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I do what I do because I’ve seen God’s
power transform my own life and he will
do it for you the key to everything is
found in God’s
word I’m Joyce Meyer and I believe that
God can heal you everywhere you
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hurt all right we are uh talking today I
started this morning in the first
service about the three parables that
are found in Matthew chap 25 and they
are the parable of the 10 virgins the
five wise and the five foolish we found
out this morning that the five that were
foolish were foolish because they didn’t
do anything
extra the wise ones took their lamps but
they took extra oil just in case they
had to wait a little longer than they
thought they would made a couple of good
points about even why people are late
they don’t they plan for Perfection they
don’t
plan for anything to happen that could
delay them and so we need to be prepared
we need to be planned and and we’re
living in very difficult times right now
where we need to the Bible says
watch and pray and that really means to
live carefully be careful how you live
the Devil roams about like a lion
roaring in Fierce hunger seek whom he
may devour but you don’t have to let it
be you but that doesn’t mean that
there’s absolutely nothing for you to do
we’re partners with God it’s just
about learning how to hear from God and
doing the right thing at the right
time Lisa talked about praise and
worship sometimes that’s all God wants
you to do when you’re in a battle you’ve
done everything you can do now he just
wants you to praise and worship Him May
maybe there’s something uh that you need
to take care of in your life that’s got
a door open to the enemy maybe there’s
some bitterness or or you know sometimes
you can have an offense in your heart
and it’s been there so long that you
don’t even really know it’s there and
it’s bothering you but God can show us
things like that so I always believe in
asking God what’s wrong is there
something
that you want me to do or do you want me
just to wait on you and just praise
you we we can win our
battles if we know how to fight like a
Christian amen and
so the message really in these three
talents is kind of all the same it’s
about doing what you should do when you
should be doing
it and not putting things
off and losing your reward now
we don’t earn our way into heaven we
don’t earn salvation it’s a free gift
given
completely by the grace of God and it’s
offered to all Jesus has already paid
for your salvation so if you haven’t
received Christ yet there’s a free gift
waiting for you
today that you can have for the asking
you don’t have to go out and try to make
yourself better in order to deserve it
it’s just a free gift waiting for you
but once a person is born again they
receive a new nature we receive the
nature of God we receive the spirit of
God and we receive the heart of God in
Ezekiel the Bible says that he takes the
Stony hard cold heart out of us and
gives us a heart of Flesh one that is
sensitive to the touch of
God and so I believe that anybody who is
truly born
again and that doesn’t mean you just go
to church on Sunday that means that you
are you your life is all about God now
you’ve turned away from sin turned away
from being in love with the girl the
world and you want what God wants for
your life and so there are good works to
consider James said faith without works
is dead we don’t work for our
salvation but if we are true trly
saved you cannot have the heart of God
and not want to do good
things
amen so if you think you’re saved but
you just don’t care anything about other
people you better back up and do some
checking because it’s not just a matter
of saying a certain prayer at a certain
time and joining a church and going to
church once a week this is about
receiving Christ and letting him change
us from glory to glory and continuing to
grow spiritually I’m still growing
spiritually I’m learning all the time
and that’s what we need to have the
attitude that we want to do but the
devil wants to stop us in case you
haven’t figured it out he hates
you just to put it as plain as I know
how to put it and anything anytime that
you try to do something good Paul said
when I want to do good evil always
comes so there’s a little bit of a of
a fighting the devil so to speak but we
have already won we just know how we
just need to know how to fight right and
these Parables all three of them teach
us that it’s very
important to use what God has given us
the the
the 10 virgins was the first Parable and
the next one is the parable of the
talents and the third one is the parable
of the sheep and the goats and we’re
going to get through these last two in
this
service we all receive from God what
we’re able to
handle we don’t all get what somebody
else has
got maybe you’re jealous is somebody
who’s got a lot more money than you and
you just don’t understand it but there
is a possibility no matter what you
think that if you had what they have it
would be more than you could handle and
it could take you away from
God do you know
that and you don’t want to know that do
you let me tell you something money has
power position has power there’s a lot
of people worldly people whose lives are
ruined by becoming famous or becoming
rich and so
so you might finagle around in the world
and get more than you really can handle
and it end up just ruining your life but
as God’s child if you’re trusting God to
give you what’s right for you it may not
always well as just say it won’t always
be the same as what somebody else has
everybody gets
something but nobody gets
everything
so it’s kind of silly to be jealous of
what somebody else has because if that’s
what God wanted you to have then you
would have that so we need to be glad
for other
people and let’s don’t just pray for
what we want let’s ask God to give us
