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

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series The Power of Thoughts and Words.

We all desire to be more confident, have better relationships, and want to overcome feelings of not being good enough.

But did you know each of us play a part in making those things happen?

What we think and say has the ability to help transform our lives.

Today, Joyce teaches us just how powerful our thoughts and words can affect us.

When we know how to think and talk in alignment with God's Word,

we can experience the good plan he has for us.

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

One of the worst things that you can do is talk bad about yourself.

There's plenty of other people may be doing it, but you don't want to talk bad about yourself.

Jesus paid a tremendous price, an unbelievable price,

for us to have a good life.

He's got a good plan for us.

The Bible says in Ephesians 210 that he has prearranged, pre-planned a good life for us that we might walk in it.

He's done everything that he can do.

We're not waiting for Jesus to do anything else in our life.

He's waiting for us to believe what he has done and put it to work in our life.

And I'll just tell you this, until you can stop feeling bad about yourself and really start believing that God loves you unconditionally

and that he has made you right with him, we do things wrong, but there's a difference in your

who and your do. Say, we're not human doings, we're human beings.

And so I am the righteousness of God in Christ.

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