Welcome to enjoying every day life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series, pressing in

and pressing on. To press is to push beyond opposition. It means leaving the

comfort zone and doing whatever it takes to attain what God has for us. We

must let go to grow. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Okay, I started a series last night that I call pressing in and pressing on and

nobody seemed excited at all when I told them what it was, but I get it. The

reason is because we really don't want to press. We'd rather glide or slide or

want something easy. We don't want anything that's going to require any effort.

And to be honest, that's one thing that has gone downhill in our nation. I mean

people used to be such hard workers and they expected to work and to to earn

things and to to wait for things and today people don't want to do that. They

want to have everything handed to them and they think it's the right to have

everything handed to them. But we need to earn what we get. And I'm not talking

about from God. God gives us many things freely and by his grace. We don't have

to get into works of the flesh earning what God wants to give us freely. But you

can't be afraid of hard work if you ever want to really have a life like God

wants you to have. And you can't be wimpy and whiny and you know every time a

problem comes along you fall apart, go into a self-pity fit and pour me. You

got to just we need to get a little we don't need wishbone we need backbone. Amen.

And so I'm going to start where I left off last night and we'll just see how

far we get and then thank God for this afternoon. Amen. So we're talking about

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