Loving People Who Are Hard to Love, Joyce Meyer
Loving People Who Are Hard to Love, Joyce Meyer
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Loving People Who Are Hard to Love
Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally

Author: Joyce Meyer

Narrator: Joyce Meyer

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

Renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers to love the people in their life who are hard to love. We’re never going to be able to prevent people from saying or doing things that hurt our feelings. We will always have opportunities to get offended. But if we do things God’s way, we can choose to save ourselves a lot of misery and hardship. This doesn’t mean we allow people to abuse us. No, there is a time for confronting people and dealing with situations. However, the Bible commands us to love our enemies and forgive those who have wronged us, even when it feels impossible.

Everything the Lord asks us to do in the Bible is ultimately for our good. In fact, when we choose to love our enemies and forgive those who have hurt us, we are actually helping ourselves more than anyone else. Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it—and that includes loving and being good to difficult people! God’s love flowing through us is strong enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to overcome the meanness in people.

About Joyce Meyer

Sometimes we cannot know the difficulties people go through, unless they are willing to share their experiences. Such is the life of Pauline Joyce Hutchison, now, Joyce Meyer, Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Joyce spoke often in her discussions about being sexually abused by her own father after he returned from World War II. As happens many times to such children, she married shortly after her senior year in high school, done usually to be able to leave the home where abuse happened. That marriage lasted only five years and was filled with unhappiness with a cheating husband. He even persuaded her to steal against her own better judgment. She says that she returned that money years later. After her divorce, her life was very tumultuous as she went from bar to bar aimlessly, until one day she met her future husband, Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were soon married, and remain married today.

Joyce relates her story of "a Jesus moment" when she was driving to work one day in 1976. She said as she drove she heard God call her name. All day she felt energized with the spirit of God, even as she participated in bowling at the local bowling alley that night.

Meyer began serving in a local church in St. Louis, leading an early morning Bible class. Eventually, the church became one of the most popular in the area, mostly due to Meyer's popularity as a Bible teacher. At the same time, she began a 15 minute radio broadcast on a local radio station.

In 1985, Meyer started her own ministry called "Life in the Word". By then, she was on six additional stations including Chicago and Kansas. Her husband Dave suggested she start a television ministry in 1993, which was the beginning of her current program, "Enjoying Everyday Life, which still airs today.

Meyer has written over 100 books, and has sold and given away billions of copies. In 2002, Hachette Book Group paid Meyer over $10 million for her catalog of independently released books. In 2005, Time magazine named Meyer among their "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America". Meyer was ranked at number 17. "Joyce is and continues to be an incredible testimony of the dynamic, redeeming work of Jesus Christ."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on July 27, 2022

I did not feel like this book really did much explaining how to love people who are hard to love. There was a lot of stuff that I didn't care for such as insinuating if we don't do good deeds we won't go to heaven (Biblically incorrect) and lots of predictions about how we are in the end times (irre......more

Goodreads review by Cover Lover on September 08, 2022

Loving People Who Are Hard to Love is a powerful title. I’m sure all of us know at least one person (and likely more) that is difficult to love. We are all wounded and have issues of some sort or another, but we all have different ways of reacting, healing, and treating others. I’ve enjoyed so many......more

Goodreads review by Joan on September 11, 2022

The world seems to have more anger, hatred and violence than ever before. Christians can make a difference in the world and that includes learning how to love people we think hard to love. I like Meyer's honest and thought provoking book. We can learn how to love and Meyer gives us plenty of examples......more

Goodreads review by Anya on October 20, 2022

This book was packed with so much spiritual wisdom and guidance. I adore Joyce Meyer’s book and she has been a huge influence with my relationship with Jesus. My favorite thing about this book was the heavy emphasis she put on loving people and becoming peacemakers in society. There is so much infor......more

Goodreads review by Liz on January 03, 2025

Lots of good stuff in here, though, like many Biblical self-help books, I really think it could have been condensed. This one even repeated a few anecdotes with such similar phrasing that I had to check to see if I'd accidentally restarted the audiobook. Meyer also veers a little too close to works b......more

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