One of my favorite sermons, in which Joyce Meyer tells us about what we need - to be blessed by God.
What do we need to do ? - message title itself says it all. The title comes from the Bible verse
“Be still, and know that I am God ; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10
A really great Joyce Meyer message to learn how to do it by Faith. Her mind blowing revelations from God in her straight forward and humorous presentation style gives hope to even the hopeless.
The Revelations
I believe, "since we are his children and are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory"Romans 8:17, we don't have to cry for our blessings. Though, I feel sad about people who out of their desperation in life whine to God all the time and believe that prayers with tears have higher priority in God's heart. I wouldn't have refuted the argument, 'God answers the prayer of whiners too'.
But in this message Joyce Meyer reveals the revelation of how & why prayers of tears does not move God at all, rather prayers of faith like, "The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want" Psalm 23:1, are those that do.
She quotes, "Prayers like, 'Oh! please God I can't be without it Lord. If you don't do it now God, Oh pleeeese Lord!, Help me out of my misery in life', just won't move God."
That sounded rude - even for me. But its the truth I guess. Bible should be drowning in tears if its not, because Bible has the history of men who had the most successful relationship with God. On the contrary it turns out Bible is a place of
Joy & Faith. What more proof do we need to understand crying to God won't work.
There can be two main reasons for our miserable crying prayers. Lets solve it one by one.
1. Prosperity
God loves us and so don't worry about your prosperity- He wants us to prosper more than we want us to prosper. He doesn't want us to represent Him in a way that makes people think He is broke.
2. Guilt
The mistakes committed in past, present and, believe it or not, for the sins they think they might do in future make people cry. What they don't know is that God had justified their sins- past, present and future on the Cross our redeemer was crucified. God vindicates, never condemns those who are in Christ.
So technically we can't be a sinner - ever. Well, now what Paul said in Romans 6:2 will probably make sense to you after all these years wondering 'what is he referring to !'.
There can be two main reasons for our miserable crying prayers. Lets solve it one by one.
1. Prosperity
God loves us and so don't worry about your prosperity- He wants us to prosper more than we want us to prosper. He doesn't want us to represent Him in a way that makes people think He is broke.
2. Guilt
The mistakes committed in past, present and, believe it or not, for the sins they think they might do in future make people cry. What they don't know is that God had justified their sins- past, present and future on the Cross our redeemer was crucified. God vindicates, never condemns those who are in Christ.
"God through Christ has forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32
So technically we can't be a sinner - ever. Well, now what Paul said in Romans 6:2 will probably make sense to you after all these years wondering 'what is he referring to !'.
"By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" Romans 6:2.
"The key to overcoming sin is not by crying effort, but fellowshipping with God. If we say that we spend lot of time with God and we are still living this messy sinful life we are lying. Because, nobody can do that."
