Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Never Give Up.

Did you know the only way we can lose in life is if we quit?

The hard part is learning to keep going and trusting God, even when we're in the midst of difficulties.

When we're determined to never give up, there is no limit to what God can do in our lives.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

The only thing that the Bible ever says to anybody who is laying down is get up,

because you certainly cannot run your race from a position of laying down.

Now, so we've established that we're not to be laying down.

Lift up your heads, lift up your hands, lift up your attitude.

The Bible says, look up for your redemption, draweth nine.

You're not going to find anything in God looking down. You've got to look up. Amen? Then the Bible talks

about sitting. Now, once again, remember that if I've been laying down,

I'm going to have to do this a lot, I can tell.

If I've been laying down and I decide, yes, I want to run my race,

I can't get from this position to standing.

I can't jump from here to standing. I have to go from this to sitting.

Then I go from sitting to standing.

Then I go from standing to walking.

Then after I walked, wow, I can run my race.

But now, you see, each one of those phases takes time,

and each one has a meaning that we need to look into.

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