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, When God, When?

Waiting. When we find ourselves living in a season of waiting, it can be frustrating.

We may struggle to keep our patience and want to try to make things happen on our own.

We may even go to God and ask him, when are you going to answer this prayer?

No matter how long the wait, God always has a good plan at the right time.

Today, Joyce wants to encourage us that choosing to trust him in those waiting times

will prepare us for when God's answers do come.

Now here's Joyce with the series, When God, When.

I want to talk to this afternoon about the different seasons in our lives and how to discern

when a season in your life is changing.

You know, there's nothing worse than hanging on to something that God's done with. Amen. And, you know, just because you've done something

for 10 years or 20 years and it's been God the whole time, that doesn't mean that God can't

suddenly get done with it and want you to go in a different direction. And so I'm just

going to tell you a story and maybe help you understand a little bit about what you can watch

for when it's time for a change in your life.

First of all, let me say when something is changing in your life, when it's obvious that

there's a change. Maybe there's a change at your workplace and there's nothing you can do

about it. You don't like it, but they're changing something and it's going to

affect you and you can either sit there and be unhappy or you can go along with the change.

Well, I heard this one time and I think it's very good. When something is changing, the first thing

you need to do is change your mind about the change. See, because if

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