Welcome to Enjoying everyday life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series how to succeed at being yourself.

God created each one of us to be different.

He knows all of our faults and weaknesses,

yet still loves us exactly as we are.

When we begin to understand God's unconditional love and who we are in Christ,

then we can stop trying so hard and just enjoy each moment as it comes.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

The greatest gift that you can give to the world is a

healthy you. Physically healthy, mentally healthy and emotionally healthy.

And I believe when somebody doesn't like themselves,

it's equivalent to being emotionally ill.

It's not the way that God wants us to function in this life. You are not supposed to have negative

feelings about yourself. It's another reason why we have to deal with religious spirits

because all they do is make you feel guilty and bad and give you five

more rules to follow every time you listen to them and you're already not following all the others

and so all you feel is worse than you did when you went.

The word that I preach is a strong word and it will bring correction to your life,

but when you leave you will feel better than you did when you came in and you should you should not go to church and go out feeling like a rat and a bum and a no good nothing that will never amount to anything.

Amen.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Now go to 1st Peter chapter 3. These are a couple of

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