Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Joy and Enjoyment.

In the busy pace of life, we may struggle to find joy in everyday moments.

Most days feel ordinary. We only see life's excitement on those special days that happen occasionally.

But Jesus didn't come so we struggle through the ordinary. He came so we can enjoy life to the

fullest with him. In today's series, Joyce will share keys to recognizing the little blessings

and how we can discover joy every day, even the normal ones. Now here's Joyce with today's

series,

Joy and Enjoyment.

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 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

so he could see me and he'd throw toilet paper over there.

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