Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series The Power of Thoughts and Words.

We all desire to be more confident, have better relationships, and want to overcome feelings of not being good enough.

But did you know each of us play a part in making those things happen?

What we think and say has the ability to help transform our lives.

Today, Joyce teaches us just how powerful our thoughts and words can affect us.

When we know how to think and talk in alignment with God's word, we can experience the good plan he has for us.

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

Father, thank you for the word this afternoon,

and I pray that it's going to really sow a seed in people's minds and spirits and heart that will cause them to want to make healthy positive changes in their life.

In Jesus' name, amen.

All right, I've been talking about the power of thoughts and words.

And, I mean, the Bible tells us that we will never experience what Jesus died to give us unless our mind is completely

renewed by the word. Romans 12. And boy, that was such an eye-opener to me when I first started

studying the Bible, because I had no idea that my thoughts are my words affected anything in my life.

I mean, I went to church for years and I was never taught that.

And because of being on television, we have a lot of people from a lot of different denominations

that come to our conferences.

And I always try to remember that not everybody knows what some of us know,

that there may be people here this afternoon that have never heard anything like that.

You know, no idea that negative thoughts can produce a negative effect in your life,

whereas positive thoughts can produce a positive.

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