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, What About Me?

It's natural to wake up with our thoughts focused on ourselves, but if we're

constantly wrapped up in only what we want, what we think, and how we feel, we'll

never be happy. True joy comes from living with a mindset focused on other people.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Well, turn to the person next to you and say,

what do you think?

Well you know the truth is is most of us would not want somebody to know what we're thinking, would we?

Wouldn't it be scary to think about your mind actually being a movie screen.

Ooh, that would not be so good.

But you know, what we think is extremely important, especially what we think consistently.

Now I'm not saying that every little thought that floats to your mind becomes a reality in your life, but certainly things that we think consistently,

the Bible actually says in Proverbs 23-7, as he thinks in his heart, so is he, or as he thinks in his heart so is he or as he thinks in his heart so does he

become so I like to put it a different way where the mind goes the man

follows we all know that if you think about something where the mind goes, the man follows.

We all know that if you think about something long enough,

like your favorite dessert, you're probably gonna go get it.

Even if you have to get in your car and make a trip, it's amazing if we think about something

long enough how it affects all of our emotions and all of our desires and, or if you think

about what somebody did to you that hurt you for a long period of time,

pretty soon you're going to be upset, you're going to feel nuts in your stomach, you're going to

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