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 how to succeed at being yourself.

God created each one of us to be different.

He knows all of our faults and weaknesses,

yet still loves us exactly as we are.

When we begin to understand God's unconditional love and who we are in Christ,

then we can stop trying so hard and just enjoy each moment as it comes.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I beg you in view of all the mercies of God to make a

decisive dedication of your bodies. I'm in Romans 12- presenting all your members and faculties as a living sacrifice.

He doesn't want dead animal sacrifices.

He doesn't want dead works. Guilt is a dead work. He doesn't want all that dead stuff. He wants a

living church, living sacrifices, people living the life that he died to give him.

Living sacrifices, holy devoted, consecrated, and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable,

rational, intelligent service and spiritual worship.

So God doesn't want all those silly sacrifices.

What he wants is you. He wants you to come to him and say here I am

God do with me what you want to. I give you my hands I give you my feet I want to go

where you want me to go I I give you my eyes, look at people through me, I give you my mouth, speak to people through me,

I give you my finances, I give you my time, I you myself here I am I offer myself as a sacrifice to you I

don't know what you want to do with me but whatever it is do it. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that God's

going to give you some big pulpit worldwide ministry. Everybody thinks they

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