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, Pursuing What Matters Most.

Our personal relationship with God sets the tone for everything else in our life.

Seeking him should be our top priority and the best way to do that is to spend time in his word.

We get to know him by learning his word and

then applying its principles to our daily lives. Now here's Joyce with

today's teaching. We're gonna have a good weekend. Let's's rope it up to Romans 1417. This is going to be our

foundation scripture for the weekend. I'm so glad that you all came and I hope you really enjoy

yourself and you just not enjoy yourself but get something really

great that's going to make a difference in your life.

After all, the kingdom of God is not a matter of getting.

We could just stop right there.

After all, the kingdom of God is not a matter of getting the food and the drink that one likes.

And I think really when he says food and drink there, we really need to expand that and just

say, you know, the kingdom of God is not about us getting everything

we want when we want it that's not what it's about. You know the the disciples in Jesus

day they thought that he had come to set up an earthly kingdom and that he was

going to put all their enemies in their place and he was going to do away with evil and he was

going to set up this throne somewhere and they were all going to get to rule alongside him.

And he tried to tell him that he came to set up a different kind of kingdom.

He said, the kingdom of God is in you.

It's not necessarily about what goes on around us, but it's

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