Inspiring Quotes by Joyce Meyer
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Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they're right for you.

Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

God is good, and He cannot be anything else.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up.

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

Serving God doesn't mean we'll no longer have difficulties. We're still on the battlefield, but we don't have to fight alone.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowerment.

Sometimes love is best expressed through service. Words are great, but when you walk in love, your commitment must be more than words.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

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

Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

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.

The Word of God is different than other words because God's Word is stuffed full of power and anointing.

There's nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth.

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

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too -- maybe even yours.

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

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

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

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never too anything for Him to work positive change in your life.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

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

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools is a deception from Satan.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to.

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God's eyes they do.

Give Him your mess and let it become your message.

We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.