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I’m Joyce Meyer I’ve seen God’s power
transform my own life and he will do it
for
you well thank you for joining me today
on Enjoying Everyday Life where I will
be sharing God’s word with you which is
the truth and we need that today because
there’s so much deception in the world
so perk up both your little spiritual
ears and get ready to hear something
that I think is going to help you
today and really for the next couple of
days I’m going to be teaching on nothing
is hidden from
God I think that you know how we are if
we think somebody’s watching we behave
better don’t
we we put on our best behavior when
somebody’s watching and um I remember an
incident long time ago
when back when I was still in my not so
Godly
days and
uh I was frustrated and hollering at the
kids and my pastor rang the
doorbell you never saw anybody
straighten up so fast in all your life I
mean I was just like
Pastor so nice to see you oh the kids
they’re great yeah come on in and uh so
really when we it’s amazing
I really kind of learned from that
experience that you know we think
sometimes we can’t control
ourselves but you really can if you want
to
enough and it’s amazing how we’ll act in
front of some people but if somebody
comes around that we want to
impress or that we don’t want to be
disappointed with us we can act pretty
good well the thing is is God sees
everything
and I think that if we can learn that we
live before what I call an audience of
one realizing that God sees everything
all the
time we should be on our best
behavior all the time and so God sees
everything so we should learn to live as
if we believe that nothing is hidden
from him do nothing that you wouldn’t do
in front of him because nothing is is
hidden from him God sees not only what
we do but he sees the heart of a person
so he sees the real us he sees all knows
all and is everywhere all the time so
that’s cool he can watch all of us all
the
time Proverbs 15:3 the eyes of the Lord
are everywhere keeping watch on the
wicked and the good so we don’t even
really need to be concerned about all
the wicked people and all the things
that they do because they’re not getting
by with anything either God sees it all
Hebrews 4:13 nothing in all creation is
hidden from God’s
sight everything is uncovered and laid
bare before the eyes of him to whom now
listen to these last few words we must
give
account see the day will come and
sometimes we don’t like to talk about
these things but the day will come it’s
actually called Judgment Day and uh when
we will stand before God and give an
account of Our Lives it says in I think
it’s Romans 12:14 that every man will
stand before God and give an account of
himself and so we don’t be need to be so
concerned about what somebody else is
doing and judging them we all because
we’re not going to be asked to give an
account for them I always think God’s
not going to ask me to answer for Dave
so I I just need to make sure that I’m
doing what I should be doing because
God’s only going to ask me about me and
then Psalm
139 I’ve actually got 12 verses here
it’s it’s such an amazing Psalm and if
we really pay attention to what it says
it’s pretty awesome you have searched me
Lord and you know me and When God says
he knows
you that’s not like oh yeah I know her I
was like I know you
you know when I sit and when I Rise you
perceive my thoughts a far off so God
knows even what we’re going to think
before we think it
wow I don’t even know that about
myself you discern my going out and my
lying down you are familiar with all my
ways and I love this one before a word
is even on my tongue you know it
completely so God knows what we’re going
to say before we’re going to say it he
knows what we’re going to think before
we even think it you hem me in behind
and before and you lay your hand upon me
I’m I’m real fond of that have you ever
felt like God had you in a place where
you couldn’t get away and he was dealing
with you no way you’re going to get away
from it such knowledge is too wonderful
for me it’s too lofy to attain where can
I go from your spirit where can I flee
from your presence
if I go to heaven you’re there if I make
my bed in the depths you’re
there if I rise on the wings of the Dawn
if I settle on the far side of the seed
even there your hand will guide me and
then I love this one if I say well
surely the darkness will hide
me and the light will become like night
around me even the darkness will not be
dark to you God the night will shine
like the day for darkness is the same as
light to you so
God sees everything knows everything and
if we really would think about that
every day God’s going to see everything
that I do and maybe think about it a few
times I think it would help us be on our
best
behavior Psalm
9411 says the Lord knows the thoughts of
man that they are but a
breath and then Matthew
12:25 Jesus knew their thoughts
and said to them every Kingdom divided
against itself will be ruined and every
city or household divided against itself
will not stand
so you know a lot of times we may think
we go on our house and close the door
God doesn’t know what’s going on in
there but he knows everything behind
closed doors and one of the things that
we need to be really careful of is
Strife in Proverbs 6 it says there’s six
things the Lord hates and the seventh is
an Abomination unto him and the seventh
one now get this is he who SWS Discord
among his
Brethren so you know what that means
gossiping telling
Tales starting
trouble giving people a bad opinion
about somebody else because of something
you don’t like that they did
and God says that’s an Abomination
that’s even Beyond he hates it it’s an
Abomination you know why because God can
only work where there’s
peace and so if we want our homes to be
blessed and our lives to be
blessed we really do need to work to
keep peace in our homes and in order to
have peace I do think you have to work
at it because the devil is always trying
to stir up some kind of trouble if you
want to know where the devil’s going to
be it’s anywhere where anything good is
happening that’s always where he’s going
to be Paul said I try to do evil I I try
to do good and evil always shows up now
Jesus had a lot to
say to
Hypocrites and hypocrites are people who
