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Be the kind of Christian that wants to glorify God here on this earth and who's, you want your life to make other people want to have what you have.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

I thank God for books because it was a lot of books that helped me in the healing that I needed when I began a relationship with Jesus.

And one of those books was, I read a lot of old books. I read a lot of books that were written

in the 16th and 17th century. And, you know, people back then had a different relationship and

attitude toward God than some of the modern Christianity. We, we kind of look at God like

he's there to give us everything we want to fix all of our problems, but they didn't look at it

like that at all. I mean, they wanted to live holy lives and they

talked a lot about things like I'm talking about this weekend about dying to self. And so one of the

books I read was called Dying to Live. And that's what I titled this message tonight. I would have

loved to have named the book that, but I was afraid nobody would buy it because it's not a

very exciting title. But the truth is, we have to die to self, self-centeredness, me, what I want,

what I think, what I feel. And like Chris said tonight, elevate the truth of God's word above all of those things.

And Paul talked to the Corinthians who were spirit-filled, had the gifts of the spirit, and he said, you're all still just a bunch of babies.

You're immature and your babies, and he goes on to tell him you're jealous and you covet and you're greedy and you do all these different things.

And one of the things he said is you're not able to talk yet.

It says that in the amplified Bible. You're not able to talk yet. It's in 1st Corinthians

chapter 3. And so your mouth is what gives expression to your soul. So we might say it's part of the

soul too. And you can locate where you're at spiritually and you can locate where other people are at spiritually just by listening to what they say.

And when you find somebody complaining all the time, that's somebody that's not trusting God.

When you find somebody that's gossiping about other people all the time, that's somebody who's not walking in love.

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