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And a lot of Christians today don't even know what that is. God anointed a donkey to speak to a prophet. So guess what? If he can use a donkey, he can use you and he can use me. God selected deliberately chose what in the world is low-born and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt. Even the things that are nothing. I love this. You know what? God chooses what the world would throw away as useless. He loves to take people that have been mistreated and feel like trash and make them royalty. Come on. You are kings and priests of the Most High God. Wow. Join there with Jesus Christ. What he earned and deserve you get. Man, that he might depose and bring to nothing the things that are. He chose things that people would think, well, God could never use you. And then when they have to watch him do it, they're left with, well, it must be God. I remember when one of my good friends, when after God first called me to teach, and by the way, I wasn't looking for a ministry. I was making my bed. I was listening to the first was a cassette tape then teaching cassette tape. I'd ever heard and it was about Jesus when he got in the boat and they had the storm. But when he got in the boat, he said, let us cross over to the other side. And they had a hurricane type proportion of a storm. And the disciples got all afraid and Jesus was asleep in the boat. But the thing I love most about that is in chapter five verse one, it says, and they arrived on the other side. So when Jesus said, let's go to the other side, it doesn't matter how many storms you have in the middle, you are going to eventually end up on the other side. I love that. And when God spoke to my heart, he said, you're going to go all over the world and teach my word. Well, that was so ridiculous. But you know, when God speaks, it's different than a person speaking and I believed it. I mean, if I looked at it in the natural, it's like, who do you think you are? And that's exactly what people said to me. Who do you think you are? You don't have enough education. A good friend of mine said, you don't have the right personality. Well, she ended up working on my staff, which I thought was kind of funny. But I mean, in the natural, they were all right. I didn't have the education. I didn't have the experience. I didn't have any money. I mean, it was like God had to do it on purpose. I had no idea what I was doing. We were laughing the other day because we're celebrating this month 30 years on TV. And when God actually spoke to Dave, we had a weekly meeting in St. Louis every Wednesday night. And after one of the meetings, Dave said, God spoke to him and said, you're just losing all these teachings. You need to buy a TV camera and start recording these. So he went out next day and bought a $20,000 television camera. And I was so mad because he didn't even talk to me about it. And we usually talked about things that I mean, we probably barely had $20,000. And I said, what did you do that for? He said, well, I just felt like God told me we don't want to lose all these teachings that we need to keep them. Well, then one morning he was getting ready in the bathroom and I was getting ready to go to the office. And the spirit of God came on Dave and said, I've prepared you all this time to go on TV. And of course, Dave managed the money. And the first thing he thought was, well, we can't afford that. And he said, God showed him my hand like on a water faucet. And he said, I've got it turned up about this far. If I didn't have it turned up this far, you wouldn't be doing what you're doing. And if I want you to do a little more, all I got to do is turn it up just a little bit more. What God orders God pays for. Did you hear me? And what he orders he provides for. We have got the most amazing and wonderful staff of people. I think we have a little over somewhere between five and 600 employees now. And they're not all here. We've got offices in India and I don't know, eight or nine others, different places. I lose track of what we're doing. And they're just wonderful. It's not all about me. I've got this whole staff of people that help. We went on weekly TV first and that did okay. But the first time we filmed for television, we had one camera. We were in a room that wasn't very big and some of the ceiling tiles were falling out of the ceiling. And my backdrop was a blue shower curtain. But it was anointed. You say, well, what is the anointing? Well, the anointing is God's presence and power on something. Let me read you. Isaiah 61.1. Prophecy about Jesus. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the gospel. People told me I wasn't qualified, but it's not your education that qualifies you. It's the anointing that qualifies you. Come on, are you with me? And boy, that anointing is precious. I mean, I admit that, you know, this shouldn't work. But when there's an anointing, it's like people are drawn to that anointing. And I mean, I've heard some of the wildest stories about TV. I dare not get into telling stories, but I mean, God uses that thing in a way that just seems ridiculous. I'll tell you one story. There was a man that was sitting in his recliner drinking beer and he was a young man and he stayed drunk about half the time was wasting his life. And I said, you young man sitting back in your recliner drinking your beer. And he said it's scared to live in daylights out of him. And he sobered up, got saved and still walking with God today. So. Well, one more story. I had a man that was high on drugs, watching, flipping through the channels about two or three o'clock in the morning. And he said he got to the channel that I was on and his remote quit working. He couldn't change the channel. And he said he thought the batteries had gone bad in his remote, so he changed the batteries and it's still he couldn't get it off that station. He said the only button on my TV that worked was the one that made the sound go up. He said it scared the fire out of him too and he sobered up and got saved. Well. I'll tell you what, hanging out with God is just fun. The anointing and there's a price you pay for the anointing. It's obedience. And that's what we're talking about here this weekend. Obey in God, especially when you don't feel like it. Doing what's right when nobody's looking but God. Not just doing what's right as a people pleaser, but living for God, doing it for him. Start living your life in such a way where you do things for God just because you love him. Not because they feel good or don't feel good. He has anointed and qualified me to preach the gospel of good tidings to the meat, the poor and the afflicted. He has sent me to bind up and heal the broken hearted. To proclaim liberty to the physical and spiritual captives and the opening of the prison in the eyes to those that are bound. Now I want to tell you something. Get all the education you can get. Hopefully it's more of a Christian education, but. It's more of a Christian education, but I'm not against education. I only have a 12th grade education, but I've got three or four doctorates that have been given to me. So I can legally call myself Dr. Joyce Meyer, but I'm. I'm disjoiced. I'm the people's preacher. I'm for you. Amen. I don't, I don't. And I know, you know, people respect titles. I'm not downing that at all, but it's just not, it's just not me. And I would rather have. No theology degree in God's anointing. Then to have a master's degree in theology and not have the master. Amen. Learn all you can about God's anointing and do everything you can to protect it. Romans 8 29 and 30. For those whom he foreknew. Of whom he was aware and loved beforehand. He also destined from the beginning for ordaining them to be molded into the image of his son. To share inwardly his likeness that he might become the firstborn among many brethren molded into the image of Jesus Christ. Now the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5 17 that if he man being Christ, he is a new creature. Old things pass away and all things become new. I think what really happens is we become like new spiritual clay. We all know when you get born again, if you were bald, you're still bald. Amen. So you look at yourself and you think nothing's changed. Well, this molding thing, I don't imagine it's much fun. If we pretended like this clay had feelings, I have a feeling that hurts. Ouch, what are you doing to me? No, leave me alone. That doesn't feel good. And we're to be molded into the image of Jesus Christ. Now, this don't mean to be disrespectful to God. This is pathetic. This is a gingerbread man, but it's the closest I could come. Okay. So molded. Well, we have a big problem. There's a lot more of me. Thanks for listening to today's message. Spiritual maturity takes time. It requires a deep personal relationship with God. As the Lord changes us little by little, we'll begin to experience the incredible peace, joy and fulfillment that only God can give. But wait, there's more. Discover more of Joyce's programs and exclusive content in the Joyce Meyer app and online at Joycemyre.org. Well, I hope that you feel that I'm a partner in your life by teaching you the Word of God. And I'm asking you to partner with me in helping us continue reaching out not only to you through this program, but to so many people around the world that still don't know Jesus. Together, we can do so much more than what we can do by ourselves. So please become a brand new partner with us today. To join us in partnership right now, go to Joycemyre.org. Thank you so much. Thank you for listening to 15 Minutes in the Word with Joyce.
