Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
— Joyce Meyer
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.
Everything is subject to change except God Himself.
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.
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.
Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.
So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.
I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.
I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.
Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.
Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.
If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.
Where the mind goes, the man follows.
God never promised us a trouble-free life.
I like to work and am a focused person.
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.
Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.
I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.
The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.
I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.
I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.
God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.
