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 Fearsome Four.

When we feel discouraged, defeated, or overwhelmed by the pressures of life,

chances are we're being hit by what Joyce calls the fearsome for.

Fear, guilt, worry, and insecurity. The devil uses

these obstacles to keep us from God's calling, but with Christ we can defeat all of them

and reach God's perfect plan for our life. Be empowered with today's teaching and learn

to embrace God's fearless for, peace, confidence, love, and courage.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

This weekend, I'm going to do a series called, I just stuck this title on it, The Fearsome Four,

because I think that there are certain things that really have a tendency to be used by Satan

to try to really make us miserable and destroy our lives.

And so I'm going to teach you on four different things this weekend.

Fear, worry, guilt, and insecurity.

Fear, worry, guilt, and insecurity.

And I believe that fear is involved in every single one of them. Of course, fear is

involved in fear. But worry is just the fear that our needs are not going to be met, that we're

going to have lack in our life and have an unsolved problem. Guilt is fear that whatever we've done

wrong is something that we cannot overcome and it's going to affect us

and we're going to have to deal with it the rest of our lives.

And insecurity is just a fear that we're not okay.

We don't measure up to what we feel that we should be or the message that the world has

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