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. How many of you can just think of just a few things right now, that if you really, I mean, if you really wanted to, if you would just swallow a little of that pride, be a little less stubborn, yeah, I'm going to go talk to these people. You guys are...

They're scaring me over there.

They're not... How many of you can think of just a few things that maybe if you would be willing to do in your home?

That may be just... that maybe if you would be willing to do in your home, that maybe, just maybe, you could have a little more peace than what you have now.

If you just be a little willing to do.

Okay, so if you know what you could do, and you won't do it, there's only one reason.

Peace is not important enough to you.

Peace is not important.

See, there was a time of my life when peace was not important enough to me for me to make the change.

I would have rather been right and been upset all day.

Now, what kind of dumb is that?

Let me ask you.

I mean, just what brand of dumb is that?

And so then I had headaches all the time, and I was going to the chiropractor, getting my neck adjusted all the time.

I didn't know how to let people be who they were.

I was determined everybody was going to be like me.

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