Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series Spiritual Maturity.

We all desire to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in our lives, but sometimes

it can feel like we're stuck in the same place, like we're not maturing in our faith.

Let's move past feeling stuck and not growing and let's press into God's Word.

Listen as Joyce shares key principles from his Word that will guide us in our walk with

the Lord so we can live out his amazing plan for our lives.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Alright, we're talking about spiritual maturity and I'm assuming that we all want to grow

up in God.

Is that a right assumption?

If you were here last night, did you get anything out of that message that you thought

would help you?

Okay, well today I want to talk about removing hindrances.

What are the some of the things?

Let's just say a person says, well, you know, I do want to be spiritual mature.

I do want to be everything that God wants me to be, but something just seems to be stopping

me.

Something seems to be hindering me.

So today we're going to talk about how we can get rid of some of these hindrances in

our life.

Actually, I would have preferred to call the message, is you're well stopped up, but

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