Quotes from Joyce Meyer

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

Sometimes when people feel strongly about something, that is all they preach about. That is wrong. There needs to be a balance. We need to use common sense even in our spiritual life. In

You need to depend on God to show you things in such a way that you know—with an inner certainty—that what has been revealed to your mind is correct.

The only thing that truly satisfies the longing within is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday.

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the LORD are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. HOSEA 14:9 NLT

Imperfect, but perfectly loved.

God has created us to be different from one another, and He has done it on purpose. Each of us meets a need, and we are all part of God's overall plan. When we try to be like others, we lose ourselves, and we grieve the Holy Spirit. God wants us to fit into His plan, not to feel pressured trying to fit into everyone else's plans. It is all right to be different.

Sometimes when people get saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, they think everything is going to come to them by means of a miracle. Getting saved simply means giving ourselves up to God by taking ourselves out of our own keeping and entrusting ourselves into His keeping. God does miracles, but He also expects us to do our part. Instead

Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed

Encouraging someone and speaking truth into someone's life when God asks you to do so are healthy and wonderful things—but it's never right to make a quick, dismissive judgment. Our judgments based on external appearances don't have all the information and wisdom that

If we are not willing to risk what we have now, we will never find out what we could have.

Tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? Matthew 6:28-30 Using the illustration of one of His creations, the Lord makes the point that if a flower, which does nothing