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 The Courage to Be Different.

It's okay not to fit in with everyone in today's society. In fact, the Bible

is full of people who refuse to follow the crowd. We must be bold enough to stand up

for what's right no matter the cost.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Today I'm going to teach about the dangers of being a people ple her. Bring it on, right?

At least that's what I'm going to teach on this morning this afternoon.

I've got something equally good, but we're not going to tell

you about that either. So this is a unique area because we do want to please people and there's even a scripture that tells us

that we should live to please people, but we have to be careful that pleasing people doesn't mean then that we end up not

pleasing God. So there's nothing better than helping people serving people doing things for other people

It needs to be an active part of all of our lives nobody here should have the attitude

Well, I'm just gonna do what I please and I don't care how it affects

anybody else. But we have to realize that there are people in the world that will take advantage

of us. There are people that are manipulators and

controllers and users and abusers and we have to watch out for those kind of people

but we also have to make sure that we don't have the

disease to please to where we are so afraid of being rejected that we will

always do what somebody else wants us to do no matter what we want or no matter what we feel that we should do.

Some of you have a real problem with this, some of you maybe not so much, but I can't see that everybody in the room

could not benefit from this message today. So, Father, we thank you for helping us

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