Joyce Meyer

You know, I study.

And so I tried reading the Bible through in a year.

You had to read six chapters a day, and they gave us a calendar, and you got check marks.

And I always make a joke out of the flesh loves check marks.

And so I put my calendar on my refrigerator so people could see it.

And as long as I was getting my check marks, I'd feel really good every time I walked by that calendar.

But then after a while, which it always happens when you're in works of the flesh,

You don't follow through.

You give up after a while.

So then when I started getting these big gaping holes in my calendar, then I would feel condemned when I walked by it.

And I didn't want anybody to see it.

And we have to learn the difference in grace and works.

Yes, we are to produce good fruit.

And any Christian who says they're a real Christian, they really love God, and they're doing nothing to help anybody else, then there's a problem there.

There's a problem.

And it may be that they don't know any better, but that's the second half of it.

God has laid out these works that we might do them.

They're His works.

He gives us the strength and the grace

But we do the work, but he gets the credit.