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See, so we have everything that we need in our spirit to be just like Jesus.

But we have to learn how to be led by the Holy Spirit, and we just, to put it plainly, need to become a lot more obedient.

I do what I do because I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

The key to everything is found in God's word.

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

I want to talk to you this afternoon about self-acceptance.

How do you feel about the person you spend the most time with?

Somebody might be thinking, my husband, my kids.

No, you spend more time with you than you do with anybody.

As a matter of fact, you never get away from you.

Just talking about that for one second in your life, you never get away from you.

You go to the bathroom with you.

You sleep with you. You eat with you.

And, you know, I think some people don't like themselves and they don't even know that that's what the problem is in their life. I was like that. When I first started

hearing messages about loving other people, because of the abuse of my childhood, I didn't even really know what love was.

When Dave asked me to marry him and he told me he loved me, I couldn't even say it back because I really didn't.

Anybody that had ever said they loved me had mistreated me and so i didn't i didn't know what it was not really and um when i first started

hearing messages and sermons about loving people, I so wanted to, but it just seemed like I just couldn't get it.

And I was hard on people, didn't have a lot of mercy, didn't want to be like that.

Anybody ever behave in a way you don't want to behave but you can't

seem to do much about it and it took a while but i was learning how to hear from god and he

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