are ALL children of the most High God. God is just waiting for us to embrace Him. God loves us unconditionally. Will you receive Him today? When you do God will wipe the tears from your eyes and envelope you with a love like nothing you've ever experienced in your entire life. Nothing compares to God's LOVE. I have typed a transcript of the first 7 minutes for my international readers who need to translate.
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Because His love is everlasting. It endures forever. And it says that over and over and over and over. If you'll just repent and return to Me My love is everlasting. My love endures forever. My mercy is everlasting. I don't understand this kind of love, but I've read enough in the bible to know that either God is a liar or it's real. And I know that He is not a man that he should lie. So therefore I've decided to believe that God's love for me and you is UNCONDITIONAL and I cannot wear Him out.
Because the love of God is what heals your personality. Knowing that God loves you is what begins to give you confidence. Knowing that God loves helps you to step out into new things. Knowing that God loves you enables you when you make mistakes to shake it off and go on. Knowing that God loves you enables you to get past your past. Knowing that God loves you sets you free from having to compare youself with other people. Knowing the love of God gets you through those hard times. And it gets you through them without so much confusion and without so much fear because you know that He loves you. Therefore, no matter what's going on even if it doesn't make any sense to you, you know that someway somehow that God has got a plan.
You have to have a foundation. I couldn't have gone anywhere in ministry without a foundation. Because if you don't know the love of God, the devil will take you out. If you don't know the love of God, he will defeat your confidence. You'll never step out and try new things. You'll never be the one who get's out of the boat. Because you will live in fear. 1 John 4:16-18 says that, "Perfect love casteth out fear." Fear hath torment and when we know the perfect love of God, then fear leaves us. So I guess I have figured out in my life until I have no more fear than I still need more revelation on the love of God.
I needed a revelation on the love of God. I was sexually abused in my childhood. I didn't have a right foundation. I'd been through a bad marriage where I got anything but love. He ran around with other women, wrote bad checks, and went to jail, drank etc etc. So I didn't know what love was, anybody who had ever said they loved me, until I met Dave Meyer, they didn't do anything but abuse me and use me and just try to mess me up more. Now Dave was trying to love me, but by now I'm so mess up I didn't know how to receive love. Cause see when you don't feel lovable then anybody who tries to love you, you deflect that and throw it back at them and you respond weirdly because don't believe that you are lovable. So God wants to come along and get involved in our lives and make us believe that we are lovable, so we can begin to love ourselves in a balanced way, begin to love God and begin to love other people and receive love from them. It's all about love.
So for a year I studied the love of God. I read every kind of book I can get on the love of God. I'm talking about God's love for me. I looked every scripture that I could find. You know it's good to hear me preach these scriptures to you, but you'll get even more if you look them up. There is something about making an effort. God honors an effort. The measure of thought and study that you give to the truth that you hear is the measure of virtue and knowledge that will come back to you again. That's in Mark chapter 4. When you hear something, now you need to take the ball and run with it. You need to study. You need to pray. You need to meditate. A good thing to do is find scriptures that you know you need write them out in long hand. Get a concordance and look up the word love in the back and every scripture that applies to how much God loves you, look it up and read it out loud.
Confess out loud, numerous times every day that God loves you. Go look at yourself in the mirror and say that God loves you. And I'll tell you something when I first started saying that I had to choke it out because it was just unbelievable to me. Now I can tell somebody else that God loves you. I could quote John 3:16 to you. But for me... I mean some of you desperately needed this. I've had some people tell me I saw you look at the t.v. screen and pointed your finger at me. I remember one girl said, "You look in that television screen and you pointed your finger and you said God loves you." And she said, "when you said that it was like everything changed, I couldn't believe that anybody loved me." Do you know that there are apparently people in the world who never hear that. Who are desperate for those words. They don't have somebody in their life that's telling them I love you, your special, your precious, you have value. People mistreat people. We beat up on each other and we even do it in the church.
And I'm telling you today and all of you watching by television, "GOD LOVES YOU!" His love is everlasting. It endures forever. His love is UNCONDITIONAL. He can't help Himself. He chose you. He picked you out for Himself. He knows everything about you. There is NOTHING that He doesn't know about you and He still loves you. And that is what causes people to respond to receive Christ.
The love of God. The goodness of God, the bible says leads men to repentence. I needed healing. I'd never had love ministered to me properly. And I needed to be loved. I needed that love to bring wholeness into my life. And I remember I would say God loves me. God loves me. And then I would even say, now Joyce we're not talking about the mailman, the postman the milkman. We're talking about God, God loves me! A year I kept this up. All along I'd get a little stronger revelation, a little more understanding. And I don't know exactly when it happened, but all of a sudden one day man it locked in. I mean those roots went down in my wounded soul and got intertwined and took hold.
And see now I'm free to step out into new things because you know what even if I make a mistake and it don't work and I have to say you know what I missed God, it's no big deal because He loves me. And even if somebody else judges me and critisize me and says things about me falsely, I may not like it and it may hurt but I'll make it because I know that He loves me. I know His promises. And a person here on earth may reject me and say I don't want to have anything to do with you, I don't want to be in relationship with you, I don't like you anymore, it may hurt but I can make it because He loves me. He loves me. He loves me. He loves me.
But one of the things that I want to tell you to do is I want you to start watching for signs of God's love. And I want you to keep a journal....
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