Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, developing the character of God.

To grow spiritually is a process. We need to consistently read and study the Bible so the Lord can change us from the inside out.

Slowly but surely will become more like

Jesus and reflect his character in our lives. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

As long as there is envy and jealousy and wranglings, which is strife and arguing and bickering,

and factions, which is divisionife and arguing and bickering and factions which is division among you are you not unspiritual

and of the flesh behaving yourselves after a mere human standard like mere unchanged men so paul said i can tell

that you're not mature because you're still jealous of one another.

We don't have any of that in the church, do we?

You're envious of one another.

You're divided.

You're angry, you're unforgiving.

All of these things need to go. You don't have to feel like forgiving somebody to do it.

Well, about half of you like that and the other half.

Unforgiveness is such a huge problem in the church. half.

Unforgiveness is such a huge problem in the church.

Satan gains more ground in the lives of unbelievers through unforgiveness than anything else.

If you've got unforgiveness in your heart, the Bible tells us if we're not going to forgive others and God can't forgive us. It drives a wedge between you and God. And I say something about

unforgiveness in just about every sermon that I preach because I know what it did to me when I was full of

unforgiveness and I know how wonderful it is to get really good at forgiving people really fast.

Amen?

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