Background Image

...

We Open The Door For God To Work By Placing Faith In His Word, And We Open The Door For Satan To Work By Placing Faith In His Word. He Places Thought In Our Minds That Are Not True, But Can Become True For Us If They Are Believed.

-Joyce Meyer

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

We Open The Door

Joyce Meyer

...

We Open The Door For God To Work By Placing Faith In His Word, And We Open The Door For Satan To Work By Placing Faith In His Word. He Places Thought In Our Minds That Are Not True, But Can Become True For Us If They Are Believed.

Views: 7

Topic

More From Joyce Meyer

God Doesn't Help Those Who Help Themselves; He Helps Those Who Can't Help Themselves!

Christian Inspirational

When We Enter Into A Personal Relationship With Jesus Christ, Something Wonderful Happens: God Begins To Change Our Desires, And We Want To Be More Like Him.

When We Make A True Commitment To Walk In Love, It Usually Causes A Huge Shift In Our Lifestyle. Many Of Our Ways - Our Thoughts, Our Conversation, Our Habits - Have To Change.

When You Are A Thankful Person It Releases Joy.

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.

Traditions Are A Common Part Of Our Lives. They Can Be Good, And Not All Traditions Are Wrong, But Sometimes They Can Take The Joy Out Of Life.

Instead Of Blaming Everyone And Everything Else For Your Problems, Pray For God To Help You Take An Inventory Of What's Been On Your Mind So You Can Think About What You've Been Thinking About.

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.

I've Been So Mistreated By Male Authority In My Life That I Had A Terrible Time In My Marriage Trying To Be A Submissive Wife. I Wanted To Rule The Roost In Everything. And It Wasn't Even Really That I Was Rebellious; I Was Afraid Of Being Hurt. And I Think That A Lot Of People That Choose These Alternative Lifestyles, I Think It's Because They've Been Hurt Somewhere Along The Line Very Badly.

Lord, What If I Miss You? What If I Miss You? What If I Miss You? Oh, I'm So Scared! God, What If I Miss You? He Answered Simply, "joyce, Don't Worry; If You Miss Me, I Will Find You.

Today Lord I Am Going To Do My Best With Your Help And For Your Glory. I Realize That There Are Many Different People In The World With A Variety Of Opinions And Expectations. I Will Concentrate On Being A God-pleaser And Not A Self-pleaser Or Man-pleaser. The Rest I Leave In Your Hands Lord. Grant Me Favor With You And With Men And Continue Transforming Me Into The Image Of Your Dear Son. Thank You Lord.

You Have A Great God Who Loves You And Cares About You. Be Full Of Hope That Something Good Can Happen To You. God Is A Master At New Beginnings. He Loves Fresh Beginnings, He Makes All Things New.

You Can't Be Pitiful And Powerful.

Place Your Desires Before God. Pray About Them And Trust God To Give Them To You If And When They’re Right For You.

Deadly Emotions, Buried Alive, Never Die.

God Is Working On Your Problem. Stay Calm. Stay Sweet. Stay Out Of Fear And Keep On Keeping On.

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

Don't Complain. The Israelites Wasted Forty Years Murmuring And Complaining In The Wilderness, When They Could Have Just Obeyed God And Entered Into Their Promised Land.

Every Time You Look In The Mirror Remember That God Created You And That Everything He Creates Is Beautiful And Good!

I Believe It's Easy To Serve God If We Learn To Hear From Him Before We Struggle To Do Things For Him That He Never Asked Us To Do.

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.

Frustration, Complication And Misery Are Available In Abundance, But So Is God's Grace.

Attitude Is Your Thought Life Turned Inside Out

Thoughts On Life

Let's Face It: None Of Us Are Ever Going To Get To The Place In Life Where We Have No More Disappointments. We Can't Expect To Be Sheltered From Every Little Thing. Disappointment Is A Fact Of Life--one That Must Be Dealt With.

Listening Is An Important Key To Hearing.

You See, You Are A Spirit, You Have A Soul, And You Live In A Body. You Have Emotions, You Have Thoughts, You Have A Will, And You Have A Conscience. You Are A Complex Being! And Jesus Came To Heal Every Single Part Of You. There's Not One Part That He Doesn't Want To Make Completely Whole.

