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 Bible study on the book of Galatians.

We all desire God's love and to be right with Him.

While we may try to earn that love or achieve perfection, the truth is there's nothing we can do to achieve it.

But there is one answer God has given us, His grace.

God wants us to experience his freedom in every area of life.

And on today's program, Joyce will show us through the Book of Galatians how we can exchange

our trying for trusting and rely on His grace to become everything he has created us to be.

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

So we have to be careful about works of the flesh because works of the flesh produce one thing and one thing only, and this is it.

Thank you. it. Every single time you feel frustrated

is because you're trying to do something

that you can't do by yourself.

I don't care if it's trying to open a jar of mayonnaise.

And I've had times where Dave would be sitting in the next room.

Now, I don't like this anymore.

I've gotten smarter.

But I was going to get it open.

I was not, I'm opening this. And I would beat on it and pound on it

and get out everything. And you get frustrated. It's like, ah. Well, we get like that about so many

areas of our life. We're so frustrated because we can't change ourselves. We hear a message

on the power of words and we go home and we're going to, bless God, I'm not going to say anything

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