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, Joy and Enjoyment.

There is a way to enjoy everything we do, even while driving in traffic or cleaning up the house.

Because if we have Jesus, we have joy.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

All right, I'm doing a series on joy and enjoyment, putting an emphasis on enjoying life.

Not just living life, not just making it through, but actually enjoying your life. Not just vacations, not just when you go

shopping to get a new outfit, not just when you got a holiday and don't have to go to work,

but enjoying ordinary every day, sometimes same old, could be boring life if we let it be.

We all do a lot of the same things over and over and over and over. But I shared last night

that in every situation, no matter how much you dreaded

or don't want to do it or think you don't like it, one of the great secrets to enjoying anything

is to find something to be thankful for in that situation or in that thing. For example, I used this last night. A lot of

people like, you know, I hate to do my laundry. I don't like laundry day. You got to do the laundry.

Well, you could change your attitude by saying, I thank God that I've got clothes.

Come on.

We lose an attitude of gratitude

through having so much abundance that we no longer appreciate,

really truly appreciate,

the things that we have.

I mean, we should be so appreciative

of being able to walk into a place like this

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