If you do things God’s way, you will be blessed. Watch as Joyce shares ways to prioritize Him and why you need to know the Word and in order to be obedient
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Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.
With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way.
i believe that what our priorities
should be is always god first
then family
then yourself and i know that may sound
a little strange most of the time when
you hear people teach on priorities
somehow rather they never put you in
there
but the thing is is that if you don’t
take care of yourself
then you’re never going to be fit
to take care of or help anyone else
and god wants you to take care of
yourself he wants you to take care of
your health he wants you to take care of
your mind your emotions
you need to do some things for yourself
occasionally that you
enjoy you need to get the rest that you
need
if you are at the bottom of your list
of people that you take care of then you
need to move yourself up several spaces
just remember
that best gift that you can give anybody
is a healthy you
and then i believe our jobs
how we make our money
comes after that and then
i think that
doing things for other people should
always be
a priority in our lives because it’s a
priority to god
and you see we’re not looking at things
the way the world does
we’re looking at this from the viewpoint
of
how god teaches it in his word
and keep in mind
if you do things god’s way
you’re always going
to have a better life than if you try to
do things the world’s way
so
i’m going to start by saying
first john 5 21 little children keep
yourselves from idols
from false gods
from anything and everything that would
occupy the place in your heart that is
due
to god and from any sort of substitute
for him
that would take first place in your life
amen
let it be so
you know
many years ago
thank god it’s been many years ago
my idea of what it meant to be a
christian was of course to believe that
jesus died for me paid for my sins and
to receive him into my heart and to go
to church
and maybe do a little bit of church work
and i wasn’t really a happy christian i
was just
kind of just like a christian like
everybody else i knew was a christian
i thought that being a christian meant
going to church
but back in the 70s god touched my life
and i entered into what i call
i started entering into what i now call
when i became serious about god in my
life
when i started wanting to put him first
place
in my life
and that changes a lot of things
and it should for you if you’re a
christian god should be first in your
life
and we’re going to talk about how we put
him first in our life but first god then
your family
then yourself then your job
then doing things for other people now
you know there may be people that feel
differently about it but this is just
the way that i want to present it to you
today
so
anything can become an idol
anything that becomes more important to
us than god can become
an idol you can idolize your job
you can idolize how you look you can
spend more time on how you look than you
do on anything else
we can idolize our children our
our friends
we need to be careful that we always
keep god first place in our life and
really how do we know that we’re doing
that well
we spend time with him
regularly
not occasionally when you get time but
you give him the first part of your time
for me i love to give god the first
time in the morning
i know that’s different for different
people depending on what stage of life
they’re in when i had little kids at
home i couldn’t spend as much time
as i can now but
god can be in your thoughts and in your
conversation all throughout
the day you can talk to him about
anything anywhere anytime
another way to keep god first is to
study his word to make
studying and you notice i didn’t say
reading
because i’ve come to the conclusion that
we always tell people read your bible
but
and that’s good but i think we need to
study the bible and many times that’s
just something as simple as
reading something but then taking some
time to actually think about it
and kind of roll it over and over in
your mind and think about what is this
really
saying
to me we need to know the word of god
because if we don’t know god’s word
we’re never going to know what should be
the most important thing in our life and
if we know the word
then we’ll have spiritual knowledge
that will help us make decisions that
will always keep our priorities in line
thank god all the time i mean we need to
we need to our thank yous need to far
outweigh our petitions
you can thank god for little things for
big things you can thank him for things
that you’ve had for a long time thank
him for something he does for you that’s
brand new thank him for himself not just
what he does for you where would we be
without god
you can keep god first by seeking his
guidance on everything proverbs 3 says
trust in the lord with all your heart
and mind and lean not to your own
understanding in all your ways
acknowledge him and he will direct your
steps
even if you start out every day say god
i need your guidance today in everything
that i do
sometimes if you’re gonna make a
decision
just take a few minutes get by yourself
for a few minutes three minutes five
minutes and just
quiet your mind and see what your heart
is saying being obedient to god
is one of the best ways to put him first
in our life and can i just say right now
that god is always right
no matter what we think
no matter what it seems like god is
always right
if you do things god’s way
you’re going to like your life a whole
lot more than you are if you don’t do
things god’s way but you can’t know his
way if you don’t know his word
give into his work in the earth
god could support the preaching of the
gospel any way that he wants to but he
wants us to participate
it’s one of the ways that we show our
love for him many times when a pastor is
receiving an offering in a church
service he’ll he’ll say we’re going to
receive the love offering
well that just becomes a phrase that we
may not even be fully aware of what it
means but it means that we’re giving
what we’re giving because of our love
for god because we appreciate all he’s
done in our lives and because we love
other people and we want to see the
people that don’t know him
receive the gospel so they can know him
behave like him
you know the wwjd bracelets were so
popular a few years ago that means what
would jesus do
but really in each situation we should
do what jesus would do we hope you
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