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.

John chapter 5, verses 2 through 8. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool in

Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades are like opening

these little porches. So there was this big pool and there was this edifice built around it that had

all these different gateways or doorways into this pool. And once a year an angel would come and stir up the waters,

and whoever got into that pool first, if they were sick, got healed.

Once a year.

And so in these porches lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed.

Now, one man was there who had been there for 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he'd already been there a long time, he said,

do you want to be healed? Now, isn't that an odd question? But see, there was more to it.

I mean, Jesus was really saying, do you really want to do what's going to be required

to get your life straightened out?

And so, can I just pat you on your beautiful little head today and say the nicest way that

I know how to, are you ready to do what you're going to need to do to get your life straightened

out?

It's going to take more than your pastor laying hands on you and praying.

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