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. All right, I want to start

in Luke chapter 19, the first eight verses. And Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. And there was a man

called Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, and he was rich. So this is telling us that Zacchaeus was

not a real honest guy. Tax collectors were probably hated more than any

other group of people in those days. And so he not only collected taxes, but he obviously

got rich himself by taking other people's money. Maybe something about Zechias wasn't satisfied

with his life because he'd heard about Jesus and he was trying to see Jesus, which one he was,

because Jesus was coming and it says he could not see him because he was small in stature.

Now, let's just be plain.

That means he was real short.

Okay?

And now, you know, like Dave can see things that I can't see.

And he has a habit of laying things on top of stuff that's, like he might put something on top of a shelf that I can't

even see the top of and and he'll say sometimes well don't you see that and I'm like no I can't

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