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, What is Love? Most of us say we love

a variety of things. We love food. We love our pets. But what is real love? Joyce will help answer

this question in today's program as we learn what the Bible says

is real love, and will be encouraged to put love into action, especially with those people

in our lives who may not be that easy to show love too.

God's love towards us never fails, and because he loves us, we can choose to love others.

Now here's Joyce with today's

teaching. I'm teaching on love this weekend, and I got all the way through page one of my

notes last night. So we have got lots of ground to cover today.

Matthew 546 says, if you only love those who love you, what reward will you get?

Even tax collectors can do that.

And he picked on tax collectors because they were among some of the most hated people back then.

So Jesus is saying, I don't want you just to love the people that love you back.

I want you to love the people that are hard to love.

Yeah, you don't sound too interested in that.

What is love?

Well, God is love.

And many times when I have my thank you session in the morning, which I've made a habit

out of doing it every morning now, first thing when I get up, and I don't even start

trying to pray or asking God for anything until I first tell him everything

I'm thankful for.

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