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, Joy and Enjoyment.

There is a way to enjoy everything we do, even while driving in traffic or cleaning up the house.

Because if we have Jesus, we have joy.

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

What are you expecting today? We have a piece of property for sale that we've been trying to

sell for a while, and somebody's looking at it this afternoon at 115, and I am expecting

that to sell.

Amen?

And you can just expect with me that I'll get a good phone call today

and say it's sold.

Amen?

Many people don't expect anything.

They just like, well, we'll see. Who knows? We'll see.

Or they actually go to the worst extreme and expect bad things to happen. And I used to be like that.

I'd had so many bad things happen to me in my life that I had a bad case of what the Bible calls evil forebodings.

I always had like this feeling in my atmosphere, what's the next terrible thing that's going to

happen in my life? And sometimes you've had so many bad things happen that you're afraid to

hope because you don't want to be

disappointed again. But hope is necessary even for faith. A lot of people are trying to have faith,

but they don't have hope. So just for the sake of making it really simple, let's just say that

hopelessness is a negative attitude

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