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. The best example that we

have in nature about transformation is a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. I mean, it's just, I just think

it's a wonderful example that God's given us. When you think about being a worm crawling on the

ground to one of the

freest, most beautiful butterflies, no two are alike. And that's us. No two of us are alike.

Okay, now, you may know this, you may not, but when it comes time for that

transformation, somehow or another, the caterpillar knows it's time for change. Now, some of you

may have been feeling that. Something's got to change.

Something's got to change.

God's dealing with me.

I feel like there's change coming.

Well, I think the caterpillar must feel that in some way.

And so when God is dealing with you,

sometimes you've got to withdraw from society a little bit.

You've got to not do all the usual things that you do, and you need to maybe closet up with God a little bit more and find out exactly

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