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.

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.

Our baby, there's a story that I like to tell about him when I'm teaching on mercy.

Because in Luke, chapter 12, there's a story about how Jesus's disciples were walking through the fields of standing grain

and they were hungry and it was on the Sabbath and they started picking off the grain and eating it.

And the Pharisees course, you know, the religious Pharisees, they're always watching.

The legalistic devil is always watching. If you make a mistake, say, uh-huh, uh-huh. And so sure

enough, they said, now, why are your disciples doing what's illegal on the Sabbath? They're not

supposed to be doing that. And so Jesus referred them back to something from

the old covenant. Have you never read what the Levitical priest did when they were hungry and they went

in to the temple and ate the show bread even though it wasn't something they were supposed to do?

So they broke the law and yet they were guiltless. Well, my legalistic brain just used to go,

how can you break the law and be guiltless? I didn't get it. You see, there are times when your

need overrides, you having kept all the law perfectly.

God gave me a good example to explain what I mean.

When our boy, Danny, was little, he wasn't the most disciplined guy on the planet,

and we were trying to teach him

that he had to work as well as play.

And so he had a list of chores,

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