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, Trust God and Do Good.

The answer to everything is that simple. Trust God and do good.

It's so freeing to believe God has everything under control because that means we can spend less time

worrying and more time trying to help others. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

So now, we're ready for my first message on choosing to trust God. Trust is a choice.

You say, well, I want to trust,

but I'm just having a hard time with it.

Well, see, you do trust something.

You're either trusting yourself or you're trusting the world

or you're trusting your job or the government

or your bank account or somebody else that you know.

We do trust something, the point is is we

need to get spiritually smart enough to know what to trust and what not to trust or

who to trust and who not to trust. We may give a certain amount of trust to people

but don't ever give the trust that belongs to God to another person.

Because although we can trust other people to some degree,

we can trust ourselves to some degree,

God is the only one that we can completely trust,

totally trust, and say, I believe that you will always take care of me.

Now, right away when I say there's probably some people that are thinking, well, wait a minute,

I trusted God and he didn't come through for me. Well, let's just back off a little bit and look

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