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.

Let me ask you a question.

Why do you believe what you believe and why?

And why do you not believe some things that you ought to be believing and why? For example, a lot of people have a real problem believing that God loves them unconditionally. I was one of those people. I grew up being abused by my father and so anybody who ever said they love me just hurt me or used me. And I didn't even have a good concept of what love

was and certainly not any kind of unconditional love. So I married the first guy that came along when I

was 18 because I thought nobody would ever want me and he had more problems than I did if that was

possible. And so we just gave each other problems and were separated more than we were together.

And he'd run around with other women and ended separated more than we were together and he'd

run around with other women and ended up going to prison.

So I just had another five years of pain and torment.

I didn't know how to love anybody.

I didn't know how to receive love.

Well, when Dave Meyer came into my life and Dave and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary

this year.

When Dave came into my life, he really did love me and he knew how to love because he was a strong,

spirit-filled Christian, but I didn't know how to receive love. And so through my relationship with God, I learned what love is. But when I first started

preaching publicly, I remember praying and asking God what he wanted that first message to be

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