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. And I recall one time I tell this story,

I was feeling guilty about something. I mean, it was something different every day, but I always

felt guilty about something. And I think part of that got

started in my life when I was a very little girl and my dad was sexually abusing me. I thought

something was wrong with me because he was doing it. And so I always felt guilty, even though it

certainly wasn't my fault, I felt guilty. So I think I literally became addicted

to guilt. It was like I didn't feel right if I didn't feel wrong. I didn't even think it was

right to feel right about yourself. I almost thought it was godly to feel wrong about yourself. And I think religion can give you

that impression that you always should feel like a lowly worm that's nothing. And certainly,

you can't feel good about yourself. I love to think about the Apostle John,

always referring to himself as I am the disciple that Jesus loved.

I can't even imagine how the other disciples, especially Peter, took that.

I mean, John wrote the book of John, and in that book, he refers to himself as,

I am the disciple that Jesus loves.

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