“SEPTEMBER 5 Stay Out of Strife He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the Lord shall be enriched and blessed. PROVERBS 28:25 Probably 80 percent of the places we visit in our ministry have church members who are riddled with strife. Strife is the devil’s tool against us. It takes personal self-control to stay out of strife. If you want to keep peace, you can’t always say everything you want to say. Sometimes you have to control yourself and apologize even when there is nothing in you that wants to do so. But if you sow the godly principle of harmony and unity today, a time will come when you will reap the blessings of all it can bring to you.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Because God is with you, that makes you greater than any problem you have.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Years may wrinkle your skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles your soul.”
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Joyce Meyer
“The best thing you can do about yesterday is to forget it. Whether you succeeded or failed, it’s over. It’s time to look ahead.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You do not have, because you do not ask. James 4:2b”
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Joyce Meyer
“If we make a decision and then continue to go back and forth in our mind about whether we did the right thing or not, we are unstable in our ways.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 30:17”
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Joyce Meyer
“Those who are easily offended and touchy are insecure.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Words have a tremendous impact on all our lives. I know people who have lived lives of crippling insecurity because their parents spoke words of judgment, criticism, and failure to them on a regular basis.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Matthew 5:41 says to go the extra mile—don’t just do what you have to do. I believe the Lord has caused me to know that real excellence is to do the more excellent thing even when nobody is looking—even when nobody is around to reward us, notice us, or recognize us as exceptional people.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!”
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Joyce Meyer
