Joyce Meyer Quotes

Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

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

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

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

God rose up from His throne and said to demon powers tormenting the sinless Son of God, 'Let Him go.' Then the resurrection power of Almighty God went through hell and filled Jesus. .. He was resurrected from the dead - the first born-again man.

God can't drive a parked car.

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!

God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.

Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

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.

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

If I'm a blessing to you, then either God will put it on your heart to bless me, or he'll use somebody else to bless me. If I'm friendly with you, then I'll have friends. If I'm merciful with people, the Bible says I'll get mercy back. If I'm not judgmental, then people won't be judgmental with me. And it works also with finances. If you give to help other hurting people and you give to the preaching of the gospel, because you love God, then God takes care of you.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Jesus said when the woman poured the alabaster bottle of perfume on him that was worth almost a year's wages, and Judas, who was very money-minded, said you shouldn't have done that, because you're wasting that, we could have sold that and given it to the poor. And Jesus himself said, you will always have the poor with you, but she has done this as an honor to me, and she will be honored for it all of her days. And so you never run out of poor people. You could give everything you had, I could give everything I had, and the world would still be full of poor people.

God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so.

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!

I don't really have many hobbies but one of my favorite things to do is spend time with my family. We have fun together, and building those relationships is very important to me.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

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.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.