Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series Spiritual

Maturity. We all desire to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in

our lives, but sometimes it can feel like we're stuck in the same place, like

we're not maturing in our faith. Let's move past feeling stuck and not growing and

let's press into God's Word. Listen as Joyce shares key principles from his

Word that will guide us and our walk with the Lord so we can live out his

amazing plan for our lives. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. In the old

Testament all kinds of laws, all kinds of dietary laws, animal sacrifice laws,

holiday laws, feast laws. Now when we say we're free from the law we're not free

from the moral standard that God laid down even in the old covenant. The moral

standard is good for all time. But we are free from rules and regulations. And

let me tell you something, there's plenty of churches you can go to that still

will load you down with rules and regulations and there's plenty of well-meaning

people that will load you down with rules and regulations. You can even have a

group of friends that are all involved in a certain Bible study or a certain

prayer group. And boy if you don't feel like you're supposed to do that they can

certainly make you feel guilty because you're not doing their thing. Amen? Or

whatever it might be. Actually I mean I was so legalistic I didn't really need

anybody to help me I could just do it all by myself. I mean I made a law out of

cleaning my house. Everything was a law. Everything had to be done every day and

if I didn't do it every day then I felt guilty about it. And so what he's

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