Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will share how we can discover who God made us to be and live authentically.

God has given each of us unique talents and abilities to fulfill his purposes for our life, but we may not recognize them right away.

We may be feeling pressure to live up to

someone else's expectations, or we might be comparing ourselves to people around us. But there's

good news. God loves us just the way we are. Today, discover how to let God use all of us,

both our strengths and our weaknesses, so we can be transformed by him and used to do something

more wonderful than we could ever dream.

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

Do you know how many people there are that are Christians that sit in churches year after year after year

and do not have one ounce of victory in their life?

I know because I was one of them for many, many years. I loved the Lord.

I went to church. I did church work. Served on the church board. Our life revolved around church.

But I tell you what, at home, I was a nightmare because I did not really know how to access

the life that Jesus died to give me. And in many ways, I was not

obeying God. I wasn't a terrible person, but I wasn't really the kind of person that I should

have been. And so God says tonight, listen, whatever it is that I've told you to do, do it.

Just do it.

Because everything that God tells us to do, it's not for his benefit.

It's for our benefit.

Once we figure that out, it gets a little bit easier to do it.

If God tells you to forgive somebody, it's not for his benefit, it's not even

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