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, Spiritual Maturity. We all desire

to grow closer to God and experience his loving change in our lives, but sometimes it can

feel like we're stuck in the same place, like we're not maturing in our faith.

Let's move past feeling stuck and not growing, and let's press into God's word.

Listen as Joyce shares key principles from His Word that will guide us in our walk with the

Lord so we can live out his amazing plan for our lives.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I've been in kind of a season lately of God dealing with me about some things.

And I told somebody tonight, it's been a while since I've gone through this.

I've been walking with God quite a while.

And, you know, God deals with us in layers.

Sometimes you think that you just really mastered something,

and then all of a sudden, God will come along, and, you know,

you might say, well, what do you mean God's dealing with me?

Well, one of the things when God is dealing with you

is you begin to notice things in your behavior that maybe you didn't pay that much attention to before.

So I've been hearing a lot of in my heart, well, that was selfish.

Well, you sure didn't need to say that.

And it's been kind of going on for a little while, so I'll just tell you the truth.

If you don't need this message tonight, I'll be happy to stand here and preach to myself.

Because I do need it.

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