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deception
procrastination God told me one time
good intentions are not
obedience I’m Joyce Meyer I’ve seen
God’s power transform my own life and he
will do it for you
I was not an excellent person I didn’t
know that much about Excellence because
I had seen a lot of mediocrity growing
up and so one of the things that God
wanted to teach me was excellence and of
course obedience but how to be an
excellent person because he wanted me to
have an excellent Ministry not have a
mediocre something but something that I
could be proud of and the the world
could
respect and uh so interestingly enough
God taught me a lot of lessons in the
grocery
store which like I said I know some of
you have heard some of these stories so
I’ll go through them quick one of the
one of the things he started dealing
with me about was putting my grocery
cart back in the place marked off for
grocery
carts
now I hate to tell you this it’s a
little embarrassing but it took me two
whole years
before I got fully obedient to
that cuz the first the first time I’ve
kind of sensed God wanted me to you know
not lean it against the car next to me
and it’s amazing we work harder trying
to lean the grocery cart somewhere out
in the middle of the parking lot than we
do if we just take it back and put it
where it
goes and
uh God would just say things to me like
if you own this store what would you
want people to do you know there is that
little Annoying scripture that says do
unto others as you would have them do
unto you amen doesn’t say treat
everybody the way they treat you it says
treat them the way you’d like them to
treat you and
uh I mean I had every kind of excuse
well nobody else puts theirs away why
should
I I’m in a hurry it’s raining it’s
snowing whatever and finally I got to
the point where I took it back every
time I’ve heard some funny stories about
those grocery carts one lady told me she
was leaving her car and going back with
her grocery cart and there was another
lady that was had left her car and was
going back they looked at each other and
the one woman said Joyce Meer right and
she said that’s
right how many of you started putting
your grocery cart
away see what a Ministry I have
the grocery store should give me pay me
royalties or
something and then another thing I did
was you know if you go to the grocery
store hungry it’s very dangerous because
by the time you get to the last aisle
you realize you got more than you can
pay for especially if you’re on the kind
of budget I was back then we had $70
every two weeks for groceries and we
couldn’t spend $71 it had to be 70
because we lived on a very tight budget
and I had all my coupons
and going to the grocery store was quite
an event and by the time I would get to
the last
aisle I would realize I had to start
taking things out of my cart I didn’t
really need but I didn’t go put them
back where I got them I just you know
I’m I’m the goofball that left the
lettuce in the
cleanser and I remember when God started
telling me go put it where you got it
now these are these this is where I
started learning obedience in the little
things of life
and you know what what I’m encouraging
you to do is do life with
God in other words God is not just for
church on Sunday morning but do life
with him and whatever he tells you to do
wherever you’re at and you say well I
don’t hear God talk to me like you do
yes you do amen when I say God told me I
don’t mean I heard an audible voice say
Joyce go put your lettuce back where you
got
it you have the same thing you got this
little you just kind of you know how
many of you know that it’s like that
still Small Voice it’s the The Whispers
of
God and you can ignore them if you want
to but down deep you
know and we know when we walk away and
we didn’t do what God told us to we
know and I guess you heard my cheap
chicken story right no no how many have
not heard the chicken story all right
well you deserve to hear
it I was a big coupon Clipper
and they would have chickens on
sale I forget now but they you could get
them pretty cheap you
know
let’s say they were three for a dollar
or whatever and then
and God called my attention to the fine
print on the coupon it said three per
family
please well I didn’t want three I wanted
a bunch so I took my kids with
me and we all got
three and then I’d get in line and
pretend like I didn’t know them
oh yeah and I’m teaching a Bible study
in my
home
understand and then one day I was
standing there in fear and I thought I
don’t think I gave my daughter enough
money for
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tax and and the Lord said don’t you know
if you have to hide to do something
there’s something wrong with
it here I
am got a call of God on my life to go to
the world and teach the
gospel but I had to go to Bible school
first and I went to the school of the
Holy Ghost
and he taught me things like Integrity
tell the truth do what you do with
Excellence be a person of your word if
you tell somebody you’re going to do
something do it these are the things
that are important even little things
like if you tell
somebody I’ll call you and we’ll go to
gun we’ll go to lunch don’t say that if
you don’t mean it sometimes that’s just
our way of getting rid of
somebody if you tell them that do
it how many
people irritate you now because they
don’t do what they said they were going
to
do well are they sewing or are you
reaping a few of you got that didn’t you
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you know what I mean by that are they
sewing a bad seed or are you reaping off
of a bad seed that you sewed in somebody
else’s
life well we’ll just go
on and then I remember one time I was in
the I think I was in a JC Penny store
and I was going through a rack of
clothes and I noticed some hangers in
the floor and I felt like God want me to
pick you know not hangers but clothes
had fallen off hangers the floor I felt
like God told me to pick them up and
hang them up and I thought why should I
clean up somebody else’s mess and then I
heard do would you like somebody to
clean your messes up
someday and now I have all kinds of
people that help me and I couldn’t do
what I was doing if I didn’t I will tell
