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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Jesus said, "Martha Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things." Do you want me to tell you what her real problem was? It wasn't Mary. She was anxious and she was all upset because really the bottom line was she wanted to impress. Everything had to look just right. Everything had to just be so so. I know there's people in here like that. I used to be just like that. I couldn't even enjoy the people who came to my house for the evening because I was too busy just trying to impress them making everything just so so. And I invariably always I would get mad at Dave because he wasn't helping. My name wasn't Martha, but it might as well have been. Joyce Joyce Joyce. I'd always get mad at him. I'd invite people over and start out with something simple and turn it into a nightmare. Invite two couples and then end up with half the church because I was afraid somebody would get mad if they found out I had somebody over and didn't invite them. Ended up spending all kinds of money on fancy food that I couldn't afford and cleaning the house and wanting to buy new furniture. Dave would go out and play gold and I'd get mad at him. My heart was not right. I didn't invite the people over to bless them. I didn't even invite them over because I liked them. As a matter of fact, I probably didn't like most of them. But they were a group of people in the church that had position that I wanted to be in with. Now I know none of you are like that. Nobody watching at home, I know you are not like that. You just pray for me.
Well I'm happy to say I'm not like that anymore. But I used to be. I used to be. I wanted my husband to be an elder in the church we were in because I wanted to know everything that was going on. I didn't care one thing about him serving God through being an elder. All I wanted to know was what's going on. We would have an inside scoop if he was an elder. Now you know the thing is I'm at the point now where I could admit it and bring this kind of stuff out in the open. But the sad thing is alot of religious people live in this mess their whole life. They never have any joy, they never have any witness and boy are they going to be disappointed on judgement day!
And I believe as teachers and preachers of the Word of God that we have a responsibility. And I am going to answer to God for the people He gave me to teach. And like it or not I have to teach you the TRUTH. So I'm just going to tell you that you NEED to get over trying to impress people and you NEED to get over being overly concerned about everything on the outside and you NEED to start thinking about what you're thinking about and you NEED to start choosing your thoughts carefully because you might hide them from somebody else BUT NOT one of us is hiding one thing from God. He see's it ALL. He know's it ALL. And although we won't be judged based on salvation, we will stand before God and every man, Romans 14:12 says will give an account of himself. So just that one scripture ought to get us to realize that we don't need to be worried about what somebody else is doing. We don't need to be judging and critisizing and getting into everybody else's business because God is NOT going to be asking me about them. I'm going to have to give an account for me. We spend so much time in everybody else's business judging other people for the same things that we do. But of course there is always a reason and for them there is no excuse. Every say, "I am not hiding anything from God. He lives in me and He knows it ALL."
Now I'm not going to go into all of these scriptures because there are some other things I want to get to. But you know Matthew 5:28 says adultery is committed in the heart. What's wrong is to look at a woman to lust after her. And I might as well just throw a word out there while I'm here. All this pornography nonsense that's going on today. I mean what a trap of the devil that is and you better run from that like poison. Because just thinking that you're okay as long as you look and don't touch is DECEIVED THINKING because if you've already committed adultery in your heart, then it's the same as if you've already done it. The bible says that to hate your brother is no different than to murder him. So you better start forgiving people. Don't spend your life being offended. You say, "Well it's just not right what they did to me." Oh just get over yourself. Start trying to figure out what you're doing to a few people. Besides that, do yourself a favor and forgive people. It's not even about, God doesn't even tell you to forgive your enemies because you're doing them this big favor. Most of the time they don't even know or care that you're mad. Be mad at somebody for three weeks and go tell them you forgive them. They don't even know that they did anything. It's like oh wow.
Do yourself a favor, don't live like that. Don't live with all that junk going on inside of you all the time. You can't hear from God when you've got all that mess going on inside. You can't be led by the Holy Ghost when your full of all that worry and anxiety and fear and all this people pleasing nonsense. Can I just tell you something, if you never really paid that much attention to what's going on inside of you, this is not something that's going to get fixed overnight. Because the devil has strongholds. The mind is the battlefield and he starts when we're young putting wrong thoughts in our head and getting us into thinking patterns and mindsets. WRONG MINDSETS. And I don't know if you realize how strong you are once you make your mind up. But it works in the negative as well as in the positive. It just amazes to me what a person can do once a person makes their mind up. When you don't even leave room for any other thinking to come in. It's just like no I'm doing it. Once you get that mindset, the devil cannot stop you. He cannot stop you.
But if you've get the wrong mindset, then God can't help you. He can show you the TRUTH. Why do you think the devil works so hard to try to keep you out of the Word. This is the ONLY TRUTH that we have. What is TRUTH? Jesus said I am TRUTH. What is the right way to live? Jesus said I am the way. Where can I find the life? Jesus said I am the life. What you're looking for is found in Him. God put it all in Him and gave Him as a gift to you and He will come to live in you and through Him you will have an AWESOME LIFE. But you're not going to know if you don't spend time in here.
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