What Is Love – Part 4 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

Love is action. Love is kind. Love is generous. Today on Enjoying Everyday Life, Joyce Meyer my shares ways to walk in love inspired by God’s Word and the life of Jesus Christ.

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.

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Just make a decision that you are gonna walk in love, and part of that is you are gonna be a blessing to everybody that you can.
Amen, 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’ve heard.
Now I don’t know if you believe me or not if you think this will work, but I’ll tell you what.
I made a list of 65 things that I wanted to see happen in my life, and I said all of them were a reality, and not one of them was a reality.
And right now, I can tell you honestly, every one of those things is a reality in my life.
And every single solitary one of them.
You’ve gotta change your thinking because what’s in your heart comes out of your mouth and words carry the power of life and death.
It’s not that hard to put this together. The Bible doesn’t say talk about the mountain.
It says talk to the mountain.
I’m gonna talk to somebody that’s understanding what I’m saying.
Now you take anything that is a bondage.
You’re having a problem in your life. I see you have problems with jealousy.
Alright. You have a problem with envy or pride?
Whatever. There’s so many problems out there. We could never count them all.
But whatever your problem is, take the word like medicine for that area.
If I’ve got a headache, I don’t put a Band Aid on my head.
If I cut myself, I don’t stick an aspirin in it.
We have enough sense to know what kind of medicine to take for our physical ailments Well, the word of god is medicine.
It is medicine for your soul.
And refills are free. There’s no limit on refills.
Doctor. Jesus says you can refill this until you are completely well. Come on.
But let me tell you something. You can’t be lazy.
And be victorious. You can’t just keep going somewhere and sitting there hoping somebody else says something that sets you free.
But you need to do something.
You need to put some work and effort into it.
The measure of thought and study that you give to the truth that you hear is the measure of virtue, which is power that will come back to you.
Again, Okay. Now look, all this time. Wow.
This is so important. Kind. Ephesians 432.
Be kind and compassionate I love the scripture to say, and Jesus was moved with compassion.
When you have compassion, it moves you. It’s not pity.
You can feel sorry for somebody and never do anything for them.
But if you have real true compassion, born out of love, it will move you to help somebody.
You’ll sacrifice to do it.
You hear things about random of kindness?
How many have ever heard that term? Random acts of kindness? I love it.
I love doing stuff like that. I love to see how people react.
And I believe that a lot of people could be brought to Christ if more Christians would just do random acts of kindness.
One of the things that agave is is doing something kind for someone that you don’t know that can never pay you back.
Doing things in secret.
I told you yesterday, somebody bought our lunch or we went to pay for our lunch.
We were Houston’s, and they said somebody’s already paid your bill. They did it anonymously.
Well, you know what I do? I take those things as winks from god. It’s like god’s saying.
I got you.
I’ll take care of you.
Just a little something to let me know that he’s there.
Is that what your people would pay for your lunch? Your fame isn’t on TV? Yeah.
No. I buy I pay for people’s lunch, but I don’t know, and they never know that I did it.
Sometimes I’ll see a young couple with 4 or 5 kids, eating at a table.
And I remember when Dave and I maybe could eat out once a year. Maybe.
Need to remember where you came from.
And start helping people that are still where you used to be.
Amen? Luke 635 says, love your enemies do good to them and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.
Then your reward will be great.
And you will be children of the most high because he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
Colossians 3, 12, and 13.
Therefore, as god’s chosen people wholly and dearly be would clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
These are the attitudes that a believer in Christ should be wearing.
Don’t you leave this meeting?
After hearing me preach like this and get out in the parking lot.
And give somebody some bad sign.
And don’t go out to that resource table and nearly knock somebody down because you’re in a hurry.
See, that’s the problem.
We can hear this kind of stuff and just walk out, and it hearing it is not what’s gonna change you.
It’s doing it.
You got you you got if you got a bad temper, you need to make a college course out of learning how to walk in love.
Go to the college of the Holy Ghost. Examples of random acts of kindness.
Now I can only tell you examples from my life and maybe some from my kids because that’s all I know.
So I’m not bragging on us, but I’m trying to just show you the power of this stuff.
Random of kindness is doing something good for someone you may not know just for the purpose of showing kindness.
You have you have no other motive in mind. You just you just wanna bless them.
And for me, I wanna bless them because god has done so much for me.
I just he’s done so much for me.
So I’ve told these stories a couple of times.
I don’t know if I’ve heard told them here if you’ve seen them on TV, but it’s There’s still good stories, so you just have to listen again.
Um, you know, we have ideas about people, and sometimes we don’t like to hang out with anybody’s not like us.
And Some of the young people, they just are not like us.
You know, they’ve got they might have 5 different colors in their hair and and, uh, body piercings all over the place and everything tattooed and wearing black lipstick and, you know, whatever.
And so if you’re a religious Christian, which are the absolute worst.
I mean, religious people are some of the meanest people on the face of the earth.
