Joyce Meyer

He's our strength and our teacher and convicts us of sin and convinces us of righteousness and leads us and guides us.

We have to have the Holy Spirit in our lives.

You're obviously very much a questioner.

I think that's good as long as you don't go... And wield it against myself?

No.

God doesn't want us to be dumb.

We can think about things and ponder things, but if it gets into confusion...

then that's when you've gone too far.

Well, I started with a Bible study that

I started where I worked, which I was the office manager, and I invited 12 women to come to a Bible study, not realizing that because I was their boss, they would feel obligated to come.

Hilarious.

That's so funny.

And it was at 6 a.m.

on a Wednesday morning, and because the company was union, it wasn't very long until somebody complained, and they came and told me that I couldn't.

have it there anymore so I thought well I'll move it to my house thinking you know I don't know who will come if I move it that far because we lived a good 45 minutes away from where I was having it and actually more people came and but for five years I taught 25 people in my living room floor

Five years.

Well, actually, one of the women that attended it just retired from here.

She worked here for over 30 years.

And then...

God told me, stop doing the Bible studies.