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.

Can I give you a piece of advice?

You will not walk in the will of God unless you are willing occasionally to make somebody

mad. And maybe I ought to say that to somebody else, I don't know.

You know, we make a lot of decisions because we don't want people to be mad at us

And the problem is if they're gonna get mad at you because you don't decide what they want then they're probably don't care that much about you anyway

I mean that's really probably the truth.

In the last five days, I've had to say no to three requests.

Two of those requests came from fairly close friends and it's not easy.

But I was in that trap for too long.

Well can you do me a favor? Yeah, yeah, sure. But then I was killing myself physically, still had to do what I needed to do to take care of this ministry because that was my main responsibility.

If you don't learn to say no, you will never walk in the will I mean what I said to the one girl I mean she had a great response.

And if I tell somebody I don't feel like God really well I mean what I said to the one girl, I mean she had a great

response I said you know what I would love to come and help you and do that for you but I gave

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