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,

Simple Prayer, Simple Life.

Prayer is so much easier than we think.

It's simply talking to God,

something as natural as breathing.

We can pray any time, anywhere, about anything.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Do you know that our surroundings affect us more than you might think they do?

And I believe one of the reasons why people feel frustrated is because they got piles of junk everywhere they look.

Amen.

Every single day when I come home from my office and I don't think I'm exaggerating they send me home with a shopping sack full of stuff

notes and manuscripts and things that have come in and things people want me to read and I put them in my office and shut the door and

and every once and while I walk in there and it just scares me silly it's like

And every once and while I get the courage to go in there and I found out some of it if I just leave it alone long enough the problem fixes itself and I ever even knew what it was.

Keep your surroundings organized and clutter free.

Pray that God will give you the courage to give things away.

And pray that God will give you the courage to throw things away.

If all you're doing is moving it from place to place,

you don't need it.

Another thing that you can do to simplify your life is

pray that God will help you discern between what you need to deal with and what you

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