Joyce Meyer
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.
The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.
As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
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.
Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.
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.
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
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.
I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.
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.
How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.
Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.
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.
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.
The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.
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.
I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.
If God can't get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won't get to anything else you got.
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.
Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.
I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
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.
I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.
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.'
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.
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.
I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.
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.
I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.
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.
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
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.
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
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.
I like to work and am a focused person.
We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.
God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.
I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'