Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching us how we can find healing for our souls. There

are moments in life that leave our souls wounded. The pain from these wounds can hurt so deep

that we can't let them go and move on. Instead we become paralyzed in our pain, stuck and

hurting. But there is hope. Today Joyce draws from her own history of abuse to share how

Christ's redeeming love can heal our wounds and bring true joy to our life. Now here's

Joyce with today's teaching.

How many of you actually really sincerely pray for the people that have hurt you to be blessed?

Yeah, well, we got a few holy hands up, but not very many, let me tell you.

You know, why? Because the truth is you don't want them to be blessed.

And I get that, and I'll even tell God that sometimes, you know, the Bible says that you

bless and do not curse them.

The bless means to speak well of, to curse means to speak evil of.

So that means you've got to stop retelling everybody what they did to you over and over and over and over

and over and over and over and over.

You gotta zip your lip, pray for God to bless them.

It is very hard to keep hating somebody

that you're praying for every day.

Come on, don't make me come down there.

I said, it's very hard.

You know, the best thing that you can do when you've got an enemy is send them a present.

Now, that went over big.

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