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The Devil Is A Peace Stealer, And He Works Hard To Set Us Up To Get Upset. But We Can Learn How To Change Our Approach So We Don't Live Upset All Of The Time. And Jesus Gives Us The Best Example To Follow.

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Joyce Meyer

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The Devil Is A Peace Stealer, And He Works Hard To Set Us Up To Get Upset. But We Can Learn How To Change Our Approach So We Don't Live Upset All Of The Time. And Jesus Gives Us The Best Example To Follow.

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It Is Not As Important How We Start (our Past), But How We Finish.

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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.

The Holy Spirit Showed Me That When I Put Up Walls To Keep Others Out I Also Wall Myself Into Solitary Place Of Confinement.

Faith Is Powerful Spiritual Dynamic, And It Is Something God Responds To And Blesses.

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God Wants Us To Be Totally Dependent On Him, And Suffering Seems To Bring Us To That Point.

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

Anything That God Wants You To Have, There's No Devil In Hell And No Person On Earth That Can Keep You From Having It If You Just Won't Quit And Give Up.

You Can Be Pitiful, Or You Can Be Powerful, But You Can't Be Both

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Words Are Containers For Power

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Where There Is No Opposition To Evil, It Multiplies.

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It Is Sad That Today Many Times People Give Up In The Hard Times And Never Get To Enjoy The Fruit Of All Their Labor.

Wisdom Is Doing Now What You Are Going To Be Happy With Later On

Worrying Is Trying To Figure Out What To Do To Save Yourself Rather Than Trusting In God For Deliverance.

Motives Reveal Why We Do What We Do, Which Is Actually More Important To God Than What We're Doing.

Love Gives Life Purpose And Meaning.

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You Know, It's One Thing To Say You Believe. It's Another Thing To Have Your Faith Tested Severely And Come Out On The Other Side Of It Still Believing God.

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You're So Caught Up In Grumbling, Complaining, And Seeing What's Wrong That You Have No Energy Or Time To Appreciate What's Good.

Satan Will Battle You With Doubt And Unbelief, But God Has Victory Waiting For You If You'll Keep Trusting And Believing Him.

God Is Not Obligated To Anoint What He Does Not Initiate.

I Didn't Really Understand The Importance Of Little Things. I Didn't Really Understand That It Was The Little Foxes That Spoil The Vine. And If We're Not Faithful In Little Things, That God Will Never Be Able To Make Us Ruler Over Great Things.

We Have An Epidemic Of Insecure People In Our Society Today.

I’m Living Now In My Reward.

Acts 10:38 Says, “see How God Anointed Jesus Of Nazareth Who Went About Doing Good.” He Just Got Up Every Day And Did Good. Everywhere He Went, Even Though He Had A Purpose And He Was Headed Somewhere, He Let Himself Be Interrupted By The Needs Of People. So Often We Study The Steps Of Jesus. Maybe We Need To Study The Stops Of Jesus. The Things That He Stopped For, The Things That Interrupted His Plan, Where He Would Alter His Plan And Help Somebody Here And There.

You Can't Enjoy Your Life If You Don't Enjoy Yourself.

Enjoy Your Life

Fear Is A Spirit That Produces A Feeling.

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

I've Been Studying The Bible For A Long Time. I Remember That After The First Five Years Or So Of Diligently Studying The Word, I Didn't Feel Like I Had Made Any Progress. There Were A Lot Of Things In My Life That Were Out Of Order, And I Didn't Feel Like I Was Getting Anywhere.

Fear Tries To Get Us To Give Up But Faith Takes Us All The Way Through To Victory

Religion Is A Very Dangerous Thing. By That I Mean Being So Caught Up In Rules And Regulations And Not Focusing On The Thing That Matters Most- A Personal Relationship With God.

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.

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.

Learn How To Enjoy Where You Are On The Way To Where You're Going.

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.

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

Having Everything Your Way Is Highly Overrated.

Jesus Never Mistreated Anyone Just Because They Mistreated Him. He Confronted Them In A Spirit Of Gentleness And Then Continued To Love Them.

Courage Means To Keep Making Forward Progress While You Still Feel Afraid!

Christianity Is A Lifestyle. And Being A Christian Is More Than A Label.

I Believe Many People Feel Like God Is Mad At Them. One Day I Put A Post On Facebook That Said, 'god Is Not Mad At You.' Within A Few Hours, We Literally Had Thousands Of Positive Responses From People Saying Things Like, 'that Is Exactly What I Needed To Hear Today.' Obviously, This Is A Message We Need To Hear.

We Must Guard Against Allowing Anger To Drag Us Into Sin.

You Can Think Whatever You Want To And Laugh, But I Believe If I Would Have Never Learned To Put My Stuff Back On The Right Grocery Store Shelves, And I Would Have Never Learned To Put My Cart Back Where God Told Me To, I Don't Believe I Would Be Standing Here Today Preaching This Message To You. And I Think There Are Literally Millions Of People Who Miss The Will Of God For Their Life Because They Think Little Things Don't Make Any Difference.

Don't Mourn Over Your Bad Decisions. Just Start Overcoming Them With Good Ones.

Sometimes New Opportunity Means New Opposition. Not Everything God Asks Us To Do Will Be Comfortable.

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.

What's Real Freedom? Real Freedom Is Being Able To Not Have My Way And Still Be Just As Happy As If I Did.

Giving In To Fear Alters God's Best Plan For Your Life. So Use The Power Of God's Word To Do What He Wants You To Do...even If You Have To Do It Afraid! The Rewards Are Great.

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.

We Cannot Know God Apart From His Word.

When We Believe The Best Of People, We Let Go Of Each Thing They Do That Is Hurtful To Us. And We Choose To Think Things Like, 'i Don't Believe They Meant To Hurt Me.' 'maybe They're Having A Bad Day Or Don't Feel Well.' 'they Probably Don't Even Realize How They Sound.'

When We Fill Our Thoughts With Right Things, The Wrong Ones Have No Room To Enter

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You Never Know How Close You Are To A Breakthrough. It May Be Right Around The Corner. Don't Quit!

Give Him Your Mess And Let It Become Your Message.

People Often Ask Me How I Keep My Priorities Straight In Life And I Tell Them That It Is Done By Constantly Straightening Them Out!

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