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.

It's made all the difference in sharing love of Christ and changing lives. One

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JoyceMire.org slash give now. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. When

God first called me into ministry back in the 70s I had a full-time job that

took a lot of my time. I made good money. I was an executive and God began to

deal with me a little bit at a time that he wanted me to lay that job down and

just start preparing for ministry. I didn't have the money to go to Bible

College. I couldn't go to Bible College. I had three small children. I couldn't

afford to quit my job because if I quit my job that meant that we were going to

have more bills than income. And you know how it is when God is dealing with

you just gradually over the days you just feel it more and more. You know when

God is dealing with you just don't go away. It just kind of sits there. And you

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