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 The Book of

Ephesians. When we look at the book of Ephesians, Paul's words are foundational

for every believer. They help us to understand who we are in Christ, how much he

loves us, and how we can grow a stronger, more intimate relationship with God.

So today let's go deeper in God's Word. Listen as Joyce walks through Ephesians

chapter by chapter, showing us how we can apply its truths to our lives. Now

here's Joyce with today's series on the Book of Ephesians. When Jesus said

follow me, he spoke the two greatest words for leadership that we will ever

hear. All a leader really needs to do is be an example for other people to follow.

Paul said follow my example. Wow. I wonder what people would think if I stood

up here and said listen if you just follow my example you're gonna be doing

everything right. Well you'd probably think I was full of myself and maybe I

would be I don't know but Paul said that. Follow my example. Well you know what I

think honestly we all should be able to say that. We all should be able to say

if you follow my example you're gonna be doing what God wants you to do. You know

one of the songs that we sang earlier and I noticed people kind of had a good

response let my deeds outway my words and I think that's so important you know

talk is cheap and what we say can affect people but if we say one thing and do

the opposite it actually has a very negative effect on people and that's one

of the reasons why religious religion and religious people in many instances

have really turned people off because they can act like they're too good to

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