Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Never Give Up.

Did you know the only way we can lose in life is if we quit?

The hard part is learning to keep going and trusting God, even when we're in the midst of difficulties.

When we're determined to never give up, there is no limit to what God can do in our lives.

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

I'm going to teach on the subject this weekend of never giving up,

and it's an attitude that you have to have about many different things in your life if you ever

want to see the fulfillment of your dreams. Never give up. You have to have the attitude. I cannot be

defeated and I will not quit. I cannot be defeated and I will not quit.

When I think back, and it's so good to do this sometimes, to think back at all the different things that we've gone through over the years of watching God work through us to build

what is now a worldwide ministry. Well, in the process of that, there was a lot of

things behind the scenes that had to change too, you know, because when you see something good

out front, there's got to be something that's holding it up behind the scenes. And so Dave and I were

needing to work on our marriage, and I was needing to work on my attitude, and we were needing to work on how we handled I was needing to work on my attitude and we were

needing to work on how we handled our money and all the same things that you deal with.

God just happened to call me to be in ministry, but I wanted to quit probably 10 million

times, threatened to at least half of that many times, but thank God, my testimony is I'm still here, and if you

just won't quit and you won't give up, you will have victory. The devil really tries to pound

that people to get them to give up. If somebody gives up on their salvation, it's called backsliding.

You might have a plan to get out of debt, and it gets hard, so you give up.

You might have a plan to get your physical body in shape, to get your health back,

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