Joyce Meyer’s Home – Or One of Them

Take a tour of one  of Joyce Meyer’s 8,500 square feet waterfront homes that is currently up for sale for two million dollars here. Nice to know the ministry money is so well-stewarded, eh?

In an article in  July’s Charisma Magazine here, Joyce Meyer says: “As Christians, we need to encourage one another to live by godly standards and to resist the pull of the world…..”   Joyce has not been ‘resisting’ very hard by the looks of it.  But then she states what her ‘godly’ standards actually are: ”We must set high standards for what we wear, what we watch on TV, what we listen to, how we use our time, whom we associate with, and how we spend our money.”

So by that “high standards…. whom we associate with”,  one assumes we should no hang out with prostitutes, lepers, beggars and tax collectors?

Joyce Meyer certainly has high standards for what she wears and how she lives anyway. She fritters MINISTRY money away on not just luxury homes for her and her family, but on a lavish and gluttinous and self-centred lifestyle with (these include items in the ministry building):

$23,000 marble topped commode
$30,000 malachite conference table
$11,219 French clock
$19,000 pair of Dresden vases
$18,500 six French crystal vases
$8,000 Dresden porcelain depicting the Nativity
two $5,800 curio cabinets,
$5,700 porcelain of the Crucifixion
$5,200 pair of German porcelain vases
$14,000 custom office bookcase
$7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain
$6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal
$5,000 another eagle made of silver
$49,000 Meyer’s private office conference table and 18 chairs
$44,000 The woodwork in the offices of Meyer and her husband

Plus  numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each. 

In all, assessor’s records of the ministry’s personal property show that nearly $5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and the latest equipment and machinery fill the 158,000-square-foot building. The ministry also owned a fleet of vehicles with an estimated value of $440,000.

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This is absolutely disgraceful! It would be bad enough if it were only her money that had paid for all these things, but a lot of this was MINISTRY money so to spend it on such frivalous things is even more sinful.

Compare what Joyce Meyer says and does with what the Bible says -

 ”Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” (I John 2:15-17)

“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Luke 16:13)

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:19)

“Jesus .. though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”  (2 Corinthians 8:9)

“For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” (1 Timothy 6:7-10)

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or  “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6)

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See also http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/joyce-meyer-her-ministry-her-motives-her-materialism/

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