Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching on the power of being thankful. Every moment in life

is a gift from God. While we're not always in control of the circumstances, we can choose to have a

thankful mindset, living each day trusting that God is fulfilling his purpose for our lives.

This gives us peace and true joy, regardless of the situation we're in.

Today, Joyce wants to encourage us to have a grateful heart, and as we learn to actively

practice Thanksgiving, it'll be the key to finding freedom from bitterness and embrace God's

best for us.

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

Okay, now, I started feeling like God wanted me to teach here on having a thankful attitude.

And so I always kind of look to see what I've taught, you know, the last year,

make sure I don't come back and just teach the same thing over again. And so didn't teach it last year,

but sure enough, I taught it four years ago. So then I thought, so four years ago, probably on this same night, I taught a message on being thankful.

And so at first I thought, well, you know,

I probably better not do that.

And then I thought, yes, I'm going to do it.

Because anybody who doesn't need at least one message every four years on being thankful has got a problem.

So we can't talk about being thankful if we don't also talk about complaining. The C word. And grumbling and fault finding. And I know none of you do that,

but if you want to buy the CD tonight, you can order a copy of it and give it to all your

grouchy friends. But I want to say this, and I'm not just saying this to be saying it.

I believe that what you hear tonight, if you really take it into your life and you put it to work

in your everyday life, I believe it has the power

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