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 study on the book of Colossians.

Being a Christian doesn't offer us a life without problems, but God promises us something even better,

his grace and strength to rise above our circumstances. The book of Colossians is truly a manual for understanding everything we have in Christ.

In this unique Bible study, Joyce will show us how Colossians is our guide to becoming more like him

and reflecting his love, joy, peace, and stability to the world around us.

Now here's Joyce with the study on the book of Colossians.

Then the Bible talks about in Colossians 1, 19, and 20.

Let's look at verse 20.

And God purposed that through and by the service

the intervention of him, the son, all things.

That includes your thing.

All things should be completely reconciled back to himself, rather on earth, in heaven,

as through him the father made peace by means of the blood of the cross.

From the moment that Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, actually,

before they ever sinned because God already knew what they were going to do. God already had a plan

to reconcile everything back to him. God had a plan for man and the devil is not ever going to be

successful in permanently messing it up.

The devil stole my childhood. I never got to be a kid because as long as I can remember I was being

abused. I didn't, I missed something.

And sometimes when we've missed something, we feel cheated.

We feel that, well, that wasn't right.

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