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. What is a wounded soul?

Well, first of all, I want to start by telling you a little story about me and Albuquerque,

where we happen to be today.

56 years ago, I was abandoned by my first husband in this town in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I was sexually abused by my father for many years,

always really felt like nobody would ever want me or love me.

And so the first young man that paid any attention to me,

I grabbed him up because I thought I'd never have anybody.

I knew down deep inside it wasn't right when I did it, but desperate people do desperate things

and desperate people do stupid things. Amen? So we got married. I was 18. I think he was 19.

And he was a used car salesman and back then

they would pay people to like if somebody here wanted a certain kind of car and there was one of them

in St. Louis or wherever the car dealership here would pay somebody from there to drive the car here.

And so that was part of how he made money, was he would drive cars to places.

Well, the plan was he was going to drive that car here, and then he was going to work at the car lot and I was going to get a job and we were going to live happily ever after.

So we checked into a motel and I don't remember where this was.

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