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. I love what the Apostle Paul said. I have learned how to be all

things to all people, whatever it takes to win them. And I think instead of learning how to be all things to all people, we're trying to change all people

to make them like us.

God's the potter, we're not.

And you probably have somebody in your immediate family that you need to go home and let off the potter's wheel.

Because you've been trying to remold them and refashion them into what you'd like them to be long enough.

And they are tired of it.

And just to get real blunt, if you keep it up, they're going to end up not liking you at all.

People are created by God for freedom and liberty and the expression of that liberty.

And this whole pride thing comes into play here

because for some reason

we all think

that we're the ones that are right.

And everybody who doesn't think like us,

do it like us,

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