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.

How many of you are going through some things right now?

Well, see, we have stuff too, you know. I had, in the last three years, I've had both of my

hips replaced. It's kind of nice now. You can get replacement parts, you know. And that's cool. So, you know, you go through a healing process and blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, I've been having a little issue with this one, and so they don't think it's my hip. They think, now it could be something with my back. I've been having trouble with sciatic nerve. This morning getting ready to come over here, I had just pain going down the back of my leg. Well, you know, my life's not perfect either, but I have to apply the same principles to my life

that I encourage you to apply to yours. You don't, you know, you don't get a pass from problems

just because you're preaching the word. Matter of fact, you get attacked more than if you weren't doing anything.

But you know what? We do have authority over the enemy, and although he comes against us one way,

he'll flee before us seven days. I had an interesting thing last week. I mean, I'm not trying

to make more out of this than what it is. It's just I like to make a joke out of things sometimes, but I went out to take my morning walk,

and my driveway was fine, and when I came back, there was about a four-foot snake laying in my driveway.

And, you know, I don't do snakes.

And so I still had part of my walk to go, and Dave wasn't home.

I called my son who lives around the corner, and he wasn't answering his phone.

I texted him, he wasn't answering his phone.

I wanted somebody to come and get this snake, because I'm thinking, now, by the time I get back from my walk,

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