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, Blessed in the Mess.

Choosing to trust God despite our circumstances is the answer to everything.

This doesn't mean we sit back and do nothing while God fixes all our problems.

It means we can live with joy and be a blessing to someone else while he works things out

in his way and in his perfect timing.

If we tend to God's business, he will take care of ours.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I found myself thinking today, well actually last night when the building, we couldn't get in the building.

You know, that kind of stuff's discouraging for me.

And I thought, and I found myself thinking, am I just going to work my whole entire life?

Now, oh, trust God and do good.

Trust God and do good.

Trust God and do good.

Come on, I'm just being real with you.

Doubt is going to come against you.

Thoughts are going to come against you.

But we have a choice. We have an option.

We can trust God. We don't have to spend our lives confused and miserable trying to figure out stuff that only God knows the answers to. We can say, I am not going to try to figure this out.

I am going to trust in the Lord with all my heart and

mind. I will not lean to my own understanding. In all my ways, I will acknowledge him, and he will

direct my path. Now, I'm not suggesting that we go around being stupid. I mean, I always say, God, if there's something you want to show me, show me.

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