Welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series

Ways to Increase Your Happiness.

God is the source of every good thing and believing his word

is the foundation for peace and joy. Our thoughts are connected to our feelings so

if we want to feel better we need to think better. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

This morning and tomorrow morning I'm going to teach a little two-part series

on ways to increase your happiness.

Who would like that?

Now, I have 12 ways, but I'm not going to put how many ways into the title yet because I never know how far I'm going to get

So it could end up to be seven ways to increase your happiness

It could be five ways to increase your happiness. It could be all 12 ways to increase your happiness it could be all 12 ways to

increase your happiness it just depends on how I behave and we never know that

either till I get started so now I want to say something from the get-go because I thought about this this morning I felt

like I put this on my heart.

Our goal in life as a believer and as believers our goals are totally different than people in the world.

How many of you know that we are called out, separated, set apart, for a special purpose and a special use, and that is for God's use.

We are his personal representatives in the earth, the Bible says.

I love that.

And so as much as I want you to be happy,

the main reason why I want you to be happy

is to glorify God. And to glorify Him means to show forth all of

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