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.

Look at Hebrews 4, 2, and 3.

It says that, indeed, we've had the glad tidings of the gospel proclaimed to us just as truly

as the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them,

but the message they heard did not benefit them because it was not mixed with faith.

No matter what you hear, it's not going to help you if you don't mix it with faith.

Look at verse three.

For we who have believed adhered to, trusted, and relied on God, do enter the rest of God.

Oh, hallelujah.

The rest of God, that Sabbath rest that Hebrews 4 talks about is just the most desirable place to be.

You know what happens when you've entered the rest of God?

No matter what kind of problem you've got, you're not worried about it, you're not trying to

figure it out. You know God's in control, you know he's working on it, you know he's going to

do something, you don't know what it is, you don't know when he'll do it, and to be honest,

you don't really care. I mean, you really don't. You know, I can hear it like, well,

how could you just not care? But see, faith perceives as a real fact what it does not see, and faith grabs a hold of something

with its heart, and even though Satan might pound your mind with doubts and unbelief, if

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