pretend to be one thing on the outside
but
inside there’s something else
and we all know that you
can smile at a person and be
thinking that outfit really looks stupid
on
you
so just think about
that God sees what’s going on inside of
us and that’s what’s important to him
much more important than any pretense of
godliness or
supposed religiosity and the
Pharisees you know I’m fair you see the
Pharisees were very much
religious but yet Jesus told them you’re
like white washed tombs full of dead
men’s bones wow he said you clean the
outside of the
cup but the inside is filthy and then he
said if you clean the inside then the
outside will automatically be clean so I
do think and you can nod or shake your
head but I think that we pay a lot more
attention to what we do and what people
see us
do than we do what’s going on inside of
us all the time and so God cares about
our
attitudes and nobody has to have a bad
attitude your attitude belongs to
you and nobody can make you have a bad
one if you don’t want to have a bad
one and I tell you a good
attitude is so valuable I always say I
would rather have somebody work for me
that maybe is not quite as skilled but
has a good
attitude than somebody who is just
brilliant but has a stinky bad attitude
I met somebody out in the hall the other
day and I asked him how long have you
been working for us and he said 25 years
and and uh I said well you must like it
here he said I don’t have one thing to
complain about and I thought I like
[Laughter]
you see it’s so easy to find the one
thing to complain about without thinking
about the multitudes of things that we
have to be thankful for and whether you
know it or not complaining is a
sin because you don’t do it by faith and
whatever is not of faith is sin God
wants us to be thankful not murmuring
and complaining so Matthew 23 25-28 and
Matthew 23 the whole chapter is a great
chapter to read woe to you teachers of
the law and I always have said I don’t
know what Woe Is but I know I don’t want
any of it but it’s actually I looked it
up it’s like kind of the worst kind of
misery you can have woe to you teachers
of the law and Pharisees you
Hypocrites you clean the outside of the
cup and the dish but inside you’re full
of
greed and
self-indulgence blind Pharisees first
clean the inside of the cup in the dish
and then the outside will be clean so if
we pay more attention to what’s going on
inside of us everything on the outside
that people see that just kind of takes
care of itself because what’s in US
Works its way out of
us woe to you teachers of the law and
Pharisees you
Hypocrites you’re like whitewashed tombs
which look beautiful on the outside but
on the inside you’re full of dead men’s
bones and everything unclean I always
say you can dress it up and take it to
church but that doesn’t really say much
about what’s going on inside of you the
real person I don’t know if you’re
anything like me or not but I can
remember Dave and I years ago years ago
we don’t do this anymore years ago
arguing all the way to church arguing
with the
kids but boy as soon as we got in the
church we became Mr and Mrs
holy and I can remember looking at the
words of a worship song on the
overhead and mouthing the words while
Thinking Inside if Dave thinks I’m
fixing him anything to eat today he’s
got another thought coming for all I
care he can starve he’s just going to go
home watch football and I’m going to
have to clean the house all day and so I
was like I surrender all H so you know
that but God really wasn’t even hearing
that what he was hearing was what was
going on inside of
me so if we want to be real
Christians we have to pay attention to
what’s going on in us because God is a
god of
Hearts the same way that
you are on the outside you appear to
people as righteous but on the inside he
said you’re full of hypocrisy and
wickedness now I want to talk just a
little bit today about not
compromising
that’s it’s so easy to do to compromise
well everybody else does it well you’re
not everybody
else and you’re not going to answer for
everybody else and I remember crabbing
one time to the Lord about I felt like
he was there were so many things that he
wouldn’t let me do and I knew other
preachers that you know maybe was a
movie that I wanted to go see and I just
didn’t feel like God wanted me to go see
it because of something that was in it
but I knew all kinds of other ministers
that were going to see it and thought it
was great and so I was crabbing
complaining to the Lord why are you so
strict with me and all these other
people do it and they seem to have good
Ministries and he said look you’ve asked
me for a lot do you want it or
not so you have to remember that if if
you want God to do what you have asked
him to do in your life then compromise
is not the way to go and compromise and
we’re all we’re all tempted to do it it
the temptation to compromise is around
us all the time we know better than to
gossip about other people but it is so
tempting or isn’t it amazing how our
ears perk up when we hear somebody say
did you
hear it is so hard to just walk away and
think no and I don’t want to it’s like
we just want to
know we the you know the because I fell
and broke my
leg this year
and had the problem with my other leg
from a blood CAU from back surgery when
we put it on TV for the F for the first
time we did it on one of the talk it out
shows and they called the show the fall
of Joyce
Meyer and we got more hits on that show
than anything we’ve ever put on the
air you know why cuz people thought I’d
fallen into sin and boy they wanted to
know everything about it you know wonder
what we’d get if we put on there the
Holiness of Joyce Meyer you know
probably like I ain’t going to watch
that so compromise if you really if you
look at the definition and this was
really just puts a little bit of the
fear of God in your compromise means to
go just a little bit below what you know
is
right
o just a little bit below what you know
is right you know we need to teach more
about
Holiness because God is a holy God and
he expects us to be
holy and I’m concerned because I don’t I
think it’s so tempting for pastors and
Bible teachers to teach people what they
think they want to
hear I call them dessert messages you
know what’s what’s going to make you
