Choosing To Trust God | Joyce Meyer | Radio Podcast

Choosing To Trust God-3 A 15-minute teaching applying practical principles from God’s Word to everyday life.

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.

Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times best selling author Joyce Meyer.
On today’s program, Joyce will be teaching from her series Trust god and do good.
The answer to everything is that simple. Trust god and do good.
It’s so freeing to believe god has everything under control because that means we can spend less time worrying and more time trying to help others.
Now here’s Joyce with today’s teaching.
Well, first of all, god does work in miraculous ways, and he he he turns many things around in our lifetime.
And and we see the good. We see god work good out of stupid stuff. You know?
But I’m also convinced of late that we need to be paying a lot more attention to the thoughts of eternity than what we are.
I mean, to be honest, if you read the new testament, they just talked about the coming of Christ all the time.
And that was 2000 years ago. And they thought he was gonna come any moment.
See, we need to live as if we really believe Christ is gonna show up any moment.
Why would that ever change a bunch of stuff? Amen?
And however long our life is here, I mean, let’s just say you live a really long time.
Let’s just say you live to be a 100. That’s nothing. Compared to forever.
And so if I take my whole entire life here and I invest it for then, For eternity, it’s still a good deal.
But the people who spend their whole life here trying to please themselves and get what they want and mistreating other people and being concerned about things, man, they’ve got a whole eternity to have to not be happy and wish they would have spent more time doing what was right while they could have.
I compliment you for being here today.
I compliment those of you that are watching Bible Teaching on TV.
I mean, my goodness, you could watch cartoons, art.
Or some sexy soap opera, you know, where everybody’s in bed with somebody else.
Wouldn’t that edify you and encourage you?
I bet that would build you up and get you ready for the day.
But, you know, here’s the thing, even if you don’t totally understand what I’m saying.
Probably a lot of you don’t.
You may at least wonder how a seventy two year old woman gets this kind of energy Amen?
I mean, David’s 75, and he married a much younger woman.
I’ll tell you what. Doing life with god gives you energy.
It gives you purpose. It gives you a reason to get out of bed.
We have a privilege of trust in God.
Well, I’ve done everything I know to do. I guess I’ll just have to trust God.
You ever say I said that? I’ve done everything I know to do.
I guess there’s nothing left to do, but pray. Well, that should be the first thing we do.
And trusting god should be the first thing that we do. It’s a privilege to pray.
It’s a privilege to trust god. Trusting God has side effects.
Peace, joy, confidence, stability, joy, and stream joy.
I mean, trusting god is the best sleep aid in the world.
Now, trusting god doesn’t mean that we sit back and do absolutely nothing while god does everything.
Trust in god really means that we are gonna put our trust in him, but we’re also going to do good.
Now let me just share something with you that god spoke to my heart years years years ago.
And it was at a time when I had all kinds of problems, enemies, Joyce, you take care of my needs, and I’ll take care of yours.
See, god needs us to get out in the world and be a blessing.
God needs us to get out in the world and shine Let me put it more simply because the shine thing can kinda get mystical.
Yes. I’m gonna go out today and shine.
For somebody that could be putting on sparkly jewelry. I don’t know.
God needs us to get out in our little part of the world and act like we believe in Jesus.
Well, what does that mean?
That means that you’re kind to people, that you treat people good, that you’re quick to forgive.
That you help people when they need help, that you don’t complain all the time and murmur and grumble and that you, uh, anyway, you know, right?
You know? You know, trusting god is what leads us to a lifestyle of obedience.
And maybe you know, we’re supposed to obey god.
That’s that’s kind of the long and the short of this thing. Right?
It’s like, Do what I tell you to, and your life will be blessed.
Can you turn to somebody next to you and say, do what god tells you to.
Your life will be blessed. This is not hard.
Anybody could pass this class today.
Trust in God is the only thing that’s gonna lead us to obedience because why would I obey somebody that I didn’t trust?
And so even when Moses disobeyed god and god got angry at him, he said, you didn’t believe me.
