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. Are you determined to

live a godly life? You've got to be determined. Are you willing to make sacrifices

to live a godly life? Are you willing to let your flesh suffer in order to

please God? Now you notice that wasn't as loud. And Matthew 5 talks about how

you're blessed when you suffer for righteousness and psych and you go through

these things because you're doing the right thing. You know doing the right

thing is no guarantee that everybody's going to love you. Matter of fact I can

pretty much guarantee you if you make a real commitment to God there's going

to be some people, probably people that you love and care about that are going

to come against you. Amen. You know we can grow to the point where we don't

really care that much what people think. I mean I want to be liked but my job is

not really to make people like me it's to obey God. Amen. And I will admit there

were times in my life even as a Christian where I would disobey God in order

to keep people liking me. You can't be a people pleaser and a God pleaser. First

Corinthians 4 3 through 4 Paul said as for me personally it matters very little to

me that I should be put on trial by you on this point or that you or any other

human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me. I don't

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