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. Paul said

not everybody is ready for meat. Not everyone who continues to feed on milk.

Not everyone who continues to feed on milk and I love this. I hope you can get

this. It's obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness.

What does he mean? How are you? If you're still feeding on milk, why does that

mean that you are unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness? You know what the

doctrine of righteousness is? It means that first you know who you are in Christ.

He has come to live in you at the New Birth and your identity now is who you are

in Him. That's where your confidence is. That's where your trust is. You know that

he loves you. He's never going to stop loving you. And then you begin to work

with the Holy Spirit to let what he's done in you be worked to the outside of

you where people can see it. Well that takes correction from God. That takes

chastisement. That takes the meat of the Word. Now listen don't lose me but if

you don't know who you are in Christ every time you hear something that corrects

you or confront your behavior it's going to condemn you.

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