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.

There were probably even people in here tonight that when it was offering time.

You might have initially felt in your heart that you were to give a certain thing,

and then you thought about it.

And then you thought about what you're going to have to give up if you did.

And then fear came.

And so you went ahead and did something that was just comfortable.

We all go through that.

Everybody goes through that.

I mean, there's still times in my life when God will ask me to give something or do something.

I mean, I've got enough experience now with God that I know pretty much when he's asking me

to do something.

But still, if he asked me to do something that I don't really want to do, if I think about it

too long, then fear can begin to get in there about what kind of sacrifice I'm going to make

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