Welcome to Enjoying everyday life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series The Courage to be Different.

It's okay not to fit in with everyone in today's society. In fact, the Bible

is full of people who refuse to follow the crowd. We must be bold enough to stand up

for what's right no matter the cost. Now here's Joyce with today's

teaching. But tonight I'm going to teach a message that God put on my heart. I've just

been saving it for the right group so I'll try it on you. If at first you don't

succeed, you're normal. Amen? Everybody is going to... Amen.

Everybody is going to go out of here feeling better about yourself tonight

than you did when you came in.

How many of you walked in here tonight feeling guilty about something?

Okay, so that's better than 50% of the people and probably some of you too tired to put your hand up.

So you just didn't.

You know something, I want you to remember remember this we're not built for guilt

That God has not designed us or put us together in such a way where we can function properly with guilt.

And guilt can have some very adverse reactions even on your health. They've actually proven that

when people feel guilty that they produce hormones that lead to disease.

I remember being at a mental institution

one time going there to minister

with a group of people and I still remember there were a lot of people walking around

saying it was all my fault it was all my fault it was all my fault. It was all my fault. You know, you're forgiven before you ever

even sin. Because Jesus already paid for all of our flaws and weaknesses and all you need

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