Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series enjoying successful relationships.

God wants to bless us, but we must get along.

Because where there is unity, there is blessing and anointing.

So it's our job to learn how to set aside our own agenda

and serve one another through love. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. I'll tell you what,

I had a lot of one-sided relationships in my life, people who used me. They took and put nothing back.

And about five years ago, I got tired of that.

And I thought, I'm either going to have real friends or I'm not going to have any.

I'm not going to hang out with takers.

I'm not going to hang out with users.

Now I'll hang out with them long enough to try to help them to be an example to them.

But we have no real relationship if there's no doing.

That's why love is not theory and it's not talking.

It's not a sermon that everybody can say amen to and they'll go home and do nothing.

Church, if we're ever going to get anything we've got

to get this do you understand we've got to get this and not just to amen boy sister joy sure

preached a good message tonight no we got to get this you got to go out of here and you got to start saying, my God, I need help.

Teach me. Read every book you can get your hands on on love. Take every scripture you can find in the Bible about love and helping other people and being a servant and write them out in long hand.

Don't use your computer this time. Write it out in long hand.

It gets in you better if you sit and do it.

It takes more time.

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