you the honest truth and I believe this
with all my heart if I would have never
obeyed those little things that God told
me I would not be standing here
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today
I was preaching about those chickens one
time and I was in a church in Tennessee
and the pastors and some of the leaders
were
sitting up on the platform and when I
told about those chickens the pastor
jumped up and pointed at the church and
he said point to his wife and he said
you’ve turned me into a
thief
cuz when I got through the checkout lane
that day with my kids and all my
chickens God said congratulations you’ve
just stole some
chickens and the pastor pointed at his
wife and he said you’ve turned me into a
thief and he looked at the church and he
said but it wasn’t chickens it was
toilet paper and it was for the
church come on you know how we are you
know it’s
like
1 Corinthians 5:6 do you not know that A
little leaven leavens the whole
lump little foxes spoil the vine Song of
Solomon
2:15 Matthew 25:21 his lord said unto
him Well done thy good and faithful
servant you have been Faithful over a
few things I will make you ruler over
many
things enter into the joy of the
Lord I love that enter in into the joy
of the
Lord when we do what God asks us to do
we have
joy and we have
peace why because we’ve behaved
righteously and the Bible says in Romans
14:17 the kingdom of God is Not meat and
drink but it is righteousness peace and
joy in the Holy Ghost and I believe it
comes in that
order you do things right you know who
you are in Christ knowing that he’s made
you right with God makes you want to do
things
right then you have peace and when you
have peace then you have
joy and that’s the kingdom is not
getting everything we
want it’s having a right relationship
with God and having peace and joy in
your
life the opposite principle is also in
effect if you’re not faithful
in a few things you’ll never be made
ruler over much as a matter of fact
you’ll lose a little bit that you
have Matthew 25
says the man who had received one bag of
gold came back and said master I knew
you were a hard man harvesting where you
had not swn Gathering where you had not
scattered so I was afraid and I went and
I hid your gold in the ground here you
can have back what belongs to you and
the master said you Wicked lazy
servant see he didn’t do anything with
what God gave him he didn’t you know
God’s giving you talents what are you
doing with them that’s right God’s
giving you abilities what are you doing
with
them you say well I don’t have any I
don’t have any Talent yeah you
do everybody does and you know what a
large majority of the church is just
called into the heth’s
ministry and that’s not a little thing I
don’t know what in the world I would do
without the people who help
me I couldn’t I couldn’t have this
ministry if I didn’t have hundreds and
hundreds of people who help me every one
of you who even send in $10 a month
you’re
helping some people are called as givers
in the body of
Christ some people have gifts of
organization we have all kinds of gifts
I
talk
and so praise God I get to exercise my
gift all over the place I just
talk I have a gift of communication I
can get my point
across he said you Wicked lazy servants
so you knew that I harvested where I had
not sewn and gathered where I had not
scattered well then you should have put
my
money at least on deposit with the
banker so I could have gotten a little
interest verse 28 says now you take the
bag of gold away from him and give it it
to the one who has
10 so the man who did nothing with what
he had lost what he had and it was given
to the one who would take it and do the
most with
it I’ll just be honest with you if you
want to do something with the gifts
God’s taken you it’s going to require
some
work work w r k
work you say well I work hard enough as
it is but are you doing anything that’s
bearing good fruit in your life or are
you just wasting
time you say well I’m too busy as it is
write down everything you’re doing on a
piece of paper come on I dare you write
down everything you’re doing on a piece
of paper and then first cross out
everything that’s bearing no
fruit and then go back through the
list and cross off things that you’re
doing for a wrong
motive you’re doing it because Aunt
Susie will get mad if you
don’t or you’re doing it
because you’re trying to please
people let me tell you something so many
people today are overly busy I’m busy is
getting to be the most tiresome
excuse did you hear me it’s just a very
tiresome
excuse people say to me I bet you’re
busy and I say no I’m
fruitful I’m not busy I’m bearing good
fruit amen amen now I want you to listen
what I’m going to say God will never
give you so much to do that it has to
stress you out to do
it and how many people even in this room
you’re beautiful wonderful people but
how many of you have got way too much
stress in your life and it’s because
you’re doing too much let me say again
God will never give you more to do than
what you can do
peaceably if you can’t do it with
peace then it’s not God giving it to you
to do I’m not stressed out anymore
because I’m doing too much but I will
tell you that I made myself sick more
than
once doing way too much and it was all
good
stuff just because it’s good doesn’t
mean it’s
Godly
H I heard somebody that took that
in
amen I mean I killed myself working for
god let’s remember aphrodites in the
Bible he almost died working too hard in
the
ministry and God healed him but he sent
him home and told him to
rest in December of 2017 I had a falling
apart session
I mean everything
just my nerves my body everything just
went caput I got something called
burning mouth disease and my mouth felt
like it was on
fire the place where my gift comes out
of and my mouth was so
dry and I had such a bad taste in my
mouth my coffee which I love in the
morning tasted like
dirt
and on top of that most doctors had
never even heard of
it little more now but it’s
just most of it’s caused from stress and
just overwork
and I had just worked and worked and
worked and worked and
worked and on top of that I was trying
to walk five miles every day and I mean
I am determined every
day I would go home from a conference
