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've been in

kind of a season lately of God dealing with me about some things and I told

somebody tonight it's been a while since I've gone through this. I've been

walking with God quite a while and you know God deals with us in layers.

Sometimes you think that you just really mastered something and then all of

a sudden God will come along and you know when you might say well what do you

mean God's dealing with me? Well one of the things when God's dealing with you is

you begin to notice things in your behavior that maybe you didn't pay that much

attention to before. So I've been here in a lot of in my heart while that was

selfish. Well you sure didn't need to say that and it's been kind of going on for

a little while so I'll just tell you the truth if you don't need this message and

I'd be happy to stand here and preach to myself because I do need it and you see

you're gonna be growing your whole life. This is not just something where you

arrive. The Apostle Paul said I've not arrived but one thing I do is by one

aspiration for getting what lies behind and pressing on to the things that are

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