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, filled with hope.

Hope is the confident expectation that something good is going to happen

to us and through us, but it's very important we have our hope set in the right place.

We can place hope in many things, but only hope in our faithful Heavenly Father and

his promises to us and his Word will bring about the blessings he has for us.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

As the Israelites took God for granted it became too from Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

As the Israelites took God for granted,

became too familiar with all of his blessings,

and they were no longer amazed.

Their enemies began defeating them,

and the Phyllisins came against them and took the arc.

When the priest Eli heard that the arc had been taken, he fell over dead.

Now just imagine that. He was so shocked that they were no longer

going to have the presence of God and so upset about it that it just killed him.

He just fell over dead. When his daughter-in-law who was pregnant heard the news

about the ark she bowed over in labor pains and gave birth and she called her

child Iqabad meaning the glory is gone from Israel.

You know, we don't have any time playing church. We need to have God's presence in our midst everywhere that we go.

And if that takes a little shouting and a little

acting crazy, so be it.

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