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. Matthew 1344. The kingdom of heaven is like something precious buried in a field, which a man found and hit again.

Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has

and buys that field.

Wow, he's found something that's worth everything else he's got.

Come on, I want you to get this today.

Again, in case we missed it the first time, the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is a

dealer in search of fine and precious pearls, who on finding a single pearl of great price went and sold all that he had.

What are we willing to sacrifice in order to have the relationship with God that he's offering us and to have

peace and joy. Now you know we're going to get into each one of these areas in detail, but let's just skip

ahead to tonight for just a minute and let's just take peace.

You know, about 15 years ago, I just decided I'm not going to live without peace. You know, about 15 years ago, I just decided I'm not going to live without peace.

Just not going to.

And I decided the world's not going to change, but I can adjust. So one of the things that I don't do anymore is

drama. I don't do drama because it steals my peace and so that means that I don't run around

with nearly as many people as I used to and the ones I do run around with I don't do drama.

And now you know bad day occasionally I can handle that.

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