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. When it's time for me to go what am I what am I going to want? I'm going to want to know that I'm right with God.

Come on now.

More than anything, I'm going to want to have peace with God. I want to know that I'm right.

I don't want to have any fear of facing God.

When it comes to that point, I want to be ready to go

and not have any fear, and I'm going to want people around me that I know love me.

That's the only things that are really going to matter.

So if we spend too much time in this life,

and of course we have to spend some time on succeeding and we need to

spend some time on making money and we you know we do need to spend some time on

those things it's not wrong to want a nice house it's not wrong to want a nice

car it's not wrong to want to provide for your kids, but there's a difference in having a desire for those things and pursuing them.

The word seek, S-E-E-K, is an extremely strong word.

And interestingly enough, I looked up the word seek and every place that it's used in the Old Testament it refers to seeking God.

Every single place it's used in the Old Testament it refers to either seeking God or sometimes God was seeking people for something.

The word means to crave, to pursue, to make sacrifices to get, to go after with all of your strength and all of your

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