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.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step.

Fear will fill your mind with so many negative things about what's going to happen.

If you dare try to do that, it's sad to say,

the larger percentage of people never fulfills their destiny, which means they're never really

fulfilled and feel complete inside because they live in fear.

And I think a lot of times that we have a lot of subtle fears in our life, things that

have been there for so long that we don't even really, really realize that they're there.

You can't see yourself in yourself.

You have to learn to see yourself in Christ.

You don't go around saying, oh, I'm just a mess, I'm just a big mess.

I never do anything right.

No, you say, I'm redeemed and justified.

God's living in me and he's working in me.

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