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.

Let me tell what the word possess means,

because we like to shout about that.

Yeah, it's time to possess the land.

Yeah, well, here's what the word means.

This is enlightening.

Possess means to occupy by driving out

previous tenants and possessing in their place.

Come on, let's get this again.

When God told the Israel likes to go in and possess the land, he didn't take them in quickly, he took them the long route and the

Bible says because they weren't ready for war. See when you are determined that you're

going to possess what Jesus died to give you, you better get

ready for war. Because the devil's not going to take a nap and just let you go in and

do everything that God wants you to do. You're going to have a fight on your

hands. A wide door of opportunity opened

unto me and Paul said with it many adversaries and we need to know how to fight like

a Christian. You don't have to be frustrated, you don't have to be angry, you don't have to be worried. All you need to know is

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