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, pursuing what matters most.

Does it ever feel like we're chasing after something but never actually reaching it?

Maybe it's chasing after success or companionship or something else we feel we need for fulfillment.

It's not wrong to have desires, but what is our first priority?

Today Joyce shares with us no matter what we're chasing, we'll only find true joy and

peace when we pursue God first.

Now here's Joyce with the series pursuing what matters most.

All right. Romans 1417 says, the kingdom of God is not meat and drink,

but it is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. I started talking last night about how kingdom benefits

are different than the kingdom. And very often we seek the benefits. We seek what God can do for us

instead of those deeper things that he really wants us to have like righteousness knowing who we are

in christ the peace that passes understanding and joy unspeakable when you really get right down to it

what's the bottom line of what we want we want to enjoy our life don't we i mean really that's

i mean i think everybody if you could really get them to narrow it down, they just want to be happy.

And they don't want their happiness.

They have to be based on what's happening either.

They want it to be a constant, steady thing.

Well, you know what?

You never get the right thing going after the wrong thing.

Did you hear me?

That's tweetable. You never get the right thing.

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