“There is a simple rule we can follow to guide us in our conversation: If it is good, uplifting, wholesome, and pleasant, say all you want to, but if it is evil, negative, critical, and complaining, then don’t say it. Ask God to change your heart so there is not even a hint of wanting to say it. What is in our heart will eventually come out of our mouth, so we cannot change what we say unless we change what we think.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Prayer of Thanks Father, I am so thankful that I can choose what thoughts to dwell on. With Your help, I can reject negative thinking, and I can focus on thoughts based on Your Word. Thank You that I can be a confident, positive person.”
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Joyce Meyer
“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.”
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Joyce Meyer
“nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in”
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Joyce Meyer
“You need to have an “I am” and an “I can” attitude. Fill your thoughts and your words with these confessions daily, and then you will bring more joy into your life! I am a new creation in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). I can live in perfect peace (see Isaiah 26:3). I am slow to speak, quick to hear, and slow to anger (see James 1:19). I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me (see Philippians 4:13). I am more than a conqueror in Christ (see Romans 8:37). I can have the mind of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:16). I am dead to sin and alive to righteousness (see Romans 6:11). I can overcome evil with good (see Romans 12:21). Power Thought: All efforts to train my mind and my mouth to think and speak more like God work”
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Joyce Meyer
“Occasionally we see “shooting stars” in ministry—people who come out of seemingly nowhere and practically overnight are known worldwide, usually because they happened to get in with a certain group of people who had an ability to open doors for them. Rarely do their ministries last. They often get into trouble financially or morally because character is built during the hard times of waiting, but they didn‘t go through that character-building time.”
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Joyce Meyer
“A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Worrying does not move the hand of God, but faith does. Exchange worry for trusting God and you will see progress.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You can either be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Jesus did not die for us so we could have a religion. He died so we could have our sins forgiven.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If there is anything I want you to understand at the end of this book, it’s this: don’t settle for a secondhand relationship with God. That’s not the life of passion He is calling you to. Knowing God will keep you stable in hard times. It will make you secure and enable you to press past fear. It will cause you to know He is always with you whether you feel His Presence or not. You can know His forgiveness and mercy, His restoration and favor; truly knowing God will fuel your passion for life. When we see how beautiful and wonderful He really is, and realize all He has done for us in love, how can we not pursue Him and His will passionately?”
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Joyce Meyer
“We all need to realize that we're on a journey, and we are making progress.”
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Joyce Meyer
“But the meek (in the end) shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace” (Ps. 37:11).”
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Joyce Meyer
“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.”
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Joyce Meyer