Quotes from Joyce Meyer

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God's acceptance and approval of us.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.

God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

Don't feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Do you serve God or do you serve your feelings? Believe the Word of God over and above your feelings.

God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.

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.

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

If God changes your heart, be willing to change your plans

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.