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. Having a healed soul, being right on the inside, having peace and joy are the most valuable

things that you could ever have, and that's what our world is missing.

I've made this journey, and I'm still making it every day, so it qualifies me not only as a teacher

of the word, but because I've lived through this and experienced it, to tell you that there's no devil

in hell that is big enough to keep you from the best that God has for you if you're determined

to have that best and if you if you're determined to have that

best and if you will do your part.

I want you to make a decision today that you are not going to live your life wounded and broken.

Amen?

And you're not going to live your life with a chip on your shoulder because you had a bad

beginning and feeling sorry for yourself because you didn't get all the breaks that everybody else got.

Number one thing we've got to learn today, no matter how you got to where you are,

let's just say that not one bit of it was your fault,

which is probably not accurate, but let's just say that none of it was your fault, that you, the life you have right now, the mess you're in right now, is all because of things that other people did to you.

And I'm sorry about that, but step number one toward wholeness is right

now, today, you have to take 100% responsibility for your life and where you're at. It may not be

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