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The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
- Joyce Meyer
#Authority
#God
#Learn
#Truth Is
#Truth
It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.
- Joyce Meyer
#Respect
#Salad
#Sitting
#Together
#Way
A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.
- Joyce Meyer
#Complain
#Enjoy
#Like
#People
#Things
Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
- Joyce Meyer
#Bad
#Habit
#Long
#More
#Sometimes
I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.
- Joyce Meyer
#Bed
#Believe
#Day
#Every Day
#I Believe
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
- Joyce Meyer
#Always
#Last
#Need
#Right
#Time
Humble people ask for help.
- Joyce Meyer
#Ask
#Help
#Humble
#People
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
- Joyce Meyer
#Defeat
#Fear
#Sometimes
#Through
#Your
I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
- Joyce Meyer
#About
#Better
#I Am
#Know
#People
We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.
- Joyce Meyer
#Epidemic
#Our
#People
#Society
#Today
Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
- Joyce Meyer
#Day
#Forgiveness
#Life
#Rest
#Your
Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.
- Joyce Meyer
#Car
#Comfort
#Life
#Love
#Nothing
It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.
- Joyce Meyer
#Compliment
#Give
#Inexpensive
#Very
All of our problems start in our minds.
- Joyce Meyer
#Minds
#Our
#Problems
#Start
The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
- Joyce Meyer
#Matter
#Me
#Okay
#Opinions
#People
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
- Joyce Meyer
#Father
#He
#Life
#Person
#Unpredictable
It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
- Joyce Meyer
#Better
#Desire
#God
#Person
#Want
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'
- Joyce Meyer
#Coming
#Common
#Moment
#Nobody
#Trouble
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
- Joyce Meyer
#Good
#Joy
#Life
#Sometimes
#Wrong
So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.
- Joyce Meyer
#Day
#Every
#Over
#Result
#Time
It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.
- Joyce Meyer
#Nature
#Reason
#Situation
#Try
#Way
I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.
- Joyce Meyer
#Believe
#Feel
#God
#I Believe
#People
Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.
- Joyce Meyer
#Learning
#Live
#Others
#Train
#Yourself
I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.
- Joyce Meyer
#Feel
#Messed Up
#People
#Success
#Trying
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
- Joyce Meyer
#Agree
#Be Happy
#Face
#Happiness
#Happy
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
- Joyce Meyer
#Behavior
#Character
#Things
#Through
It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!
- Joyce Meyer
#Amazing
#Church
#Home
#Me
#People
The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.
- Joyce Meyer
#Great
#Start
#Time
#Truth
#World
The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
- Joyce Meyer
#Always
#Discover
#Great
#Life
#Truth
Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.
- Joyce Meyer
#Day
#Every Day
#Return
#Us
#Will
Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.
- Joyce Meyer
#Could
#Die
#Pretend
#Something
#Us
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!
- Joyce Meyer
#Bad
#Feel
#Guilt
#Right
#Wrong
Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Love
#People
#Real
#Two
Really showing love requires more than just words.
- Joyce Meyer
#Just
#Love
#More
#Than
#Words
I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven't had the right kind of love in their lives.
- Joyce Meyer
#Believe
#I Believe
#Live
#Love
#Society
I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.
- Joyce Meyer
#Get
#Gifts
#Give
#Like
#Them
Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?
- Joyce Meyer
#Days
#Get
#God
#Us
#Why
I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.
- Joyce Meyer
#Bible
#Life
#Long
#Progress
#Time
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
- Joyce Meyer
#About
#Everything
#Just
#Live
#World
I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.
- Joyce Meyer
#Believe
#God
#Help
#Sometimes
#Who
We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
- Joyce Meyer
#Life
#Sometimes
#Think
#Us
#Weary
I like to work and am a focused person.
- Joyce Meyer
#Am
#Focused
#Like
#Person
#Work
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
- Joyce Meyer
#Believe
#Day
#I Believe That
#Live
#Time
If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.
- Joyce Meyer
#Impress
#People
#Us
#Want
#Will
Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
- Joyce Meyer
#High
#People
#Start
#Thinking
#Truth
Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.
- Joyce Meyer
#Best
#Excuses
#God
#Life
#Living
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
- Joyce Meyer
#Compromise
#Go
#Know
#Right
#Simply
I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.
- Joyce Meyer
#Life
#Living
#My Life
#Things
#Way
I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Life
#Need
#Power
#Want
The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.
