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Procastination is a thief.

We're always gonna do the right thing tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a dangerous word.

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

When we started Joyce Meyer Ministries 35 years ago, I've been teaching the word 45 years, but first five years was a couple of home Bible studies.

Second five years, I couple of home Bible studies.

Second five years, I worked at a church.

And then God said, take your ministry and go north, south, east, and west.

A lot of confirmation waited until God almost got mad at me before I finally did what he told me to, but he put this in my heart.

He said, there's three things I want you to do, and if you do them, I will bless your ministry.

And I want to say to you today, if you do these three things, your life will be blessed.

Number one, he said, I want you to always be excellent in everything that you do.

Excellence is not extravagance, it's not perfection. It simply means doing the very best that you can.

Not being mediocre.

Mediocre is halfway between success and failure.

And mediocre people are not written about in the Bible.

Nobody names their child, Judas. There's a lot of people that you see in the Bible and you see them with a choice and they make the wrong decision

and you never hear from them again. It's kind of interesting. Gahazi was one of those

people. So I just want to encourage you whatever you do, do it with excellence and especially

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