The Righteousness Of God In Christ by Joyce Meyer

Ginger Stache: That’s great. I believe that encouragement is going to set some people free and save some people from some real hardship.

Joyce Meyer Ministries: I can share an example with you that I’m thinking about that will take a minute but I think it will be worth it to people. Years ago, I had this thing in my brain where I thought everything was my fault, everything’s my fault. If anything goes wrong, it’s my fault. I was learning better but would still revert back to old ways. I’d been doing a lot of studying about being the righteousness of God in Christ and knowing who I was in Christ but still reverting back if Dave and I would have conflict to “everything’s my fault.” One morning he and I had an argument and he confronted me about something and corrected me about something, then he went on to work. Joyce Meyer says and I sat in my kitchen actually holding my baby at the time, who now is the CEO of our stateside ministry, and I began to say out loud, “I’m no good. That’s right, everything’s my fault. I’m just a big jerk, just a big mess.” And I actually could feel an evil presence. It was just like this heavy, awful thing coming at me. Thank God, what I had in my spirit immediately came out and I started to say, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. God loves me!” and I felt that begin to dissipate and go away.

Ginger: You were able to see in the spirit realm what other people are experiencing all the time.

Joyce Meyer Online: I’m telling you what, that put the fear of god in me about saying negative things about myself out of my own mouth and it taught me a lesson that I will never forget. That doesn’t mean I’ve never said anything negative about myself but now when I do, I’m quick to repent because that is one way you can totally invite the enemy into your life. That’s an open door to invite him in.

I finally had to make a decision: Am I going to believe what I feel more than I believe the word of God? Am I going to believe what messed-up people told me 30 and 40 years ago in my childhood? All I have to do is look at the fruit of their lives and know they didn’t know what they were talking about. Am I going to believe them more than I believe the word of God? When you make your mind up that you’re going to base your life on this, it will heal you.

Joyce Meyer Online – So if we’re going to be a Christian, we need to know what we believe and it needs to not even necessarily come across like we’re preaching to everybody, but just be part of our daily conversation.