The Love Of God

Joyce: We all face battles every day and i dressed in these army fatigues just so I could make a point that you are a soldier in the army of the lord. You are armed and dangerous! (music)

When I finally decided I was going to live in peace, it took me several years just concentrating on peace to get to the point where I had peace because what I had to do first was find out what satan was using to steal my peace, and then I had to start making changes.  Just very quickly as an example, I found out that when I had to hurry, hurry, hurry, I lost my peace. So it wasn’t going to do me any good just to rebuke the devil; I needed to get a few things out of my life and I needed to change a few things so I didn’t have to hurry all the time. We always want an answer but we don’t always want to change what we can change. Some of you may have to quit hanging out with some of the people you hang out with. Some of you may have to choose better friends.

If you have a job that keeps you from ever being able to spend any time with God because there are so many demands on you, then maybe you ought to make a little less money and get a different job. Or maybe if you got a different job, it would end up that God would bless you and you’d make more money. But when we exalt money above everything else, then that’s what rules. Jude 21 — I love this — guard and keep yourselves in the love of God. It took me a 0year to get a revelation on the love of God. Are you hearing what I said? It took me a year of studying and confessing the word to get a revelation. We don’t need information; we need revelation. Now i know that God loves me. I know that I know that I know that I know.

I never doubt the love of God. No matter what happens,

No matter how I feel, I never doubt the love of God because I have a revelation, but it took a year — it took me several years to get to the point where I can say that I pretty much have peace all the time. And if something happens and I lose my peace, I’m so addicted to peace now that I just will do almost anything to get it back. One of our guys was sharing in some leadership training yesterday at the office. He said, “my wife and i have a one-hour rule.  In other words, if we have an argument, we won’t let it go more than an hour before we make peace.” Dave kind of poked me and he said:  we must have a one-minute rule because we’re just like been there, done that, not wasting my time anymore. I’m not going to waste my time even being mad at you for 30 minutes because I know by now what’s going to change and what’s not, so you just go on and have a happy life anyway. Amen? (applause)

One of my strengths is that I’m not a people pleaser. Therefore, I’m really great about just speaking my mind.