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.

Love is patient but it only grows under trial that's why the Bible says when you

have trials you should be exceedingly joyful knowing that the trying of your

faith work as patients and when you're patient fully patient then you are

fully mature and you're perfect and entire lacking in nothing. One

translation says wanting nothing. Can you imagine how much peace you would have

if you wanted nothing and you were satisfied with whatever God gave you?

My goodness the discontentment can drive you crazy. Amen?

It's patients under undeserved affliction. Patients and well-doing. It's a fruit of

the spirit. It perfects Christian character. It may involve waiting but patients

is not really waiting. It's how we behave while we're waiting.

Dave does better than me. I'll just tell you. He's better than me.

Being patient during trials we talked about that. Being patient with people's

weaknesses we talked about that I'm not doing it again. I got to get past page one.

Being patient with yourself. Ephesians 1-6 has been confident of this that

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