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. The best

example that we have in nature about transformation is a caterpillar

becoming a butterfly. I mean it's just I just think it's a wonderful example that

God's given us when you think about being a worm crawling on the ground to one

of the freest most beautiful butterflies. No two are alike and that's us. No two of

us are alike. Okay now you may know this you may not but when it comes time for

that transformation somehow or another the caterpillar knows it's time for

change. Now some of you may have been feeling that something's got to change.

Something's got to change. God's dealing with me I feel like there's change coming.

Well I think the caterpillar must feel that in some way and so when God is

dealing with you sometimes you got to withdraw from society a little bit. You

got to not do all the usual things that you do and you need to maybe close it up

with God a little bit more and find out exactly what it is that he's trying to

to say to you and so this caterpillar crawls up on a branch or the back

side of a branch somewhere and spins a cocoon around itself which I think is

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