Don’t Waste Your Life Waiting Until Everything Is Perfect Before You Start Enjoying It.

The Right Timing Is Not Always Our Timing.

If You Are A Believer Married To An Unbeliever I Want To Tell You That The Greatest Witness That You Can Be To Them Is To Try To Be The Same All The Time. Don't Let The Way They Act Control You. Dave Didn't Let My Actions Control Him. He Stayed Happy, And That Just Made Me Madder, Because Unhappy People Just Want To Make Other People Unhappy, But It Finally Broke Through To Me That He's Got A Stability And A Joy And A Peace That I Did Not Have.

When Discipline Is Sown, Like A Good Seed, It Yields A Harvest Of Things That Fulfill And Satisfy Us-things That Make Us Happy And Release Peace And Joy In Our Lives.

My Father Was A Mean, Controlling And Manipulative Person For Most Of His Life. He Was Unpredictable And Unstable. As A Result, The Atmosphere Of Our Home Was Super-charged With Fear Because You Never Knew If What You Did Would Make Him Mad Or Not.

Treat Everyone You Meet As If They Have Infinite Value Because In God’s Eyes They Do

The Devil Will Give Up When He Sees That You Are Not Going To Give In.

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

Any Day That We Don't Give Up Puts Us One Day Closer To Success!

Things In Themselves Have No Life In Them. A Car Can't Comfort Or Encourage You. A House Means Nothing If There's No Life And Love Inside.

Everything Doesn't Have To Feel Good To Be God

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.

All God Wants Us To Do Is Do What He Asks Us To Do.

The Word Of God Is Different Than Other Words Because God's Word Is Stuffed Full Of Power And Anointing.

Don't Waste Your Time Being Upset About Something You Can't Change. Begin Again And Do It Better This Time.

The Best Way To Have The Last Word Is To Apologize.

We Cannot Stand Through The Storms Of Life Based On Someone Else's Faith. We Must Be Fully Assured In Our Own Hearts And Minds.

Everything God Tells Us To Do Is For Our Good. Whether It's Direction You Get In His Word Or Something He's Specifically Put In Your Heart For Your Situation In Life, The Absolute Best Thing You Can Ever Do Is Obey Him Promptly And Completely.

Situations In Life

Do You Feel Disappointed Because Something You Planned Didn’t Work Out If So You Can Get Re-appointed Today. In God There Are Never Any Dead-ends Only Detours. Don’t Ever Give Up. Just Keep Trying Until You Succeed.

You're Not Free, Unless You Come To The Place Where You Have Nothing To Prove.

We May Feel Fear But We Do Not Have To Give In To It. We Can Do Whatever We Need And Want To Do, Even If We Have To "do It Afraid." Courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear; It Is Action In The Presence Of Fear.

My Heart Is To Help Hurting People. I Teach People God's Word So They Can Overcome Their Problems And Avoid Some Of The Tough Lessons I Had To Learn.

Why Wouldn’t We Run To God. He’s Sooo Good. God’s Not Mad At Anybody. He Just Wants To Help Us Be The Best That We Can Be.

Forgiveness Is Not A Feeling - It's A Decision We Make Because We Want To Do What's Right Before God. It's A Quality Decision That Won't Be Easy And It May Take Time To Get Through The Process, Depending On The Severity Of The Offense.

Decisions We Make

Discipline Enables You To Think First And Act Second.

Individuals Need To Be Willing To Face Truth About Their Attitudes, Behaviors, Even What We Want Out Of Life.

Whatever Your Situation, God Wants To Heal You, Strengthen You, And Lead You To A Place Where You Can Enjoy Life Again.

The Simple Power Of Prayer Can Save Us All Kinds Of Time And Trouble If We Will Ask God To Give Us Wisdom And Discernment In Our Relationships.

All Complaining Comes From Pride.

As Believers In Jesus Christ, Our Work Is To Believe While God Works On Our Behalf.

In The Midst Of Your Battles, Never Forget That God Loves You And He Has A Plan For You.

Don't Do What's Right To Get Something. Do The Right Thing Because It's The Right Thing.

