Joyce Meyer Quotes

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The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

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It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

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I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

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Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"

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Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

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We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

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Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

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Love is and has always been His idea. He came to love us and to teach us how to love. When we do this, life is exciting, beautiful and rewarding.

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Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

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When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.

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We open the door for God to work by placing faith in His Word, and we open the door for Satan to work by placing faith in his word. He places thought in our minds that are not true, but can become true for us if they are believed.

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Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.

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Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling!

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Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they're right for you.

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When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

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What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

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We often say God is never late, but generally He isn't early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

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Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

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To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power.

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It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

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There is no power in your name or my name, but there is awesome power in the name of Jesus because of everything he represents.

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When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

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If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

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We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

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One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

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Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.

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If you will do what you CAN do, God will do what you CANNOT do.

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If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

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We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

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