Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series enjoying successful relationships.

God wants to bless us, but we must get along.

Because where there is unity, there is blessing and anointing.

So it's our job to learn how to set aside our own agenda

and serve one another through love. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Proverbs 169 says that man's mind plans his way, but God directs his steps. I saw a sign recently

said, man plans and God laughs. And you know, I do believe that our

steps are ordered by the Lord much more than what we realize they are. And I believe that many

times when we think we're in the wrong place, God has indeed got us in the right place.

What am I doing here? I can't believe this happened. How did this happen?

Jesus understood the difference between divine interruptions and demonic interruptions. It seems like

people bounce back and forth, not really ever understanding the balance.

You don't want to interrupt me when I'm having my prayer time and my fellowship time with God

in the morning unless it's really important.

Not that I would be mean, but I'm not interruptible at that time.

Because I learned many years ago that if I did not have that time with God,

I was not going to be very nice that day.

And it's not really good if you're a preacher and you're not nice.

Amen, I need a lot of help.

And I can't do it on my own.

I know that every day I tell God I know full well I'm nothing without you. And if you don't help me, if you don't strengthen me, I will not do anything right today. And I remember when I first started understanding I needed to spend that time with God. My kids were all still at home and they'd get upset. Can't you come out of that room in the morning? Can't you come down here and make our breakfast? I said, look, you're all teenagers. You can put cereal in a bowl

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