Joyce Meyer Quotes

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

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

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!

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.

Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.

Justified means just as if you've never sinned.

Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams.

Satan gains more ground in the believer's life through unforgiveness than any other thing, so be sure you let go of all offense and pray for those who have hurt you. It may be hard, but it is the best thing you can do for yourself and the kingdom of God. Don't stay angry at anyone today because it will hurt you more than it hurts them.

Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

Do you serve God or do you serve your feelings? Believe the Word of God over and above your feelings.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

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

New level, New devil.

What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

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

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.

Listening is an important key to HEARING.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

I am amazed that people want to ask me questions about God's work in my life. The interviews are a great way to share God's life-changing message and I pray that God continues to open this door for Christians.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

The more positive you are, the powerful youll be.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

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.

My teachings are my life.

Have God make a message out of your mess.

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

God has done so much in my life, and my desire is to help others who are hurting to receive His love and get the healing they need - mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I know the Word works and total restoration is possible in Christ because I've experienced it myself.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

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

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

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

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

Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

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.

God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another.

We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence