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, When God, When?

Waiting. When we find ourselves living in a season of waiting, it can be frustrating.

We may struggle to keep our patience and want to try to make things happen on our own.

We may even go to God and ask him, when are you going to answer this prayer?

No matter how long the wait, God always has a good plan at the right time.

Today, Joyce wants to encourage us that choosing to trust him in those waiting times

will prepare us for when God's answers do come.

Now here's Joyce with the series, When God, when.

You feel like you're hurting so bad,

you feel like your guts are going to fall apart.

You don't appreciate hearing somebody else's great testimony.

Come on, be honest.

So even with giving your testimony, there's a time.

I mean, you know, if somebody looks like they're about to fall over dead with the flu,

that's not when you should tell them that you started to get it last week and God heals you.

That's the time to have a little bit of compassion.

Amen?

And so I pretended like I was real happy for him and when he left, I went through myself across my

daughter's bed and I cried and cried and cried and cried.

And when I got up from that bed, I said, Jesus, I don't care if I ever see one result.

I will continue to tithe and give offerings until the day you come back to get me.

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