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.

Three or four years ago, I started wanting to walk, for exercise, but I only had, I can only walk about 20 minutes and my

groin would lock up on me. So long story short, found out I needed a hip replacement. My hip

joint, the ball of it was oblong and the joint was round. And so I'd had back problems for years and years

getting my back worked on all the time well here it was my hip so I got the hip replaced right hip

it was this one not this one and then I was able to walk while I worked up to walking five miles

every day well then and I didn't even really realize this probably until two or three weeks ago,

I got real legalistic about it.

I walked if it was raining.

I walked if it was freezing.

I walked if I was tired.

I walked if I didn't feel good. I walked. Nothing was going to keep me from walking.

And my family would say, Mom, you just did a conference this weekend. You should take off on Sunday.

I'm walking. Well, I'm a goal-oriented person,

and I'm very disciplined, and so I thought, I've got a goal, I'm reaching my goal. Well, then eventually I had to have the other hip replaced. Then I had to have a back surgery.

And then I started, I just was, I was having some problems.

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