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 on the Book of Ephesians.

Are you ready to go deeper in your relationship with God?

The book of Ephesians is foundational for every believer to understand their identity as a follower of Christ.

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Ephesians chapter by chapter, helping reveal to us who we are in Christ and just how much

he loves us. Now here's Joyce with today's series on Ephesians. Verse 31, it says, for this reason

a man shall leave his father and mother and the two shall become one. It's the becoming part that we miss. It's like you leave your father and mother and it takes the rest of your life to become one. Now, you know, Dave and I get along great now, but I'll tell you what, we went through some stuff in the beginning. And a lot of it was just my rebellion. I didn't want anybody to tell me what to do. Dave actually really was one of the ones that would have been really good to me,

but I didn't even know how to let anybody love me because I brought all my junk from my past

hurts into that relationship and I was trying to make him pay for what other people had done to me.

And so I'm just encouraging you, if you've

been heard in the past, try not to bring your baggage into a new relationship and try to make

somebody else pay for what somebody back here did to you. You say, well, I'm afraid. Well, put your

trust in God. A godly marriage is a great mystery because it represents Christ's relationship with the church.

Now, I understand if it's difficult for you, but I also understand that no matter how difficult

things are, we still need to do what God asks us to do.

Now, you know, Dave and I don't agree about a lot of things and we talk things through. And a lot of times if we don't, can't make a decision we both agree on, then if it's something we don't have to make a decision on, we just won't make any decision for a while. We'll just wait on it, just let it sit for a while and wait on it, give God a chance

to change somebody else's mind. But if it comes down, preferably Dave's, if it comes,

if it comes down to a decision having to be made, then because I love God and because the Bible says that I should do it as unto the Lord,

even if I don't think it's what we should do, I will let him do it because here's what I believe.

And I want you to get this part of this message today. If you do what's right, God will always

take care of here. If you do what's right, serving God is not about doing what I want to do.

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