Thursday Session 2 - Joyce Meyer - Excellence & Confessing God’s Word Out Loud
On the second session on the Thursday of the Influencers Conference Joyce Meyer continued her series on the things that she has found most influential in her life and preached 2 half messages: one on excellence and one on confessing God’s word out loud.
The excellence talk was great. She talked about the difference between doing things excellently and wasteful extravagance, an important distinction. She talked about how God is excellent and how we need to go the extra mile in everything we do because our excellence is the way that God trains us in everyday life. She talked about those moments when we are alone and nobody will see what we do as being the moments of intimacy with God that will define our relationship where we can reveal our character by doing things excellently. Joyce also talked about mediocrity being a result of the fall because our flesh is lazy and how our excellence in everything we do acts as a sermon to those around us.
As usual with Joyce Meyer there were lots of entertaining stories including one about 2 women strangers taking their shopping trolleys back to the collection point in a supermarket car park when one woman looks at the other and just says “Joyce Meyer?” and the other one sighs and nods “Yep”. Good story.
The second half message was on the power of speaking God’s word out loud. The idea was that speaking God’s word is the only offensive weapon we have in the armour of God and that by speaking it out loud we speak into our situation in a powerful way.
This was a good session with a lot to think and pray about.
