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. Proverbs 3, 5, through 7 is a wonderful group of scriptures,

trust in the Lord with all your heart and mind, and lean not to your own understanding.

I'm sure that many of you have something that you could certainly stay up all night

and try to figure out. And it's possible that if you've been here since last night, maybe you haven't

had an opportunity to have meals with friends, you may have discussed what you should do with them.

Well, what do you think I should do? You've tried to figure out what you should do. Now you're

asking other people what you should do. I you're asking other people what you should do.

I don't know why we keep going to people.

Most of them don't even know what they're doing,

let alone be qualified to tell us what we should do.

Amen?

We need to go to the throne, not the phone, when we got a problem.

Thank you. not the phone when we got a problem trust the Lord with all your heart and mind lean not to your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path be not wise

in your own eyes I know this statement's been around a while, although for some reason it missed me and

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