100+ Quotes by Joyce Meyer
Joyce Meyer, an American author and speaker, has gained prominence as a Christian teacher and motivational speaker with a focus on practical spirituality and personal growth. Born in 1943, Meyer's teachings emphasize the application of biblical principles to everyday life, addressing issues like emotional healing, relationships, and spiritual well-being. Through her books, seminars, and television programs, she reaches a global audience, encouraging individuals to overcome challenges and live a more fulfilling life. Meyer's personal journey of overcoming past traumas and her candid approach to sharing her experiences have resonated with many, fostering a sense of connection and empowerment. While celebrated for her messages of hope and positive thinking, Meyer has also faced criticisms and controversies related to her teachings and financial practices. Her impact on modern Christian self-help literature and her ability to bridge religious teachings with practical advice have made her a significant figure in contemporary spirituality.
Joyce Meyer Quotes
God's mercy is fresh and new every morning. (Meaning)
Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy. (Meaning)
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. (Meaning)
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised. (Meaning)
God is good, and He cannot be anything else. (Meaning)
Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you. (Meaning)
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses. (Meaning)
Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling. (Meaning)
New level, New devil. (Meaning)
If we do our best, God will do the rest. (Meaning)
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. (Meaning)
Be a blessing to someone else. (Meaning)
Where the mind goes, the man follows. (Meaning)
Excellence is going the extra mile. (Meaning)
Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make. (Meaning)
When you walk in love, you give up your right to be right. (Meaning)
Attitude is your thought life turned inside out (Meaning)
We cannot know God apart from His Word. (Meaning)
Words are containers for power (Meaning)
The great quest of life has always been to discover truth. (Meaning)
Keep walking the walk, one step at a time. (Meaning)
All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do. (Meaning)
When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else. (Meaning)
The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers. (Meaning)
We need to live the life that we say we believe in. (Meaning)
Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes. (Meaning)
Seek His face and not His hand. (Meaning)
Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out. (Meaning)
God can't drive a parked car. (Meaning)
I like to work and am a focused person. (Meaning)
Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die. (Meaning)
Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. (Meaning)
My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God. (Meaning)
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
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.
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.
Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.
Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.
When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
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.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God says.
God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.
Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.
Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.
Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.
Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.
If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.
You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.
Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.
Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!
Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!
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.
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.
Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
It`s important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.
Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.
Put your expectations on God, not on people.
In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.
Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.
The power of God is available to you today to help you do whatever you need to do and with a smile on your face!
Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.
Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.
Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.
The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you'll have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.
When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!
We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.
Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.
If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.
The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.
Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!
We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence
Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!
The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you-no matter what.
Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.
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.
We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.
As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.
Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.
People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.
Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.
Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.
Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.
Refuse to let your love grow cold. Stir up love in your life - towards your spouse and towards your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers. Reach out to others who are hurting and in need. Pray for people and bless them. Grow to the point that one of your first thoughts each morning in your heart is about how you can bless someone else that day.
God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.
You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today
Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.
You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!
When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.
The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.
Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.
We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.
A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.
Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.
If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.
Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.
Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.
God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.
There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.
One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.
Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you.
Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.
Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.
The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!
No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.
Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up
You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.
It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.
If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.
We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
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.
I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.
Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.
It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.
You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.
I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.
Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
Discipline enables you to think first and act second.
Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.
God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.
Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.
Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.
God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.
The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!
Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.
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.
God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.
God is good, and He cannot be anything else.
You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.
You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.
A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.
New level, New devil.
Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.
Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.
God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.
Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.
Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.
The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!
Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?
God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.
Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.
― Joyce Meyer Quotes
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