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.

When Jesus said, follow me, he spoke the two greatest words for leadership that we will ever hear.

All a leader really needs to do is be an example for other people to follow.

Paul said, follow my example. Wow. I wonder what people would think if I stood up here and said, listen, if you just follow my example, you're going to be doing everything right. Well, you'd probably think I was full of myself and maybe I would be, I don't know. But Paul said that. Follow my example. Well, you know what? I think honestly we all should be able to say that.

We all should be able to say if you follow my example, you're going to be doing what God wants you to do.

You know, one of the songs that we sang earlier, and I noticed people kind of had a good response,

let my deeds outweigh my words. And I think that's so important. You know,

talk is cheap. And what we say can affect people, but if we say one thing and do the opposite,

it actually has a very negative effect on people. And that's one of the reasons why religious,

religion and religious people in many instances have really turned people off.

Because they can act like they're too good to even speak to anybody else.

It's not like them.

And just the very fact that they do that is a message that doesn't minister Christ's character to them. So it's very important. I think there's a lot of things that are important that we don't

think are important anymore. I think it's important that we take care of ourselves and do the best we can. I think it's important that we take care of ourselves and do the best we can.

I think it's important that we look our best when we go out and we, well, I better be careful.

I'll get myself in trouble.

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