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. All right, Romans 1417 says, the kingdom of God is not made and drink, but it is

righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Now, how many of you were not here last night?

Let's see if you were not here last night. How many of you were not here last night. Let's see if you were not here last night.

How many of you were not here last night are this morning?

Okay, well, just two minutes.

I started talking last night about how kingdom benefits are different than the kingdom.

And very often we seek the benefits, we seek what God can do for us instead of those deeper

things that he really wants us to have, like righteousness, knowing

who we are in Christ, the peace that passes understanding and joy unspeakable.

When you really get right down to it,

what's the bottom line of what we want?

We want to enjoy our life, don't we?

I mean, really, that's, I mean, I think everybody,

if you could really get them to narrow it down,

they just want to be happy.

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