Heaven Is My Home – Pt 2 | Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer

What will it be like to live in heaven? On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer shares about the ways of this world and what we can do to prepare for eternity.

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.

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This is not my home. This is practice.
I’m just learning how to love people here.
I’m I’m just just practicing, learning how to forgive, and and learning how to not get angry, and not be selfish.
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 heard.
Hebrews 13 14 says for here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
Hebrews 11 16, but as it is, they desire a better country that is a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he has prepared for them a city.
Lord have mercy.
Jesus said I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also.
You know what’s happening right now?
He’s preparing the place and he’s preparing us for the place that he’s got prepared.
Come on.
Don’t be afraid of getting older, you’re just one day closer to heaven.
I’ve been saying that every night when I go to bed. Well Lord, I’m one day closer to heaven.
One day closer to coming home. And I enjoy my life. I love what I’m doing.
I love my family. But I don’t wanna be afraid of leaving.
I wanna look forward to it. Amen? Amen.
1st John 2 15 through 17, Do not love the world or the things in the world.
Amen. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him.
Now, you know, that’s a pretty strong statement. I mean, what’s Jesus saying?
You’re either gonna love me, we have to keep God first. Yes.
You can enjoy the things in the world, not worldly things, but the things that God has put in the earth, he put them here for us to enjoy, but we can’t become attached to it.
Amen? Amen. Don’t ever mistreat people to get things.
Use things to be a blessing to people. I’m gonna repeat that.
Don’t ever mistreat people to get things. Use things to be a blessing to people.
For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life is not from the father but is from the world.
And the world is passing away along with its desires.
That whoever does the will of God abides forever. Wow.
The world is passing away.
Someday, this thing is not gonna be here anymore. Revelation 21:1:34.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold the dwelling place of God is with man.
He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore for the farmer things have passed away.
I think we need to think about it a little more than what we do.
You know, actually to be honest the bible doesn’t tell us a lot about what heaven is gonna be like.
And and I I pondered that because it seems like if God gave a more explicit explanation more people might be interested in going.
Of course we know that God knows what he’s doing so, but I I saw this just a couple of weeks ago.
I’ll tell you why he doesn’t tell us any more than what he does.
Because it is so unimaginably awesomely wonderful that if he tried to explain it we wouldn’t get it anyway.
We we wouldn’t get it.
We can’t even imagine the atmosphere of heaven or or that kind of love or a place where nobody’s angry and nobody’s jealous and everybody totally loves everybody else.
My goodness. Aren’t you tired of people fighting? Yes.
Aren’t you tired of the silliness? I mean, the news.
I don’t even know how you can call it news anymore.
It’s just like this one killed that one and somebody else did something else and, you know, then if you got enough money you can buy your way out of it and it’s just like I’m just like.
But one day it’s all gonna be over.
Yeah. And we will stand before God and the bible says we will give an account of our lives.
Now here’s the thing, you’re not ever gonna be judged based on whether you get into heaven or not if you’re a believer.
If your name is written in the lamb’s book of life, there’s gonna be no judgment about your salvation.
But, we will be judged as believers, we will be judged on our works.
And rather or not they were pure works.
In Corinthians it says that all of our works will pass before the eyes of fire and any work that we have built upon the foundation which is Jesus Christ can either be built with wood, hay, straw, or stubble, gold, silver, and if they’re impure works, they’ll be burned up in the eyes of fire.
And if they’re pure works, they will last and will be rewarded for them.
Do you know how many people do good things but they do them to be seen?
To be noticed, to get applause, to be well thought of and it goes on in the church all the time.
That’s why we have such a hard time keeping our mouth shut about what we do.
Now, I love this part. Romans 82223.
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning.
Together in the pains of childbirth until now.
And not only the creation, but we ourselves who have the first fruits of the spirit grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons for the redemption of our bodies.
So not only do we groan, but all of creation groans waiting for the mess to be over.
Creation groans. Even creation has got enough sense to know it wasn’t meant for this.
Is anybody understanding this?
Is it helping you to maybe understand any of the dissatisfaction? Yes.
In your life? Here’s the thing, if you know what that feeling is, think of how much trouble it’s gonna save you.
And you can enjoy your life so much more because when you’re going along and enjoying your life and then you have one of these discontent attacks, You know what it is, it’s like, no devil.
