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

On today's program, Joyce will share how we can discover who God made us to be and live authentically.

God has given each of us unique talents and abilities to fulfill his purposes for our life, but we may not recognize them right away.

We may be feeling pressure to live up to

someone else's expectations, or we might be comparing ourselves to people around us. But there's

good news. God loves us just the way we are. Today, discover how to let God use all of us,

both our strengths and our weaknesses, so we can be transformed by him and used to do something

more wonderful than we could

ever dream. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. I just wonder how many people, each one of

you know, that you can say, I 100% believe that I could tell this person anything, and they would

not tell anybody.

I have a feeling not too many would have a real long list.

And the sadder thing is, some of you would have nobody.

There would be nobody that you could say, I just, I know that I know that I know, that they would not tell anybody.

I wonder how many people take medicine for anxiety or depression or

some other kind of emotional difficulty that would not dare tell anybody.

Because that particular area

has a stigma attached to it

really like no other.

We wouldn't have any problem telling somebody you're taking blood pressure medicine.

Are you taking medicine for whatever, you know, anything? Diabetes or heart medicine or a lot of things,

but we sure don't want to tell anybody we're taking medicine for

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