Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. 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. If you've

ever seen a believer that was once really strong with God start getting off

track and it's a little bit, little bit, little bit and then all of a sudden

somebody's saying I have no idea what happened to them. Well you know what? It

didn't just happen overnight. It happened a little here, little day. That's

exactly what's happened in our country. You know how did we get from where we

were being the kind of nation that we were to where we're at today? Well it

didn't just say you know the devil is patient. Come on he takes his time. He

will work in our lives a little bit, a little bit, a little bit and that little

bit lie is one of the lies you have to really watch for. Now I know sometimes

this gets a little bit uncomfortable because we you know we want to have our

fun. We want to be part of the group. We want to do all these different things.

But the thing is is I'm not standing here telling you today giving you a list of

things you can't do. What I'm telling you is that if you do what God wants

you to do then you're going to have a freedom and a joy that's going to be

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