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. Paul said,

not everybody is ready for meat. Not everyone who continues to feed on milk. Now everyone who

continues to feed on milk, and I love this, I hope you can get this, is obviously inexperienced

and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness.

What does he mean?

How are you, if you're still feeding on milk, why does that mean that you are unskilled in the

doctrine of righteousness?

You know what the doctrine of righteousness is?

It means that first you know who you are in Christ. He has come to live in you at the new birth,

and your identity now is who you are in him. That's where your confidence is. That's where your

trust is. You know that he loves you. He's never going to stop loving you. And then you begin to work with the Holy Spirit

to let what He's done in you be worked to the outside of you

where people can see it.

Well, that takes correction from God.

That takes chastisement.

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