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 Blessed in the Mess.

Life is full of trials. God does not promise us a problem-free life,

but he does promise us to work everything out for our good if we love him.

God allows us to go through difficult times because they make us depend more upon him.

So when things aren't going our way, trust the Lord. He is good all the time and he will

ultimately work things out better than we can even imagine.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Let's say I lived to be a hundred.

I was born in 1943, so let's say it says,

here lies Joyce Meyer.

Born in 1943. Here lies Joy Smyr. Born, 1993, died 2043.

Dash died 2043.

The only thing that really matters is what happened in the dash. And so I want to ask you, what are you

doing with your dash? And that's about, I mean, I can't believe that I'm 80. I can't believe that I look back at my life and I think I've given birth to four kids. I've had a miscarriage. I've had a miscarriage I've had 12 grandchildren I preached all over the world I made

67 mission trips out of the country

I've been married today for 57 years

mhm I'm like and I don't know how much is left of my

dash but I know what I'm going to do with it. Amen.

Come on, I want you to wake up tonight.

If you're living in some kind of sin and you know that you are, you know that what you're doing is wrong.

Get it straightened out before your dash is over?

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