Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word 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.

We all want to know how we can be happier in life, but unfortunately we also have an enemy who

tries to steal our happiness and joy any way possible, like reminding us of our past hurts or current difficulties.

But there's hope.

Jesus came so we can enjoy a full life in Him.

In today's teaching, Joyce helps us discover how we can experience God's peace

and be filled with his joy no matter what's happening around us.

Now here's Joyce with the series Ways to Increase Your Happiness.

We started this yesterday and I said that I believe the bottom line of what everybody wants

is just to be happy.

I can remember when I was in a very bad place in my life and just praying praying God someday I just want to be happy I just

wanted to be happy well we can't always base our happiness on what's happening because what's

happening is not always something that is a happy happening and so we have to be able to base

our happiness on something other than that.

And there's so many scriptures that are so wonderful.

Psalm 14415 says happy are the people whose God is the Lord.

See, just knowing that we know God and that he has a plan for us for eternity and that it's a good one and that he loves us,

those are the things that make us happy. And I really think that we think about our problems too much,

and we don't think about all the things that we have to be thankful for. And I can promise you, no matter how many problems

you have, you have more to be thankful for than you do to be upset about. Psalm 51,

let those who love your name be joyful in you and be in high spirits. Sounds to me like we're

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