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.

You know, when I was teaching 20 people in my living room floor,

I could preach then just like I do now.

And I used to watch people on television, preachers on television,

and I remember thinking, well, I don't know why God's got me stuck in my

living room. I can preach better than that. Well, that was why I was stuck in my living room.

It wasn't that I couldn't preach, but I had an attitude. Come on. I'm talking to you. You know, you may sit out there and think, well, I applied for a job on the worship team,

and they didn't hire me, and I can sing better than anybody up there.

Well, until you lose that attitude, you'll keep sitting right where you're sitting.

Because God is much more concerned about our attitude and our

character than he is what we can do to impress people.

So a lot of times if you know that you're real gifted and you don't understand why God's not

using you, maybe you better real gifted and you don't understand why God's not using you,

maybe you better do a character check. Ask yourself, how do I treat people? How am I when it comes

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