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, Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits.

Nearly everything we do in life is the result of our habits.

The best thing we can do is to keep God first in everything, so let's get disciplined about spending time with him.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

How much time do you spend thinking about God?

How much time do you spend thinking about what he's done for you?

Thinking about how beautiful he is.

Thinking about the unbelievably awesome things that he's made.

Do we ever even slow down and just take a five-minute walk and really think about what we're looking at?

How much time do you spend talking about God? We need to talk about God, not our problems.

When it comes to making decisions, do you put God first? Or do you put your feelings first?

Do you put what you think first?

What you want first?

Or do you put what God said first?

Do you put your friends first?

Do you put your reputation first?

You know, sometimes if you make the decision that God is leading you to make,

people are going to think you're crazy.

When I made a decision to follow the call of God on my life, I lost all my friends and got thrown out of my church.

You say, wow. Why? Because the devil despises your progress.

And he knows that our reputation means a lot to us.

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