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See, that's the biggest deception and procrastination.

God told me one time that 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 or something but something that i could be proud of and that the world could

respect and so interesting enough God taught me a lot of lessons in the grocery

store which like I said I know some of you've 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 because the first the first time I've kind of since God wanted me to, you know, not lean it against the car next to me.

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 God would just say things to me like if you own this store what would you want people to do?

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