Joyce Meyer Quotes

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow, ~ Joyce Meyer

Pray and ask God to show you a specific area where you need to let go of selfishness. Once He shows you, don't get discouraged or be afraid - trust God to change you! ~ Joyce Meyer

Remember, you become what you think. Think discouraging thoughts, and you'll get discouraged. ~ Joyce Meyer

If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go. ~ Joyce Meyer

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do. ~ Joyce Meyer

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time. ~ Joyce Meyer

God wants to help us ... He loves us ... we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help. ~ Joyce Meyer

Fear is not God's will for you. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

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

The problem comes when we try to take the gift God has given us and use it to do what someone else is doing instead of developing our own potential. ~ Joyce Meyer

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable. ~ Joyce Meyer

Don't just try to "make it" through the day. Celebrate the day. Say, "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it" (see Psalm 118:24). Don't dread the day; attack the day. Know what you want to accomplish today and go for it. ~ Joyce Meyer

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. ~ Joyce Meyer

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. ~ Joyce Meyer

Speak Life Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. PROVERBS 18:21 If we ride to work with somebody and gossip about our boss and talk about how we hate our job and what a stupid place it is, we will have a bad day. The Bible says, "A man's [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil]" (Proverbs 18:20). Clearly, we will have to eat our words, so we need to talk about the right things to be happy. If we murmur and gossip, we will eat the fruit of death. But if we speak life, we will eat the fruit of the Spirit (see Matthew 12:37). Choose to eat good fruit today. ~ Joyce Meyer

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things. ~ Joyce Meyer

Now am I trying to win the favor of men, or of God? Do I seek to please men? If I were still seeking popularity with men, I should not be a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah). GALATIANS 1:10 ~ Joyce Meyer

Give Him your mess and let it become your message. ~ Joyce Meyer

Our problems are God's opportunities. ~ Joyce Meyer

No matter what we own, we will not be happy if doing God's will is not a priority in our lives. ~ Joyce Meyer

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life. ~ Joyce Meyer

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now! ~ Joyce Meyer

You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit! ~ Joyce Meyer

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

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you ... to be the centerpiece of everything you do. ~ Joyce Meyer

Be it unto you, even as you believe.
In God's economy, we believe first and then see. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next. ~ Joyce Meyer

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success. ~ Joyce Meyer

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes. ~ Joyce Meyer

When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it. ~ Joyce Meyer

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless. ~ Joyce Meyer

You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to. ~ Joyce Meyer

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 ~ Joyce Meyer

I'm living now in my reward. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

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. ~ Joyce Meyer

Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him. ~ Joyce Meyer

The biggest thing I have to keep in mind is balance. I have certain times and days that I dedicate to certain responsibilities. It is very important to not become unbalanced in an area, spending too much time in one area and not another. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds. ~ Joyce Meyer

Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding. ~ Joyce Meyer

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates. ~ Joyce Meyer

We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick. ~ Joyce Meyer

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves! ~ Joyce Meyer

We must learn to say no and not fear the loss of relationships. I have come to the conclusion that if I lose a relationship because I tell someone no, then I really never had a true relationship at all. ~ Joyce Meyer

God has picked you out to pick you up. ~ Joyce Meyer

Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss You? He answered simply, Joyce, don't worry; if you miss Me, I will find you. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying. ~ Joyce Meyer

What we make happen for someone else, God will make happen for us. Do you sometimes find yourself wishing you had more encouragement, maybe from your family or friends or boss? But how often do you encourage others? If you're not sure, then make an extra effort right away. You can be the channel that God uses to keep someone confidently pressing toward success rather than giving up. ~ Joyce Meyer

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life. ~ Joyce Meyer

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith. ~ Joyce Meyer

If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you. ~ Joyce Meyer

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere. ~ Joyce Meyer

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

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. ~ Joyce Meyer

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval. ~ Joyce Meyer

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] MATTHEW 11:28 ~ Joyce Meyer

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying! ~ Joyce Meyer

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old ... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life. ~ Joyce Meyer

Power Thought: God is faithful; my hope in Him is unwavering. ~ Joyce Meyer

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out! ~ Joyce Meyer

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies. ~ Joyce Meyer

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter ~ Joyce Meyer

Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don't complain about what you don't have. ~ Joyce Meyer

One great reason for hope is this: you are not a failure just because you have failed at certain things. ~ Joyce Meyer

JANUARY 24 He Will Reward You So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord. ACTS 3:19 Success principles alone will not work in your life if you don't spend time with God, allowing His Holy Spirit to be your Counselor and to give you revelation and understanding of what to do each day. But if you flow in God's plan, you will learn to stop trying to figure out how everything will work together for your good. Learn to seek God's face and not His hand all the time. Then keep your hands open and be ready to receive from Him. God is good; you can trust what He speaks to your heart to do. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die. ~ Joyce Meyer

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves. ~ Joyce Meyer

Worship is much more than just singing songs. In fact, true worship is first and foremost a condition of heart and a state of mind. We can be worshipping passionately without singing a single note. Worship is born in our hearts; it fills our thoughts and then it is expressed through our mouths and through our bodies. If our hearts are filled with awe for God, we may want to sing, dance, clap, or lift up our hands in worship. We may also be reverently silent and still before God. We may desire to give offerings or offer other forms of outward expression of love for God. But any of these actions done without a right heart are simply formalism and meaningless to God. ~ Joyce Meyer

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. ~ Joyce Meyer

Pray and trust God, and He will show you what to do at the right time. He will show you because He is a God Who never fails His children (see Deut. 31:6, 8). He is a God of faithfulness, and He always comes through. ~ Joyce Meyer

Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones. ~ Joyce Meyer

Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you've been through, it's never too late to begin again. ~ Joyce Meyer

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says. ~ Joyce Meyer

The more positive you are, the powerful youll be. ~ Joyce Meyer

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will. ~ Joyce Meyer

The power of God is available to you today to help you do whatever you need to do and with a smile on your face! ~ Joyce Meyer

For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the ~ Joyce Meyer

I frequently say we should let God out of the Sunday-morning box we try to keep Him in and allow Him to invade our Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday too. ~ Joyce Meyer

Worrying does not move the hand of God, but faith does. Exchange worry for trusting God and you will see progress. ~ Joyce Meyer

. . .what God really wants from us is not perfect performance, perfect behavior, or perfect attitudes, because He already sees those things in Jesus on our behalf. What God wants from us are hearts that truly love Him. ~ Joyce Meyer

If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult. ~ Joyce Meyer

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord. ~ Joyce Meyer

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be! ~ Joyce Meyer

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 ~ Joyce Meyer

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. ~ Joyce Meyer

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power. ~ Joyce Meyer

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

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am. ~ Joyce Meyer

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ. ~ Joyce Meyer

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say ... and on and on. ~ Joyce Meyer

Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he. ~ Joyce Meyer

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. ~ Joyce Meyer