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'd 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.

First Corinthians 10, 9.

We should not tempt the Lord and try his patience to become a trial to him.

You think you got trials?

I'm sure God looks at us sometimes and thinks I've got trials.

Putting up with a few billion grouchy, murmuring, complaining kids who no matter what I do, they're never happy.

Do not exploit his goodness as some of them did and were killed by poisonous serpents.

Now you've got to see how important it is.

Nor should we discontentedly complain as some of them did and were put out of the way entirely

by the destroyer.

Now there's another scripture here that says these things are written down for our

instruction.

The Israelites and their little journey through the wilderness,

which was an 11-day journey but took them 40 years,

and most of them never made it.

And it wasn't the Parasites, the Hivites, the Jebusites,

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