“God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You may have heard the saying, “Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Our actions are a direct result of our thoughts. If we have a negative mind, we will have a negative life.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Peace is our inheritance from Jesus, but we have to choose to follow Him daily. Colossians 3:15 teaches us that peace is to be the “umpire” in our lives, settling every issue that needs a decision. To gain and maintain peace in our hearts, we may have to learn to say no to a few things.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”
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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
“Please remember that you don’t have to be like someone else to be acceptable. The world’s standards are not God’s. The world may say you need to be like this person or that person, but God’s will is that you be yourself.
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Joyce Meyer
“We can defeat Satan much more quickly by praising God than by worrying.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Trust in Him Are you doing your part to study God’s Word, believe it, and trust Him? When you do, He will do the rest.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You do not have to stay in a bad situation. You get to make a choice, and that choice is 100% yours.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I shall find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man. —PROVERBS 3:4”
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Joyce Meyer
“Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I urge you to stop remembering what God has forgotten.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
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Joyce Meyer