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because nothing is better than Joy come
on Paul talked about Joy 19 times in
this epistle he wants people to be
happy 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
hurt
you are the house of
God I am the house of God God lives in
here and he lives in you through the
Holy Spirit and the holy spirit’s main
two titles are the comforter and the
helper so if the spirit of God is living
in us how can we not want to
help I mean I would say if you don’t
want to help anybody something’s wrong
you might want to go back and check
about your
salvation because if Christ is in us his
nature is in us we’re going to be
grieved when we mistreat
people we’re going to want to go back
and
apologize we’re going to want to treat
people good because we know that God
doesn’t like it when we mistreat his
people I’ll tell you the truth good
number of years ago I got an
understanding on this and I have a
reverential fear on me of Miss treating
people it’s just not something that God
likes
amen Paul almost always started his
greetings with this these this term
Grace and peace be unto
you and boy that’s another I mean I
could get a four-part series out of
that because you can’t have peace if you
don’t understand
grace and grace is God’s undeserved
favor but it’s also the power of the
Holy Spirit In Our Lives to accomplish
through us what we could never do on our
own with any amount of struggle and
effort in other words it’s basically
apart from me you can do
nothing so if we learn how to talk to
God about everything and ask him to be
involved in everything and to strengthen
Us in everything as I said earlier in
the exort pray your way through the
day now 3 through 11 would be the group
of scriptures that we would put together
to study and I’m going to read it and
then do some teaching I thank my God in
all my remembrances of you always in
every prayer of mine for you all making
my prayer with joy because of our
partnership in the gospel from the first
day you heard it until now like now keep
that in mind there’s such a lesson
there and I’m sure of this that he who
began a good work work in you will bring
it to completion at the day of Jesus
Christ now you know we like to just pick
out scriptures we like and use
them but if you notice
here he says I thank God for you all the
time because of our
partnership in the
gospel Paul shared spiritual wisdom with
them and they supported Paul in his
ministry so that word could be taken to
other people and he said and meaning
because of what he just said I am sure
that he who began a good work in you is
well able to complete it and bring it to
its
finish and I believe that if we’re
stingy and all we do is take take take
we will reach a point where we cannot
grow anymore
spiritually
and he said it’s right for me to feel
this way about you all because I hold
you in my heart for you are all
partakers with me of Grace both in my
imprisonment and in the defense and the
confirmation of the
gospel for God is my witness how I yearn
for you all if you listen to some of the
words of Paul he he loves these
people he’s not just like somebody who
gets to tell them what to do or or the
great apostle soul that comes to town
that everybody admires he he says I came
to serve you and I I yearn for you I
have a longing in my heart for
you boy you need to be under leadership
that cares about you people who really
love you who pray for you who really
want to see you be the person that God
wants you to
be
amen and if you’re not under that kind
of leadership I’d keep looking till I
found somebody that was not just going
to tell me what to do that was going to
love
me
amen and it is my prayer that your love
may
abound while we’re going to talk about
that and that you may approve what is
excellent we’re going to talk about
that and be pure and
blameless till the day of Christ that’s
another message
filled with the fruits of righteousness
that come through Jesus Christ to the
glory and the praise of God
now Paul was very thankful for the
partnership of the people in helping him
spread the gospel you know we ask people
to partner with us they talked about
partnership earlier and he thanked God
for them every time he prayed just as we
pray for our partners at the
ministry and this amazes even me but he
he says that they became a partner with
him him from the first time they heard
the
gospel and they
continued until the present day whenever
Paul was writing this so Paul didn’t
have to try to talk them into giving
they were so excited about what they
heard come on maybe we’re just a little
bit too used to
Jesus maybe we need to be refreshed in
what what we really
have my
gosh your sins are completely forgiven
and washed away you’ve been Justified
made just as if you’ve never sinned your
name is written in a book called The
Book of
Life Jesus is in heaven preparing a
place for you that where he is you may
also be
[Applause]
there I love you
we don’t need to just be return be
excited about what God can do for us but
just excited about
him my gosh you’re not going to
hell
youus
so Paul was very thankful for these
people I want us to look at a minute at
First Corinthians chapter
8 the first four
verses I don’t I don’t know exactly what
these people had that we’re missing
today but they sure didn’t have to try
to talk them into
giving 2 Corinthians
8 all right now just listen to this just
just a man imagine this we want you to
know Brethren about the grace of God
that has been given among the churches
of
Macedonia for in a severe test of
Affliction their Abundance of Joy and
their extreme
poverty have overflowed in a wealth of
generosity on their part for they gave
according to their means as I can
testify and beyond their means of their