Perhaps We Could Enjoy Ordinary, Everyday Life More If We Learned To Celebrate The Ordinary.

If You Are Facing A Difficult Task Don’t Put It Off. If You Do It Will Just Keep Tormenting You.

Difficult Tasks

Faith Means That You Have Peace Even When You Dont Have All The Answers.

When It Comes To Our Everyday Habits, It's Important To Ask: 'am I Putting God First?'

Jesus Didn't Die For Us So We Could Pretend To Be Something We're Not.

A Truly Humble Person Knows That They Are Nothing In Themselves But They Are Everything In Christ.

God Doesn’t Want Us To Live Timid, Shy, Weak, Wimpy, Fearful, Boring Lives. He Wants Us To Be Bold, Con Dent And Courageous, Unafraid To Try New Things. And It Never Ceases To Amaze Me What God Will Do Through A Person Who Simply Steps Out In Faith.

We Don't Have To Wait For Something Nice To Happen To Us, We Can Be Aggressive And Do Something Nice For Ourselves.

If You Make A Mistake, It Doesn't Mean You're A Mistake.

When We Are Made Right With God, We Begin To Think Right, We Begin To Talk Right, And We Begin To Act Right.

Small Beginnings Are The Launching Pad To Great Endings.

Small Beginnings

I Was Mentally, Emotionally And Verbally Abused By My Father As Far Back As I Can Remember Until I Left Home At The Age Of Eighteen

I Think The Perception Of Peace Is What Distracts Most People From Really Having It.

God's Grace Will Never Be Available To You To Become Another Person. He Created To Be You - The Best "you" You Can Be! Forget About Trying To Be Someone Else.

If I Have To Build A Big Company By Mistreating Other People Then The Bible Says Woe To Me. I Don't Know What That Is, But I Don't Want Any Of It.

I Want To Focus On God's Grace And Give Thanks For All The Good Things In My Life. I Don't Want To Focus On What I Don't Have.

The Sooner We Learn Feelings Are Fickle, The Better Off We Are.

Giving In To Fear Alters God's Best Plan For Your Life.

God Is Good, And He Cannot Be Anything Else.

My Teachings Are My Life.

We Have To Get Rid Of Excuses, No Matter Why You Are The Way You Are, Don't Let It Be An Excuse To Stay That Way.

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

If Your Inner Life Is Not Producing What You Would Like On The Outside, Don't Be Discouraged... Just Be Willing To Change.

Willing To Change

Be It Unto You, Even As You Believe. In God's Economy, We Believe First And Then See.

People Are Born To Be Free; It's A Gift From God.

Born To Be Free

Satan Is The Master Distracter. He Is Always Working To Keep Us Off Track In Our Walk With God.

When You Focus On How Wonderful God Is And All The Great Things He's Done... Is Doing... And Even Will Do In Your Life, Your Natural Response Will Be Praise, Adoration And Awe. Don't Let Yourself Ever Get Used To It... Stay Amazed!

Life Is What Comes Along After You Have Planned Something Else.

Christian Inspirational

Excellence Is Going The Extra Mile.

Going The Extra Mile

God's Mercy Is Fresh And New Every Morning.

The First Step To Forgiveness Is The Desire To Do It, No Matter How You Feel Toward The Person Who Hurt You. Then You Make The Decision To Do It Which Means It's A Firm Decision That Won't Change When Your Feelings Change. The Next Step Is To Depend On The Holy Spirit To Help You Do What You've Decided To Do.

Loving Others Always Costs Us Something And Requires Effort. And You Have To Decide To Do It On Purpose. You Can't Wait For A Feeling To Motivate You.

Contentment With Life Is Not A Feeling, But It Is A Decision We Must Make.

If You Can Manage To Be Thankful In Every Situation, Really Believing That God Is Working Everything Out For Your Good, You Will End Up With The Victory Every Single Time.

Our Faith Is Released As We Say, Pray And Do The Word.

If God Is In Fact Separated From The Government, Then We Can Never Possibly Have A Godly Government. There's No Way For America To Be Good If She's Not Godly.

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.

God's Unconditional Love Is A Very Difficult Concept For People To Accept Because, In The World, There's Always Payment For Everything We Receive. It's Just How Things Work Here. But God Is Not Like People!

