“He looked at her and said the same thing that He says to each of us today: “Go on your way and from now on sin no more.” Jesus wasn’t excusing the wrongdoing, and He wasn’t ignoring the destructive power that sin can have in our lives. Instead, He was offering a new life that was free of sin. He was saying to this broken woman: Today can be different! This is the same thing that God says to you. Today can be different! Today can be a place to begin again! If your life has become a life full of worry, fear, negative thinking, sickness, despair, sin, and regret, today can be different.”
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Joyce Meyer
“KEEP YOUR TONGUE FROM EVIL! For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good—whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile (treachery, deceit). 1 Peter 3:10”
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Joyce Meyer
“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.”
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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.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other’s needs.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You should follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and say yes only when you are led to. You are responsible to be obedient only to God, not to keep everyone in the world happy by doing everything they want you to do.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you” (see Matt. 5:44).”
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Joyce Meyer
“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”
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Joyce Meyer
“[And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain. 1 TIMOTHY 6:6”
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Joyce Meyer
“Even when things are coming against me and things aren’t working out the way I’d like, I still want to display the character of Jesus Christ.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Love Yourself Today: “Lord, I pray that I will continue to grow to love and accept myself in godly ways so the criticism and judgment of others will not hurt me or affect me negatively.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
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Joyce Meyer
