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,

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 division among you. Are you not

unspirical enough to 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. I'll wait on have any of that in the

church do we? You're envious of one another. You're divided. You're angry,

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. 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 then God can't forgive us. It drives a wedge between you

and God. And I say something about unforgiveness in every 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. When somebody hurts you the quicker you forgive them

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