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You don't have to try to talk God into doing anything.

He's already done everything that needs to be done for us to live an amazing life.

It's all done.

All we need to do is receive it, and you cannot receive it as long as you think you have to earn it.

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

Do any of you ever get frustrated because you're trying, trying, trying so hard to change

and be what you believe God wants you to be and it just doesn't seem to be working?

Well, I'm calling this, how can we change, but I really wanted to call it.

I'm trying so hard to change and it's just not working.

And I want to talk to you today about how you really can change and it not be a frustrating mess.

And I want to start in Romans 715,

where Paul kind of rehearsed the same things that we go through.

He said, I don't understand my own actions.

I'm baffled and bewildered.

I don't practice or accomplish what I want to do.

And the very thing that I hate, what my moral instinct condemns, that's what I do.

You ever feel like that? I don't want to do what I want to do and I do what I don't want to do. Now, if I do habitually what is contrary to my desire,

that means that I acknowledge and agree that the law is good,

morally excellent, and I take sides with it.

So he's kind of saying, if I can't control myself,

then I obviously need the law to control me. However, it's no longer I who do the

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