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

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, calm down and cheer up.

The Bible is full of scripture describing God's love for each one of us,

and it tells us how, through salvation in Christ, we can know true joy.

But keeping our joy isn't always easy when the difficulties of life creep in.

So how do we remain calm and cheerful when circumstances are worrisome?

Today, Joy shows us practical ways we can calm down and choose God's joy in every situation.

Let's discover how his peace and joy can transform our lives.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. I started yesterday talking about calming down,

and I mentioned just how good even that word sounds, calm, saying it, makes me feel calm.

There's so much turmoil in the world and so many things

that people can be angry about and upset about.

But I have some good news for you today.

Just because you have something to be upset about

doesn't mean you have to be upset.

I wanna say that again.

I just thought of that right before we started this program.

Just because you have something to be upset about

doesn't mean you have to be upset.

And maybe that's the first lesson we need to learn

because, I mean, I know parents who think

they're not even good parents if they don't worry about their kids. But that's not true at all.

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