“If you have wondered how to have peace, I can tell you that it will come if you will quit making a big deal about everything.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Self-discipline is the most important quality in any life. Do you know what self-discipline is? It is keeping ourselves going in the right direction without someone making us do so.”
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Joyce Meyer
“get really concerned when I see people who are changing all the time. Every time you turn around they have a new call and a new vision. They may start out being called to prison ministry, When they find out that is hard, they get called to evangelism. When they discover that is hard, they are suddenly called to music ministry. The problem is that because of the mentality of our society, we are always looking for something easy. We think everything should be drive-through and push-button. If we can't microwave it, we don't mess with it. There are no microwave ministries. In fact, anything we want to do at microwave speed is not worth doing—except microwaving!
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Joyce Meyer
“You can be called to do something that feels difficult to your flesh, but if you can get beyond your initial doubts and find that you have peace once you are doing it, then you will know that God is confirming your natural talents.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say “I” too often, then you have a problem with pride.
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Joyce Meyer
“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
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Joyce Meyer
“God says in Zechariah 4:6, “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit” (NKJV).”
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Joyce Meyer
“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”
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Joyce Meyer
“God will give us the grace to deal with tomorrow, but He won't give it to us until tomorrow gets here.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I’m not where I used to be.”
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Joyce Meyer
“People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You. Isaiah 26:3”
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Joyce Meyer
“Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.”
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Joyce Meyer
“No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.”
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Joyce Meyer
“(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.”
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Joyce Meyer
