Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series How to Survive

Change. We all experience change and sometimes it can be difficult to navigate.

But the key to transformation begins with our thoughts. What we think and determine

whether we face change quickly or at last longer than it has to. And we don't

have to survive change on our own. Joyce reminds us that when we choose to

trust God, we'll see he is with us every step of the transforming journey. Now

here's Joyce with today's teaching. So if I took my old beat-up dresser to a

place where they restored furniture, how would that process go? Boy. Listen, if

you've ever restored a piece of furniture, you're gonna be all over this. The

first thing that happens is stripping. They have to start stripping off all the

old layers. And boy, depending on how old the piece of furniture is, it could have

several layers of different paint or varnish. Now I don't know about you. Maybe God

deals with you differently. But let me tell you something. I have been stripped

of many things. You say, well, what do you mean? That sounds like kind of a

violent word. Come on, God is good. He never does anything except it's gonna be

good for us. Okay. Let me give you an example. I got asked to leave a church one

time because they thought I was too radical. Well, here's the thing. That was

painful. I got stripped of my church, my friends, my social life. But you know

what? I didn't have enough sense to leave.

Hello. So God just arranged for them to put me out. Because that was not where he

wanted me to be. I had some friends. I thought there were friends. Boy, I was attached

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