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 Keys to

loving your journey. In John 1010 Jesus tells us that he came and died for us so

that we can have and enjoy our life to the fullest until it overflows. So life

is a journey and we only get one chance to live it. Why then should we choose to

make it through just endure or worse hate the life we're living. Today Joyce

will share how through following the Holy Spirit we can learn to love every

step of the journey with him. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

First Corinthians 1231 but earnestly desire and zealously cultivate. The greatest

and the best gifts and graces, the higher gifts and the choicest graces and yet

I will show you still a more excellent way, one that is better by far and the

highest of them all and that is love. Love. We're not talking about the world's

kind of love. We're talking about agape, the God kind of love. And you know you know

the kind of love that God has. We can see it in Matthew 544. Let's go there. How

many of you think you need this? And you've already thought of all the people

you wish were here that aren't. Man I wish my husband would come with me

tonight. Boy does he need this message. Come on. How many of you have already

thought of somebody that you wish was here tonight? Say, well you know what I wish

they were too but the thing is is you're here and I'm here so we must need it.

Matthew 544 through 47. But I tell you love your enemies and pray for those who

persecute you to show that you are the children of your father who is in heaven.

Why does God ask us to do that? To show people that we're not normal like

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