Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching on the power of thank you. Every moment we are given is a gift from God.

While we're not always in control of the circumstances, we can choose to have a thankful mindset,

living each day full of joy and trusting that God is fulfilling the

ultimate purpose of our story. Today, Joyce wants to encourage us to have a grateful heart,

for when we actively practice Thanksgiving, it will be the key to finding freedom from

bitterness and fear, and embracing God's best for us. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I want to talk to you today about an unselfish attitude. Do we have any selfish people here today? I see one hand way up and a few kind of like

I think it's one of the biggest battles that we fight.

I know for myself, growing up in a household of abuse,

sexually abused by my dad, and he drank a lot, and just everything was about him.

He was a manipulator and a controller, and he was violent.

He would come home drunk and slap my mother around

and sometimes even beat her up.

And he abused me sexually for about 15 years on a regular basis.

My mother knew about it because I told her,

and then one time she caught him, but she just

was so afraid of him and not being able to live life on her own. And so basically, I never had

anybody really take care of me.

I went to work when I was like 13 years old

and my father never wanted to,

he wouldn't buy my class ring,

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