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. But I actually want to start tonight in Colossians chapter 2,

verse 7, which says have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him.

Everybody say in him.

Now, Paul talks a lot in the epistles about being in him, in him, in him, in him.

And so we really need to understand what that little amazing phrase means. What does it really mean when we say we are in

Christ? He uses the word roots here. The roots of your being should be deeply and firmly planted

in him. We know that when a tree is deeply rooted, that storms don't easily

destroy a tree like that. And so he's using that analogy that, and we're going to go to our

scripture in Jeremiah in a minute that actually

talks about how when a tree is planted the storms of life, not only don't blow it over,

but it continues to bear good fruit. And see, that's what we need as believers, no matter what's

going on in our personal lives, the way that we're going to show the world that we're

different and that being a Christian is actually beneficial is if they see us sometimes going

through some of the same things that they do, but we still have joy, we're still walking in love,

we're still patient, we still have joy. We're still walking in love. We're still patient. We still have

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