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.

Join Joyce today as she teaches from

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. Oh my goodness, if you ever start feeling bad about

yourself, just go to Ephesians 1, 4, and 5,

and you'll get over your bad mood quickly. He says, even as in his love, he chose us,

picked us out for himself. Everybody say, God chose me. Now say, he picked me out. Isn't that

wonderful? He picked you out as his own in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be

holy consecrated and set apart for him.

That is what God wants for us.

But he never expects us to produce anything that he doesn't first give us.

God wants us to love other people, but he loves us first.

He wants us to love him, but he loves us first.

So you've got to spend a fair amount of time receiving, receiving, receiving, receiving from God

before you start trying to do something, do something, do something.

You need to get healthy on the inside before you get into a bunch of works trying to do something

when you don't even know who you are yet. He loves us. He loves us. He loves us. Then in verse six,

he says, we are made acceptable in the beloved. I love that. I was rejected a lot in my childhood

and went through a lot of the pain of rejection throughout

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