Wow! I was looking for another message and was led to this message given by Joyce Meyer that I feel many need to hear right now. I have typed a transcript of the first 6 minutes of this message for my international readers who need to translate.
*****************************************************************
I want to start out with a statement. Your real life, your real life is not really the life that goes on around you. It's not even the life that everybody thinks that you have. Your real life is the life that's in you. It's what's going on in you. The Kingdom of God is in you the bible says. When Jesus came to offer us a new life. He offered us really first and foremost a very special inner life. Yes he helps us with our circumstances. He's also telling people that no matter what your circumstances are, you can have a great life. Because your real life, is the one that goes on in you. And actually, a great life of that type is available to every person and is something that nobody can take away from you.
Now we all know that there are people that have everything that anyone would think in the natural should make them happy. They have money, they are famous, they have cars, they have things, they have boats, they can take vacation, they know everybody and yet they are miserable. I mean the world is full of people like that. And then there are other people who just don't seem to have any reason at all to be happy and yet they're just as happy as they can be. And so that in itself proves that your real life, your real life. You see we get too caught up in what we think this life is. You say, "You know I hate my life. I wish I had your life." No you really don't wish you had somebody else's life because no matter what it looks like on the outside there is something in their life that you wouldn't like too. You may say, "Oh I wish I had Joyce's ministry." No you don't because you might like certain parts of it, but you might not want the work that goes with it.
Don't ever want somebody else's life. Learn to love your own because it's the only one you've got so you might as well learn to love it. And the way you decide to look at it is what's going to make it good or bad. It's not really your circumstances. I'm telling you. And it's not that better circumstances can't make you feel a little better for a while. But I just want to get that point across that your real life is not the one that's going on around you, it's not the one that everybody thinks you have or even the one that you try to show them. But it's what's going on in us. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God is within you." Righteousness, peace and joy. Now that's the life we want to go after. Having a right relationship with God, feeling right about ourselves through the blood of Christ. Having a good relationship with yourself. Wanting to change, knowing your weaknesses, but not getting overly upset about where you're at while your making the journey. You have to learn how to enjoy where you're at on the way to where you're going.
I want to talk to you tonight about trusting God. Just very simply trusting God. Because there is no rest without it. Hebrews 4 says, "Those who have believed God enter His rest." That Supernatural rest is such an awesome place to be. It's not a rest from work, but it's a rest in work. It's a rest of the heart. While you're doing what you were called to do. While you're raising your kids, while your paying your bills. While you're going through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday there's a rest in your heart that just kind of says everything is okay, it's okay. You know even if its not always the way we'd like it to be, it's okay.
Do you know why I call my television program, "Enjoying everyday life."? Because I think it's a tragedy when we go through life and don't enjoy it. And whether you have remembered it for a while or not, Jesus said He came that we might have and enjoy life. And I spent a lot of years of my life as a Christian not enjoying life. Because I wasn't content, I was always wanting something that I didn't have, and I thought it was this and that, my husband, my kids, my neighbors, my aching back and on and on. I finally found out that it was my attitude. I had a stinking attitude. I just had a bad attitude. And you know what? If you have a bad attitude, there is nobody that can do anything about your life. I mean that's the truth.
Now we all know that there are people that have everything that anyone would think in the natural should make them happy. They have money, they are famous, they have cars, they have things, they have boats, they can take vacation, they know everybody and yet they are miserable. I mean the world is full of people like that. And then there are other people who just don't seem to have any reason at all to be happy and yet they're just as happy as they can be. And so that in itself proves that your real life, your real life. You see we get too caught up in what we think this life is. You say, "You know I hate my life. I wish I had your life." No you really don't wish you had somebody else's life because no matter what it looks like on the outside there is something in their life that you wouldn't like too. You may say, "Oh I wish I had Joyce's ministry." No you don't because you might like certain parts of it, but you might not want the work that goes with it.
Don't ever want somebody else's life. Learn to love your own because it's the only one you've got so you might as well learn to love it. And the way you decide to look at it is what's going to make it good or bad. It's not really your circumstances. I'm telling you. And it's not that better circumstances can't make you feel a little better for a while. But I just want to get that point across that your real life is not the one that's going on around you, it's not the one that everybody thinks you have or even the one that you try to show them. But it's what's going on in us. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God is within you." Righteousness, peace and joy. Now that's the life we want to go after. Having a right relationship with God, feeling right about ourselves through the blood of Christ. Having a good relationship with yourself. Wanting to change, knowing your weaknesses, but not getting overly upset about where you're at while your making the journey. You have to learn how to enjoy where you're at on the way to where you're going.
I want to talk to you tonight about trusting God. Just very simply trusting God. Because there is no rest without it. Hebrews 4 says, "Those who have believed God enter His rest." That Supernatural rest is such an awesome place to be. It's not a rest from work, but it's a rest in work. It's a rest of the heart. While you're doing what you were called to do. While you're raising your kids, while your paying your bills. While you're going through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday there's a rest in your heart that just kind of says everything is okay, it's okay. You know even if its not always the way we'd like it to be, it's okay.
Do you know why I call my television program, "Enjoying everyday life."? Because I think it's a tragedy when we go through life and don't enjoy it. And whether you have remembered it for a while or not, Jesus said He came that we might have and enjoy life. And I spent a lot of years of my life as a Christian not enjoying life. Because I wasn't content, I was always wanting something that I didn't have, and I thought it was this and that, my husband, my kids, my neighbors, my aching back and on and on. I finally found out that it was my attitude. I had a stinking attitude. I just had a bad attitude. And you know what? If you have a bad attitude, there is nobody that can do anything about your life. I mean that's the truth.
No comments:
Post a Comment