Something Has Got to Change!!!

(Notes from a teaching by Joyce Meyer)


Joshua 1:1-3
1)AFTER THE death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' minister,(A)
2)Moses My servant is dead. So now arise [take his place], go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, the Israelites.
3)Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread, that have I given to you, as I promised Moses.

**God's given to us everything for a blessed life, but to get it requires ACTION!!!

**Change your mind and your attitude, do NOT spend one more minute in self pity.

**Ask God what YOU can do in every are of your life....

Isaiah 60:1
ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!

**If you will do what you CAN do, God will take care of what you CANNOT do!!!

Judges 6:6-16
6)And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the Israelites cried to the Lord.
7)And when they cried to the Lord because of Midian,
8)The Lord sent a prophet to the Israelites, who said to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage.
9)And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you and gave you their land.
10)And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed My voice.
11)Now the [a]Angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak (terebinth) at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon was beating wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
12)And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, you mighty man of [fearless] courage.
13)And Gideon said to him, O sir, if the Lord is with us, why is all this befallen us? And where are all His wondrous works of which our fathers told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.
14)The Lord turned to him and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?
15)Gideon said to Him, Oh Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
16)The Lord said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.

**You would not be in such a mess if you had just listened to what God had told you in the first place!

**You need to believe that WITH God you can do ANYTHING!!!!

**STOP telling God what your not and START realizing who HE IS!!

**We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength!

I Samuel 16:1
THE LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided for Myself a king among his sons.

**While we are mourning what we have lost, God already has a new plan!!!

** Do something lest you do nothing!!

II Kings 7:3-6
3)Now four men who were lepers were at the entrance of the city's gate; and they said to one another, Why do we sit here until we die?
4)If we say, We will enter the city--then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the army of the Syrians. If they spare us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5)So they arose in the twilight and went to the Syrian camp. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no man was there.
6)For the Lord had made the Syrian army hear a noise of chariots and horses, the noise of a great army. They had said to one another, The king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to come upon us,

**We might as well do something--they GOT UP (ACTION), did what they could, and God did what they could not do!!!

**ACTION IS IMPERATIVE TO CHANGE!!!

** Pity is not power--you can choose to either be pitiful, or powerful!

**Does something need to change?-- or do you need to change something??

Luke 19 (story of Zaccheus)

** He did not care how small he was, he took action in order to connect with God the only way he knew how and ended up having dinner with Jesus!!!

**You have no idea all that is possible and what you can do with God!!

**Stop looking at all your mistakes, stop dwelling on all your "cants" and look to all your "cans" and take action with God!!!