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

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching about change.

This time of year, we all take stock and evaluate the changes we like to make in our lives.

Today, Joyce is here to remind us that as we trust in the Lord, he is able to change us from the inside out.

So be encouraged as you seek him to do a new thing in this new year. Now, here's Joyce with today's

teaching. Second Corinthians 5, 20, and 21. We are Christ ambassadors, and I like the amplified translation of this better, so I'm going to ask them to put that up.

It says, we are Christ's personal representatives, and he is making his appeal to the world through us.

Second Corinthians 520.

So we are Christ ambassadors.

God making his appeal is it worth through us.

We as Christ's personal representatives beg you for his sake to lay hold of his divine favor and be reconciled to God.

God is making his appeal to the world through us.

Wow. You don't have to have a reverent in front of your name to be in ministry.

Everyone, if you're a Christian, you're in ministry.

You're in full-time ministry because that means everywhere you go, you represent Christ.

You get to be nice to people.

Loving, forgiving.

Forgiving.

I have a story that I tell that I think makes a good point.

We had done a conference in St. Louis,

and I'm always tired after the conferences,

and back then I was doing

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