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,

pressing in and pressing on.

To press is to push beyond opposition.

It means leaving the comfort zone and doing whatever it takes to attain what God has for us.

We must let go to grow.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Matthew 7, 13, and 14 are a couple of really great scriptures.

It says, enter through the narrow gate.

For wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction and many are those

who are entering through it. I want us to take enough time to understand this. He says, I want you to go

through the narrow gate and you're going to see in the next verse, it says, but the narrow gate is

contracted by pressure.

That's the amplified translation. And the way is straightened and compressed

that leads away to life. And few there are who find it. So it's easy to stay on the broad

path. God told me once on the broad path,

there's room for all your fleshly baggage.

You can just take it all with you.

You can just be carnal and walk on the broad path.

And a lot of times people still get into heaven.

You get into heaven because you believe,

not because you do everything perfect,

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