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

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Burnt, but Not Bitter.

When we hold on to feelings like rejection, betrayal, and disappointment, they can make us feel bitter and focused on the people who have hurt us.

If we aren't careful, we can get stuck in our pain,

unable to move forward and robbed of the freedom that comes through forgiveness.

Today, Joyce wants to show us how, with God's help,

we can choose a lifestyle of forgiveness and trust him to work out our hurt for his good.

Now here's Joyce with today's series, Burt, but not bitter.

Let your test become your testimony.

Everybody likes the testimony.

We overcome the enemy by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony.

And it's good to be able to testify to the veracity and the truth of God's Word.

I love to be able to tell people what God's Word has done in my life, and I absolutely love the Word, and I believe with all my heart

that there's power in God's Word. I think they're just like little power

pellets. And I didn't get around to this in the second teaching, but I know we talk about

being hurt and then being healed and then being ready to help people. But on a practical level,

how does the healing come? If you say to me today, Joyce,

I really want to be healed, but I don't, other than asking God to heal me, is there anything

else that I need to do? And I can tell you two things that I believe with all my heart

will make changes in your life. First of all,

studying God's word yourself. Now, we always hear read your Bible, read your Bible,

but I'm going to tell you that I think you need to do more than read. I think you need to study.

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