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, The Book of Ephesians.

When we look at the book of Ephesians, Paul's words are foundational for every believer.

They help us to understand who we are in Christ, how much he loves us, and how we can grow a stronger,

more intimate relationship with God. So today, let's go deeper in God's word. Listen as Joyce

walks through Ephesians chapter by chapter, showing us how we can apply its truths to our lives.

Now, here's Joyce with today's series on the book of Ephesians.

In Revelation 1615, it says, Behold, I'm coming like a thief, blessed, happy to be envied

is he who stays awake, alert, and who guards his clothes.

Now what kind of a, what is that saying?

He's not saying I need to stay up at night and get a shotgun and go sit in my closet and

guard my clothes you know what god is telling us he's talking about spiritual clothing and you're

going to see what they are their righteousness peace faith the belt of truth the helmet of salvation

and let me tell you something when we put our spiritual armor on satan can see that we've got it on or that we've got it off.

And that means where the Bible says, tighten the belt of truth.

Well, what does that mean?

What does it mean to tighten the belt of truth?

It literally means that when you are in going through a trial or you're having some kind of a difficulty in

your life, man, that's when you need to hang on to the word that you have more than any other

time in your life. Because that is the truth. The truth is the word of God. And so when you,

when you've had a loss in your life, that's when you need to believe that God will give it back

to you multiplied many times over. When your kids are in trouble, that's when you need to believe

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