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, filled with hope.

Hope is the confident expectation that something good is going to happen to us and through us.

But it's very important we have our hope set in the right place.

We can place hope in many things, only hope in our faithful heavenly father and his promises to us and his word will bring about the blessings he has for us

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching

Gonna start with a little story that I think is cute.

There were two identical twins and they were alike in every way but one.

One was a hope-filled optimist who only saw the bright side of life in every

situation. The other was a very dark-minded pessimist who only saw the downside in everything.

The parents became worried about the extremes and the children of optimism and

pessimism, and so they took them to the doctor and the doctor suggested a plan

on their next birthday give the pessimist a shiny new bike but give the optimist only a pile of manure.

It seemed a fairly extreme thing to do.

After all, the parents had always treated their boys equally.

But in this instance, they decided that they would try the doctor's advice.

So when the twins' birthday came around, the parents gave the pessam the a child had ever owned. And when he saw the bike his first words were,

I'll probably crash and break my leg.

To the optimist, they gave a carefully wrapped box of manure.

He opened it, looked puzzled for a moment, then ran outside screaming,

you can't fool me where there's this much manure there's got to be a pony Now Now let me just share with you that I was for a large part of my life, an extremely negative person.

I saw what was wrong with everything.

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