what we can handle and still keep him
first in our
lives could I say that again let’s ask
God to give us what we can handle and
still keep him number one in our
lives I think sometimes about Rachel and
Leah two women in the Bible that were
sisters and
Jacob loved Rachel she was a beautiful
woman and he loved her and he worked for
his uncle laan for seven
years to get her as a
bride and she had a sister
Leah and the Bible says of Rachel that
she was beautiful to behold and of Leah
it says she had weak dull
eyes now I guess that means she wasn’t
very
pretty it’s just kind of a nice way of
saying she was not the good-look
sister but the thing that’s interesting
is
Rachel had a difficult time becoming
pregnant and bearing
children but Leah could
just have them one after the other one
after the
other and so back in those things he did
things a little different and he he
worked for seven years for Rachel and
then he got uh
tricked and deceived and on the wedding
night they got him drunk and he woke up
the next morning and had
Leah the weak eyed dulled
Leah but Leah could give Jacob Sons and
Daughters right away he worked another
seven years and got Rachel but it was
many many many years before Rachel ever
had a child and then she finally had
Joseph and then she had Benjamin and I
get a lot out of that because I I look
at it
like nobody gets everything
but we all get
something and our job is to find out
what our something
is and put it to good use in our life
now listen to me without comparing what
we have to what somebody else
has that’s a big
thing because here’s the thing it
doesn’t matter if what you
have or can do
seems big or little to you or to the
world the only thing that god holds us
recount accountable for is to do the
most we can with what he’s given to
us and if we do
that the janitor in the building gets
the same reward as the CEO of the
company God never expects us to do
anything he hasn’t given us the ability
to do so maybe maybe a few of you could
just calm down today and stop comparing
yourself with other people and
tormenting yourself wishing that you
were something you’re not or that you
have something you
don’t and I’m not going to stop till you
clap on that cuz that was
good well I wish i’ look like you well
you know it’s hard to look at Lisa up
here and not wish you had her
waist
it’s like my
goodness I think the top of my leg’s
bigger than her waist
is but you know what I’ve learned a long
time ago
that is just total waste of time to be
jealous of what somebody
else has that’s never going to help you
get what they’ve
got so the parable the talents Matthew
25:14 again it will will be like a man
going on a journey who called his
servants and entrusted his wealth to
them and this is exactly what God has
done with us I don’t know if you know it
or not but Jesus has entrusted us with
his
reputation think of that
responsibility do you know you may be
the only Jesus that your neighbors will
ever
see so what kind of a Jesus are they
seeing are they seeing somebody with a
bumper scker on their car are they
seeing somebody that’s got the good
fruit of the spirit being displayed in
your
life we’re not owners of anything we’re
stewards everything that we have is a
gift from God and what he gives us we
need to
invest take good care of and give him a
good return from the beginning of
Genesis the Bible says be fruitful and
multiply don’t just give me back what
I’ve given you go out there and put my
gift to
work God gave me a mouth and I have a
gift of communication that is my gift I
am a good communicator I seem to be able
to make my point fairly easy in a
practical way that people can understand
now I’ll be honest with you I’m not
extremely intelligent
I’d say I’ve got average
intelligence I’m not dumb
but I’m
intelligent somewhat
intelligent and
um like you know who Chris Kane is all
right Chris she is brilliant she is very
smart I always got real high grades in
school well I wasn’t like that
but I got to give the high school
graduation speech see I could always
talk and
so I
talk and I let other people do what they
can do and when God you know I used to
sit out there and I’d be jealous of
somebody who had a great voice I wish I
could sing like
that I wish I had hair like
that I wish I wish I
wish and really God puts gifts in other
people for us to enjoy them not to be
jealous of them because if we’re jealous
of somebody else’s gift see you’re
enjoying my gift this weekend but it’s
making me
tired I mean by the time I go home
you’ll go home oh that changed my grass
H why is that ever good I’m going to
go Jesus am I still
alive so it’s silly to be jealous
of other people the gift that’s in them
is for you to enjoy so to one he gave
five bags of gold to another two bags
and another one and I love this in verse
15 each according to his
ability and you don’t have to feel bad
about yourself because your ability is
not what somebody else’s is you’re not
responsible for anything except what God
has given you to be responsible for
amen if a pastor is watching this by TV
and you you’ve pastored a church that’s
got 150 people and you’ve been pastoring
it for 40 years and here you look at
this church on TV Joel O’s church and
you know he didn’t even want to preach
and God just pushed it on him and the
church just grew like crazy and now you
got this big arena see 16,000 people and
they have multiple service on the
weekend well how easy would it
be to think well God what’s wrong with
me why do I have to just deal with these
same
150
people year after year after year you
know what because that’s what God has
assigned to you and this is what God has
assigned to
Joel and the thing is is if you try to
do what Joel’s doing all it’s going to
do is make you
unhappy and he couldn’t do what you’re
doing if he tried because God’s got a
different anointing on him you know this
is why Dave and I get along good in this
relationship that we have even though
