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, 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 sinner, everything gets better.

Be encouraged today as Joyce shares how we can pursue God first

and grow a deep, satisfying relationship with him.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Let's stop assuming we have to have a generation gap.

I've decided I'm not gonna have a gap between me and the teenagers.

I'm going to meet them where they're at and they're going to like me and they're going to like my preaching and we're going to get along great because I'm going to respect where they're at and they're going to respect where I'm at. where I'm at.

I'm tired of all this stuff.

You know, every time a new generation comes along,

now we assume we can't understand each other

and we've got this gap and that we've got all the answers

and they're just rebellious. Oh, hogwash. I've learned some of the greatest things that I've learned in the last year from my 24-year-old son and a bunch of his friends. And they don't dress like me, and they don't act like me, and they don't talk like

me, and they don't do their hair the way I do my hair. But we can learn from each other. And we need

to get over having an attitude that we're the only ones that know anything. Amen? You know, they're

trying to get me to dress a little more contemporary, and I'm dying to my outfits a little bit at a time.

Because I like everything to sparkle.

And I'm really happy about heaven because everything there sparkles.

Amen?

But the kids today, they just don't like religious, phony baloney.

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