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.

I was talking about peace earlier,

and I didn't even know what peace was until I married Dave,

and after watching him be stable and constant for a few years,

I thought, I want that.

I don't want to be up and down, and every time my circumstance change, I'm, you know, getting mad all the time and throwing fits. I mean,

I wanted peace. Well, I prayed for peace. Oh, God, give me peace. Give me peace. And nothing changed. You know why?

Because Jesus said, I leave you my peace. Now stop allowing yourselves to get upset and disturbed.

So he's already given us what we need. We have to activate it and call on it.

And it took me a few years, but I got determined that I was going to live in peace.

And so I started, the first thing I started doing was paying attention to what upset me.

I had to kind of back into my problem.

Because, you know, sometimes you just mad and you're angry before you even really know what's happening.

And so you maybe have to kind of back into it and say, what's the root of this problem?

What's going on?

See, I believe some people, just because they're grieving over something they lost 20 years ago,

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