Don’t like the Pharisees. You cannot do anything right.
They’re gonna find something wrong with it.
So I was in a Starbucks, and I wanted what’s called the poor over.
And I’m a coffee snob. It’s gotta be a certain way or I don’t want it.
And she said, oh, let me make you a cup of coffee out of this new press that we have.
I said, I don’t really like a press. The coffee’s always too strong. She said, let, no.
Let me make this for you.
She said, and if you don’t like it, I’ll make you anything else you want.
Well, her hair was going in about every direction and every piece of it was a different color.
Wouldn’t have been, you know, like somebody I would have hung out with.
But by now, I’m learning to have a little bit of brains that just because they’re not like me, that doesn’t mean that god doesn’t love them.
Did you hear me? Just because those are not like you.
And some of you have an attitude about tattoos.
Do you know the Bible says in the old testament that people had tattooed on their body?
I belong to the lord. Right. Wow.
I just think that’s wrong. Well, I’m about to get 1.
And I’m gonna do it just to make the devil mad and just to make religious people mad.
I might have to put right back here across, and Andre just gonna say, I belong to Jesus.
And don’t write me a letter and tell me how wrong you think it is.
Because I don’t have to get permission from you.
It just makes the devil so mad when you get free.
Well, well, Mabel, I never heard of him.
I mean, when I coming back this afternoon, that woman’s crazy.
Can you imagine that seventy eight and a half years old and going to get a tattoo?
Angel’s mouth is off.
Anyway, this gal had tattoos all over.
She had a tongue up here. She had her eye Lash’s peers, Jed bitch.
So she says to me, She said, yeah.
I just love this coffee pot. She said, you can just use it anywhere.
She said, I I’m I’m gonna save up my money so I can get 1.
It’s just gonna take me a while to do it. Well, it was about a $100.
So she made me a cup of coffee and sure enough, it was really good.
And so I started to walk away.
And I just sensed I was missing an opportunity.
And I felt like the Lord said, buy her the coffee pot she wants. Okay.
Now listen. You feel really stupid going up to somebody you don’t know and saying I’d like to buy you that coffee pot, especially today.
So I walk around a little bit, get my nerve up.
And I went back, called her over, and I said, Listen, I just I wanna bless you.
I wanna buy you one of those coffee pots and so I just gave her a $110.
And and, uh, she’s like, well, No. Uh-uh. And she starts crying.
And, of course, I’m wanting to get out of there as fast as I can.
Here’s here’s the money for your coffee pot. I’ve obeyed god. I’m gone. Donning god.
Well, as things like this don’t just don’t just happen.
So it’s 2 hours later, and I go to the bathroom at another store, And I start to come in the door, and she is coming out the door.
And she looked at me.
Now this is the effect this can have on pretty she looked at me and she said, why are you the kindest person in the whole world?
Which obviously I’m not, but nobody had ever showed her that kind of kindness.
You know how many people there are in the world who have never seen kindness?
They they’ve never nobody’s ever really loved them.
The world is full of people that nobody has ever loved them, and you have the love of god in you You have the ability to change people’s lives.
And so I said, well, I’ll tell you what.
I said, god’s been really good to me.
And You just looked to me like you could use a blessing, and so I just wanted to bless you.
And she said, well, to tell you the truth, I’ve been kinda mad at the man upstairs.
I love it when people call in the man upstairs.
That tells me right away they don’t know him.
And, uh, she said my mother died with cancer, and I’ve been mad at him ever since.
But she said after this, I may have to rethink it.
Now she didn’t get saved right there on the spot.
But that had to have an impact on that woman’s life. Another story.
You’ll give me a few more minutes, right, if I’m telling you good stories?
Another story.
My son is in line waiting the pay papers and jeans that he got.
So you can teach your kids this kind of stuff.
And, uh, there’s a young man in front of him that was putting one pair of jeans and layaway.
Well, my son didn’t even have to think about it. He just said, I’ll pay for the jeans.
Let him have them. This is the kind of stuff we ought to be doing.
I remember when I used to have to put stuff in way away.
I don’t have to put it layaway now. I can pay for it. Woah. Amen?
My daughter does this stuff all the time.
She’ll be if if she’s in the grocery store and somebody realizes they’ve got more than what they can pay for and they start trying to take items out.
I’ve been there. She says, no. No. I’ll pay the whole bill.
Just give them to her. Why do you think god blesses you?
He doesn’t bless you just so you can be blessed.
He blesses you so you can be a blessing to other people.
And it doesn’t have to be somebody who lied or no or somebody who can do something back for you.
It’s even better if it’s somebody you don’t know.
And story after story after story, we was a we were in a restaurant sometime this year, and You know, everybody’s been short on workers, and so we had to wait, like, a long time to even get a glass of water and since I’m so patient.
You know? I love waiting.
Finally, this girl comes over to Waitr. She said, I’m so sorry.
You had to wait so long.
