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, Trust God and Do Good.

The answer to everything is that simple. Trust God and do good.

It's so freeing to believe God has everything under control because that means we can spend less time

worrying and more time trying to help others. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

And you know what? God finally showed me. You're no surprise to me. I knew what I was getting

when I got you. Come on. I mean, do you honestly think that you got saved and the next day?

God said, oh, no.

I sure didn't know you were going to be like this.

God is not surprised by anything that happens in our life.

The people in Nepal were surprised by the earthquake, but God was not

surprised. And you may be surprised by some of the things that are going on in your life right now,

but God is not surprised. And he already has prepared your way of escape. God has already planned the way out,

and all you have to do is keep taking some trust

and some do good.

I love this message.

Mysteries. Let's lean into them instead of backing away from them.

Verse 53, for this perishable part of us must put on the imperishable nature, and this mortal part of us, this nature that is capable of dying, must put on immortality, freedom from death.

Now just hang on.

And when this perishable part puts on the imperishable, and this that was capable of dying

puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the scripture that says death is swallowed up in and unto

victory.

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