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 enjoying successful relationships.

God wants to bless us, but we must get along.

Because where there is unity, there is blessing and anointing.

So it's our job to learn how to set aside our own agenda and serve one another through love.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

And I'm doing a series this weekend on exposing strife.

Strife is bickering, arguing, heated disagreement,

and an angry undercurrent.

The angry undercurrent is the dangerous part.

Because that's what we have when people are pretending like everything's okay.

But behind the scenes are deep down in their heart. There's bitterness

and resentment and when opportunity comes there's gossip and criticism.

And strife destroys.

Satan uses that evil spirit to destroy marriages,

to destroy all kinds of interpersonal relationships. I believe that strife is the culprit that destroys

many businesses because I don't think that we can prosper where there's no peace, many churches are destroyed by strife.

We can't have anointed services when the songs that we sing are pretty, but there's strife in the worship team.

One person's jealous of another. I should be leading worship and not you. I sing better than you. You didn't treat me right. I should have done a special special you never let me do a special

There's no anointing for people to receive the word of God

when they go and park themselves in a seat but they're judgmental are critical of the

pastor the way he does the service, the length of the service, it's amazing the things that people

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