Unconditional Love

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

Fear Will Try To Keep You From Taking That First Step. Don't Give In To Fear, Do It Afraid.

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.

Don't Give In To Excuses That Can Keep You From Really Living The Best Life God Has For You.

Sowing And Reaping Is A Spiritual Law...sow Generously And You Will Reap Generously.

Satan Gains More Ground In The Believer's Life Through Unforgiveness Than Any Other Thing, So Be Sure You Let Go Of All Offense And Pray For Those Who Have Hurt You. It May Be Hard, But It Is The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself And The Kingdom Of God. Don't Stay Angry At Anyone Today Because It Will Hurt You More Than It Hurts Them.

We All Need God's Power In Our Lives, And Prayer Is The Dynamic That Releases His Power, Sometimes In Dramatic Ways.

Our Feelings Are Unreliable And Cannot Be Trusted To Convey Truth.

God Is Good...jesus Is Lord Be Good To Yourself And Each Other J-jesus..o-others..y-yourself

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.

Just Deciding To Forgive Isn't Enough Because Willpower Alone Won't Work - We Need Divine Strength From God. As He Gives Us The Strength, We Need To Pray For Our Enemies And Bless Them. Praying For Those Who Have Hurt Us Is Vital To Successfully Forgiving Them.

God Doesn’t Tell You To Do Hard Things So He Can Stand Back And Laugh And Watch You Struggle. He Tells You To Do Things The Things That He Knows Are Gonna Work Out To Your Good In The End.

If We Are To Receive The Blessings God Wants To Bestow Upon Us, We Must Be Willing To Give Him The Messes In Our Lives.

We All Have Two Lives: An Inner Life And An Outer Life. Your Inner Life Is Your Soul Life, Which Includes Your Mind, Will And Emotions. Your Outer Life Is Your Physical Life. And While God Cares About Every Detail Of Your Life, He Is More Concerned With Your Inner Life Than Your Outer Life.

Many People In The Western World Are Spoiled By The Conveniences Of Our Culture.

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.

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

Stay Active. Read The Word. Worship With Other Believers. Continue To Give. Keep Learning And Growing. Your Faith Will Be Unleashed!

Don't Ever Be Discouraged With Yourself Because You Have Not Arrived At Success, But Instead Be Pleased That You Are Pressing Toward It.

Make Sure You Are Doing What Is Important To God-not Just What Is Important To Everyone Else You Know.

There Are Two Kinds Of Pain: The Pain Of Change And The Pain Of Never Changing And Remaining The Same.

Today Is A Brand New Beginning For Me!

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

Although God Loves Us Unconditionally, He Does Get Angry At Sin, Wickedness And Evil. But He Is Not An Angry God. God Hates Sin, But He Loves Sinners! He Will Never Approve Of Sin In Your Life, But He Always Loves You And Wants To Work With You To Make Progress In Living A Holy Life In Christ.

Happiness Is Not A Feeling, It Is A Choice. To Be Happy, One Must Choose To Be Happy, Not Respond To A Circumstance That Now Controls Your Happiness.

Choose To Be Happy

Where There Is A Rotten Root, There Will Always Be Rotten Fruit. We Must Be Rooted In Jesus Christ.

Trusting Him To Work Out Your Circumstances Instead Of Using Your Own Might And Power Will Bring Deep Satisfying Joy Into Your Life.

Is Your Problem Really Your Problem, Or Is It Your Attitude Towards The Problem That's Your Problem?

Many People Say “my Life Stinks”. Well, Your Life Will Stink If You Spend Today Thinking About Tomorrow.

The Purpose Of Faith Isn't Always To Keep Us From Having Trouble. It Is Often To Carry Us Through Trouble. If We Never Had Any Trouble, We Wouldn't Need Any Faith.

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.

Pray About Everything And Worry About Nothing. You Will Enjoy Life Much More.

You're Worth Something Because God Says You're Worth Something-not Because Of What People Think Or Say About You.

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.

It Pleases Our Heavenly Father When We Acknowledge And Confess To Him Our Inability To Run Our Own Lives. That Is What We Are Doing When We Say, "father, Help Me! I Need You!"

