“Slow Is Good Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry. For man’s anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires]. JAMES 1:19–20 In these verses, God is telling us to listen more than we talk. Think about it: If God wanted us to be quick to speak and slow to listen, He would have created us with two mouths and only one ear! God is also telling us not to easily get offended or angry. If you have a quick, bad temper, start listening more and talking less. Slow is good. Read everything you can get your hands on about managing anger. Repeat over and over in your mind: I am quick to listen and slow to speak, slow to anger, and quick to forgive. Trust God to help you manage the feelings of anger. It is vitally necessary for you to be able to control this emotion if you want to enjoy the life God has in mind for you. Power Thought: I am quick to listen and slow to speak, slow to anger and quick to forgive.”
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Joyce Meyer
“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you to show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. Matthew 5:44–45”
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Joyce Meyer
“I always believe the best of every person, and I am very positive.
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Joyce Meyer
“Stop worrying about the people who don’t like you and start getting busy finding the ones that do.”
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Joyce Meyer
“he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love”
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Joyce Meyer
“Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Many people say “my life stinks”. Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.”
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Joyce Meyer
“The Bible says our warfare is with the devil, not with people (Ephesians 6:12).”
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Joyce Meyer
“We all know that we must sow seed if we are to reap a harvest (Galatians 6:7). Sowing seed into the lives of other people is one sure way to reap a harvest in our own life.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Don't let your feelings be a God to you.”
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Joyce Meyer
“God has given me one new commandment that I should love others just as He has loved me. —JOHN 13:34”
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Joyce Meyer
“If something is wrong in your life, don’t spend the rest of your days feeling bad about it… do something about it!”
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Joyce Meyer
“The Bible says in Romans 12:21 that we overcome evil with good.”
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Joyce Meyer
