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, Healthy Living, Spirit, Soul, and Body. We may think

that God is concerned only with our spiritual health. When the truth is, he cares about every

single area of our life, physically and mentally too.

So how do we take care of our complete selves?

Today, Joyce shares how, with God's help, we can learn to make new habits that will lead us to a

healthier, happier life.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Listen, if you know you need to lose some weight, I don't need to stand up here and tell you that, you already know that.

But I'm just telling you, forget dieting.

What? Yes, forget dieting and get a healthy lifestyle.

You don't need a diet, you need a healthy lifestyle.

And you don't need to do it just so you can lose weight. You need to do it

so you can take care of yourself so you can feel good so Jesus can do what he wants to do

through you. If you can get people a clap for this, you can get them to clap for anything.

You guys, Christians are professional clappers.

I feel like we're at a comedy club this morning.

All right.

Everything is permissible, allowable, and lawful for me, but not all things are helpful.

You know, I'm not talking to you about things that if you want to get three hours

sleep in night, it's not going to send you to hell, but you're going to feel lousy

while you're on your way to heaven.

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