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. I'm talking to you this weekend about thoughts and words, and Pastor Mike came and told me

something that blessed me this morning. He said, a lady came up to him last night and said,

I prayed on the way here that Joyce would talk about the mind because I need it so bad.

And so I don't know if anybody else prayed for that, but you're getting teaching on the mind and the mouth.

And last night we just kind of got started about how important it is.

And I want to talk to you today about what do you think and what do you say about yourself?

What do you think of yourself? You know, we all have a relationship with ourself. Did you know that?

And if you don't have a good relationship with yourself, you're not going to have a good relationship with other people. It's really very simple when you break it down.

You can't give somebody what you don't have.

And so I tried and tried for years to love people

because I was hearing in church, we need to love each other,

we need to love each other, and I just really was having a hard time doing it it and then God revealed to me that I could never love other people until I learned to love

myself and so if you're blaming yourself for anything that's from this moment

backward I want you to forget it and let it go because that's what

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