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, The Fearsome Four.

When we feel discouraged, defeated, or overwhelmed by the pressures of life,

chances are we're being hit by what Joyce calls the fearsome for.

Fear, guilt, worry, and insecurity. The devil uses

these obstacles to keep us from God's calling, but with Christ we can defeat all of them

and reach God's perfect plan for our life. Be empowered with today's teaching and learn

to embrace God's fearless for, peace, confidence, love, and courage.

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

Well, insecurity, it involves our thoughts. So I guess I'd like to start today by saying,

what do you think of yourself? How do you feel about yourself?

Do you compare yourself a lot with other people?

Do you feel belittled or diminished when you're around somebody that can do something that you can't do.

Even when it comes to spiritual things,

I remember being in a conference one time.

And before I got up to speak,

they asked a woman to come to the microphone

that had a real gift from God in memorization.

I mean, there are some people who have photographic memories.

The man who runs our ministry

in Russia has a photographic memory. He's just like so smart that I can't even imagine being

that smart. And he can read a whole book and always remember everything that he's seen. Well,

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