“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Those who try to hang on when God is trying to move on will always be miserable”
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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
“Fighting and resisting the timing of God is equivalent to fighting and resisting His will for our lives. God is working, often in ways we cannot see, to bring His plans to pass in our lives in the best possible ways. We simply need to trust Him as we wait for the arrival of our dreams.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you turn things over to God, you will finally find the power you need to break free.”
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Joyce Meyer
“need of encouragement, look to God first. He will never tell you that you’re not going to make it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I hope you have a dream or a vision in your heart for something greater than what you have now. Ephesians 3:20 tells us that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all that we can hope or ask or think. If we are not thinking, hoping, or asking for anything, we are cheating ourselves.”
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Joyce Meyer
“. . .what God really wants from us is not perfect performance, perfect behavior, or perfect attitudes, because He already sees those things in Jesus on our behalf. What God wants from us are hearts that truly love Him.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you are determined to succeed in life, God’s grace will enable you to do what may seem impossible to your natural thinking. God has promised to do His part, but you have an important part to play as well.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Faith completely turns the tables on your problems. Instead of thinking your problem is too great, you realize that “greater is He who is in me” (1 John 4:4 NASB).”
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Joyce Meyer
“We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.”
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Joyce Meyer
“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We must remember that people are not our source
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Joyce Meyer
“If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.”
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Joyce Meyer
