Welcome to enjoying every day life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series, Never Give Up.

Did you know the only way we can lose in life is if we quit? The hard part is

learning to keep going and trusting God even when we are in the midst of

difficulties. When we're determined to never give up there is no limit to what

God can do in our lives. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. Let me ask you a

question. Why do you believe what you believe and why? And why do you not

believe some things that you ought to be believing and why? For example a lot of

people have a real problem believing that God loves them unconditionally. I was

one of those people. I grew up being abused by my father and so anybody who

ever said they love me just hurt me or used me and I didn't even have a good

concept of what love was and certainly not any kind of unconditional love. So I'm

married the first guy that came along when I was 18 because I thought nobody

would ever want me and he had more problems than I did if that was possible and

so we just gave each other problems and we're separated more than we were

together and he'd run around with other women and ended up going to prison and

so I just had another five years of pain and torment. I didn't know how to

love anybody. I didn't know how to receive love. Well when Dave Meyer came into

my life and Dave and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary this year.

When Dave came into my life he really did love me and he knew how to love

because he was a strong spirit-filled Christian but I didn't know how to

receive love. And so through my relationship with God I learned what love is.

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