“God will bless you too,” Meyer insists, “IF you will walk in His ways and trust him to be your recompense, your very great reward, your vindicator.” “ IF we choose to live according to God’s commands, our lives will be blessed, and if we don’t, we cannot expect his blessings,” Meyer writes as recently as 2022. “ IF we are willing to control our emotions, God will bless us.” “ … IF we will submit to His way, everything will work out for us.” “ IF we will learn and act on the Word, God will bless our lives.” “ IF we do things God’s way, we will experience God’s victory.” “ UNLESS WE are obedient to God’s Word, the Word will have no effect on us.” “ IF we do not read and study the Word of God and become doers of it, we will never enjoy all the good things that God intends for us to have.” “ IF you want to be emotionally whole, find and restore the lost child within you.” And a slew of others. Meyer crams her book full of “if”s and “unless we”s like that one, piling up a long list of hurdles that she insists her followers must jump before they can hope to approach the “fairy princess” “fabulous life”, the supposedly “blessed” life that she claims she has and that she assumes they want. Meyer presents herself as the object of envy early in her book “My husband and I have a fabulous life” she writes, “many times things are so wonderful for us I feel like a fairy princess.” “Here I am traveling all over the world, people are coming to hear me speak, I’m on radio and television, and God,” she claims, “is opening doors to me everywhere I go – I am so blessed!”Īnd her readers? After claiming that she is as “blessed” as Abraham was, Meyer tells them, “Each of us can be blessed as Abraham was, if we will be as faithful and obedient as he was.” I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel- which is really no gospel at all. Galatians 1:6 And may the truth of Christ, who is the truth, enlighten the eyes of us all. Make sure what you are following is in line with the Word of God and is initiated by His Holy Spirit.” (p 81)Īre Meyer’s teachings “in line with the Word of God and initiated by His Holy Spirit”? For those who care to check, let’s take a look. “There is a lot of spiritual ‘junk’ being offered today, and some of it sounds so good and feels so right. The same teachings have been preached by other televangelists for decades and are being taught in hundreds of churches across the USA to this day. The quotes mentioned here are from that book, but the teachings discussed are the theme of Joyce Meyer’s books and sermons to this day. So I read the book my friend had just read: Managing Your Emotions: Instead of Your Emotions Managing You, first published in 1997 and still sold in hardcover, digital and audio formats. A neighbor of mine mentioned the famous televangelist Joyce Meyer to me one day and suggested that I read one of Meyer’s books.
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