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 Right and Wrong Mindsets.

We can learn to think positively about absolutely everything.

It takes practice saying no to negative thoughts.

But when we replace Stinkin' Thinking with the Word of God, we'll start winning the

battlefield of the mind. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. All right, anybody ever

have any trouble with their mind? Nah. Nah. Well, you know, right thinking can enable you and wrong thinking can disable you.

It's amazing what you won't do if you think you can't. I mentioned that my mom knew that my dad was

abusing me when I was growing up, but she never did anything about it.

And 30 years after I left home, she finally found the courage to say something to me.

And she said, I'm sorry for what I let your dad do to you.

I didn't think that I could face the scandal.

And I didn't think that I could take care of you and your brother.

So her thinking, her wrong thinking, her wrong mindset ruined many lives.

She could have just as easily said, I believe I can do this and taken a step of faith

and trusted God and things could have turned out differently

for a lot of people. Now, things have turned out good for me. I stuck with God and fought through

a lot of things, but I had a brother nine years younger than me who sadly ended his own life.

And things could have been different for him, but he never had the right kind of training

growing up, and he got on drugs when he was 17, and on alcohol, and just never could get

free from it.

So it's very important that we realize how much our thoughts affect our actions, our attitudes,

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