Wow! Joyce Meyers you totally rock! I love love love this message she gave today on TBN at 3:30pm. This message is SPOT ON! LOVE IT! I'm so glad TogetherInWorship posted these video's on YouTube so that I could share them with all of you. I have typed a transcript of this message for my international readers who need to translate. Enjoy!
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God didn't care to much for Cain's offering and He told him so. And Cain's response was to become exceedingly angry and indignant and he got sad and depressed. Now when God corrects you, you can respond in two ways: You can get angry, indignant, sad and depressed or you can say thank you Lord for showing me that and I definitely want to be however it is you want me to be and so please forgive me and change me. That's all you really have to do. You don't even really have to change yourself. You just have to get in agreement with God, stay in the Word and He'll change you.
And the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why do you look sad and depressed and dejected?" That's in Genesis 4:6-7. Now watch verse 7. If you do well will you not be accepted? And if you don't do well sin crouches at your door. It's desires for you, now look at these next few words, but YOU MUST MASTER IT. We're going to preached a little this weekend about sin. Why are you not cheering? If I would have said prosperity, you would of all yelled. If I would have said miracles, you would of all yelled. No we're going to preach some this weekend on sin. I'm not going to tell you which meeting because I don't want you to miss it. And do you know why we're going to preach on it, because it is a problem. There's too many people that are living sloppy lives and not dealing with the stuff that they need to deal with. God convicts them and they get mad. Just like Cain and Abel. God said to Cain, the devil is after you and you need to MASTER IT. He had a chance right there, things could have turned completely around.
Verse 8, And Cain said to his brother, let us go out to the field. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. You know the whole story then he ended up with a curse on his life and on and on and on. But where did the problem start? The problem didn't start when he just woke up one day and decided to kill his brother. It started way back, months and maybe years before with an attitude, with wrong thoughts and wrong attitude, with jealousy and comparison and competition and anger and bitterness and resentment and unforgiveness and who knows maybe he even smiled at his brother in the house. When you go to church on Sunday you hear praise the Lord brother, Hallelujah sister, oooh Jesus she's so good. And you're thinking I just can't stand you. That is the dumbest looking at that I've seen in my life. And then say oh sister I just love that hat. You all know what I'm talking about. Would God like the condition of your mind? Take responsibility for your thought life. The better your thoughts are the better your life is going to be. The better your thoughts are the happier heaven is going to be with you.
Turn to Romans 8:4-6, "So that the righteous and the just requirement of the law might be fully met and those who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit. Having our lives governed not by the standards and according the dictates of the flesh but according to the Spirit. So it says your supposed to walk in the Spirit and not walk in the flesh. We've all got a flesh. There is a sin nature that's there. But if we walk in the Spirit then we won't fullfill the lust of the flesh. So it means we've got to listen to God and not ourselves. Listen to God and not other people. For those according to the flesh are controlled by it's unholy desires have set their minds on and are pusuing those things which gratify the flesh.
So let me just get it where we can all understand it. Okay God has told me I need to get my body in shape, I need to lose a little weight, I need to work out. Okay so I'm going cool on Monday. Things are good. Now I'm looking through a magazine and see a hot fudge sundae. I start thinking about that hot fudge sundae. I've set my mind on that hot fudge sundae. Pretty soon I'm pusuing that hot fudge sundae. I may go get in my car and get in hot pursuit of a hot fudge sundae. But it started because I set my mind on it. If you set your mind on how somebody has done you wrong and hurt your feelings, you're going to end up acting out. If you set your mind on what you don't have in life and what other people have that you think you ought to have, then you're going to be discontented and have a bad attitude. No matter how many times a week you go to church, God is still not happy with your attitude. It's all about what goes on in us. Set your mind on things above and not on things upon the earth. Set your mind on what the bible tells you to do.
The bible says that if we'll meditate on the Word of God day and night that we will observe and then begin to do according to all that is written in it. The Word is so valuable. It's so important to study the Word of God for yourself. It's great to listen to speakers. I'm so glad you came to the conference. I hope you take alot of notes. But I hope you go home and actually look all these scriptures up again and study them for yourself. Because it's through going over of things over and over that they'll really get rooted in us. Now why is that people have such a difficult time doing this? Why I think there are several reason. One lack of discipline. Two the busy ness that everybody lives in. Be honest even before people were this busy, I think they still had problems. Obviously, there is a great attack from the enemy, he doesn't want you to be in the Word of God because if you ever really start studying the Word of God seriously you'll start seeing what's wrong with you and he really doesn't want you to see that.
The bible says the Word of God is like a mirror. When we look in it we see Christ. But the other thing we see is what we're not. (Joyce has them bring out a mirror and put's on a ratted jacket.) If I don't look in the mirror. What you all don't like my outfit? If I don't look in the mirror, I can go running around all day looking like this and not even know it. It amazes me sometimes the way I see people out and about, it's like don't you even look in the mirror before you go out? I don't want to be crude here, but I'll see some Christian woman maybe even at church, half her bottom is hanging out and half her bottom and I'm like you just don't get it, did you not even look in the mirror? The Word of God is like a mirror. Well okay so I look in the Word, I see what I'm suppose to be and I see what I'm not. None of it is for condemnation. It's just for me to say oh wow I guess I'll have to clean up. Now you see I can take that off and say boy I like that much better. That's much nicer.
Now the bible says study to show yourself approved a workman that has no cause to be ashamed. Now can I just tell you something if you want to be a really victorious powerful walking the walk Christian you're going to have to work at it. You don't get into works of the flesh, but you work with God following the Holy Spirit and doing your part. But the devil wants us to be lazy. Has anybody ever noticed that the #1 chair in America is not called workerboy. I mean who would go out and buy and chair called workerboy. But man do we like those Lazyboy's. But the bible says study to show yourself approved, a workman that needeth not be ashamed. Now we are DESTINED to be conformed into the image of Christ. We are DESTINED to be transformed, changed entirely and Romans chapter 12 says by the renewing of your MIND.
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