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Joyce Meyer Ministries
Joyce Meyer is one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers. A New York Times bestselling author, her books have helped millions of people find hope and restoration through Jesus Christ.
Through Joyce Meyer Ministries, she teaches on hundreds of subjects, has authored over seventy books and conducts close to fifteen conferences per year. To date, more than three million of her books have been donated around the world, and in 2006 over 4.7 million copies were sold. Joyce also has a television and radio program, Enjoying Everyday Life®, that is broadcast worldwide to a potential audience of 3 billion people. In addition, her programs can be accessed around the clock.
Suffering sexual abuse as a child and the pain of an emotionally abusive first marriage, Joyce Meyer discovered the freedom to live victoriously by applying God's Word to her life and in turn desires to help others do the same. From her battle with breast cancer to the struggles of everyday life, she speaks openly and practically about her experiences so others can apply what she has learned to their lives.
Over the years, God has provided Joyce Meyer with many opportunities to share her testimony and the life-changing message of the Gospel. In fact, Time magazine selected her as one of the most influential evangelical leaders in America. She is an incredible testimony of the dynamic, redeeming work of Jesus Christ. She believes and teaches that regardless of a person's background or past mistakes, God has a place for them and can help them on their path to enjoying everyday life.
Joyce Meyer holds an earned PhD in theology from Life Christian University in Tampa, Florida; an honorary doctorate in divinity from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and an honorary doctorate in sacred theology from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. Joyce and her husband, Dave, have been married for over forty years, and they are the parents of four grown children. Dave and Joyce Meyer make their home in St. Louis, Missouri.
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The Choice Is Yours
by Joyce Meyer
I would like to talk about a very important decision. As a matter of fact, this is the most important decision you will ever be faced with.
This decision is more important than where you chose to go to school, your career choice, who you decide to marry, or where you decide to live. This decision concerns eternity.
Think about it. Forever is a long, long time.
So many people are only concerned with today or a few months down the road. At best, some are concerned with retirement. I want to go beyond that. I want to talk about "life after death" Are you making any provision for that?
No one can make [your decision] for you. God created you with a free will, and He will not force you to choose Him...but remember, bad choices bring their own penalty.
- Joyce Meyer
Did you know that you are not just a body made of flesh and bones, blood and muscle? You are a spirit being, you have a soul and you live in a body. When you die - which everyone does sooner or later - your physical body will be put in a grave. It will decay and turn to ashes and dust.
But what about "the real you" - the inner you, your personality, your mind, will and emotions?
The spiritual part of you can be thought of as the part of you that cannot be seen with the natural eye. This part of you will live forever. And where the "spiritual you" lives depends on the decision you make as you contemplate this message.
There are two forces in the world - good and evil, right and wrong. We have a "knowing" of that inside of us even without being told. There are two forces in the spirit realm - God and the devil; good angels - which are spirit beings created by God to help Him carry out His business - and bad angels, called demons.
These bad angels were once good angels who made a choice to rebel against God. Lucifer, an archangel (also called Beelzebub, Satan, or the devil), led these angels in this rebellion, and God threw them out of heaven and created a place for them and their master called hell (See Rev. 12:7-9).
God and the good angels have their home in heaven. Satan and the bad angels have their home in hell.
Between heaven and hell is the earth and the atmosphere above the earth. Good and bad angels patrol the earth at all times. Satan also roams about "seeking whom he may devour." The Bible tells us that in 1 Peter 5:8.
The Holy Spirit of God (God's own Spirit) also dwells on the earth as well as in the heavenlies, and the job God has given Him is to seal, keep, preserve, and protect God's people (those who have chosen to serve God).
The Holy Spirit also has the job of wooing and winning people who have not yet chosen God and His way of living.
Have you made your choice?
No one can make it for you. God created you with a free will, and He will not force you to choose Him. He did not force the angels. Part of them rebelled and He let them do what they wanted to do. But remember, bad choices bring their own penalty.
The choice is yours.
Choose Life.
Excerpted from the book The Most Important Decision You'll Ever Make by Joyce Meyer
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