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 Galatians and Philippians.

Galatians is all about God's amazing grace.

We'll learn how the power of the Holy Spirit is what enables us to do what God asks of us, not our own strength and effort.

Meanwhile, Philippians teaches us about joy, not our own strength and effort.

Meanwhile, Philippians teaches us about joy, and how true lasting joy comes only through faith in Jesus Christ and serving others.

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

For at least two years now, I've been on a mission to try to get people to change their thinking a little bit from

reading the Bible to studying the Bible.

See, we hear all the time, you need to read your Bible, you need to read your Bible.

And that's good.

Reading the Bible is good.

But most of us have a tendency to try to read as fast as we can and conquer material.

Somehow another, the more we read, the better we feel about ourselves for that day. But God doesn't care how much we read.

What he cares about is what do we learn.

And the only way that we're really going to learn and retain

is not by just rushing over something, reading it,

to say we've got our Bible time in for the day,

but it's to study. Like in Romans 12, chapter 12, there are 12 different lessons in that one chapter

and you'd probably never know that unless you actually took it verse by verse and wrote down what you're learning

out of there. And so I started doing some teaching out of the books of the Bible, and I'm turning

them in to books to be sold. The first two will come out next spring. One's on Ephesians and one is on

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