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.

Genesis 16-1-2-6, now Sarah Abrams' wife had born him no children, and she had a female

Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

And Sarah said to Abram, behold, now, the Lord has prevented me from burying children, so go into my servant,

and it may be that I shall obtain children by her.

And Abraham, listen to the voice of Sarah.

Now, men, I think there's a boatload of times when you need to listen to your wife.

But this is one of the times that Abrams should have said, lady, you are nuts.

You would think that any woman would have better sense than to give her husband another wife

and think that was going to work out.

Now, just to be fair, there was more of that that went on in that culture,

and it was not totally unheard of for a woman who was barren

to maybe try to have a child through one of her maid servants.

But it still was a dumb idea, because it never works.

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