“God said that when a man and a woman are married, the two will become one flesh, but He never said it would be easy. Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other’s needs.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you are willing to give yourself away, you will have a much better life than you ever would have had trying to keep yourself.”
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Joyce Meyer
“The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace. (PSALM 29:11)”
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Joyce Meyer
“There was a time not too far in the past when a person’s word was his honor; to not keep one’s word was unthinkable.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Peace is our inheritance from Jesus, but we have to choose to follow Him daily. Colossians 3:15 teaches us that peace is to be the “umpire” in our lives, settling every issue that needs a decision. To gain and maintain peace in our hearts, we may have to learn to say no to a few things.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.”
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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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Joyce Meyer
“[Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit. —JEREMIAH 17:7–8”
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Joyce Meyer
“By dwelling on how inadequate we thought we were, we are continuing to block what God has for us by not being open to receive from Him.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We need to be like the ant. We need to be the kind of people who are self-motivated and self-disciplined, those who do what is right because it is right, not because someone may be looking or because someone is making us do it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“One of the biggest causes of stress is focusing on the negative things that are happening around us.”
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Joyce Meyer
“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… 1 CORINTHIANS 14:33 KJV”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you are a woman who truly wants to have peaceful relationships, I encourage you to examine yourself and ask God to reveal to you any unrealistic expectations you may have of other people.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”
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Joyce Meyer