normally the situation would be reversed
where he’d be up here and I’d be down
there and he had a conversation with god
about this in the beginning because he
really didn’t want to be in Ministry and
he really didn’t understand why God
chose me to teach and not him but Dave’s
smart he gets things quick and he’s uh
he’s big on being happy and being
peaceful how many of you are big on
being happy and being peaceful well so
Dave likes it so much that he’ll make
whatever change and adjustment he needs
to make really quick to keep it so the
things that were happening in him were
not making him happy and God told him if
you will do what you’re responsible for
you’ll always have
joy this is what I’ve called her to do
this is what I’ve called you to do
you’ll both be happy if you both do what
you’re supposed to do and you know
really the bottom line is is none of our
bussiness why God chooses one for one
thing and another for somebody else all
we need to do is be sweet little
sheep which we’re going to learn about
today the sheep and the
goats and just do the part that God has
has given you do you see how you can
relax if you stop trying to be something
you’re
not just think about
it it’s
okay it’s
just
okay if you scrub floors your whole life
you can be happy scrubbing floors if
that’s what God’s called you to do
amen I mean I actually know this woman
she loves to
clean I’m like how could you love to
clean
darling check said to me one day don’t
you just love to cook in your time off I
said
no what you don’t love to cook I said
no I don’t love to cook I love to have
somebody cook and I’ll eat
it all
right now the man who received five bags
of gold went at
once there you go he’s not the
procrastin Ator we talked about this
morning he went at once and put his
money to work and he gained five more
bags so also the one who had two bags of
gold gained two more but the man who had
received one bag went off dug a hole in
the ground and hid his master’s
money God entrusts us with talents
abilities wealth his
reputation and unbelievers and Skeptics
look at us to see if the claims about
Jesus are
real he gives each according to his
ability and I’ll tell you what people
want more than anything in this world
they want peace and they want
joy and that’s the main thing that they
should see consistent in any believer’s
life is peace even in the midst of a
storm and joy that doesn’t make any
sense
see you don’t have to have a lot of
something to be
happy money doesn’t make you happy
sometimes it can make you very
unhappy do you know that everything you
own is something else you got to take
care
of yeah
well God won’t give us more than we can
handle and we should never be jealous of
somebody else who has more we think they
have more than what we
do whatever God has given you whether
it’s a blessing or a challenge or a
responsibility God has given you the
ability to handle it God always gives
you Grace for your
place if you have
a special needs
child I’m sure that challenges your
life but God will give you Grace for
that
place if you’re in a marriage that’s not
yet what quite what you want it to be
and it’s hard and challenging and you’re
married to an unbeliever or somebody
that was a Believer and fell away from
God but you believe that is what God has
assigned you what if Dave wouldn’t have
married me I wouldn’t be here doing what
I’m doing because I didn’t need somebody
to preach to me I needed somebody to
live Jesus in front of
me and that’s what he did and eventually
it changed me so God will give you the
grace for your
place so it’s pretty obvious to see why
he gave the first
man five bags of gold and the last man
only one because the guy that got the
most did the most with it and God
already knew that he would be like that
so do the most you can with what God has
given you and stop being jealous of
people that you think have more than you
do because really you both just have
what you can handle and that’s the thing
that’s
important that man could handle less and
so he got Le
less I’m so glad to know I don’t have to
compare and compete with other
people the last
man received less than anybody else and
it’s obvious
why he did nothing with the little bit
that he had therefore he would have done
nothing with a lot if he would have had
a
lot see we think oh I mean I have people
tell me this Joyce if I had a million
dollars I’d give it to you no you
wouldn’t if that was true I’d get a lot
more million dooll offerings cuz I’ve
had a lot of people say that to
me if you won’t give the $10 you got you
won’t give a million if you had a
million and God tests our faithfulness
us he starts by giving us something
small and if we’re faithful to use that
properly then he’ll promote us and then
we’ll stay there for a while and we’ll
be tested on that level I can look at my
Ministry the first two and a half years
I taught a home Bible study 25 people in
my living room floor every Tuesday night
two and a half
years I quit a full-time
job
my people
but I can remember watching other
preachers on television thinking I don’t
know why you’re on TV I could preach
circles around
you okay that’s why I was still in my
living room
floor it wasn’t because of what I could
do it was because of a wrong attitude
that needed to be worked out of me and
so instead of being jealous of what
other people have maybe we should do an
attitude
check come
on maybe you’re a goat and not a sheep
we’re going to talk about them in a few
minutes goats are more intelligent than
sheep but sheep are
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the Mind actually is the battlefield
that’s where we win or lose the war with
Satan he said all he gets to
say rest of the day mind you start
asking God to heal you and he will
restore it’s the God of all comfort and
I am so grateful that I know how to call
on
God
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