Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling 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.

First Peter 5.8 in the Amplified Bible says, be well balanced, for your adversary of the devil

roams about like a lion roaring in fierce hunger seeking whom he may devour. So it looks to me like

even just being out of balance opens a door for the enemy.

You know what happens if you work all the time and you never enjoy yourself? You start getting

bitter and you get a chip on your shoulder and you get mad at everybody else that's not working as

hard as you are. Come on.

I used to get so mad at Dave because he was happy and I wasn't.

He just annoyed me no end.

Because whatever Dave did, he was going to enjoy it.

I can remember going to the grocery store with him,

and at that time we had three kids.

We didn't have a lot of money, so it was a pretty intense thing. I had a list, and we had $70 for every two weeks of groceries and coupons, and I mean, I'm trying to do all this with the couponing and the calculator and trying to get the groceries, and Dave would go over in another aisle, and he's tall tall so he could see me and he'd throw toilet paper over there.

And then he'd chase the kids around with the grocery cart.

And they'd be screaming, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy.

And oh, I would be so mad by the time I got out of that store

that I was about to absolutely bust

and he said one time

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