like this and go walk 5 miles which was
stupid I need to rest after a conference
like
this
so but it was good things I was helping
people I was
exercising and so finally I checked into
a hospital I know a doctor in Houston
and he checked me into a hospital down
there and they gave me a nice private
room and they ran every kind of test on
me that they could
run and they said you have severe
adrenal
fatigue
and here’s your
prescription they did give me some
medicine but they said we want you to go
home and rest for 18
months and here’s what I said what do
you
do
what do you
do when you rest for 18 months I
couldn’t even get it to go into my head
what do you
do but I finally kind of learned to like
it I can’t wait to get home tonight and
just
rest go home and eat at one of my
favorite restaurants and rest and you
know what I’m going to do all day
tomorrow
rest and I may even rest on Monday I
don’t
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know I call them pajama days I just stay
in my pajamas all
day if you just say no to what you can
say no
to you’ll be surprised what a difference
it’ll make in your life and don’t let
people pressure you into doing stuff
that you know that God is not wanting
you to
do if people love you they need to learn
how to hear no and stay happy with you
come
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on and if you’re a young mother and
you’ve got three or four kids they don’t
all need to be in four activities
each where all you do is stay on the
road all the time and drive yourself
crazy trying to get them there and get
them
back yeah it’s good for kids to be in
activity but your kids don’t have to do
every single thing they want to do and
they don’t have to do every single thing
that everybody else
does thank
you okay examples of little things that
expose our
heart make a phone call to a sick
friend God puts it on your heart you
need to call them well oh obey him take
the time and call
him send a thank you card apologize for
being
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rude apologize for being late don’t make
an
excuse traffic was heavy no just tell
the truth I didn’t leave in
Time come on it’s only the truth that
will set you free
nothing sets you free but the truth and
it’s not the truth about somebody else
it’s being truthful with
yourself if you have a problem being
late everywhere you
go some people are late everywhere they
go now my son is always like 15 minutes
early everywhere he goes if you invite
David to your house at 5: he’s going to
be there quarter to
5
but then I have other kids who won’t
name
them who you can figure they’re always
going to be late
now that’s not the traffic was
bad that was I just didn’t leave on
time and you can’t cut everything to the
last second and be on time you got to
leave room for a few things you didn’t
expect
and how many of you know when you’re
late everywhere you go it puts stress on
you and I don’t like to waste time I’d
much rather get there right at the
second I’m supposed to be
there but when I plan like that then
sometimes I end up
late meet a need that you’ve been aware
of and you really got this little
feeling in your heart that God wants you
to meet
it
listen God said to me one time why don’t
you stop asking me to do things that you
could easily do and just don’t want
to okay I’ll give you an example
like Mary Jane at
work can’t pay her rent this
month oh
God
please pay Mary Jane’s
rent well do we think money’s just going
to fall out of the sky in her mailbox to
pay her
rent I mean everything God does he go he
does through
people you say well I don’t have the
money to pay her rent well how much do
you
have
maybe you can do a little of it and
maybe you could get a little bit
aggressive and you could be one of those
violent Christians we were talking about
this
morning who’s energetic and aggressive
and you could think well how can how can
we get her rent paid this month and you
go around you could talk to four or five
of your other bored miserable
friends
come on let let’s get together and pay
her rent now that’s the way Christians
are supposed to behave with one
another and God just told me he said
stop asking me to do things for people
that you could easily do and just don’t
want
to
H go ahead chew on that for me I Got 5
minutes and 43
seconds obey God
obey what you read in the word but obey
the things that he puts in your heart
the little the little nagging things
there you know one of the ways that I
know that God wants me to do something
is when it just keeps staying with
me you think about it then two days
later you think about it again and then
tomorrow you think about it again and
it’s like okay I’m just going to do it
and get it over
with
amen and it could be call somebody it
could be right somebody you
know whatever it
is life is so much better when you just
obey
God you feel so much
better how many of you can think of
something right now that God’s
been nagging you
about and you just haven’t done it
well come on I don’t
not no I want to see your hands I don’t
all right thank you all right then
that’s
Disobedience well I’m going to do it
well when are you going to do
it see that’s the biggest deception
procrastination we’ve been talking about
deception here this weekend and God told
me one times good intentions are not
obedience wow
and we deceive
ourself what my heart’s
right I had employee one time she was
late all time for work better be careful
I’ll pull my eyelashes
off now that you know I wear
them she was late all the time for work
and she’d always say well my heart’s
right
one morning I called her in she said
well my heart’s right I said well let me
tell you
this no matter how right your heart is
if you’re late again I’m going to fire
you and you know what she was never late
again so so you might have the sweetest
little heart in the whole world but good
intentions are not
obedience well I’m going to do it well
what’s wrong with
now
prompt obedience
extreme
obedience Jesus was promptly and
extremely obedient to God even unto
death and there was given unto him a
name that is above every other name that
at the name of Jesus every knee must bow
in heaven on Earth and under the
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