God Loves Me by Joyce Meyer

Ginger: A lot of times people talk about cutting as a sense of release for that pain; to feel a different pain releases that pain. Or even thoughts of suicide, to be able to finally escape that pain. So, when that thought comes in, what does that replacement thought need to be to change the direction they are going?

Joyce Meyer Online: One of the things I would encourage people to do when they’re tempted to do that is not only to think, “God loves me. I have purpose and value, and what happened is not my fault,” or even if it was your fault, even if somebody did something that was really, really wrong and it hurt a lot of people and it was your fault, the whole point is God not only forgives us, but he forgets our sins and he removes them as far as the east is from the west. Sometimes you just have to remind the enemy, “I’ve been forgiven.” I would not only think that but I would open my mouth and say it.

Joyce Meyer said in other words, if I’m feeling pressured and I’m feeling lousy about myself and I’ve got all this internal pain so now I want to go off somewhere and actually inflict a different kind of pain on me to get away from that pain and feel that I’m punishing myself, what I can do if I’m at the point in my life where I’ve said, “I’m not going to live like this anymore. I know this is wrong. I’m not going to do this anymore,” then I would start to do warfare with the words of my mouth and I would speak the word of God out of my mouth. I believe with all of my heart that the word of God has inherent power in it that when we speak it, it drives the enemy back into the hole he crawled out of and it gives us the courage and the strength to do what we need to do. I would suggest if somebody feels like that, they should say, “God loves me. I have purpose and value. I have a future. All of my sins are forgiven. It’s a new day for me. I’m going forward.” And I would keep it up and keep it up and keep it up and keep it up until those feelings went away and I could be back to being in control of my emotions again.

Joyce Meyer Ministries – One time the Lord spoke to my heart, “you know, Joyce, I’ve got my people absolutely everywhere. They’re in hospitals, they’re in the market place, they’re on sports teams, they are absolutely everywhere.