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You can separate how you feel from what you're supposed to do.

So if you start praying for your enemies, it is very difficult to keep hating somebody that you

pray for all the time.

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.

Matthew 546 says if you only love those who love you, what reward will you get?

Even tax collectors can do that and he picked on tax collectors because they were among some of the most hated people back then. So Jesus is saying I don't want you just to love the people that love you back.

I want you to love the people that are hard to love.

Yeah, you don't sound too interested in that.

So.

What is love?

Well, God is love, and many times when I have my thank you session in the morning, which I've made a habit out of doing

it every morning now, first thing when I get up. And I don't even start trying to pray or asking God for anything

until I first tell him everything I'm thankful for.

And so I'm thankful for him, really thankful for Jesus.

Boy, am I thankful for the Holy Spirit that he lives in us?

I'm thankful for conviction. I'm thankful when I

sin that God convicts me of sin, that he loves me too much to just leave me

alone and let me be in a mess but he'll correct me. Those whom God loves, he chastises.

But we talk about love a lot. We love everything from ice cream to God and I think we have to really know what the

God kind of love is. I said last night there are four Greek words that are translated love in the

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