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,

put first things first.

Our number one priority in life should be spending time with God.

When and how we spend time with Him looks different for everyone.

An easy place to start is waking up and simply saying,

Good morning God. Now here's joy. to start is waking up and simply saying,

good morning, God.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I know another woman who had this tremendous

intercessory prayer ministry from God.

And let me tell you something, when you can get up and pray four or five hours every morning,

that's a gift.

That is a gift.

I pray a lot, but I don't have that gift.

And she was very faithful and very diligent and she was really enjoying it,

and her family was going to take a two-week vacation

so she decided during those two weeks that she wouldn't get up early and pray.

She never could go back to it after that the anointing lifted and she never could go back to it after that

You can't take a vacation from God. Hello? You cannot take a vacation from God.

Yeah, you're not.

I can tell when you guys are sure and when you're not. You say you mean to tell me that I need to spend time with God every day? How about like about every five minutes. God is not for the emergencies in our life. He is our life? Are you awake out there? In him, Paul said,

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