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. I'd like

you to go to Jeremiah chapter 17. We're gonna keep God first aren't we? I like

these messages. I just preached to myself and make myself happy. Boy these

scriptures have ministered to me so many times over the years and back in the

days when I was still trying to break a lot of these habits of leaning on

other things and being independent I would go to these scriptures over and over

and over and over again. Verse five starts out Jeremiah 17.5. Thus says the Lord

cursed with great evil is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man

making weak human flesh his arm and whose mind and heart turn aside from the

Lord. He shall be like a shrub or a person make it in

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