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“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.”

Thinking World Want Mind Next Technology Media Information Decided

Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.”

Want Jesus Divine Oneness Guests Centerpieces

Author: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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?”

Want Humans Christ Results Effort Grace Holy Get Better Receiving

Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.”

Want Soul Whole Body Spirit Jesus Emotion Conscience Complexes Heal

Author:Joyce Meyer

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

Want Healed

Author:Joyce Meyer

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

Knows Want Should Character Conscience

Author:Joyce Meyer

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

Want What You Want

Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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".”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

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

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Bigs Company Greed Woe Big Companies

Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

Want Inspirational Wells Prayer Praying

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

Ifs Want Perfect Busy Perfect Life Wanting Someone

Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"”

“God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.”

Want Seems Suffering Dependent Want U

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do...even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, 'I'm a poor, miserable sinner.' I am not poor, I am not miserable and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I was and if I still am then Jesus died in vain. Amen?”

People Ifs Want Made Stills Lying Jesus Christ Church Poor Hell Taught Jesus Christ Died Miserable Vain Sinner Righteousness Pits You Like It Amen

Author:Joyce Meyer

“We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.”

Want Life Different Remember Our Lives Letting Go Seasons

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.”

Want Life Enjoy Situation Heal Enjoy Life

Book:The Secret to True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow

Source: The Secret to True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow

“I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.”

Want Wisdom Hands Managers

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.”

Want Life Giving Focus Grace Good Things Thanks God's Grace Focus On God

Book:Battlefield of the Mind Devotional: 100 Insights That Will Change the Way You Think

Source: Battlefield of the Mind Devotional: 100 Insights That Will Change the Way You Think

“I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.”

People Want Use Motivation I Have Learned Want Him

Book:Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God

Source: Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God

“God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want a testimony, you are going to have a test.”

Ifs Want Tests Testimony

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.”

Want Persons Enemy Habit Bad Habits Hinder

Book:Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviours That Will Energise Your Life

Source: Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviours That Will Energise Your Life

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Problem Difficult Talking Situation Mouths Get Over Thinking Too Much Talking Too Much

Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.”

Ifs Want Walks Steps Mess One Step At A Time

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that allows us to enjoy the gift of life.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.”

Want Overcoming

Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.”

Ifs Want Chance Successful Being Yourself Being Successful Take A Chance

Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.”

Ifs Want Trying Fit Shoes Unhappy Uncomfortable Insecure

Book:Approval Addiction

Source: Approval Addiction

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