She said, we just we’re short on workers and she she said I’ve been working 14 hour days and, you know, just really worn out.
She was sweating. You could tell she was really tired and So we talked to her a little bit in the course of the conversation.
She said, I have to work these hours because when everything was closed down during COVID, I got behind on my bills.
And she said, I’m way behind on my electric bill, and I’m afraid they’re gonna turn my electric off, and I’ve got a child.
Well, see, once you get good at this, you don’t have to go have a 25 minute prayer session to see if god wants you to do something.
So we left her a $100 tip, but now that didn’t suit god.
We left and on the way home.
I said, Dave, but we need to pay her electric bill.
So we were already almost home, so I was gonna send one of my employees back the next day to do it because I thought I’m gonna feel stupid.
And god said, no. You’re gonna go do it yourself.
Okay. So I went back and she wasn’t working that day.
But I said to the girl, the hostess, I said, kinda described her.
I said, you know who this girl is, and she said, Oh, yeah. I know who she is.
And she said, I know who you are too. And, I said, okay.
I need you to help me with something.
She was telling me yesterday how she thought her electric might get turned off, and I wanna pay her electric bill.
Can you give her this email address? But give her my daughter’s email address.
And I said, tell if she’ll send the electric bill to my daughter, we’ll pay it.
Well, she did, and we did.
And I haven’t seen her since, but I’ll tell you one thing that happened that lady that hostess desk knows that I’m not a phony, That I’m not just preaching something that I don’t love.
Now I’m not just trying to say, oh, I am so good because you know, you know, where I started 40 years ago?
I felt like god was putting it on my heart to give somebody $10.
And I didn’t wanna give them $10. I wanted to keep my $10.
And I said, now, god, if this is really you, took my never been there, mean, if this is really you, you know, we wanna have angels appear in 3 prophecies and 4 confirmations to give away $5.
If this is really you, I’ll do it.
And you know what? The Lord said, even if it’s not really me.
I won’t get mad at if you bless somebody.
See, you don’t have to have a prayer meeting every time you wanna bless somebody.
Just make a decision that you are gonna walk in love.
And part of that is you are gonna be a blessing to everybody that you can. Amen?
Well, Joyce threw down a little bit of a challenge in that message.
She talked about how agape love or the love of god is doing something nice for someone who can’t pay you back.
No other motive than blessing them. So give that a try.
And see how god starts moving in your life and the lives of those around you.
Now when we have those extra challenging people in our lives, and we pretty much have those.
That challenge is even more difficult, but don’t worry. Joyce is here with the support that you need.
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It helps us all do what she’s challenging us to do better even with prickly people.
Whoever they are in your life might be family, might be friends, might just be people in the world that you don’t even know.
Sometimes it’s hard to love people.
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That was the reality for one woman after her kids were taken away from her.
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There were a few of her sermons that, you know, spoke about separating yourself from certain people.
And so I did, I packed up everything and I lived out of my car for a little while, just I could be with myself in a Bible.
And I’d sit in a parking lot near where I knew the girls were located, and I would read, and I would read my Bible constantly until I felt like I was just strong enough to to move.
My kids were sexually abused by my childhood best friend.
And when I found out about it, they were taken away from me.
Then ultimately led me into spiraling into a dark addiction and just this this overwhelming sense of guilt and anger.
I spent so long just being unhappy, distraught, depressed.
And throughout that time, I was able to listen to Joyce and hear her testimony and help me piece my life back together so that I could be strong for my kids, and I could do what needed to be done to help bring them back home.
You could tell that it was God speaking to me.
The similarities between what what happened to her in her life and what had happened to my kids.
And I just knew if she was strong enough to move forward and move past it, then I knew I could do that for them too.
I got a call.
It was probably beginning of December, and they told me the week before Christmas to be prepared to come down and come and pick them up.
And I was just I don’t know. I can’t I can’t even put it into words.
You just you wanna touch them. You wanna see that they’re really there.
Um, you don’t wanna let them out of your site.
It it it really was one of the best moments of my life is being able to have them back.
It was it was wonderful.
What had happened to them is not gonna be what’s gonna break them, and it could be what they could use to build upon and become stronger and lead them closer to god.
They’ve bounced back so well, and they have such a heart for god, and it’s is is beautiful.
I’m at peace knowing that my kids are safe. I’m at peace knowing that my kids know god.
I’m at peace knowing that he’s got his hands in our life.
I just try to display it every day and everything that I do and just try to remind myself that, you know, where I once was and where I’m at.
And, you know, you just you do have to give glory to god for putting people in your lives and and putting that word in your ear to help get you through those situations.
Because if it wasn’t for him, we’d all just be hopeless.
You see how people go through very hard things in life, and maybe you have too.
And god promises to be there and to heal and use those heartaches for our good.
It’s probably not what he wanted for you, but he is there in the midst.
He will not leave you, and he promises to bring good in your life, a hope, and a future.
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