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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Don't be devoted to God only in hard times. Now this is such an important section

of this teaching. Don't be devoted to God just in hard times. It is so amazing how

people can turn the television off say no to their friends and I mean seek God

when they've got a disaster going on. But what happens as soon as God solves

your problem? Right back to the same old stuff. There is relights did this over

and over and over and over and over. You read it and you think how could they be

that dumb? Hello. They wandered around in the desert 40 years trying to make

what the Bible says was an 11-day journey. Are you getting this? How long are

you going to go around it around the same stupid mountain? God's not going to

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