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, Keys, to Breakthrough.

We're all created by God with unique individual talents that equip us to fulfill every dream he's calling us to.

But sometimes life's challenges hold us back from living out those dreams, and it feels like

we need a breakthrough.

On today's program, Joyce will help us discover the biblical truths we need to be set free

from these struggles and move forward to victory in Him.

Now here's Joyce with the series Keys to Breakthrough. So the first key to breakthrough is, first of all, pray.

We always pray.

That's part of everything.

And then don't just pray for God to fix it for you.

Pray for God to show you truth.

To show you what the real issue is.

And you might be thinking it's the other guy.

Come on, you know where I'm going.

You might be thinking it's the other guy,

but maybe God might want to show you that it's you.

Come on, don't make me work this hard and be sour all day.

Now, you've probably heard me tell this story, but it's worth repeating.

40-some-odd years ago, I guess about 42 years ago when I first got a real interest in studying the word.

You know, studying the word is dangerous because you start to know truth.

And boy, then when you know it, you become responsible for for it and so then you can't pull the ignorance

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