By The Mercy And The Grace Of God

I encourage you not to minimize the value of what you may perceive to be little things in your life. I think a lot of people don’t like their life because by all accounts it’s fairly normal: you get up.  You go to bed. You go to work. You drive in traffic. You clean the house. The family gets it dirty. You clean it again. You go to the grocery store. You get up.  You go to bed. You drive in traffic. You go to church. How many of you are with me? (amen!) You can’t blame life and say: why aren’t you exciting?! I hate you because you’re not exciting! No, you’re the one who needs to be excited.  You’re the one who needs to be filled with passion and zeal.

Whatever kind of life you have if you add your passionate zeal and holy fervor to it, then that life becomes exciting just because you’re living it for God’s glory. (amen!) (applause) I came here purposely to teach you how to love your life and how to love yourself and it’s very important to me when I leave that I believe we’ve made some headway in that area and that you’re not going to go around thinking: I wish I had your life. I wish I looked like you. I wish I had your body. I wish I had your nice thick curly hair.

I wish I had a car like that. All it does is breed discontentment. (amen!) The bible says you have not because you ask not. It doesn’t do you one bit of good to be jealous of what somebody else has. If there’s something you want, you need to ask God for it. (applause) if there’s something you want, you need to ask God for it and if it’s right for you, it will come at the right time in your life. (yes!) I think I’d better say that again:  if there’s something you want, ask God for it and if it’s right for you, it will come at the right time in your life and it won’t come through your struggle or your effort, it will come by the mercy and the grace of God.