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.

And I look back at my own life and I say I was baptizing the Holy Spirit when I, in

1976, there was a move of God going on basically all over the earth

thousands and thousands of people were being baptizing the Holy Spirit but if if I really want to be doctrinally correct, which believe it or not I do try to be,

I had the Holy Spirit, and I don't think I just had a little bit of the Holy Spirit but

the Holy Spirit only had a little bit of me.

And so half of these guys say what I'm saying now that you receive the fullness of the

Holy Spirit but you can lose some of that.

The Holy Spirit never leaves you, he's there to abide, but you can lose the full power of the Holy Spirit by living the wrong way.

So I'm asking you to make a decision tonight.

Do you, what's more important to you?

To do what you want to do when you want to do it,

to say what you want to say when you want to say it,

to think what you want to think when you want to think it,

to watch stuff that you know you shouldn't be watching,

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