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.

I believe we need to enter God's rest concerning mistakes of the past.

You can't do anything about your past.

Say, he might as well leave it with God and say, if you can't take care of it, I certainly can't. And I'm not going to let my past destroy my past. So he might as well leave it with God and say, if you can't take care of it, I certainly

can't.

And I'm not going to let my past destroy my future.

I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about that tomorrow, but let me just remind you

that your past only has as much power over you as you give it.

And that may be the past of 20 years ago, or it could be something you did wrong

out in the parking lot trying to get in the building. But you have to let go of the past

in order to enjoy where you're at right now. Let me tell you something. Time goes

by so fast. And days just seem to fly by and years fly by. It's Christmas and then it's

Christmas again before we know it. And we just, we can't believe sometimes how fast life goes by.

And I thought today, you know, when you get a little bit older, you begin to, you begin to want to value your time even more than you do sometimes when you're younger because when you're in your 20s, you just think you got forever.

But, you know, we all know that even if you have a long lifespan, the time you get to be in your 40s and 50s and 60s that you've already used up a lot of your time and I was sitting in

the hotel room this afternoon and I looked at the clock and it was 6 p.m. and I thought now I got up

this morning at 7 so I've been up 11 hours. I think I'll just take a little quick inventory of what

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