Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer. On today's

program, Joyce will be teaching us how we can embrace courage and face our fears. Fear, it's everywhere

and affects all of us. Fear is the enemy's favorite tool to keep us from pursuing God's good

plan for our life. The enemy wants fear to rule

our lives, but it doesn't have to. When we open our hearts to God and embrace courage, we can face

fear head on and do it afraid. Listen as Joyce helps discover a life of freedom by recognizing,

confronting, and conquering our fears today.

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

Mark 522, and I want you to try to insert yourself in this story.

Sometimes we just read these things, we don't really think about it.

As I go through this, I want you to pretend like you're here and you're seeing all this.

One of the rulers of the synagogue, J. Iris by name,

seeing Jesus fell at his feet and implored him earnestly saying,

My little daughter is at the point of death.

Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be made well in a life imagine the intensity

of this man's prayer my little daughter is almost dead but i believe you will you come and lay

your hands on her so she might get well well jesus was full of and so it says he went with him.

But there was a great crowd that was following them,

because there were crowds that followed Jesus everywhere that he went.

And in that crowd, there was a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years.

And she'd been to every doctor.

Nobody made her any better, and it had cost her all the money that she had.

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