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.

The word offense comes with the Greek word scandalon, which meant the part of the animal

trap that the bait hung on that lured the victim into the trap.

That's what offense is.

It's Satan's bait.

He baits people.

He tries to get them offended, so then they can get bitter, so then they can get resentful,

so then they can get a full- then they can get a full blown case of unforgiveness

then love can't flow and where there's no love there's no power your faith won't work without love

galatian says faith worketh and is energized through love you're not going to get your prayers answered

I don't care how much faith prayers you pray you're not going to get your prayers answered if you're

mad at your spouse all the time mad at your boss mad at your neighbors mad mad mad we got to get that

stuff out of our lives so we can have power because there's only power where

people choose to live in agreement.

Come on now.

And I realize that we can't always help how we feel about people.

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