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, Right and Wrong Mindsets.

We can learn to think positively about absolutely everything.

It takes practice saying no to negative thoughts.

But when we replace stinking thinking with the Word of God, we'll start winning the battlefield of the mind.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Responsibility means to respond to the ability that God has placed in you,

or to respond to an opportunity that's put in front of you.

I wonder how many opportunities we miss in life.

How many times God invites us to do something and he has to go find somebody else to do it

because it's not a convenient time for us.

We know that Abraham was called by God out of the place where he lived to go to a place

that God would show him, which was the promised land, the land of Canaan.

But do you know that before God called Abraham to leave and go do that

before he gave Abraham that opportunity, he gave that same opportunity to Abraham's father

but let me show you what he did.

In Genesis 11, 31, through chapter 12, verses 1 and 2,

Tara took Abram his son and a lot the son of Iran, his grandson,

and Sarah, his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife,

and they went forth together from Er of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan

but when they came to Iran, they settled there.

He didn't go all the way through with God. He got tired along his journey or whatever

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