Watch as Joyce Meyer tells about the first lesson in excellence that God taught her. It involved a shopping cart at her local grocery store. God can use anything to get His point across.
how many of you ever heard the grocery
cart story is anybody here who have not
all right well bear with me just a few
seconds here when God called me to teach
and I just had a little home Bible study
about 25 people come to my home every
Tuesday night and I taught there for
over five years doing that and I was a
mom made lunches and cook home-cooked
meals every day I actually used to do
that and we had a grocery store that
wasn’t very far from us and so a couple
of times a week I’d have to go to the
grocery store and when I first started
really trying to have a serious walk
with God I didn’t know that much and I
couldn’t go off to Bible school I had a
bunch of kids and so God just started
training me and teaching me things that
I didn’t even really realize the impact
of at the time and one of the first
things I remember God dealing with me
about was putting my grocery cart back
in the little place marked off for
grocery carts instead of working hard to
lean it up against
start to walk off and it start to roll
and go back kick the wheels and turn
them in and try to get it leaned up
against all the others so it wouldn’t
realising that when I left it could roll
off and hit somebody’s car but not
caring because I didn’t know anything
about excellence and here’s the thing it
took me two years to get to the point
where I would do that every single time
I went to the grocery store you know why
because I had all the same excuses well
nobody else does it well it’s raining
well that’s what we pay them for
and then God would speak to me and say
well if this was your grocery store what
would you want people to do see we’re
not going to get by with doing what
everybody else does God wants us to
treat them the way we would like to be
treated if it was up this is the behind
the closed doors thing oh joy surely you
could tell us something more spiritual
than put my grocery cart back well
here’s the thing if I can’t get you to
do that it’s not gonna do me any good to
tell you something more spiritual that’s
why we got to start with these things
now I’m gonna tell you something you’ve
probably gonna think I’m crazy when I
say this but I don’t say things that I
don’t mean and I mean what I’m getting
ready to say I really believe if I would
have never obeyed God about those
grocery carts I do not believe I’d be
standing here tonight
well maybe you get it I don’t know well
what does that have to do with it it has
a lot to do with it because it’s not
what I do up here that matters that much
or impresses God it’s what I do behind
closed doors when nobody’s looking
that’s just between me and God that’s
where your character is built and
developed not somewhere else