Joyce Meyer

And I can't imagine being... I got a whole story on that.

Okay, well, you know, as a Christian...

I knew I needed to forgive my mom and dad.

So I did.

A little bit, I think.

At least I prayed the prayer to forgive them.

But I didn't really want to be around them.

I didn't want to have anything to do with them.

And one morning I was praying, asking God, what do you want me to do?

And he told me to bring my parents

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Louis here where I live, they lived about 300 miles from here in a small town and take care of them until they died.

And I rebuked the devil, I said.

I did, I said, that's the devil.

I said, God would not ask me to do that.

And so the next time I was praying, there it was again.

And I thought, well, because we were going to have to buy him a house and a car and, you know, they were the last people I wanted to spend money on and we didn't have all that much money.

And so I thought, well, I'm going to ask Dave and Dave will tell me no and that'll be it.

And so when I went to Dave, he said, well, if God told you to do it, you better do it.

I thought, thanks, that's a big help.