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 center everything gets better be

encouraged today as joy shares how we can pursue God first and grow a deep

satisfying relationship with him now here's Joyce with today's teaching if you

just let God be God don't ever put yourself somewhere because if you put yourself somewhere you will have the job of

keeping yourself there if god puts me he keeps me if god orders it he pays for it i don't have to

live under pressure all the time if i wait on God. But if I go my own way,

then I get to take care of myself along with it. Some people are so antsy to get married.

Gotta get married, got to get married. Oh, I know. It's Sam. It's you. It's you. It's you.

Just anything to walk down the aisle and they marry the wrong person don't listen to God

don't pay any attention to peace and then spend the rest of their life being sorry

wait on God wait on a divine connection follow peace not the flesh stay where God wants you to stay. Don't you dare leave some place just because you don't want to be there anymore. Amen? Stay where God's got you until God tells you it's time to go. Amen? And then some of you need to get out of some places that God told you to leave a long time ago,

and you're still there because you just are addicted to it and you just want to be there.

Oh, well.

Stop digging wells and have no water in them.

Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain, that build it.

You know, the interesting thing about that scripture is it doesn't say we can't build it we can do it I mean we can come up with

something that's a substitute for what God would have given us if we would have waited

unless the Lord builds a house they labor in vain who build it.

I can build it, but it still won't satisfy me.

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