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, Enjoying Successful Relationships.

Our relationships are such an important part of our lives. We'd prefer all our relationships to be positive,

but what about those who bring us stress or just kind of get on our nerves?

How can we be in a relationship with them?

Thankfully, God's Word is filled with the answers we need to have healthy relationships, no matter how those around us behave.

Today, Joyce will share some of the ways we can all work toward having more joy and peace with everyone in our lives. Now here's Joyce with the series, enjoying successful relationships.

But a certain Samaritan as he traveled along came down to where he was and he saw him and he was

moved. Lord, we need to get moved. He was moved with pity and sympathy for him, and he went to him,

and he dressed his wound, and he poured on them oil and wine, and then he sat him on his own

horse. This was all hard work. Getting a grown man on a horse is hard work. And he brought him to an

inn, and he stayed there, and he took care of them.

Now I want to tell you that this Samaritan was also going somewhere.

He wasn't just kind of lollygagging around that day looking for somebody laying in the ditch

that he could give his money in time to. He was on his way somewhere just like the priest and the

Levite. But he saw something

that they didn't see. He got the guy on his horse. He took him to an end. He took some of his time.

And then he obviously had to go on and do whatever it was that he was on his way to do.

But he took out two days wages, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, you take care of him,

and I love this, he didn't even put any limits on it, and whatever more you spend,

I will repay you when I come back to see how the guy's doing.

And, you know, we have our limits. It's like we do this in church and then every time we come

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