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.

If you define the word hope, it means a favorable and a confident expectation.

What are you expecting?

I had a lot of bad things happen to me in my life growing up.

I lived with very negative people and a lot of dysfunction and alcoholism and sexual abuse and

ranting and raving and screaming and yelling and fear.

So I developed what the Bible calls evil forebodings and I didn't even really know what that was,

but I sure had them. I didn't know they had a name, but I had them.

And what it was was this vague feeling all around me all the time.

It was with me all the time that something bad was going to happen.

What's going to be the next bad thing that's going to happen? What's going to be the next piece of bad news?

What's going to be the next disaster?

What's going to go wrong next?

And I didn't even realize that I lived like that, but it was the way I grew up.

And so I continued in my adult life with that feeling about me all the time. And then as I began to study the word

and began to learn that God wanted me to have peace and he wanted me to have joy, I started to

recognize that feeling that was around me. And I didn't even really know what it was. But God

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