I know what that is, you ain’t getting me this time.
I’m not I’m not gonna get sidetracked here and go chasing after something.
See, the devil uses that stuff to derail us from our purpose and we go chasing after something that’s not gonna satisfy us anyway, we forsake the fountain of living waters and we dig wells that have no water in them.
We get a new body.
Don’t you know that it makes the devil mad when you’ve got when he just can’t make you unhappy?
Just imagine how that frustrates him.
Because you know what your joy is really what he’s after.
It’s the joy of the Lord that’s your strength.
Philippians 3 20 and 21, but our citizenship is in heaven and from it we await a savior, the lord Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
This brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
Nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, it means die, but we shall all be changed.
Changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable and we shall all be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
And if you can just use your imagination with me, I don’t have time to actually do this but I’ve told people before, you know, we’re in a walk with God.
And some people been saved longer than others, the longer you’ve been saved the further down the road you should be.
I mean if you’ve been saved 50 years and you still, you get it.
There’s a little something wrong.
But you know what, if you’re working with God, you’re working with the holy spirit and you’re you’re loving Jesus and you’re you’re letting him work in your life, you don’t have to compare yourself with where somebody else is at spiritually.
You don’t have to compare your prayer life with them or your holiness level with them, or how many great things they’re accomplishing compared to what you’re accomplishing.
We’ve done a great thing if we can just get up and get through the day happy loving Jesus.
Amen? And so maybe when Jesus comes, when the trumpet blows, maybe somebody’s here and somebody else is over here and somebody else is over here and somebody else has almost made it, But when the trumpet blows, I believe Jesus will step across that line and wherever you’re at he’ll get you and bring you the rest of the way.
So enjoy where you’re at in the Lord.
If you’re not where somebody else else is at, so what? Just get up every day and do your best.
If you’re praying 5 minutes every morning and you’re just thrilled about it, don’t go to breakfast with sister super christian and listen to how she’s prays 4 hours every morning and then get condemned and think you’re not doing anything.
Live your own life with God.
And that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t learn and grow and that other people’s example can’t be good for us but you’re not to compete with other people and try to be like they are.
What if I told you that God loves you just the way you are?
Well, what is heaven gonna be like?
Well, there’s more that we don’t know than that we do, but it does say there’ll be no hunger and no thirst.
We’re gonna eat in heaven, but we’ll never feel hungry.
Revelation 196 through 9.
Now, this is an important part. Don’t lose me.
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder crying out hallelujah for the Lord our God the almighty rings.
Now these are some of the things that the apostle John saw that’s recorded in revelations.
He heard and he saw these things and he saw things that Paul said that he saw things in the 3rd heavens that he couldn’t even talk about.
He couldn’t even explain it. There were no words to explain it.
Let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.
Now that’s what we’re supposed to be doing right now. Did you hear me?
We are this bride that he’s talking about and Jesus is the bridegroom and you think about a bride how she prepares for her wedding day.
Oh my goodness. I mean I’ve got a granddaughter that knows who she’s gonna marry, but they’re not gonna get married for a couple years yet, we hope.
Well, whatever God wants, but last week, she’s out looking at wedding venues.
She said, I wanna be prepared. I wanna be ready.
What if we had that attitude? Come on. What if we had that attitude?
This is not my home. This is practice.
I’m just learning how to love people here.
I’m I’m just just practicing, learning how to forgive, and and learning how to not get angry and not be selfish.
I’m a bride preparing myself to meet the bridegroom. Come on.
Not focusing on everything we want and need, but focusing on being prepared to meet our bridegroom.
I mean, a bride looks her best on the wedding day.
She said the skin worked on. She’s been losing weight.
I mean, she’s she has her makeup done professionally. She gets her nails done.
She gets her hair hair done. The dress has gotta be perfect.
Oh, there’s such a fuss made over getting her ready to meet her bridegroom.
Jesus. I hope somebody’s understanding me. Okay.
Now, I just wanna tell you a couple things about what heaven looks like before I read this sentence because then I’m gonna have to The whole city’s gold.
Not just the streets.
For some reason I had the idea it was just the streets. No.
It says the whole city is made of pure gold like crystal.
12 gates, each one made of a single pearl.
Now I don’t know how big those gates are, but woah, can you imagine a pearl like that?