Go Home, And Let All Your Relatives Off The Potter's Wheel. You Are Not The Potter!

You Would Be Better Off Having Nobody Than The Wrong Somebody. (on Marrying For The Wrong Reasons.)

The More We Keep Our Mind On Ourselves And Our Wants, The More Unhappy We Become. God Wants Us To Love Others And Meet Their Needs.

It's So Important To Realize That Every Time You Get Upset, It Drains Your Emotional Energy. Losing Your Cool Makes You Tired. Getting Angry A Lot Messes With Your Health.

I Am Radically, Insanely, Nutty In Love With Jesus!

One Might Say That Our Words Are A Movie Screen That Reveals What We Have Been Thinking And The Attitudes We Have.

Forgiveness Is Not A Feeling - It's A Decision We Make Because We Want To Do What's Right Before God.

Decisions We Make

The More You Trust Jesus And Keep Your Eyes Focused On Him, The More Life You'll Have. Trusting God Brings Life. Believing Brings Rest. So Stop Trying To Figure Everything Out, And Let God Be God In Your Life.

You Have The Power To Make The World A Better Place By Being Kind To Someone Today

I May Not Be Where I Want To Be, But Thank God I Am Not Where I Used To Be.

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.

You Can't Have Real Love Without Operating In Forgiveness. Love Keeps Giving The Other Person Another Chance.

You Deal With Doubt All The Time. You Have To Choose To Believe God In Every Situation. I Remind Myself All The Time, Get Out Of Fear. Get Out Of Doubt. Get Back In Faith.

Faith Is A Decision We Make About Where We Are Going To Put Our Trust.

Decisions We Make

Patience Is Not Just About Waiting For Something... It's About How You Wait, Or Your Attitude While Waiting.

So Many People Live With Anger And Unforgiveness, And Many Of Them Are Christians.

Grace Is The Power Of The Holy Spirit Coming To Us Free Of Charge To Enable You To Do With Ease What You Could Never Do On Your Own With Any Amount Of Struggle And Effort.

How One Life Turns Out Is Not Dependent On What People Do To Us Or What They Don't Do For Us.

Seek His Face And Not His Hand.

If You're Holding On To An Offense, Then You Haven't Forgiven The Person Who Hurt You. Unforgiveness Finds Excuses To Talk About What People Have Done To Us, And We'll Tell Anyone Who Will Listen. There's A Difference Between Sharing Your Testimony To Help Someone And Talking About What's Been Done To You Because You Are Angry About It.

Through My Obedience To God, He Has Been Able To Use My Life To Help Others. It's Been A Great Journey And I'm Looking Forward To All The Things God Has In The Future.

Grace Is God Doing For Us What We Could Never Do And What We Will Never Deserve.

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.

If We Continue To Believe God And Place Our Trust In Him, Bad Things Ultimately Give Way To Better Things.

Our Desire For Approval Can Only Truly Be Met By Receiving God’s Acceptance And Approval Of Us.

Fear Is A Spirit That Produces A Feeling.

When You Forgive, You're Not Doing God A Favor, You Are Giving Yourself The Gift Of Freedom.

Love Is And Has Always Been His Idea. He Came To Love Us And To Teach Us How To Love. When We Do This, Life Is Exciting, Beautiful And Rewarding.

Teenagers Are People Too!

Grace Keeps Us From Worrying Because Worry Deals With The Past, While Grace Deals With The Present And Future.

We Often Say God Is Never Late, But Generally He Isn’t Early Either. Why? Because He Uses Times Of Waiting To Stretch Our Faith In Him And To Bring About Change And Growth In Our Lives.

God Rose Up From His Throne And Said To Demon Powers Tormenting The Sinless Son Of God, 'let Him Go.' Then The Resurrection Power Of Almighty God Went Through Hell And Filled Jesus. .. He Was Resurrected From The Dead - The First Born-again Man.

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.

Wow! You Might Actually Have To Act Like A Christian Sometimes!

A Demonstration Of Sincere Concern Can Be A Strong Building Block Of Love.

If You Want To Give The Devil A Nervous Breakdown, Just Get Up Every Day And See How Much Good You Can Do.

