"When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is
probably just around the corner."
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided
to go forward anyway."
"You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining
the way you are."
"Stop determining your worth and value by what other people
say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says."
"Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances."
"Character is doing what you don't want to do but know
you should do."
"You can not live your life just based on what everyone
else thinks."
"Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't
live in a perfect world."
"We need a backbone, not a wishbone."
"Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you."
"It is not as important how we start (our past), but how
we finish."
"Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will
change your life."
"It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying
the Word."
"God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand
back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things
that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end."
"Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover
that your own smiles will always be in great supply!"
"Complain and remain. Praise and be raised."
"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get
over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time
to figure out whether you like it or not."
"80% of people's problems are about how they feel about
themselves."
"Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with
it."
"Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy,
one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls
your happiness."
"There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs
take time."
"Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This
is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you
are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve
it; to stop feeding it."
"Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with
later on"
"Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your
addiction."
"Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are
going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live
selflessly."
"Satan can control you if you let outward things determine
your security."
"You have to realize that you don't have someone else's
life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got.
Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else.
Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to
do with me"."
"We don't want to survive. We want to be healed."
"Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to
get."
"Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten
fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ."
"You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't
be both"
"One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life."
"There is something you can do that no one else can do
just like you so love your life!"
"Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life."
Written by Joyce Meyer
