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, Living on Purpose or a Purpose.

Each day God gives us is precious and once it's gone we can never get it back.

We can all make a decision to use our time wisely so we can accomplish all that God wants us to.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. we can you

accomplish all that God wants us to. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. Okay, here we go. How can you know the will of God?

Lord Jesus help me.

Well, first of all, I mean if we're not going to study the word

We're not ever going to know what God wants and the worst thing in the world that you can do is go to somebody else and ask them what God wants you to do.

Now I'm not saying it's wrong to get advice, I'm not saying it's wrong to get counseling, but it should really only be to confirm what's in your heart or if you are getting ready to do something really off the wall and five or six people you respect tell you not to, then that's

good to listen.

But even then sometimes, I mean everybody told me not to step out and do what I'm doing.

I mean, I got put out of my church, I lost my friends.

I mean, it was tough to obey God.

Tough. I wonder how many amazing miracles we miss in our life. I wonder how many just

flat-out astounding things God would do in people's life if we could ever get over caring what everybody thinks.

Amen Amen. Don't go to somebody else that doesn't even know what they're doing and ask them what you should do.

At least if you're going to ask somebody what you should do or what they think about a decision that you've made. You know, I'm kind of learning when people come to me for advice,

instead of just starting to pop off advice, I say, first, well, what do you think?

What's in your heart? What are you thinking that God is saying to you?

And the biggest majority of the time, they're right.

It's not that we don't know what God wants us to do. We're just kind of afraid that we don't know what God wants us to do.

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