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.

All right now I have way too much information today and not nearly enough time to

preach it.

Dave said, what's new?

So I started yesterday morning doing a two-part series

on ways to increase your happiness. I actually have 12 ways. I got through three yesterday

morning and obviously I'm not going to do justice to nine today so we're going to kind of just see how God

leads and I'll give them all to you but I'm not going to be able to teach

completely on all of them. First of all our goal is not just to be happy, although that's a good goal in itself, but our

goal is to glorify God in everything that we do.

And I personally believe that sad-faced Christians don't

glorify God. They're not a great advertisement for salvation. So we need to live our lives in such a way and even have an

appearance about us that makes people want to have what we have.

And so I think that the joy of the Lord, which is our strength

and peace and patience and different things like that, are very important for us as believers if we really want to be used by God.

And so, Psalm 511 says, let those who love your name be joyful in you and be in high spirits.

So God doesn't want is just to have a little bit of him.

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