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, Living on Purpose or a Purpose.

Each day God gives us is precious and once it's gone we can never get it back.

We can all make a decision to use our time wisely so we can accomplish all that God wants us to.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Several times a day now I'm stopping and kind of going over what I've done with

my time so far that day.

And I'm finding it to be interesting

because we often say life just goes by in a bar.

Well, sometimes we need to take the time

to think about what we're doing with the time that we have.

Take the time to think about what you're doing with the time that you have.

The only way that we can ever make any changes in our life is to take an honest look at it and say,

what am I investing? What am I wasting? What would God have me change? You know, we're always adjusting and making changes in our lives.

If you're never willing to change anything life will never get any better.

Remember when I said last night you can't just keep doing the same thing over and over

thinking you're going to get a better result. Let's maximize our life. Let's maximize

our time. I like that word maximize, don't you?

The devil wants to minimize us.

But God wants to maximize us.

That means maximize means to do the most you can with what you have, not

the least that you can. Don't ever be the kind of person that just does barely

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