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, Spiritual Maturity. We all desire

to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in our lives, but sometimes it can

feel like we're stuck in the same place, like we're not maturing in our faith.

Let's move past feeling stuck and not growing, and let's press into God's word.

Listen as Joyce shares key principles from His Word that will guide us in our walk with the

Lord so we can live out his amazing plan for our lives.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

All right, we're talking about spiritual maturity, and I'm assuming that we all want to grow up

in God. Is that a right assumption? If you were here last night, did you get anything out of

that message that you thought would help you.

Okay, well today I want to talk about removing hindrances.

What are some of the things, let's just say a person says, well, you know, I do want to be spiritually mature.

I do want to be everything that God wants me to be, but something just seems to be stopping me. Something seems to be

hindering me. So today we're going to talk about how we can get rid of some of these hindrances

in our life. Actually, I would have preferred to call the message, is you're well stopped up.

But people might not understand that later

if it's just laying out on the resource table,

so people get this better.

So Bible says out of your belly

shall flow rivers of living water.

Now, I would like you to think about something

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