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.

See, when I was back in the situation where I just felt like that I was unloved and unlovable

and I had all this shame-based nature because of what had been done to me. The only time I ever got

any kind of compliment was when I accomplished something, so therefore I thought the only way I could

get God's love was to work and earn and accomplish something. So I didn't really believe that

other people love me, and I really expected them to reject me. The night that Dave proposed

to me, I thought he was going to break up with me.

I kept wanting to go home and he said, well, you know, I've got something I want to ask you before, someone I want to tell you before you go. He kept wanting to go sit somewhere and talk and I thought, I just get it over with. I know you're going to break up with me, just get it over with. and they ended up asking me to marry him.

Well, but how many of you know what I'm talking about?

When you have that kind of inferiority-based complex,

you don't really expect people to love you,

so you end up acting obnoxious,

because you believe that you are.

You know, David, I only had five dates, and he asked me to marry him.

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