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I Believe, When In My Behavior Or In Relationships Or In The Way I React To Something, That I'm Still Dealing With Some Leftover Stuff From My Childhood, But The Good Thing Is Now, Because I Have Learned So Much From The Bible, I Can Tell When I'm Behaving Wrong And When I'm Not, And It Doesn't Take Me Very Long To Realize That's Out Of Fear, Or That's Because I Was Controlled As A Child, And I Can Make A Conscious Decision To Behave The Way I Know I Should Behave.

-Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer

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I Believe, When In My Behavior Or In Relationships Or In The Way I React To Something, That I'm Still Dealing With Some Leftover Stuff From My Childhood, But The Good Thing Is Now, Because I Have Learned So Much From The Bible, I Can Tell When I'm Behaving Wrong And When I'm Not, And It Doesn't Take Me Very Long To Realize That's Out Of Fear, Or That's Because I Was Controlled As A Child, And I Can Make A Conscious Decision To Behave The Way I Know I Should Behave.

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Your Emotions Are Very Unstable And Should Never Be The Foundation For Direction In Your Life.

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Don't Allow Yourself To Be Upset And Disturbed. Hold Your Peace Because Without It You Have No Power.

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Because My Dad Abused Me, I Was Determined To Never Let A Man Tell Me What To Do. God Clearly Showed Me That I Needed To Be A Submissive Wife If I Wanted To Be Effective In Ministry. The Truth Is, If We Don't Learn To Submit To Authority, We Won't Ever Learn To Submit To God.

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If You Can't Learn To Enjoy Your Life When You Have Problems, You May Never Enjoy It Because We'll Always Have Problems.

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Decisions We Make

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Wanting Someone

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We Almost Always See Only What's Wrong With Other People And Not What's Wrong With Us.

My Father Was A Negative Person. He Actually Taught Me To Be Negative, If That Makes Any Sense. I Remember Him Saying: 'you Know There's No Point In Expecting Anything Good To Happen Because It Won't.' I Grew Up In Such A Negative Atmosphere.

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Do You Look Forward To Going To Church, Or Is It Something You Do Out Of Obligation?

Going To Church

Keep Your Mind Going In The Right Direction, And Your Life Will Catch Up With It.

Right Direction

Depression Begins With Disappointment. When Disappointment Festers In Our Soul, It Leads To Discouragement.

God Has Created Us To Be Dependent Upon Him, To Bring Him Our Challenges And Allow Him To Help Us With Them.

The Bible Has The Answers To Our Everyday Life. Many Times People Don't Realize How Practical It Is.

Courage Is Fear That Has Said Its Prayers And Decided To Go Forward Anyway.

Nobody Can Ever Say That Being Negative Ever Helped Them At All - Not In Any Way.

We Cannot Know God Apart From His Word.

If We Didn't Struggle Through Some Things, We Would Never Develop The Strength And Stamina We Need To Survive In This World.

Commit To Stop Making Excuses. When We Make Excuses, We Lie To Ourselves And Continue Bad Habits.

Refuse To Let Your Love Grow Cold. Stir Up Love In Your Life - Towards Your Spouse And Towards Your Family, Friends, Neighbours, Co-workers. Reach Out To Others Who Are Hurting And In Need. Pray For People And Bless Them. Grow To The Point That One Of Your First Thoughts Each Morning In Your Heart Is About How You Can Bless Someone Else That Day.

Unity Increases Power.

Every Day Is A Gift From God. Learn To Focus On The Giver And Enjoy The Gift!

The Term Revolution Means: A Sudden, Radical, And Complete Change From The Way Things Are Normally Done. I Love That Definition Because I Really Feel That In Order For Us To Start Walking In The Kind Of Love That Christ Commanded Us To - The "love Your Neighbor As Yourself" Kind - It's Going To Take A Radical Change In Our Current Behavior. The Church Has Become Passive And Selfish And It's Going To Take A Revolution To Get Us Back To The Place Where We Are Not Just Talking The Talk, But Walking In A Love That Shows The World Christ's Love.

Food Is Not The Problem. It's What We Do With Food That Becomes The Problem. That's Why We Need To Learn To Keep Everything In Our Lives - Especially Our Eating - In Proper Balance.

I Was In A Terrible Mess In My Childhood.

Focus On Giving Smiles Away And You Will Always Discover That Your Own Smiles Will Always Be In Great Supply!

You Can Control Yourself If You Really Want To. I'll Tell You How I Know You Can Control Yourself. If You Were In A Full Fledged Emotional Temper Tantrum In Your House And I Knocked On Your Front Door..... Come On! Let Me Tell You What, You Would Get Control Of Yourself, And It Would Only Take A Few Seconds.

It Is God's Will To Bless Us, But Not Necessarily On Our Terms. Sometimes What We Think Would Be A Wonderful Blessing Would Not Bless Us At All.

Catering To Bad Feelings Feeds And Empowers Them.

If You Want To Be Unhappy, Uncomfortable, And Insecure, Just Spend Your Life Trying To Do Something That Is Not Right For You. It Is Just Like Trying To Wear Shoes That Don't Fit.

I Believe, When In My Behavior Or In Relationships Or In The Way I React To Something, That I'm Still Dealing With Some Leftover Stuff From My Childhood, But The Good Thing Is Now, Because I Have Learned So Much From The Bible, I Can Tell When I'm Behaving Wrong And When I'm Not, And It Doesn't Take Me Very Long To Realize That's Out Of Fear, Or That's Because I Was Controlled As A Child, And I Can Make A Conscious Decision To Behave The Way I Know I Should Behave.

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Making Mistakes

If You're Not Careful To Think And Speak Words Of Faith, Worry Will Creep In, And It Will Not Only Steal Your Peace And Joy, It Will Steal Your 'today.' The Present Is The Greatest Gift God Ever Gives Us. So Hold On To The Peace That's Yours In Christ. Don't Let It Go.

Better To Have A Big Goal And Reach Half Of It Than To Have No Goal And Reach All Of It.

Turn You Situation Over To God Because He Can Do More In A Moment Than You Can Do In A Lifetime.

If I Believe The Bible, Then I Don't Believe That A Gay Lifestyle Or A Homosexual Lifestyle Is The Right Way To Choose To Live. I Believe That There's Something So Much Better.

I Encourage You To Be A Person Who Is Not Afraid Of Responsibility. In Meeting Resistance You Will Build Your Strength. If You Only Do What Is Easy, You Will Always Remain Weak.

(on Being In A Position Of Leadership) Even If It's Your Dog, You've Got Authority Over Somebody. Start Treating Him Better.

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.

One Step At A Time

You Can Either Keep Walking In Misery Or Make The Decision To Begin Taking Steps Out Of It.

Our Words Will Either Bring Life And Victory Or Death And Destruction. If We Want To Be Happy, We Have To Be Serious About Speaking Words Of Life That Line Up With God's Word.

There Are Many Things That Happen Every Day That We Could Murmur About If We Let Ourselves Go There. But They Really Aren't Worth The Effort It Takes To Get Upset And Gripe About It.

Faith Is Having A Positive Attitude About What You Can Do And Not Worrying At All About What You Can't Do.

Trust And Faith Bring Joy To Life And Help Relationships Grow To Their Maximum Potential.

The Best Way To Get Along With People Is Not To Expect Them To Be Like You.

The Most Effective Prayers Are Usually The Simple Prayers.

There's Nothing That You Can't Overcome With God On Your Side.

We Need To Glance At Our Problems And Stare At Jesus!

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