Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer. On today's

program, Joyce will be teaching us how we can find freedom from fear. We've all experienced fear,

worry and anxiety, maybe because something negative has happened to us, or maybe because we just

don't want to deal with a challenge that lies ahead.

These feelings can come in us for many different reasons, but they all have the same end effect.

They steal our joy in life, and can drain our energy if we don't confront them.

But we can find freedom from fear and anxiety, no matter what the cause.

Joyce wants us to know that with our faith in Christ, we can overcome these feelings every time.

Find out how we can increase our faith

and get the victory today.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

We've got to get delivered from the fear

of what people think and what they say.

Let me tell you, if they're not thinking something bad about you,

they're thinking bad about somebody else, so you might as well just take the hit and set

somebody else free. And really, to be honest, what can somebody's thought do to you?

Or what can their words do to you?

It's not as important as we make it out to be.

So you get a little persecution.

Now, you know, I don't even think we know what that means in this country if you want to know the truth.

I mean, really, we think we're persecuted if we

don't get invited to lunch with the group at the office. Well I'm just so down, you know,

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