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Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
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St. Louis
Missouri
Pauline Joyce Hutchison
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