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. Ecclesiases beginning in verse 1, chapter 1, verse 16.

I know it's in here, there it is.

That's right, you like it if it, well see you like it. It takes me a long time then you feel better

All right now you have to watch in here and Solomon of course was supposed to be the wisest man on earth, but somehow I think he got off base a little.

I entered into council with my own mind. Well that was his first mistake. Right there.

Say, behold, I have acquired great human wisdom. Now he's not saying godly wisdom. I've acquired

great human wisdom, yes more than all who have been over Jerusalem before me and my mind

has had great experience of moral wisdom and scientific knowledge.

And I gave my mind to know practical wisdom and to discern the character of madness and folly

in which men seem to find satisfaction, I perceive that this also is a

searching after the wind and a feeding on it.

For in much human wisdom as much vexation and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Now stick with me.

I said in my mind, come now, I will prove you with mirth and test you with pleasure.

You can have a good time, enjoy every pleasure, and this also was vanity, emptiness, and futility.

Here's a guy who had everything, he had access to everything that any of us could ever think

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