Displaying Christian Sermons by tag: good
Something Good Is Coming From This! - Steven Furtick, Sunday Sermon (December-12-2021). God can use what you’re walking through. In “Something Good Is Coming From This!” we’re reminded that, no matter what we’re facing, God can use it for good.
Good or Bad — God Can Use It - Steven Furtick motivation (January-20-2020). ISAIAH 54:17 “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord."
Joyce Meyer (February-23-2019) Daily Devotion: Good from Bad.
God wants to restore your soul. The closer you get to Him, the more you experience His healing, strengthening, restoring power. He’ll take you back to where your life got off track and make everything right from that moment forward.
Joseph is the classic biblical example of how God takes what was meant for evil against us and works it for our good. In that dramatic scene where Joseph is speaking in Genesis 50:20, he tells his brothers that the evil they meant to do to him (and it was truly evil), God had used for good to save them and their families and hundreds of thousands of others in a time of famine.
In my own life, I cannot truthfully say I am glad I was abused. But through the power of forgiveness and yielding my pain to God, He has healed me and made me a better, stronger, more spiritually powerful and sensitive person. He has restored my soul and driven out the fear and insecurity.
I can trust, love, forgive, and live with simplicity in my approach to life because God has restored my soul, and He can do the same thing for you.
Prayer Starter: Thank You, Father, for being a God of restoration. Right now, I commit all of my pain and disappointments to You. I ask You to take the negative things that have happened in my life—including any difficult circumstances in the present—and work them out for my good. I know You love me and that You always have my best interest in mind. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Joyce Meyer (January-17-2019) Daily Devotion: See the Good in People.
God is reminding me today to look for the good in everyone I meet. I have no difficulty locating what is wrong with people, and in fact, I sometimes seem to be an expert at it!
I don’t like being that way and am thankful that in Christ, I can choose another way of living. If you struggle with this, then you can too.
Jesus has given us a new nature (see 2 Corinthians 5:17), and we can purpose to live out of it and actually learn to treat people the way Jesus would.
I am asking for the “gift of awareness.” I want to be aware of what is right and good about people and not merely what is wrong with them. I don’t want to try and take the speck out of my brother’s eye when I have a log in my own (see Matthew 7:4).
Let’s make this year one of believing the best of everyone we know. It will help us have more joy, and we will enjoy the people in our lives much more than ever before.
Prayer Starter: Dear Jesus, I long to be like You and see people the way You do. Help me take the time to really get to know people and not merely judge them at first glance. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Frank Turek (October 19, 2018) - Are People Inherently Good? Addressing some issues about legislating morality, government and human nature.
God, You're So Good - Passion - New Song Cafe (23-02-2018). Watch the acoustic performance, hear the story behind the song, and learn how to play "God, You're So Good" from Passion
The fragment of sermon "Expect Something Good!" - Joyce Meyer (online). If you've been waiting on God to do something in your life, this video is for you! Be encouraged above. We need to expect something good to happen. Expect something good is going to happen. Things can change at any minute. I'm waiting patiently. To wait on the Lord means to look and long for him to show up at any minute. So, waiting on God is not just, like... There's an inner expectancy.
Alright, James 5:7, "so, be patient brethren as you wait," please notice it doesn't say, "if you wait." I mean, you see that. "be patient as you wait till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits," how? "expectantly. For the precious harvest from the lamb," now, this is important too, "see how he keeps up his patient vigil over it until it receives the early and the late rain." So, we all have a vigil that we need to keep up. I'm going to keep praying. I'm going to keep confessing the word. I'm going to keep studying the word. I'm going to keep getting with other good people that can keep me encouraged. I'm going to keep giving into kingdom work. I'm going to keep being a blessing everywhere that I go. I'm going to keep trusting God. I'm going to keep rebuking the devil.
Joyce Meyer: you say, "well, I didn't do that, I'm so tired of doing that." Well, can I ask you a question? Do you really have anything better to do? I mean, have you either got one small bright idea that would be any better than just continuing on with God? Your only other choice is going back where you came from. Who in the world wants to do that? If you made it this far don't go back where you started.
Joyce Meyer: keep up your patient vigil. I love that. You see, a farmer plants seed, and he waters it, and he waters it, and he goes out every day and he pulls the weeds. Then he waters it, he pulls the weeds. And he waters it, and he pulls the weeds, and he keeps believing and every day he goes out to see if anything's coming out of the ground yet. He waters it and he pulls the weeds. And you know what? He is going to keep it up until he sees some fruit, until he sees harvest. And i'll tell ya what, until you make your mind up that you are going to be a Christian who enjoys life, who has what Jesus died to give you, the devil will always find a new way to take it away from you. No matter how much God wants us to have, it's not gonna fall on us if we don't take the grace of God, let it empower us, know that everything comes from God. It's not by my determination, but we partner with God so I have to have some determination.
