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, Battlefield of the Mind.

Our thought life is the battlefield where the enemy tries to overwhelm and control us.

If we let our thoughts go in a wrong direction, our actions follow.

Whether it's worry, insecurity, anger, or fear, the enemy uses our thoughts to try and rob

us of the peaceful and fulfilling life Jesus' sacrifice to provide for us.

The battle is fierce, and that's why it's important we renew our mind daily through God's

word.

In this series, Joyce will share practical steps about how to

fight the battle in our mind and replace negative thoughts with confidence, peace, and security.

Now, here's Joyce with the series, Battlefield of the Mind.

Okay, open up your Bibles and get yourself out some note paper and get ready to make the devil mad because you're going

to find something out that maybe you didn't know. Proverbs 423. Lord, we thank you for the word.

We pray that people's minds will be renewed and their eyes will be open to the truth in Jesus'

name. I'm calling this message tonight, what's been on your mind lately? You know, if we would

really take a little inventory of what's been on our mind lately, we could quickly make a connection

between what's going on in our life and what's been going on in our mind.

I went to church for years and years and years and years and

and nobody ever told me my thoughts had anything to do with my life.

I had no idea that I could think my own thoughts or choose my own thoughts.

I had no idea that if I was thinking something that wasn't correct,

that I didn't have to keep thinking it.

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