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.

Okay, I'm going to tell you a secret. You're not going to like this part, but here it comes

anyway. If you want to have real victory, you're going to have to be willing to hurt a little

bit.

And see, the Israelites didn't want to hurt, and we don't want to hurt. So the devil gives us nine different ways to get out of hurting.

And, you know, even if you just take complaining, you know, if you're going through something

and you just keep your mouth shut about it and you're just talking to God about it and not murmuring

complaining, it's hard.

It's like there's no relief valve for the pressure in our soul but if we can just tell

somebody how bad we got it and how bad we feel and oh my gosh if they if they would just feel a little

sorry for us now the flesh is like you got your fix and then you go around the

mountain one more time i mean if you agree it's hard when you're hurting just to say god i just

want to get through this and get it over with and so i'm going going to just talk to you about it, not grumble and complain.

There's all different kinds of suffering, but we, I just, I'm very concerned because it seems to me like,

and of course it's not everybody, there's a lot of you out there that are very strong and

you stand firm and you stand your ground and you're awesome,

mature Christians, but I think we all know

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