happy and want to come back next week
but we people called to preach the word
we’re going to be held accountable to
God if we don’t tell people the truth
and tell them what we really believe
God is telling us to teach and that
doesn’t mean that you have to be hard on
people and always just preach against
something but we can’t just let people
think that they can do whatever they
want to do anytime they want to do it
and because God is a gracious God and a
merciful god that that it’s okay to do
that we need to call people to a higher
standard and so I’m saying today stop
compromising pay attention to what’s
going on inside of you because God cares
more about that than he does what’s
going on outside of
you you know let’s just say
you get in a bad mood today you get
depressed or whatever sometimes if
you’ll just think about what you’ve been
thinking
about or even what you’ve been talking
about you can locate your own problem
pretty quick because the things that we
think can either make us happy or they
can drag us down and make us sad same
way with the things that we hear
now our motives are very important
and people always get quiet when you
talk about motives because our motives
are not don’t have anything to do with
what we’re doing it’s why we’re doing
what we’re
doing that’s the thing that’s important
to God why am I doing it is this
something that I don’t I mean you know
whatever you sign up to do something you
agree to do something is is this
something that I’m doing because I
really believe that God wants me to do
it or am I doing it as a people
pleaser because I just don’t want
somebody to get mad at
me you know you can’t be a god pleaser
and a people pleaser the Apostle Paul
said you can find it in Galatians 1:10
if I would have been trying to be
popular with people I would not now be
an apostle
of the Lord Jesus Christ
that’s there again something that should
put the fear of God in us I mean anybody
who wants to fulfill the call of God on
their
life you have I mean there’s nothing
wrong with wanting to please people and
make people happy but if pleasing the
person is going to displease God
then we’re supposed to be led by the
Holy Spirit and he doesn’t always lead
you to do what people want you you to do
and I tell people a lot of times because
everybody today is so busy busy busy
busy and stressed out because of their
schedule and you know if you would write
down everything you’re
doing and do two things cross off
everything that’s not bearing
fruit it’s just sucking up your time and
not bearing fruit you know you can even
have a friend that supposedly comes to
you for counseling all the time and you
can feel good about that because
somebody wants your advice
but if that if they just keep
coming and crabbing about the same thing
they don’t really want to be
helped they just want to talk about
their problem and it’s not doing
anything for you it’s not it doesn’t
bear any
fruit in your life or my life and so if
you cross off everything that’s not
bearing any fruit and if you cross off
everything that you’re doing for a
motive that’s not
right you know sometimes we do things to
be well thought
of sometimes we do things to be seen by
other
people and so in Matthew 6 Jesus covers
all of
that and these are just good scriptures
to go and read be careful not to
practice your righteousness in front of
others to be seen by them it doesn’t
mean you can’t do a good deed in front
of somebody else but it says if your
motive is to be seen by
them then don’t do that if you do you
will have no reward from your father who
is in heaven I don’t want to lose my
reward you know so when you give to the
needy don’t announce it with trumpets as
the Hypocrites do in the synagogues and
on the streets to be honored by others
motive truly I tell you they have
received their reward in full already
and I this is a favorite of mine when
you give to the needy don’t let your
left hand know what your right hand is
doing now what does that mean well this
is what I feel like God showed me it’s
like if I do something good even let’s
just
say we go out on a weekend and we just
we just have a knockdown great
conference I mean it’s
awesome I preached good people were
saved if was just
awesome uh maybe in the
process we were able to help couple of
people there that were poor and needy
and so it just all around was just a
great conference well you know God
doesn’t want me to sit on Sunday and
just ruminate and
think on how great I
was how much everybody oh I got to stand
Standing Ovation they they
clapped they applauded and so you you
don’t even get to sit around and think
about how good you are after you’re good
you just come out of the Shadows I heard
this one time love stays in the shadows
until it’s needed then it steps out of
the shadows and does what needs to be
done and then goes back into the
Shadows that’s Lovely isn’t it
and uh so we have to even I think that’s
what it means don’t let your left hand
know what your right hand’s doing don’t
wallow in your
goodness
amen see to it that your giving is done
in
secret and that doesn’t mean that you
know everything you do has to be a big
secret sometimes to be honest it blesses
somebody to know that it’s beneficial
for them to know that you’re doing
something for them but you still don’t
have have to blow a trumpet and announce
it to everybody tell
everybody what you do in
secret God will reward you in the open I
love
that so when you pray don’t be like the
Hypocrites for they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the
street corners to be seen by others
motive again truly I tell you they have
received the reward in full but when you
pray go into your room close the door
pray to your father who is unseen then
your father who sees in secret will
reward you in the open you know if you
get up every morning and you
pray the first three hours you’re up you
don’t really need to tell anybody
that you don’t need to
take the newest little Christian at
church to breakfast and say well how
long do you
pray five minutes
well yeah how long do you pray well at
least 3 hours well right away you’ve put
condemnation on her and she feels like
she can never measure up to you and it
stunts her growth you you didn’t start
with three
hours motives are very very
important