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, Using Your Time Wisely.

We all have the same number of hours in a day and the same number of days in a week,

so why does it feel like some are able to accomplish more than others?

What can we do to overcome the feeling of

not enough and still press toward our own goals? Remember, God is always ready to guide us on how

to use our time. And on today's series, Joyce will help show us how to focus our priorities so we can

live life to the fullest with his help. Now here's Joyce with today's series, using your time wisely.

Now, we started talking last night about time and how we all have a certain amount allotted to us.

Some people live longer than others, but while we're here, we all get 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And yet some people accomplish a great deal in their life, and some people don't accomplish

much of anything.

And we're all busy.

I'm busy tagged last night, you know, I'm busy, we wore it like a badge.

We think our busyness is an excuse to not do the things that we should be doing.

And so I talked last night about how God has not called us to be busy, but he's called us to be fruitful.

And not only does God want us to be fruitful when times are easy and good, but God especially

wants us to be fruitful when times are tough and hard.

I'm going to show you a scripture in just a minute that says the person who is rooted

in the right place, which is in Christ and in his love, can continue to bear fruit in a whole year of drought.

That means you can have a whole year's worth of trouble, constant trouble, one trouble after

another trouble for a whole year, and if you're rooted in the right place in God, you can

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