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 word, we can experience the good plan he has for us. Now, here's Joyce, with today's

teaching. Matthew 7, 1, and 2, do not judge and criticize and condemn others. Now, pay attention

to those words. Do not judge and criticize and condemn. Do not judge and criticize and condemn. So that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourself. When somebody criticizes you, are they sowing or are you reaping? Was that too fast for you? Do I need to...

For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and

condemned and in accordance with the measure you use to deal out to others, it will be dealt out to you again.

Matthew 5-7, blessed, happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous with life, joy, and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation,

regardless of your outward conditions are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

I mean, there's just so many scriptures that back up this principle of sewing and reaping.

What goes in our thoughts and heart attitude shows up in our bodies.

Now remember, I'm not saying that everybody who's got

something physically wrong with you.

I mean, I hurt my back last week,

and my back's been bothering me all weekend.

I'm icing in between sessions, and I don't know of anything I did to,

except I got on the treadmill and stayed on it too long.

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