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.

But I say all the time we are partners with God.

He doesn't do it all.

He does his part, and he gives us the grace to do our part, but if we're spiritually lazy, yes, I said spiritually lazy, and spiritually lazy. Yes, I said spiritually lazy. And spiritually lazy people don't want to study

the word for themselves. They want somebody else to spoon feed it to them all the time.

Well, I'll just listen to Joyce every morning. That'll be good enough. No, it won't. Yes, it'll

help you. But you know, the yes it'll help you but you know the way it would

help you the most would be if you'd take some notes while Joyce is speaking and then spend

maybe at least 30 minutes even if you just took the scriptures that I shared and got a Bible out

and looked them up yourself and read them,

it would help you.

Sometimes you don't even have to do that much.

It's just putting out that little bit of effort.

I know scriptures.

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