Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word 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.

The Bible teaches us in 1st Corinthians 14, 1, that we are to pursue this love.

Pursue it, go after it with all of your might.

That's been one of the things that has helped me in studying the love walk, probably more than anything else, is to realize it's something that I have to do on purpose.

It's not something I can wait to feel like doing.

It's not something I wait to want to do.

It's something that I do.

Don't just pray for God to bless you.

Pray that God will make you a blessing everywhere that you go.

And it's fine to pray that God will bless you.

Every day I say, God, I ask you to bless me and I ask you to make me a blessing everywhere that

I go.

Don't let me go out in the world, God, and act like I don't have ears and eyes.

Help me to hear what people say,

help me to see their needs, and help me to meet those needs. We don't even really need to pray

for God to meet somebody's need if we could do it and just don't want to. Uh-oh, I better say that

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