How To Be Happy For Others | Joyce Meyer
Learn to be faithful in the small things. What you don’t realize is that something extraordinary is being built into your life. In the small, you’re learning the meaning of commitment. God is preparing you for more.
God has different things for different people.
And what we need to learn how to do is be happy for those that are blessed the way god blesses them and be content to believe that what god gives us is what we need at the time that we get it.
You know, I remember one time, I certainly needed a rainbow day.
I was at a place in my life where I was believing god for ministry, and I had quit my full time job.
To study for this ministry that I thought I was gonna have someday.
You know, I was still in that place where Abraham was. I will do this will do this.
I will do this. I will do this.
And I had waited and waited and waited, and nothing much was happening.
And I thought surely if I quit this job, this full time job, that god would just pour out his blessings, and we’d have more and more, but instead for 6 long years, we had to believe god for every single thing that we needed.
I did bought all my kids clothes at garage sales and bought their shoes at garage sales and mean, I had a good job making good money.
And then all of a sudden, we were $40 short every month of being able to pay our bills, and we had to have a $40 a month miracle just to be able to get by, and that didn’t include having anything extra If anything extra came along, then that was an extra burden.
And so I I really needed god to do something for me.
I desperately was at a place where I needed 1 of those rainbow days.
And my pastor happened to stop by the house, and he was a young man in ministry.
He was actually 10 years younger than I was, and he was getting started in Ministry and taking speaking engagements and things as well as pastoring the church.
And he had just come back from a conference that he had done, and he was so excited.
And he told me about the offering that they gave him, and and he told me about how this man came up to him and said I wanna partner with you for $200 a month, and he told me something else good that happened.
I don’t know if I looked like I was gonna faint or what, but he He looked at me and he said, is it alright that I’m telling you this?
And I said, oh, yeah. Praise the lord. I’m so happy for you. That’s that’s just awesome.
And I’m telling you, I couldn’t wait till he got out of my house so I could have him go have a a fit somewhere.
And he left, and I went in through myself across my daughter’s bed, and I cried, and I cried, and I cried, and I cried.
But I made a decision that day.
I said, you know, lord, if nothing ever happens for us financially, We will always tithe and give our offerings.
From now until the time you bring us home. And you know what?
From this day until that, god has prospered us a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, and a little bit more.
But you know something, sometimes there’s a time to give your testimony, and sometimes there’s a time to keep your mouth shut.
And we need to be sensitive to what other people are going through.
And not necessarily, you know, like, if they’ve obviously got the flu and their coughing and hacking and, you know, that’s not the time to tell them how that almost came on you last week, but you prayed and got healed.
You know, that’s the time to just have some compassion and be be kind to him.
Because if you’re having a rainbow and They’re having a circumcision.
It’s not very much fun. Amen?
And what we need to learn how to do is be happy for those that are blessed the way god blesses them and be content to believe that what god gives us is what we need at the time that we get it.
You know, I remember one time, I certainly needed a rainbow day.
I was at a place in my life where I was believing god for ministry, and I had quit my full time job.
To study for this ministry that I thought I was gonna have someday.
You know, I was still in that place where Abraham was. I will do this will do this.
I will do this. I will do this.
And I had waited and waited and waited, and nothing much was happening.
And I thought surely if I quit this job, this full time job, that god would just pour out his blessings, and we’d have more and more, but instead for 6 long years, we had to believe god for every single thing that we needed.
I did bought all my kids clothes at garage sales and bought their shoes at garage sales and mean, I had a good job making good money.
And then all of a sudden, we were $40 short every month of being able to pay our bills, and we had to have a $40 a month miracle just to be able to get by, and that didn’t include having anything extra If anything extra came along, then that was an extra burden.
And so I I really needed god to do something for me.
I desperately was at a place where I needed 1 of those rainbow days.
And my pastor happened to stop by the house, and he was a young man in ministry.
He was actually 10 years younger than I was, and he was getting started in Ministry and taking speaking engagements and things as well as pastoring the church.
And he had just come back from a conference that he had done, and he was so excited.
And he told me about the offering that they gave him, and and he told me about how this man came up to him and said I wanna partner with you for $200 a month, and he told me something else good that happened.
I don’t know if I looked like I was gonna faint or what, but he He looked at me and he said, is it alright that I’m telling you this?
And I said, oh, yeah. Praise the lord. I’m so happy for you. That’s that’s just awesome.
And I’m telling you, I couldn’t wait till he got out of my house so I could have him go have a a fit somewhere.
And he left, and I went in through myself across my daughter’s bed, and I cried, and I cried, and I cried, and I cried.
But I made a decision that day.
I said, you know, lord, if nothing ever happens for us financially, We will always tithe and give our offerings.
From now until the time you bring us home. And you know what?
From this day until that, god has prospered us a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, and a little bit more.
But you know something, sometimes there’s a time to give your testimony, and sometimes there’s a time to keep your mouth shut.
And we need to be sensitive to what other people are going through.
And not necessarily, you know, like, if they’ve obviously got the flu and their coughing and hacking and, you know, that’s not the time to tell them how that almost came on you last week, but you prayed and got healed.
You know, that’s the time to just have some compassion and be be kind to him.
Because if you’re having a rainbow and They’re having a circumcision.
It’s not very much fun. Amen?
