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, Battlefield of the Mind.

Our thought life is the battlefield, where the enemy wants to overwhelm and control us.

Whether it's worry, anger, fear, the devil will use our thoughts to try and rob us of the full and

peaceful life Jesus' sacrifice to give us. The battle is fierce, which is why it's important we renew

our minds daily through God's Word. Today, Joyce will share practical steps on how to fight the battle

in our mind, replacing negative thoughts with confidence, peace, and security.

Now here's Joyce with the series, Battlefield of the Mind.

Mark 424 says, and he said to them, be careful what you're hearing.

The measure of thought and study that you give to the truth that you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge it comes back to you and more besides will be granted to you who hear.

Now, I believe that we need to meditate upon the word of God and I really don't know how many people really do that.

I've been walking strongly with God for 29 years and was a Christian a long time before I really got into a real

committed, dedicated walk with God. And you know there is a difference. You can be a lukewarm

Christian or you can be a red hot on fire Christian

You can be a kind of sort of one foot in the kingdom one foot in the world Christian who lives like the devil all week and goes to church on Sunday

Thinks that makes it all better or you can really be a committed up your eyeballs Christian

Who's putting everything on the line

Amen when I finally got to that point

29 years ago because that was when I decided I was going to have victory. I started learning

the Word of God. But you know what? Even now, 29 years later, I have to meditate on the

word on purpose because that's not what's going to just naturally

normally fall into your mind.

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