Joyce Meyer - Heretic

[Most of the quotations are taken from Christless Christianity, by Hank Hanegraaff]

Jesus Suffered not the Wrath of God toward our sins but the torment of demons

"During that time He entered hell, where you and I deserved to go (legally) because of our sin. He paid the price there. ...no plan was too extreme. ... Jesus paid on the cross and in hell... God rose up from His throne and said to demon powers tormenting the sinless Son of God, 'Let Him go.'” What Should You Believe, p. 35-36

[After the 3 days Christ spent in hell] “God rose up from His throne and said to demon powers tormenting the sinless Son of God, “Let Him go.”” The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make, p. 42

“There is no hope of anyone going to heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in hell.”  The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make, p. 37

Health & Wealth Gospel

“I would think that after thirty-eight years a diligent, determined person could have crawled over to the edge of that pool. Even if that man had only moved an inch a year, it seems that in thirty-eight years, he ought to have been able to get close enough to the edge to just roll over into the water when it was stirred up”. Eight Ways to Keep the Devil Under Your Feet, p. 27

“Thirty-eight years is a long time to lie somewhere, waiting for somebody to do something for you. I would have been on the edge of that pool, and next year when the angel came around, when that water started bubbling, I would have fallen in and said, “Either I’m going to get healed or I’m going to die, but I’m not staying like this””. Eight Ways to Keep the Devil Under Your Feet, p. 28

“’For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid befalls me’ (Job 3:25). Fear is a terrible emotion – a self-fulfilling one. Job had fears concerning his children and finally reached a place in his life where he saw his fears coming to pass. The Bible says it will be unto us as we believe (see Matthew 9:29). That principle works in the negative as well as the positive. We can receive by fear as well as by faith”. Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone, p. 9-10

“It is vital for us to understand that it is illegal for Satan to put sickness on us, and there is no good reason to let him do it… It was illegal for Satan to kill Jesus, but he was able to do it because Jesus allowed him. Why? Because Jesus was going to use Satan’s illegal action to bring salvation to the world! So it’s illegal for Satan to bring sickness on us, and we must stand against it… The moment we begin to recognize the symptoms of sickness, we need to stand against them – we need to resist them in the same way we would resist the temptation to sin… I believe that by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed.” Practical Steps to Understanding and Experiencing Healing, online at http://www.joycemeyer.org/our Ministries/Magazine/0703/Healing+and+wholeness.htm, retrieved 24 September 2008.

Sinless Perfection

“Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, ‘I, a poor, miserable sinner.’ I am not poor. I am not miserable. And I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell! That is what I were [sic] and if I still was, then Jesus died in vain. Amen?” Joyce Meyer, From the Cross to the Throne, cassette tape, sermon recorded at Life Christian Center in Saint Louis, Mo., no date, tape on file.

“I didn’t stop sinning until I finally got it through my thick head I wasn’t a sinner anymore. And the religious world thinks that’s heresy and they want to hang you for it. But the Bible says that I’m righteous, and I can’t be rrighteous and a sinner at the same time.” Joyce Meyer, From the Cross to the Throne, cassette tape, sermon recorded at Life Christian Center in Saint Louis, Mo., no date, tape on file.

“I am not poor, I am not miserable, and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I were and if I still was, then Jesus died in vain.” Joyce Meyer, From the Cross to the Throne, cassette tape, sermon recorded at Life Christian Center in Saint Louis, Mo., no date, tape on file.

Word of Faith

“Words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power, positive or negative power. And so we need to be speaking right things over our lives and about our futures if we expect to have good things happen. Because what you say today is what you’ll probably end up having tomorrow.”  Enjoying Everyday Life¸Trinity Broadcasting Network, 16 July 2002.

“speaking forth the truth to the devil… is the only way to see a mindset changed”. Eight Ways to Keep the Devil Under Your Feet, p. 51

“I got fire in my belly tonight, because I know! I know! I know! That there’s power in and life in right words. That words are containers for power, and I don’t care about what kind of mess you got, I am begging you tonight to stop talkinga bout it, and start talking about what the Word says, and what you can have. Make yourself a list, do some work, do some homework, make sure you got a Scripture to back up every one of your confessions.

We’re not talking about some magic goofy, you know, weird New Age thing. I’m talking about doing what the Bible says, calling those things that be not as though they are, prophesying to the dead, dry bones in your life. Oh, you dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord.

Maybe you need to get your checkbook out and say, ‘Oh you checkbook, hear the Word of the Lord, you are not going to stay empty all of your life.’ Ah, somebody says this is just too weird for me, well then just stay broke. What you’re doing’s not working! You listen to me, checkbook, the first 10 percent of everything that goes into you is going to God’s work, and you are going to be full to overflowing! And I am going to be blessed, and I am going to be a blessing.” Enjoying Everyday Life, Trinity Broadcasting Network, 21 August 2008.

“’When I talked with Dr Roberts today and we talked about this seed-faith thing, he said something awesome!... The word receiving means receipting… When you give you get a receipt in heaven, [and] when you have a need you can then go with your receipt and say, ‘You see, God, I have got my receipt from my sowing, and now I have a need, and I’m cashing in my receipt.’” Praise the Lord: Praise-a-Thon, Trinity Broadcasting Network, 3 November 2003.