Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Never Give Up.

Did you know the only way we can lose in life is if we quit?

The hard part is learning to keep going and trusting God, even when we're in the midst of difficulties.

When we're determined to never give up, there is no limit to what God can do in our lives.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Well, we're talking about never giving up, and that's very, very important because if we give up,

then there's not much God can do. We have to stay in the

program and sometimes fight that good fight of faith and stand our ground and have an attitude,

and your attitude is yours to command that something nobody can direct but you. Have an attitude

of, I'm going to finish my course. I'm going to enjoy the journey

I'm going to fulfill my destiny and everything that Jesus died for me to have, I'm going to have it.

Not a little of it, not half of it, not 80% of it, everything that Jesus died for me to have,

I'm going to have it.

If you don't have that attitude, then the devil will steal from you.

Now, today we're going to talk about defeating doubt and unbelief.

And let's start in James, chapter 1, verse 8.

James 1, verse 8 starts out talking about trials and tribulations.

And you know, sometimes, I mean trials come for different reasons, but sometimes they're

just a result of our own poor choices, our own lack of wisdom, just doing foolish things that we shouldn't be doing.

Does anybody agree with that?

That you do have the ability to get your own self in trouble.

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