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Works of the flesh equals frustration.

Works of the flesh is your energy you trying to do God's job.

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

I want to preach a message this morning that I'm just calling, are you working from

approval or for approval? So just think about that for a minute. Are you, do you read your Bible?

Do you give?

Do you pray?

Do you do some kingdom work trying to get God's approval?

You feel like the more you do, the more God's going to love you? Or do you already

know how much he loves you? Like they've been talking about all morning, all morning. And do you

really, really, really know how much God loves you? And that, see, God sees the end from the beginning. And so he not only sees what you do now

and how you act now, but he sees what you're going to become as the years go by. And, you know, really, when we accept Christ, we're all a mess. Every one of us.

Amen. I want to make sure I'm not the only imperfect person here.

And, um, but the good, the good news is, is God loves you all the while you're changing.

And you can love and enjoy yourself all the while that you're changing. When I started teaching the Bible, I started teaching a

home Bible study in my home, and I did that for five years. And in case you haven't noticed,

God's not in a hurry. I did that five years and seemed like 500 years to me, but 25 people sat in my living room floor

and I taught.

And when I started teaching the Bible, I would sit there in short shorts blowing smoke in

everybody's face, smoking one cigarette right after another.

And the shocking thing is it was anointed now see a lot of really religious people wouldn't believe that they wouldn't believe that

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