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.

Philippians 2, 5 through 8, have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

who though he was in the farm of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but he emptied himself by taking on the farm of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

And being found in human farm, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death

on the cross.

Now, can we even begin to comprehend how challenging it must have been for Jesus, who was and is God, was here before the foundation of time,

involved in creation, all-powerful, all-knowing, to empty himself and be willing to come here and do what he did for us.

It would be like me saying, you know, I really am concerned about all the ants in the world.

And so I'm going to become an ant so I can save them.

That's a terrible way to try to explain it, but maybe it helps in some way get it across.

Jesus was called the Son of Man and the Son of God.

In other words, he was a man, just as human as we are, filled with God.

He brought God to earth and put on a human farm.

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