own accord begging us earn ly for the
favor of letting them take part in the
relief of the
saints come on beg me to let you
give I have never had anybody come to me
and say oh please please please can I
give partnership is not a one-sided
relationship there are two or more
parties each who have a
responsibility Paul helped them through
preaching and they they helped
him through continuing to
finance the preaching of the Gospel now
I have to tell this story because it
makes the point better than anything
that I’ve ever heard and it’s a real
story and it makes my point about how
you if you don’t start giving
back I mean you know
you you don’t really have to as a new
believer just soak it in but you you’ll
get to a point where God’s going to
start putting it on your heart to give
and if you
don’t and you keep not doing it long
enough you’ll get to the point where you
can’t you can’t take anything in anymore
I had a woman come to me one time and
she said I’m embarrassed to tell you
this but she said I feel like I’m
supposed to she said I’ve been coming to
your conferences for years and I’ve
loved them I’ve grown so much you’ve
taught me so much but she said have to
be honest tell you the last couple of
years I haven’t really gotten anything
out of them and she said I I
actually thought that maybe you had sin
in your life and you were losing your
anointing so I started praying for
you come on this goes on all the time
well I’m not getting anything out of
going here
anymore think I’ll try a new church so I
can get
something
and she said
that as she was praying for me one day
to recognize my sin and repent so I
could get my anointing back so she could
enjoy my
meetings she said God just spoke her and
he said there’s nothing wrong with Joyce
the reason you’re not getting anything
is because you so full there’s no room
to put anything else and until you start
putting something
out you’re not going to get anything
else come on come
[Applause]
on come
on I think we all know that the church
and I don’t mean any particular church
but just the
church has
problems we’re the most selfish
generation that ever lived and we have
more than any
generation that’s ever lived so really
the more stuff you have sometimes the
more selfish you
get we have so much that we can use to
be a blessing to other
people but no we want to keep it in case
we ever need it and then when you do
need it you don’t know where it’s at and
you go buy another one
anyway come
on and listen the reason why I’m telling
you this is because you’re going to have
more joy amen
honestly it is more blessed to give than
it is to
receive because nothing is better than
Joy come on Paul talked about Joy 19
times in this epistle he wants people to
be
happy in verses 7 and 8 Paul mentioned
his affection for the people and how he
holds them so close in his heart
you know and I can honestly tell you and
I’m not just trying to say something
cute I actually I’m I’m doing this at
this point in my life
because I love the people and I really
really really really want you to have
the life that Christ wants you to
have I mean a miserable sinner is one
thing but a miserable saint is a
miserable
mess
amen I so want us to live to glorify
God the church could shine so brightly
and draw so many lost people into a
relationship with Christ if he would
just get ourselves off our minds long
enough to look around us and realize
that everywhere you go there are hurting
people
[Applause]
see I’m talking about something you can
do when you leave
here and then Paul says I pray that your
love would abound yet more and
more there’s so much in that statement
CU you know what he’s
saying they were walking in love and he
told him he was proud of them but he
said I want your love to abound he’s
he’s saying I know you’re walking in
love but but I want you to grow in
Walking In Love Yes amen you know one of
the worst things we can do is get
complacent and get satisfied with our
St well I’m doing pretty
good no no no no no that’s not it I want
to do
better because I want to glorify God
more I want to abound in love I really
want to learn how to love people the way
Jesus loved
people can any one of us say that we
really know how to give
unconditional
love so much of our love is still based
on how people treat
us the word abound means to exist in
large amounts to be
packed to
overflow to be crowded with to be full
of to do more than you have to
do he wants them to have more knowledge
and more discernment
man I could preach for an hour on
discernment woo we need
discernment oh and then he prayed that
they would learn to prize and approve
what was
excellent how does an excellent person
behave well they always do what they say
they’re going to do
H they’re on time for their appointments
they get to work on
time they don’t leave messes for other
people to clean
up they don’t park in handicapped
parking spaces if they’re not
handicapped and especially not at
church they replace the toilet paper
when they use the last of it on the
[Applause]
roll they don’t tinkle on the seat out
in the public restroom and leave it for
somebody to sit in
it o I hate that
when they take the last Kleenex they go
get another
box if they’re giv too much change when
paying a bill they return
it they put their grocery cart back and
the space marked off for grocery
[Applause]
carts okay I’m going to make a statement
maybe you didn’t come for anything but
this but get
this
what we do when nobody’s looking is who
we really
[Applause]
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Peace
the Mind actually is the battlefield
that’s where we win or lose the war with
Satan he said all he gets to
say why the last of the days mine 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