Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series Spiritual

Maturity. We all desire to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in

our lives, but sometimes it can feel like we're stuck in the same place, like

we're not maturing in our faith. Let's move past feeling stuck and not growing and

let's press into God's Word. Listen as Joyce shares key principles from his

Word that will guide us and our walk with the Lord so we can live out his

amazing plan for our lives. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. I'm gonna

start with a story that anytime I use this story I pretty much always close

with it, but I thought I'm gonna do it backwards tonight I'm gonna start with it.

Sometimes I just like to shake things up a little bit, amen? So maybe you've

heard me tell this story maybe you haven't. It's a little bit lengthy so you'll

have to be willing to be patient and pay attention. Father we thank you for the

Word and I pray that everybody here tonight will be convicted but that nobody

will be condemned. I pray that we will hear things that we need to hear and make

decisions we need to make in Jesus name, amen. A couple went into an antique shop and

they saw a very beautiful, I mean a really beautiful magnificent little

teacup sitting very high up on a shelf in the store and they just fell in love

with it. That is the most beautiful teacup I had ever seen. We have to have this

teacup. While they were admiring the teacup all of a sudden the teacup began to

talk and it said you know I have not always been like this. There was a time

when nobody would have wanted me. There was a time when I was not attractive at

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