“But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings. —MARK 11:25–26 One of the greatest reasons why prayer isn’t answered among Christians is unforgiveness. Jesus gave His disciples a command to forgive, and then He told them plainly that if they did not forgive, neither would their Father in heaven forgive them their failings and shortcomings.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Put your trust in God and take responsibility for your attitudes and actions, and stop blaming others. If you are not happy, I suggest you look inward before you look around you to find something or someone to blame.”
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Joyce Meyer
“What happens in private always has an effect upon what happens in public.
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Joyce Meyer
“One great reason for hope is this: you are not a failure just because you have failed at certain things.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Take responsibility for your anger and learn to deal with it—process it and bring closure to it, and that will relieve the pressure.”
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Joyce Meyer
“SEPTEMBER 5 Stay Out of Strife He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the Lord shall be enriched and blessed. PROVERBS 28:25 Probably 80 percent of the places we visit in our ministry have church members who are riddled with strife. Strife is the devil’s tool against us. It takes personal self-control to stay out of strife. If you want to keep peace, you can’t always say everything you want to say. Sometimes you have to control yourself and apologize even when there is nothing in you that wants to do so. But if you sow the godly principle of harmony and unity today, a time will come when you will reap the blessings of all it can bring to you.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Jesus did not leave Peter to drown just because he had done fine for a while and then made a mistake.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”
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Joyce Meyer
“The peace Jesus gives operates in good times or bad, when you are abounding or being abased. His peace operates in the middle of the storm. It”
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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
“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If we make a decision and then continue to go back and forth in our mind about whether we did the right thing or not, we are unstable in our ways.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don’t have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I’m thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.”
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Joyce Meyer
