Joyce Meyer Quotes

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

Have God make a message out of your mess.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.

Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

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.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.

I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.

Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

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.

There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

Seek His face and not His hand.

Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.

Unity increases power.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

Where the mind goes the man follows.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

I tell you what when I see chocolate chip cookies I can’t just eat one. I’ve got to eat a dozen. I don’t have any self control. Well, come on! You’re just talking yourself right into the pit! You do have self control, and you need to start looking at those cookies and saying, “If I want you I’ll eat you, and if I don’t I won’t!” Come on! Talk to that plateful of food! I am born again and baptized in the Holy Ghost! I have the power of the universe on the inside of me, and if I do not want to eat you I will not eat you! I mean how do you expect to defeat the devil if you can’t even defeat a chocolate chip cookie!?!?

I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.

Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our individual selves.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.