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 the book of Philippians.

We all desire to have more joy in our lives, but there are many things that can easily discourage us.

God has given us tools in his word to overcome this disappointment.

One of those tools is the book of Philippians.

It is full of principles for living a victorious Christian life.

It also contains practical advice for everyday living, and most of all, it's a book about joy.

Be encouraged as Joyce teaches from Philippians chapter by chapter and guides us deeper into the

word. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. And I want to share with you that I had a very

good opportunity to practice my servanthood just this last week. And Dave gave me that opportunity.

Dave just is so kind to me.

He makes sure that I follow after the Lord.

Well, what happened was he hurt his back.

And of course, that wasn't funny at all.

But, I mean, he like, something just went out of place, kind of like over here,

and he's fine now, but, I mean, he couldn't get out of a chair for like 30 minutes. And then

when he finally did get up, he had to lean on me, and I'm not just like big enough to really lean on.

And so I finally got him to the

recliner and I put it back but I almost put it back too far and he was like, wow, wait a minute.

Ira, that was payback for something he did to me one time after I had surgery. And he almost dumped me in the floor head first backwards.

But with ice and taking some of leave, he got some relief, but he still couldn't do certain things.

So now, I had to put on his undies, put on his pants, put on his socks,

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