So if I don’t like myself, then it automatically makes me behave in a way that makes me unlikeable to other people. I don’t really think that people, unless they’ve gone through this and maybe have worked through the process of receiving God’s forgiveness, which is really what it means to forgive ourselves, I don’t think that our viewers today can even imagine the difference that this would make in their life. But I want to ask you a question because you know me — I like to be real practical. I don’t like to just say “do it”; I like to tell people how to do it. So, how do you go about this? I mean, somebody can pray and say, “God, forgive me.” What I tell people to do a lot of times is when you ask God to forgive you for something, then actually go that extra step and say out loud, “I receive your forgiveness now. I take it into myself, and I receive it as a gift.” And even to take a few moments to sit in the presence of God and just meditate on that: I am forgiven. I receive that forgiveness. Don’t you think sometimes we ask God for things but we just don’t receive?
R.T. Kendall: Exactly. In other words, all that is being taught in this book has got to be applied. Total forgiveness is not something you do when you just feel led; it’s a decision. It’s a choice you make. And so with anybody listening in, you make a choice: Did God send his son to die on a cross for our sins or did he not? And if he did, then I believe it and I’m going to enjoy it to the full and dignify the blood. I was brought up in a denomination. The man I was named after used to say to young men going into the ministry, “honor the blood and honor the Holy Ghost.”
Joyce Meyer – If you have a bad temper, you don’t need to listen to a series on prosperity.
