Welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series Keeping God

First. There is much in life that competes for our attention but there is one

who wants to be first before anything else and when we make Jesus the

center everything gets better. Be encouraged today as Joyce shares how we can

pursue God first and grow a deep satisfying relationship with him. Before she

begins we want to say how grateful we are for your support throughout 2022.

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I'm doing a series called Keeping God First. Last night we talked about the law of

first things, the law of first things, not the suggestion of first things, the law of

first things. It's just like the law of gravity it works, whether you like it to or not.

The law of first things means that the first portion of everything belongs to God.

It's not yours. It belongs to God and if you keep the first portion you're keeping

what's not yours you're actually stealing. You say well that's kind of a heavy

statement. Well that's what Malachi 3 says. Malachi 3 is talking about the

tie then it starts out saying you're robbing me. The whole nation is robbing me

and because you're robbing me you're living under curse. They say well how have

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