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, The Fearsome Four.

When we feel discouraged, defeated, or overwhelmed by the pressures of life,

chances are we're being hit by what Joyce calls the fearsome for.

Fear, guilt, worry, and insecurity. The devil uses

these obstacles to keep us from God's calling, but with Christ we can defeat all of them

and reach God's perfect plan for our life. Be empowered with today's teaching and learn

to embrace God's fearless for, peace, confidence, love, and courage.

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

Tonight I'm going to talk about moving beyond worry and anxiety.

Does that sound even remotely good to any person here?

How many of you have something in your life right now that you could worry about and be very anxious

about if you just didn't decide not to?

Most people do and if you don't have anything today you might have something tomorrow or the next day

and that's not like a negative comment, that's just life is real and we never know exactly what's going to come our

way but we do know God. We don't have to live in fear because he's with us and he's on our side.

I had a lot of bad things happen to me in the early years of my life and I got to the point where

I was afraid of bad things happening. Proverbs 1515 calls that evil forebodings, where you just kind of have this sensing around

you that you're waiting for the next disaster.

And I've learned instead of doing that to expect something good to happen in my life and

to expect it on purpose.

You can choose your own thoughts. You don't have to just think

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