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Being obedient to God is the best thing that you can do for yourself because

everything that God asks you to do or not to do is for your benefit.

God's never trying to take anything away from us. He's always trying to add something to our life.

I do what I do because I've seen God's power transform my own life

and he will do it for you. The key to everything is found in God's Word.

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Thank you for joining me today on enjoying everyday life.

I believe the more the word that you listen to, the more of God's promises

that you know about the more that you do what he asks you to do, the more you will enjoy your life.

I started yesterday talking about the power of diligence.

And diligence means to just keep doing what's right until you get the desire,

the thing that's in your heart that you want.

I want to give you the definitions again because I think it's important in case you weren't watching yesterday.

Diligence in the Webster's 1828 dictionary means steady application in business,

constant in effort, our exertion.

Now, to be honest, sometimes we don't like to exert ourselves and we don't like effort.

Exertion to accomplish what is undertaken, attentive, industrious, not idle or negligent,

steadily applied, not carelessly or negligently.

In the Greek, the original language the Bible was written in, it says, a working,

it is indicative of a process, business gain gotten by work, endeavor, pains, earnestness and zeal,

to hasten to do a thing, not procrastinating or putting it off until later.

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