“Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others or position in life will keep us permanently secure. The outside approval we seek becomes an addiction. We work to get approval and it feels good for a short while; then we find that we need more and more. True freedom never comes until we fully realize that we don’t need to struggle to get from others what God freely gives us: love, acceptance, approval, security, worth, and value.”
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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
“But if we want God’s peace and joy, we can’t waste our time trying to be people-pleasers.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you want to keep a problem you have, then just keep talking about it. But if you want to get rid of it, then talk about the answer as if you expect it to manifest at any moment.”
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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
“Who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life? And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? —MATTHEW 6:27–30”
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Joyce Meyer
“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”
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Joyce Meyer
“Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!”
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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
“Picture what could happen if a wife - instead of calling all her friends to complain about her husband - prayed to God to radically and outrageously bless him?”
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Joyce Meyer
“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”
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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
“I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both”
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Joyce Meyer
