Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series Spiritual

Maturity. We all desire to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in

our lives, but sometimes it can feel like we're stuck in the same place, like

we're not maturing in our faith. Let's move past feeling stuck and not growing and

let's press into God's Word. Listen as Joyce shares key principles from his

Word that will guide us in our walk with the Lord so we can live out his

amazing plan for our lives. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. Everybody

has emotions. Well at least most people do. Some people you think could use

having a few more, but we're gonna start with the people who just have an

abundance of them and they tend to be led and guided by them rather than being

guided by the Spirit. So our emotions do not tell us the truth. They tell us how

we feel. Your mind doesn't necessarily tell you the truth unless it's been

totally renewed by the Word of God. Your mind and my mind tells us what we think

and so probably more than anything else, people tell me and they tell you and

when you're talking to each other, you talk about and I talk about what we want,

what we think and how we feel. I want to think I feel. Well interestingly enough,

all of that, unless it's closely guided by the Holy Spirit, is part of what the

Bible calls the flesh. What I think doesn't necessarily tell me what God thinks or

what His Word says. What I feel doesn't necessarily tell me what God would have

me do in a situation and what I want may not be what God wants. Now we improve in

those areas the more we study the Word and the more we learn to walk according to

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