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 Is Love?

In our world today we hear the word love use so freely. We love food or we love

pets. But what is real love? Joyce helps answer this question as we learn from

the Bible what real love is. We'll also be encouraged to put love into action

especially with those people in our lives who may be difficult to show love to.

God's love never fails and because he loves us we can choose to love others.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Okay we've been talking about the different aspects of love and you know there's

about nine of them and I thought I was gonna run out of material and I've only done

two. Love is patient love is kind. I'm gonna try two more this afternoon I might

try to do pride and selfishness we'll see. I'm trying to get the point across

that the most important thing for us to focus on is love. Timothy said the

whole purpose of all of his teaching and instruction was to get people to love

one another out of a pure heart with a pure conscience and if I can just let

God use me to help you understand the importance of love and how important it

is to forgive people. I would say that that's one of the most beautiful aspects

of love and I'll tell you something we are privileged to have the grace of God

on us to be able to forgive people and not have to be full of hatred and

bitterness and resentment and offense. The people that you need to forgive may

not deserve your forgiveness. We don't deserve God's forgiveness. My father

didn't deserve my forgiveness. My mother didn't deserve my forgiveness but I was a

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