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Be sure that you pray for spiritual things first,

because no matter what you have physically, if you're not strong, spiritually,

it will actually do you more harm than good.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Well, thank you for joining me today on enjoying everyday life where we teach the Word of God.

It's the truth, the only truth that we really have,

and it's the only way that we can truly enjoy our lives.

You might have fun doing some other things,

but then the fun leaves when the thing leaves.

But if you have joy, then that comes from deep within you,

and you can have that.

The Bible says joy unspeakable and full of glory,

so you can be happy when it makes no sense at all to be that way.

God hears our prayers, and if they're according to his will,

he answers them.

That just, when you think about it, that's just truly amazing.

And so today I want to start talking about reasons why prayer is not answered, because

sometimes it's not answered, and there are some pretty simple reasons why not.

There's some that are a little more complicated,

but there's some that are just simple.

So we're going to start with prayer is not answered when people don't pray.

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