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 My Favorite Scriptures.

The Bible has made all the difference in Joyce's life, taking her from a barely getting by unhappy mindset to having a real, joyful, abundant life in Christ.

And she wants us to experience this same life-changing power from God's Word in our lives, too.

In this teaching series, Joyce shares the key scriptures that led to major turning points in

her walk with God.

Her hope is God's Word will also inspire us to dig into the Bible and have our own

firsthand encounters with God that

brings us closer to him.

Now here's Joyce with the series My Favorite Scriptures.

God did not give us a spirit of fear, but he gave us power, love, and a calm, and a sound

mind.

So the devil brings fear for the sole purpose of trying to stop us

from going forward. So you can do it afraid. The Bible doesn't say that you can't shake,

that you can't sweat, that you can't tremble. It just says fear not. And fear not means to keep

moving when you feel fear courage is forward motion

in the presence of fear you're kind of i'll give you an example first major speaking engagement that

i had at least it seemed major to me at the time.

There were 900 people there, but it looked to me like 9 million.

And I wasn't even teaching in one of the main sessions.

I was one of the workshop speakers.

And, you know, people got to choose what workshop they went to,

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