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 series, Spiritual Maturity. We all desire

to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in our lives, but sometimes it can

feel like we're stuck in the same place, like we're not maturing in our faith. Let's move past

feeling stuck and not growing, and let's press into God's word. Listen as Joyce shares key principles

from his word that will guide us in our walk with the Lord so we can live out his amazing plan for

our lives. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. Everybody has emotions,

well, at least most people do. Some people you think could use having a few more, but we're going to

start with the people who just have an abundance of them, and they tend to be led and guided by them rather than being guided by the Spirit.

So our emotions do not tell us the truth.

They tell us how we feel.

Your mind doesn't necessarily tell you the truth unless it's been totally

renewed by the Word of God. Your mind and my mind tells us what we think. And so probably more

than anything else, people tell me and they tell you and when you're talking to each other,

you talk about and I talk about

what we want, what we think, and how we feel. I want, I think I feel. Well, interestingly enough,

all of that, unless it's closely guided by the Holy Spirit, is part of what the Bible calls the flesh.

What I think doesn't necessarily tell me what God thinks or what his word says.

What I feel doesn't necessarily tell me what God would have me do in a situation.

And what I want may not be what God wants. Now, we improve in those areas,

the more we study the word, and the more we learn to walk according to the word. But I can tell you,

even after being in church many, many years back in the 70s when I got into what I call a more

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