Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will share how we can discover who God made us to be and live authentically.

God has given each of us unique talents and abilities to fulfill his purposes for our life, but we may not recognize them right away.

We may be feeling pressure to live up to

someone else's expectations, or we might be comparing ourselves to people around us. But there's

good news. God loves us just the way we are. Today, discover how to let God use all of us,

both our strengths and our weaknesses, so we can be transformed by him and used to do something

more wonderful than we could ever dream.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Well, I am so glad that you're back with us this morning.

We're talking about being authentically and uniquely you.

And last night I talked about the importance of being truthful and, you know, how we have such a

habit of when people ask us how we are always saying, oh, I'm fine, I'm good, praise the

Lord.

And, you know, a lot of it's because we, number one, I guess in pride,

don't want anybody to know that we're having a problem, but number two,

and equally just as important is we don't really feel like that people will keep our secrets.

And that's something that I really want to start impressing on people's

that we really need to learn how to

how to keep what people tell us to ourselves.

And we really shouldn't even have to be told not to because everybody's story is theirs to tell.

And so I'm going to go on with the second half of the message now called embracing your

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