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 embrace courage and face our fears. Fear, it's everywhere

and affects all of us. Fear is the enemy's favorite tool to keep us from pursuing God's good

plan for our life. The enemy wants fear to rule our lives, but it doesn't have to.

When we open our hearts to God and embrace courage, we can face fear head on and do it afraid.

Listen as Joyce helps discover a life of freedom by recognizing, confronting, and conquering our fears today.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

To be a Christian means to be a Christian, or to be a follower of Christ.

If you're not ready to follow Christ, then stop calling yourself a Christian and get the bumper sticker off your car. Amen. We're so concerned

about our silly reputation. Well, what will people think? Well, what if I'm, what if I lose my

friends? You know, I can tell you something and I don't, I don't mean to be negative or tell you something

that's going to scare you, but if you're going to fully follow Jesus, you can pretty much

figure on losing some of your friends.

Matter of fact, you might lose a bunch of them.

You could even lose all of them.

And it's not even really that they think you're wrong

because down deep inside they know that you're not,

but they're not ready to make the decision that you're

ready to make. So it's easier to find something wrong with you than to admit that maybe

they're lacking in something in their life. How many of you, when you made a decision to really

fully follow God, or even to just follow God, maybe you haven't even gotten into the fully part yet.

How many of you lost friends or family rejected you

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