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 How to Survive Change.

We all experience change, and sometimes it can be difficult to navigate.

But the key to transformation begins with our thoughts.

What we think can determine whether we face change quickly or it lasts longer than it has to.

And we don't have to survive change on our own.

Joyce reminds us that when we choose to trust God, we'll see He is with us every step of the

transforming journey.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Tonight we want to talk about the process of change.

How many of you want to have a change in some area of your life?

Okay.

Well, I need to back up and ask another question first.

How many of you want to change yourself?

You know, usually we have to change before our circumstances change.

Did you know that?

Did you know that?

Usually we have to change.

And many times, God's using our circumstances to drive us to him to finally get open enough

to let him do what he wants to do in our lives.

I think before we will really let God take over, we have to come to the end of ourselves.

And that takes a while because we're pretty strong. And some of us, it takes longer than others. Because we want to do it. We've got good ideas, even for God. Amen? Well, now, God, you could do this. Have you ever done that? Well, God, you could do this. Like, he really needs our advice. That's pretty silly, right?

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