Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Enjoying Successful Relationships.

Our relationships are such an important part of our lives. We prefer all our relationships to be positive,

but what about those who bring us stress or just kind of get on our nerves?

How can we be in a relationship with them?

Thankfully, God's Word is filled with the answers we need to have healthy relationships,

no matter how those around us behave.

Today, Joyce will share some of the ways we can all work toward having more joy and peace with everyone in our lives. Now here's Joyce with the series

enjoying successful relationships. 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,

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