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Sometimes when you wait, when you procrastinate, you miss an opportunity.

I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

Well, I want to talk to you tonight about the deception of procrastination.

I knew that I was going to get that...

You know what? I knew that I was going to get that, you know why procrastination is a deception,

because it tells you I'm not in disobedience

because I'm going to obey God.

But God spoke to my heart a few years ago and he said, good intentions are not

obedience.

See, so we think, well, I know what God told me and I'm going to do it, but unless he's told you to wait till another

time, then now is always God's time.

And one of the things you'll learn tonight is if you don't move when God says to move,

then you're likely to end up having to move without the anointing.

Because when God says to do something, there's an anointing on it.

See, this is the message I was supposed to speak tonight, so there's an anointing on it.

Now, if I decided I was going to do something else, it probably

wouldn't be as anointed. I think, well, maybe I'll wait and teach that the next time I come.

It wouldn't be as anointed as it will be tonight. You need to understand that. When God

puts something in your heart, it's much easier for you to do it when he tells

you to do it because his anointing and his grace is there to help you do it. If you put it off to

your timing, see, God's timing is equivalent to his will. So if we want to be in God's will, we have to also be in His timing.

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