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? In our world today, we hear the word

love use so freely. We love food or we love pets. But what is real love? Joyce helps answer

this question as we learn from the Bible what real love is.

We'll also be encouraged to put love into action,

especially with those people in our lives who may be difficult to show love to.

God's love 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.

And so I'm thankful for him, really thankful for Jesus.

Boy, am I thankful for the Holy Spirit that he lives in us.

I'm thankful for conviction.

I'm thankful when I sin that God convicts me of sin, that he loves me too much to just

leave me alone and let me be in a mess, but he'll correct me. Those whom God loves, he chastises.

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