- Joyce Meyer
#Bible
#Matter
#Me
#People
#Perfect
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
- Joyce Meyer
#Mind
#Myself
#Temptation
#Time
#Victory
I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
- Joyce Meyer
#Control
#Life
#Man
#Moon
#My Life
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
- Joyce Meyer
#Freedom
#God
#Own
#Robots
#Spirit
It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
- Joyce Meyer
#Amazing
#God
#Joy
#Life
#Time
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
- Joyce Meyer
#Doing
#Happy
#Joy
#Me
#People
I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Look
#Men
#Myself
#Women
I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
- Joyce Meyer
#Just
#Many
#Ministers
#Than
#Think
Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.
- Joyce Meyer
#Daily
#Doing
#Faith
#Life
#Spiritual
God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.
- Joyce Meyer
#Face
#God
#Love
#Me
#Work
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
- Joyce Meyer
#Childhood
#Mess
#Terrible
One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
- Joyce Meyer
#Been
#Say
#Screen
#Thinking
#Words
Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.
- Joyce Meyer
#Fear
#Feeling
#Produces
#Spirit
Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.
- Joyce Meyer
#Continue
#God
#Good
#Way
#Will
If God can't get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won't get to anything else you got.
- Joyce Meyer
#Anything
#God
#Money
#Obey
#Your
I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.
- Joyce Meyer
#Driving
#Pray
#Relaxing
#While
#Working
I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.
- Joyce Meyer
#Everything
#God
#Good
#I Am
#Will
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.
- Joyce Meyer
#Existence
#Fear
#Future
#Things
#Worst
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.
- Joyce Meyer
#Deep
#Life
#Overcome
#Sometimes
#Time
My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.
- Joyce Meyer
#Father
#Good
#Me
#Negative
#Remember
Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.
- Joyce Meyer
#Being
#Negative
#Nobody
#Say
#Way
How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.
- Joyce Meyer
#Dependent
#How
#Life
#People
#Us
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.
- Joyce Meyer
#Choices
#God
#History
#Religion
#Society
I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.
- Joyce Meyer
#Children
#Explain
#Good
#Parents
#Way
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
- Joyce Meyer
#Had
#Influence
#People
#Realize
#Society
There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.
- Joyce Meyer
#Always
#Nice
#People
#Will
#World
Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!
- Joyce Meyer
#Active
#Continue
#Faith
#Learning
#Will
If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Live
#Mouth
#Want
#Your
You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.
- Joyce Meyer
#Feelings
#God
#Life
#Speech
#Way
When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.
- Joyce Meyer
#Best
#Devil
#Feelings
#God
#Trust
Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.
- Joyce Meyer
#Giving
#God
#Happy
#Important
#Praise
I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.
- Joyce Meyer
#Change
#God
#Me
#Walk
#Wrong
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Life
#Marriage
#Soul
#Time
Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
- Joyce Meyer
#Death
#God
#Life
#Victory
#Words
Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
- Joyce Meyer
#About
#Everyone
#Matter
#Me
#Okay
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
- Joyce Meyer
#Dad
#God
#Man
#Truth
#Wife
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Life
#Love
#Me
#My Life
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
- Joyce Meyer
#Father
#Fear
#Home
#Life
#Result
Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Other
#Purpose
#Time
#Us
The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.
- Joyce Meyer
#Answer
#Faith
#Fear
#God
#Knowing
As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Never
#Own
#Prayer
#Time
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
- Joyce Meyer
#Change
#God
#Jesus Christ
#Relationship
Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.
- Joyce Meyer
#Best
#God
#Live
#Make It Happen
#Us
Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.
- Joyce Meyer
#Enjoy
#God
#Presence
#Sit
#Sometimes
In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.
- Joyce Meyer
#God
#Life
#Relationship
#Spiritual
#Time
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.
- Joyce Meyer
#Conscience
#God
#Listening
#Reason
#Wise
When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'
- Joyce Meyer
#Ask
#First
#God
#Important
#Our
When you feel like it's too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.
- Joyce Meyer
#Feel
#God
#Grace
#Power
#Remember
Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.
- Joyce Meyer
#Bad
#Catering
#Feeds
#Feelings
#Them
One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.
- Joyce Meyer
#Comfortable
#Home
#Love
#Need
#Us
I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.
- Joyce Meyer
#Best
#Faith
#God
#Heart
#Relationship
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