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 how to succeed at being yourself.

God created each one of us to be different.

He knows all of our faults and weaknesses,

yet still loves us exactly as we are.

When we begin to understand God's unconditional love and who we are in Christ,

then we can stop trying so hard and just enjoy each moment as it comes.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I'm doing a series here called How to

succeed at being yourself. Because I believe that a lot of people don't like

themselves. They're rejecting themselves. And as a result of that they have miserable lives and when we are miserable we usually end up making other people miserable

I think a lot of people don't like their life

They don't like themselves they wish they had somebody else's life,

they wish that they had a lot of things that other people have, they want to look like other

people, have other people's gifts, but God's not ever going to help you be

somebody else.

God will never help you be anybody else.

And for right now you are what you are and you have to work with what you have and things change and we do grow over the years

But there's no point in not enjoying yourself where you're at on the way to where you're going.

I wasted a lot of my years.

Far too many people when they get a little bit older they look back and say I wasted so much of my life well the

Bible says you should listen to older people and the reason is because we've gone

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