So trusting and obedience go hand in hand.
Why in the world would I tithe and give off rings if I didn’t trust god.
That would just be the dumbest thing that anybody could possibly do would be to take 10% plus of their money and give it away.
See, that’s why the world doesn’t understand this.
I had an accountant one doesn’t tell me you’re giving away too much money.
He didn’t understand. He he didn’t get it.
Why do we why did you put an offering in this morning to help provide water for somebody over in Africa somewhere that you’ll never know or never meet because you trust god.
And that trust provokes you to obedience.
And you believe that if you give if you bring all the Tylen offering into the storm house, that god will rebuke the devourer for your sake and he will open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so great that you cannot contain it.
And when when we don’t do what god tells us to, we don’t trust him.
We don’t believe the word, but if we do believe and if we do trust, then we do what he tells us to.
It’s quiet in here.
You want me to take the offering again? Would I get a better one the second time?
You know, if I really believe that something marvelous is gonna happen in my life, if I will forgive people who have hurt me, Then I’m, like, I’m not gonna waste one more day of my life, mad at somebody, who obviously doesn’t have enough sense to know how to treat people.
I’m gonna pray for them, and I’m gonna do what god tells me to, even though I may not understand it, I’m gonna do it because I trust him.
Come on.
In every situation, I’m gonna take some trust, and that trust is gonna lead me into more and more obedience.
I want us to look at 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 9.
I don’t even know how to tell you how many times in my life I’ve read this scripture.
And 2 days ago, I saw something in it that I’ve never seen.
It amazes me when that happens. How many of you have that happen in your life?
You see something in a scripture is like, Well, did they just add that word?
I mean, I’ve I’ve looked at this over and over and over.
I’ve preached on this. First Corinthians 1, 9, god is faithful, reliable, trustworthy, and therefore, ever true to his promise and he can be dependent on.
By him, you were called into.
Now I want you to watch this part, into companionship and participation with his son, Jesus Christ, our lord.
Now, the word that just jumped out at me, and it’s something I preach, but, wow, now I got another scripture to back it up.
Was the word participation We’re partners with god.
So even when I’m trusting god, he may show me something that I need to do.
And then if I go do that that’s also gonna help solve my problem, but it’s not gonna help solve my problem because I came up with some bright idea of something I could do to solve my problem.
It’s gonna solve my problem because god showed me, do this. Do this.
I, you know, I have had some amazing relief in my soul from practically blessing people who have hurt me.
You’ve heard a lot of my stories about my upbringing, and that my dad sexually abused me.
And, oh my gosh, I’ll never forget when I was praying one day. Gotta be careful when you pray.
I was praying one day and lo and behold, god showed up.
Isn’t that scary?
I mean, when we say, oh god, show me what you want me to do.
Do we really want god to show us what he wants us to do?
And I felt like god told me to bring my parents to the city where I live in.
Buy them a house and take care of them until they died.
Well, I said I rebuke Q Devil. I did. I honestly did.
I didn’t think there was any way that god could ask me to do that, not after what my parents had done to me.
And so I assumed that wasn’t god and went on and the next time I was praying, There god was again.
Long story short. We ended up being obedient to god in that area.
Tried to buy a cheap house. God said, no, you buy a nice house.
I mean, I did everything I could to wiggle out of any part of it I could.
And can I tell you that that has been the single greatest victory and blessing?
Now now hang on a minute and I’ll give you a real reason to shout.
For for me to gladly take care of the man who sexually abused me week after week after week after week for about 5th 10 years and to take care of a mother who knew what he was doing but didn’t have the courage to do anything about it for me to be able because of my love for god to take care of them was the greatest victory I’ve ever had.
And, boy, I’ll tell you it had side effects.
I mean, here was one side effect. Our ministry just like, whew. Okay.
So I can sit around, oh god. What can you do? God. I’m trusting you for my ministry to grow.
Oh god. I’m trusting you for my ministry to grow. Come on. Are you out there?
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