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 Blessed in the Mess.

Life is full of trials. God does not promise us a problem-free life,

but he does promise us to work everything out for our good if we love him.

God allows us to go through difficult times because they make us depend more upon him.

So when things aren't going our way, trust the Lord. He is good all the time and he will

ultimately work things out better than we can even imagine.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

You know, there's even this thing that I'm not an expert on all this and maybe this doesn't happen everywhere,

but I know in some places now like if a kid is on a

sports team say they're in a race and the kid that wins the race used to get the trophy but now everybody gets a trophy

because we don't want anybody to feel bad.

Well Well, that kills the desire to excel. And it's good for going to be under your little protection all the time and sooner or later they're going to get disappointed and if they've never had any, it's going to be devastating.

It's downright ridiculous what people expect now.

The attitude of entitlement is absolutely nauseating. I don't care how cute you are you're not entitled to anything except what God promises in His word.

Amen.

I talk to people all the time that time,

we just can't find people that want to work.

I have a good friend that owns a dress shop where I get a lot of my clothes and

she hired a lady about a year ago and the lady quit after one day and she said

I didn't know it'd be this hard. I mean how hard can it be to put clothes on

hangers. I think that was her first job, hanging the clothes up and

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