Hello everyone. I want to share a great testimony. I really was battling discouragement for a while, and I was really depressed also, and I was not feeling very hopeful. When I would think of unanswered prayer requests, and hard times I went through, like when I lost a few good jobs, I would really get discouraged, and sometimes wonder why and how God could let this happen to me. I also was deceived, as some Christians I knew were telling me its best never to listen to Joyce Meyer, because her teachings are too heretical,and I foolishly believed them, that is until a few weeks ago. After meeting one morning with some Christian friends, and hearing about some of the good things going on in their lives, including some of them having really good jobs, I got really discouraged, but I did not stay that way for long. I turned on the radio, and heard "Enjoying Everyday Life" with Joyce Meyer, and one of the first things she said was how we can't let the devil keep us in discouragement, or something similar to that, and how God wants us to have joy, and we can trust God, and within a few minutes, every trace of discouragement went away from my mind and my entire life. Lately, I have been watching Joyce on the Word Network every night, and God is really using her to minister to me, and I have been delivered from doubt since listening to Joyce, and doing as she teaches in one of her books, praying in tongues regularly. And lastly, I used to really feel guilty about ending a relationship, and I would often disobey God because I was afraid if I left a church, or a church fellowship group, Sunday school class, etc, I would be hurting the other people there too much, and I would be miserable until I obeyed God and parted from doing those things, and let go of those people in my life, but I could hardly ever do that. Then I read Joyce's book "Approval Addiction", and God set me free from believing I had to please everybody, and I no longer feel guilty at all when I obey God, and I believe the devil was using that false guilt to keep me out of Gods will for my life, including staying at a few churches where I was never growing much in Christ at all. And one final note, since I shared with a few Christian friends from a Baptist church I attended in the past that I am being blessed by God through the ministry of Joyce Meyer, my stand for God and truth has gotten stronger. People used to easily be able to talk me out of believing somebody like Joyce or other Word of Faith ministers and ministries could help me, but this time, some of those same people realized I was not backing down at all, and they accepted my beliefs this time, and I have lost a few friends now, but God has blessed me with new friends. There truly is joy in the Lord and in obeying Him. God bless everyone!! Sincerely in Christ, John S