And the walls are all embedded with the finest of gems, with rubies and diamonds and jasper and all these different a lot of gems that I’ve never even heard of.
I had somebody write in a long time ago and said my rhinestone earrings were bothering them.
And I thought you’re gonna be really uncomfortable in heaven.
If my if my rhinestone earrings or my ring or, you know, whatever bothers you, Okay.
Back to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Matter of
fact, I’m gonna read a little bit of this again.
Let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.
It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure, which represents holiness, for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
And the angel said to me, write this, blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb.
You’re invited.
Amen? It’s an invitation.
The lord is saying to you tonight, I’m inviting you.
I’m inviting you to accept me, to become part of my bride, to prepare yourself for the marriage supper of the lamb.
What kind of a meal is that gonna be? Oh my goodness.
We got a glorified body, we’re in this perfect atmosphere, we’re the bride of Christ.
It’s an invitation.
And I’m gonna issue that invitation right now to anyone here or anyone watching by television, no matter where you’re at in the world, no matter what you’ve done in the past, no matter how far away from God you’ve been, if you’ve killed someone, if if you’d done terrible, terrible things, tonight, I want you to know that you’re invited.
You’re invited. And you don’t have to do anything.
All you have to do is r s v p yes. Yeah.
I wanna come.
To receive Jesus all you do is surrender your life to him.
Believe that he died for your sins.
That he paid the price for your sins.
Believe on the lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.
And all those who come to him, he will never cast away.
He will never cast them out. Anybody who comes to him will never be rejected. They’ll never be cast out.
So if you’ve never received Christ as your savior and you’re ready to turn away from a life of sin, receive Christ and start preparing yourself.
In a minute I’m gonna ask you to raise your hand.
If you have backslidden, you’ve served God at some time or tried till you didn’t get very far.
You back slid, you’ve gone back into sin, now the devil’s telling you God will never have you back or maybe you’ve tried 4, 5, 6, 7 times.
A lot of that is if you just don’t You gotta have the right teaching.
When you get born again, you’ve gotta have the right teaching or you don’t know where to go from there.
Or maybe you’re one of those people that I was talking about before that if somebody asked if you’re going to heaven you’d say I hope so.
No you can know for sure.
You can have assurance of where you came from and where you’re going.
If you’re here tonight and if you’re home watching by TV or watching on your iPad or your phone and you wanna be part of this, you can do the same thing right where you’re at.
If that’s you and you wanna pray tonight, let me pray for you.
Will you just slip your hand up and let me see where you’re at? Come on.
All over the place, I wanna see those hands.
Everywhere in the building, I wanna see those hands.
Yeah. Okay. Listen.
Can I ask you to do this for me not to embarrass you but just to get you started?
It’s kinda like a jump start.
I’m not gonna bring everybody down to the front because there’d probably be too many people but if you really meant what you said when you raised your hand, I just want you to stand up.
Come on. Just stand up. All over the place, just stand up.
Because see, we’re not trying to embarrass you, but if you won’t take a stand in here, you’ll never take one out there.
Alright.
Some christian that’s around these people just touch them gently.
Put a little love on them. Now let’s all pray together. Everybody pray this prayer with me.
Father God, I love you. Jesus, I believe in you. Jesus, I believe in you.
I accept your invitation. I accept your invitation. I want to be yours.
I repent of
my sins. I repent
of my sins. I believe you paid for them.
I believe
you paid for them. You took
my punishment. You took
my punishment. And I receive you, Jesus.
And I
receive you, Jesus. As my savior. As my savior. And my lord. And my lord.
And I release myself to you. And I release myself to you.
And I release myself to you.
Take me just the
way I am. Take me just the
way I am. And make me what you want me to be. Make me
what you want me to
be. Now I believe
I’m saved.
Now I believe I’m saved. I’m born again. I’m born again. I believe you love me.
I believe you love me. And I’m on my way to heaven. And I’m on my way to heaven.
I’m coming home. I’m coming home. Amen. Come on. Give God a big prayer.
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Father, I pray that you would help us trust you even when life is hard, even when it hurts, even when it seems unfair.
The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
God, please help us trust you.
Help us not to quit and give up and to back away from hard things.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
And I pray, Lord, that you’re giving people understanding.
That they’re gaining the strength to keep on keeping on and not to ever quit and give up.
Thank you for your word. In Jesus’ name.
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