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, overcoming grief, and loneliness.

Encountering loss is an experience we'll all face at some point in time.

It may be the death of a loved one or the severing of a close relationship.

Any kind of traumatic event can bring heartache.

It's vital that we work through the pain and find new life ahead.

Today, Joyce wants to help us on our journey to healing and remind us that even when we don't

feel it, Jesus is closer than we can imagine.

Now, here's Joyce with the series series Overcoming Grief and Loneliness.

First of all, I want to just give you a few statistics.

2005, there were 4,132,000 births,

2,415,000 deaths.

That means that 2,415,000 people lost someone that they love. Now, there might

have been a handful of those people that didn't have anybody that cared about them, but almost

everybody has connection with somebody. When we have a loss in our life, we lose a loved one,

or we lose anything that's precious to us. It could be a job

you've had a long time. It could be a church that you've gone to a long time that went sour

and you got disappointed. Maybe something happened with your investments and you lost your

retirement. He lost a good friend.

I mean, there's always things that we're losing. Sometimes it's a loss of reputation.

But when we do have a loss in our life, it can make us feel very lonely. Sometimes we feel

that nobody really understands. I think one of the hardest

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