JOYCE MEYER’S SERMON: I WANT, I THINK, I FEEL

Come near to God and he will come near to you James 4:8

I always feel like reaching out to you God. I don’t need to reach out too far because he is right next to me. God’s home is in you. Hebrews 5:6 “I will never forsake you nor leave you”. god is the center of our whole being. God does not want a 30-45 minute time with you on Sunday. He wants everyday, hour and second with you. 

I and my father are one: I only say what my father says, I only do what my father does. Do you do what God does? We often say, I want to know God, I want to be one with him, but why don’t you/we? John 17:10: “All I have is yours and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them”. I don’t want to be half way with whom I used to be. I want to go all the way with God.  

Jesus can only be at one place at one time, but the Holy Spirit can be everywhere. If the Holy Spirit is not there to teach you, you will not understand or know the world. John 16: 7 “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.”

It is better that i go away so that the Holy Spirit can come. Stand by intercessor: HELP ME Holy Spirit. Learn to say HELP ME with a Sincere hear. Be utterly sincere about it. The intercessor wants close fellowship with you. God wants to be involve in your everyday life. You are always in an emergency with God. YOu are always in the emergency room. When the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin, be grateful. it means he loves you too much to leave you alone. 

sometimes people jump into your problems, but the Holy Spirit waits for the right time. We need to trust God to help us. We need to ask God to help us get through the problem. As helpers and comforters to others, we do not need to try and make them change, but pray for the Holy Spirit to reveal a way to the person with a problem. 

Christ has a magnetic attraction: Spirit and soul will live forever. You should respect your body for it is God’s home. God is not mad at you. The spiritual part of you is more important than the parts you see. you connect yourself with your soul. the World should see God through you. Instead of telling God that we want to feel, think like him, we should tell him how we want to think, how we want to feel. God wants the soul to be connected with the spirit that’s in you. I WANT, I THINK, I FEEL.

There are obstacles in the soul, but I can do whatever I want through Christ who strengthens me. Lord when i ask you for something that you don’t want me to have, then don’t give it to me. We start things in the flesh and blame the devil for it. The worst thing is being in a place where you don’t want to be. Greatest lessons I have learnt in life is doing the wrong thing and learning not to do them again. 

God said in Isaiah, My ways are above your ways, my thous are above your thoughts. I Corinthians 13:11 “when i was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When i became a man, i put childish ways behind me.”

I WANT: Sometimes we give god advice on how to hand us. It is one thing to be a child and another to act childish. A mature Christian should be happy even when they don’t get their way. He/she should be quick to forgive as well. Galatians 4:1-2 “What i am say is that as the hier is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.” You are not justified in your anger. Everything God has is mine and I will transfer it to you (said Jesus). Everything the Father has is yours. In reality it won’t come to us unless we show responsibility. Do you know how hard it is for God to find someone who will give him all the glory? We all want a lot of stuff, that we are not ready to have them. If we are not faithful over little, we wont’ be faithful over much. Help the believer grow up the way God has called them to be. 

IT IS TIME TO GROW UP. LOVE even if they don’t DESERVE IT. You can’t help the way you feel, but you can help how you deal with it. John 3:30 ‘He must become greater, I must become less.”

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