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 How to Survive Change.

We all experience change, and sometimes it can be difficult to navigate.

But the key to transformation begins with our thoughts.

What we think can determine whether we face change

quickly or it lasts longer than it has to. And we don't have to survive change on our own.

Joyce reminds us that when we choose to trust God, we'll see he is with us every step of the

transforming journey. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching. So if I took my old beat-up dresser to a place where they restored furniture,

how would that process go?

Boy.

Listen, if you've ever restored a piece of furniture, you're going to be all over this.

The first thing that happens is stripping.

They have to start stripping off all the old layers.

And boy, depending on how old the piece of furniture is, it could have several layers of different paint or varnish.

Now, I don't know about you.

Maybe God deals with you differently,

but let me tell you something,

I have been stripped of many things.

You say, well, what do you mean?

That sounds like kind of a violent word.

Come on, God is good.

He never does anything except it's going to be good for us.

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