Joyce Meyer says she might get a tattoo to make religious people mad

The video kicks off with Meyer explaining the difference between being holy and religious. “Holiness is not legalism“, she declares.

The preacher went on to explain that religious people have made a mess of holiness by putting a bunch of rules and regulations on people. She listed drinking, dancing, wearing makeup and more among those rules.

In defense of getting permanent markings, Meyer quoted Isaiah 44:5. The scripture says: “One will say, I am the Lord’s; and another will call himself by the name of Jacob; and another will write [even brand or tattoo] upon his hand, I am the Lord’s, and surname himself by the [honorable] name of Israel.”

She also shared the counter argument often used to discourage believers from getting tattoos found in Leviticus 19:28: “Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the LORD.”

But Meyer rejected the argument that getting tattoos is a “heathen practice” and contended that God also tattooed those He loves to Himself.

“The Bible says in Isaiah 49 that God has a picture of you tattooed on the palm of His hand,” she maintains.

“I’m right on the verge of going and getting a tattoo,” she adds, pointing to her shoulder blade. “I thought I might as well just push all the religious people right off the cliff and just get it over with.”