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. If you just think about the ocean, which is very deep,

there can be a terrible, terrible, furious storm on the surface of the ocean.

Waves beating about, wind blowing, but down deep in that water is just as calm and peaceful as it can be.

And that's the way our lives can be.

No matter what's going on around us, deep inside, we can stay calm and peaceful

if we have our trust in God.

He got up, rebuked the wind and the waves and said,

Quiet, be still.

Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

And he said to his disciples, why are you afraid?

Don't you have any faith?

And they were terrified and asked each other,

who is this that even the wind and the waves obey him? You know, Dave's stability, after we got married,

I didn't really know what calm was and peace. I'd lived in turmoil as long as I could remember.

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