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, Life is What You Make It.

If we want to have a great life, we must learn to do things God's way.

We're all created with free choice, but if we're obedient to following his word, he will give us the desires

of our heart. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. If you want to be spiritually mature,

which the Bible says that we are all called to be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ.

That's our goal.

I want to be like Jesus.

I want to handle things the way he handled them.

I want to have his attitude.

I want to treat people the way he treated people.

That's our goal. And you know, we fill our prayers with stuff that we want and things we

want God to do for us. And if you study the Apostle Paul's prayers that he prayed, he never asked

for one material thing for himself or anybody else. Everything he asked for was something spiritual.

And we need to forget all the stuff because if we're doing things the way God wants us to do

them, we don't have to chase stuff, it'll chase us.

Amen? I mean, it'll chase us. Amen.

I mean, and that's just the truth.

I've lived it, I know.

Patience, wow.

Well, you know, patience comes from a Greek word

that says that patience is a fruit of the spirit that only grows under trial.

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