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 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'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

and 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 Joyce, sure preached a good message tonight.

No, we got to get this.

You got to go out of here and you've got to start saying, my God, I need help.

Teach me.

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