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I Was In My Late Thirties When My Eyes Were Opened To Truth In God's Word That Showed Me I Wasn't Living The Abundant Life Jesus Died For Me To Have. I Had A Very Negative Mindset And Was Miserable Most Of The Time Because Of The Abuse I Had Experienced Throughout My Childhood.

-Joyce Meyer

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I Was In My Late Thirties When My Eyes Were Opened To Truth In God's Word That Showed Me I Wasn't Living The Abundant Life Jesus Died For Me To Have. I Had A Very Negative Mindset And Was Miserable Most Of The Time Because Of The Abuse I Had Experienced Throughout My Childhood.

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Unconditional Love

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Consider A Tree For A Moment. As Beautiful As Trees Are To Look At, We Don't See What Goes On Underground - As They Grow Roots. Trees Must Develop Deep Roots In Order To Grow Strong And Produce Their Beauty. But We Don't See The Roots. We Just See And Enjoy The Beauty. In Much The Same Way, What Goes On Inside Of Us Is Like The Roots Of A Tree.

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God Wants To Use You To Make Other People Happy! And The Happier You Make Others, The Happier You Will Be Because You Reap What You Sow.

I've Discovered That When We Take Time To Renew Our Minds With God's Word, We Learn How To Think Like God Thinks, Say What God Says, And Act Like He Wants Us To Act.

Don’t Waste Another Day Of Your Life Grieving Over Something That You Cannot Do Anything About. Let God Give You A New Beginning. Your Mistakes Are Not Enough To Stop God If You Don’t Let Them.

Resist The Need To Be 'right' All The Time Or To Always Have The Last Word.

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I Wonder How Many Times People Give Up Just Before A Breakthrough - When They Are On The Very Brink Of Success.

Once I Realized That Right Thinking Is Vital To Victorious Living, I Got More Serious About Thinking About What I Was Thinking About, And Choosing My Thoughts Carefully.

There Are People In The World Who Aren't Necessarily Christians, But They're Just Naturally Nice People Who Do A Lot For Other People. Those People Will Almost Always Be Prosperous People.

Do Yourself A Favor And Forgive Anyone That Has Anything Against You. Do It As An Act Of Faith And Trust God To Change And Heal Your Emotions. Pray For Your Enemies And Never Say Another Unkind Thing About Them. It Is The Only Way You Can Move Past The Pain And Begin To Heal.

My Purpose In Life Is To Do Right And To Glorify God.

Purpose Of Life

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

When We Make Progress Quickly, It Feeds Our Emotions. Then, When There's A Period Of Waiting Or We Hit A Plateau, We Find Out How Committed We Really Are And Whether We're Going To See Things Through To The Finish Or Quit.

If You Are Facing A New Challenge Or Being Asked To Do Something That You Have Never Done Before Don’t Be Afraid To Step Out. You Have More Capability Than You Think You Do But You Will Never See It Unless You Place A Demand On Yourself For More.

Did You Know There's A Difference Between Being Busy And Being Fruitful? Did You Ever Stop To Think That Just Being Busy - Running Around In Circles All Day But Not Accomplishing Anything - Is The Same As Wasting Your Time? It's Frustrating To Expend So Much Energy And Time And Not Have Any Fruit From Your Effort!

Grace Equals Ability. God Gives Us Grace To Match Our Call. When We Do Our Own Thing, We Do It On Our Own. When We Follow His Leading, He Always Supplies The Grace And The Energy To Do What He's Calling Us To Do.

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.

The Conscience Can Be A Strong Guide In Life If We Allow It.

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God Has Gifted Me In Communication. He Has Given Me A Gift To Be Very Open About Myself, Which Seems To Really Help A Lot Of People. It's Not Even Anything I Do On Purpose. It's Just Something I Don't Have A Problem With. I Don't Care What You Know About Me If It Will Help You.

Genuine Thanksgiving Is A Response To Both Who God Is And What He Has Done, Is Doing, And Will Do.

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There Are No Drive-thru Breakthroughs. Breakthroughs Take Time.

My Teachings Are My Life.

Don’t Let Someone Who Has A Bad Attitude Give It To You.

When An Injustice Happens, We Want To Be Vindicated. People Feel That If They Forgive The Person Who Hurt Them, Then They Will Continue To Take Advantage Of Them Or Not Take Responsibility For What They Did Wrong. If We're Honest, We'll Admit That We Usually Want The Person Who Hurt Us To Pay For What They Did. We Can't Get Past This Until We Get The Revelation That Only God Can Pay Us Back. He Is Our Vindicator - He Will Heal And Restore Us If We Will Trust Him And Forgive Our Enemies As He Has Told Us To Do.

Stop Determining Your Worth And Value By What Other People Say. Be Determined By What The Word Of God (scriptures)says.

Here’s One Of My Favorite Statements: We Are Never Going To Enjoy Stability, We Are Never Going To Enjoy Spiritual Maturity Until We Learn How To Do What’s Right When It Feels Wrong, And Every Time You Do What’s Right By A Decision Of Your Will Using Discipline And Self Control To Go Beyond How You Feel, The More Painful It Is In Your Flesh, The More You’re Growing Spiritually At That Particular Moment.

We Cannot Know God Apart From His Word.

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