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 Blessed in the Mess.

Life is full of trials. God does not promise us a problem-free life,

but he does promise us to work everything out for our good if we love him.

God allows us to go through difficult times because they make us depend more upon him.

So when things aren't going our way, trust the Lord. He is good all the time and he will

ultimately work things out better than we can even imagine.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

You know, there was a time in my life

when I had had so many bad things happen to me for so long that I got to the point where I was

afraid of trouble. The Bible calls it evil forebodings.

And it says that all of our days are made anxious by evil forebodings,

by just, have you ever had so much stuff in your life that you're just kind of waiting for the next shoe to drop, you know, you're like, what's going

to happen next?

And I'm so glad I don't have to live like that anymore that now I've come all the way full center

and now I wait to see what the next good thing is.

That's gonna happen in my life.

And I did a thorough study on the word hope a few years back and found out that hope is not like the world while I hope something happens but I don't know if it will, but I hope it will.

But Bible Hope is expecting something good to happen at any minute.

It's a positive expectation that something good is going to happen to you.

And that's the way I live now. I'm glad that Jesus

completely turns us around and causes us to learn how to live completely opposite of the way we did live.

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