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 Keeping God

First. There is much in life that competes for our attention but there is one

who wants to be first before anything else and when we make Jesus the

center everything gets better. Be encouraged today as Joyce shares how we can

pursue God first and grow a deep satisfying relationship with him. Before she

begins we want to say how grateful we are for your support throughout 2022.

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JoyceMire.org slash give now. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. And I'd

like you to go to Matthew 7, 21, not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will

enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father who is in heaven.

Talk is cheap. It's action that counts. I can say God you're first in my life.

You mean more to me than anything but if I don't prove that by putting him first

and the things that are important to me which is money, time and decisions then

all it is is just talk. If there's anything the devil doesn't want you to do is

to put God first. God's a jealous God. He's a consuming fire and he burns up

stuff that's in our life that's between us and him. James 4 verse 4 James

chapter 4 verses 4 and 5. You are like unfaithful wives having illicit love

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