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. Have you ever seen a

believer that was once really strong with God start getting off track? And it's a little bit,

little bit, little bit, and then all of a sudden somebody said, I have no idea what happened to

them. Well, you know what? It didn't just happen overnight. It happened a little here,

little there. That's exactly what's happened in our country.

You know, how did we get from where we were, being the kind of nation that we were, to where we're at today?

Well, it didn't just take, you know, the devil is patient. Come on, he takes his time.

He will work in our lives a little bit, a little bit, a little bit.

And that little bit lie is one of the lies you have to really watch for.

Now, I know sometimes this gets a little bit uncomfortable because, you know, we want to have our fun.

We want to be part of the group.

We want to do all these different things. But the thing is, is I'm not standing here telling you today, giving you a list of things you can't do. What I'm telling you is that if you do what God wants you to do, then you're going to have a freedom and a joy that's going to be worth a whole lot more than anything you think you had to walk away from to get it.

And you know, we've got quite a few young people here today.

And, of course, we're all young.

I'm young, we're all young.

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