Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times Best Selling Author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Blessed in the Mess.

Choosing to trust God despite our circumstances is the answer to everything.

This doesn't mean we sit back and do nothing while God fixes all our problems.

It means we can live with joy and be a blessing to someone else while he works things out in his way and in his perfect timing.

If we tend to God's business, he will take care of ours.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Alright, I'm teaching this weekend on choosing to trust God.

You know, trusting God is not something that we just wait to feel like doing.

It's something we choose to do.

You all have trust just a matter where you put it.

Have you ever spent our, let's say, wasted years in your life trusting yourself?

Found out that didn't work very good, didn't you?

Have you ever put your trust in somebody else that just really shocked and surprised you and just disappointed you and really hurt you?

Maybe you had your trust in your money and all of a sudden something happened and whoops, she didn't have that anymore.

There's so many things that people can put their trust in that's just not stable.

And you know, God loves us so much that he really won't let us keep our trust in other things

and simultaneously try to have a great relationship with him.

So the minute that you begin to get even a little bit serious about your relationship with God,

God's going to start messing in your life and touching some things and changing some things

that sometimes you would rather he stay out of.

Amen?

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