Joyce Meyer Quotes

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Confident people do not concentrate on their weaknesses; they develop and maximize their strengths.

I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven't had the right kind of love in their lives.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

God is not there just for emergencies.

don't have to give in to those things that would keep you from the life God has for you - you may have in your past, but you don't have to in your future. You can begin again! Jesus is sending away your accusers and offering you a new chance today. Today can be a brand-new start.

Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you ... or that you must somehow make up for it? ... Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness.

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. - EPHESIANS 6:12

I'm living now in my reward.

The right timing is not always our timing.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there ...

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

It shall be done for you as you have believed. MATTHEW 8:13

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Our problems are God's opportunities.

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

There's no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

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.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.

Immediately, the water turned into wine. This was the first recorded miracle of Jesus' ministry on earth and I want to remind you that His miracles did not stop there. He will also do miracles in your life if you obey Him, and offer yourself as a clean pot He can fill.

Acts 10:38 says, "See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good." He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.

I strongly encourage you to be careful not to let anything become more important to you than it should be. Keep God first so He can bless you with other things you desire.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

In order to seize the day, make goals and go after them with all your heart.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

Real love has little to do with gooey emotions and goose bumps; it has everything to do with the choices we make about the way we treat people. Real love is not theory or talk; it is action. It is a decision concerning the way we behave in our relationships with other people. Real love meets needs even when sacrifice is required in order to do so.

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Listening is an important key to HEARING.

We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.

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

Power Thought: I expect good things to happen in my life today.

A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

God sees and understands what we do not see and understand. He asks us to put aside our natural tendencies to want to figure out what should happen in our lives and when it should happen. He also desires us to stop being frustrated because things do not go according to our plan, and instead to relax, enjoy the ride, and trust He is working everything out according to His timing and the wisdom of His plan.

Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you're going to have to mow that side too.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I know that if I said today, "How many of you would like to have me pray for you to have self control?" I could stay here and pray for people to have self control until midnight tonight. How many of you would stay if I would just lay hands on you and pray for you to have self control? Well, you know what, it would be a waste of time! Because, you are not going to have self control because somebody prays for you to have self control. You aready have self control. It is in you as a fruit of the spirit, but it's a little teeny tiny little seed. And, nobody else can develop your fruit of the spirit. Nobody can develop your peace but you. Nobody can develop your joy but you. Nobody can develop your patience butyou. Nobody can develop your discipline and self control but you.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish.

When we don't have anyone else, we develop a deep relationship with God that will carry us through anything life brings our way. The

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I think a lot of people believe that they have to be poor to serve God, that they can't have anything. They don't really even know how to give. And one of the main principles in the Bible is you'll reap what you sew, and that if you give into the lives of others, that it shall be given back to you, good measure, pressed down and shaken together. If you go plant one tomato seed, you don't get one back one tomato; you get a vine of tomatoes.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Remain steadfast in your belief, and you will be delivered.

One day, the idea that God loved me dropped from my head into my heart.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to.

We cannot know God apart from His Word ...

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL

God will never help us be anyone other than ourselves.

Trust in Him Are you upset, worrying, or trying to make something happen? You don't have to be! God has a place of peace and rest for you, and all you have to do to enter His rest is put your trust in Him.

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

God is Good ... Jesus is Lord
Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks.