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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You will never make it through the trials in your life and remain a worshipper if you're not rooted and grounded in the love of God. Because if you don't know by revelation that God loves you no matter what happens in your life, God loves you. When you have trials and tribulation, when you have difficulty the first thing the devil is going to whisper in your ear is, "well doesn't God love you?" And that's something I don't want to ever come out of your mouth again, "well God don't you love me?" God loves you period end of the conversation. He doesn't know how to do anything else. It's not what He does for a pasttime. It's who He is. God loves because He is LOVE, He can't do anything else. His love is UNCONDITIONAL.
But you know what? Even though legally and positionally according to the Word of God, the moment that you're born again God pours His love into your heart, if you never hook up with that by Faith then that love can never really do you any good and it can never flow through you to somebody else. And that's so important. Because we see that Jesus said, "one new commandment I give unto you that you love one another." And so many times we come into the church, we come into the kingdom of God and we hear these messages about loving each other and we start trying to but we can't because we don't even love ourselves yet. Do you know how many people walked in here today that don't even really like yourself. I mean you would trade with somebody else in a flat second if you could. You're always wanting somebody else's life, somebody else's looks, somebody else's job. What about the life God gave you? Why don't you make it special. God don't make no junk!
You've got to start by saying God loves me and if He can love me then I can love myself. If God who is perfect and never does anything wrong, is almighty, all powerful, all knowing. If I can believe the first four verses of Psalm 139, that there is nothing about me that He doesn't know. He knows not only everything I have done, but everything I ever will do. God knows every dumb mistake that I am ever going to make from now until the time Jesus comes back to get me. And He still says I choose you, I love you, I've called you, I want to live in you, I want to fellowship with you, I want to be your best friend.
And I want to cover your mistakes. I want to show My strength through your weaknesses if you'll trust me. I want to help you in everything that you do if you'll just understand that apart from me you can do nothing. Just call on Me. Just seek Me. Just desire Me. You need to understand that you are His property bought with the blood of Jesus (Yeshua). You've been consecrated, set apart. You're not here for ordinary use. You are an ambassador of Christ. God living in you, making His appeal to the world through you. You are a carrier of the Glory of God.
You know if we would think about this kind of stuff instead of our stinking problems we would enjoy our life a whole lot more. You ought to get up in the morning and take the first five minutes and be very careful about your self talk. Because the way you talk to yourself early in the day kind of get's you wound up for the day. I double dare you to try it getting up and just walking around the first five minutes and saying, "Christ lives in me. The Glory of God lives in me. I'm a new creature in Christ. God loves me. I've got value. I've got a purpose. God gives me favor everywhere I go. Something wonderful is going to happen to me today. I'm going to bless somebody today. I'm not going to be depressed. I'm not going to be sad." How you talk to yourself and what you say over your life is one of the most important principles in the Word of God. "Calling those things that be not as though they are." God created with words. Words contain power negative or postive power. Life and death is in the tongue.
Ephesians 1:4, "... And blameless in His sight. Even above reproach. Before Him in love." Even above reproach and the word reproach means shame and blame. That's all that guilt, shame, blame, feeling bad about yourself. The whole message here is, I chose you. I picked you out for Me. You belong to Me. Now you don't have to spend your life feeling bad about yourself. Blaming yourself for every mistake. Going around feeling rotten, feeling like you're no good. No I love you and because I love you that assigns WORTH and VALUE to you and so you can say, "even though I don't do everything right and I've got a ways to go in my behavior, I KNOW WHO I AM IN CHRIST. Stop getting your who and your do mixed up.
We cannot earn God's love. We must receive by Faith. Psalm 139:5, "You have beset me and shut me in - behind and before, and You have laid Your hand upon me." It's kind of like saying, God you have boxed me in. I can't go any further than here. And I can't go any further than here. I'm in this place that I don't want to be in. And I'm in this place that I don't understand. And I'm in this place that I don't like. I'm trying to find a way to get out. But You shut me in behind and before. And not only that while I'm in there You have laid Your hand upon me. These are the places that God changes us. These are the places that He makes us vessels fit for His use. He chooses us just like we are. But He loves us too much to leave us the way we are. Whom the Lord loves, He corrects. He chastises. Well God chastises with His Word. He tries to use the Word to correct us. He speaks to us by the Holy Spirit. Withdraws our peace to correct us. But He also uses circumstances. If you love your children, you will first give them your word, and if that doesn't work you will touch their circumstances.
He says why don't you just listen so I don't have to take away your favorite toy. Why don't you just listen so I don't have to make you miss the party on Friday night. Why don't you just listen so I can let you drive the family car. But no you don't want to listen. I think we got that message from a better Father than we will ever be.
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