Our World Has Created A False Unrealistic Image Of What Women Are Supposed To Look Like And Act Like. But The Truth Is That Every Woman Was Not Created By God To Be Skinny, With A Flawless Complexion And Long Flowing Hair. Not Every Woman Was Intended To Juggle A Career As Well As All Of The Other Duties Of Being A Wife, Mother, Citizen, And Daughter. Single Women Should Not Be Made To Feel They Are Missing Somenthing Because They Are Not Married. Married Women Should Not Be Made To Feel They Must Have A Career To Be Complete. We Must Have The Freedom To Be Our Individual Selves.

We Can Approach God's Throne With Boldness Because We Are Confident In The Power Of What Jesus Accomplished For Us At The Cross.

Victory Is Not The Absence Of Problems, It Is The Presence Of Power.

Forward In Life

If You Want The Great And Mighty Things God Has For You, You Must Get To The Root Of Anger And Deal With It. Get Rid Of The Masks And Face The Things That Happened In Your Life That Made You The Way You Are Today. Admit That You Can't Change By Yourself. Until The Root Is Removed, It'll Continue To Produce One Bad Fruit After Another.

Don’t Wait Around Waiting For God To Do Something That He’s Already Given You The Power To Do.

Do You Know Something? The Minute That Blood Sacrifice Was Accepted, Jesus Was The First Human Being That Was Ever Born Again. Now That Was Real - It Happened When He Was In Hell.

Everywhere You Look You See People Searching For Love But They're Looking In The Wrong Places. God Is Love, And They Will Never Find What They're Looking For Until They Find Him.

When I Read The Bible, I See That We Should Have Victory In Our Life And Be Overcomers, And I Can't Even Control My Temper. I'm Impatient. I'm Hard To Get Along With. I'm Selfish And Self-centered, And I Don't Seem To Have Any Control Over It.

God's Grace Is Amazing! We're Saved By Grace - God's Undeserved Favor - And We Live By Grace, Which Is Also God's Power In Our Lives To Do What We Could Never Do In Our Own Strength. And It's All Because God Is Love, And He Loves Us Unconditionally, Constantly And Completely.

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.

I Was In A Terrible Mess In My Childhood.

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

God Doesn't Do Things Halfway. He Goes All Out! When God Does Something, It's Not Just Barely Enough, Mediocre Or Lukewarm.

Giving Is Just One Way Of Expressing That God Has Been Good To You And Will Continue To Do So Through Your Being Good To Others.

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

Too Many Christians Live Their Lives Like Slaves - To The Devil - Because They Believe His Lies More Than They Trust God.

Not Everyone Loves Me, But I Have To Be Okay No Matter What They Think About Me.

Words Are So Awesome. Words Are Containers For Power. They Carry Either Creative Power Or Destructive Power.

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.

Regret Is Distress Over A Desire Unfulfilled Or An Action Performed Or Not Performed.

The Bible Says To 'fear Not,' But This Doesn't Mean You Should Never Feel Scared. It Means When You Do Feel Fear, Keep Going Forward And Do What You Are Supposed To Do. Or As I Like To Say, Do It Afraid.

I Always Say Believe For A Bunch, And Even If You Only Get Half Of It You Are Better Off Than Believing For A Little And Getting All Of It.

God Has Equipped You To Handle Difficult Things. In Fact, He Has Already Planted The Seeds Of Discipline And Self-control Inside You. You Just Have To Water Those Seeds With His Word To Make Them Grow!

We Can't Control What Other People Do And How They Treat Us, But We Can Control Our Response To Them.

When You're Hurt Very Badly In Your Childhood, The Area That It Has The Greatest Effect On Is Relationships. Once You Feel Like You Can't Trust People, Once You Feel Like That They Don't Care About You, That They're Really Not Going To Take Care Of You, It Gets Very Difficult In Relationships.

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.

Perfectionists Demand Perfection From Themselves First And Foremost.

We All Get Weary Sometimes, And We Tend To Think That Life Is What Makes Us Weary.

People Who Don't Know The True Character Of God - Who Don't Believe He Is Merciful, Gracious And Slow To Anger - Can Never Have A Close, Personal, Intimate Relationship With Him.

Intimate Relationships

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

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

Every Day That Goes By Puts Us Closer To The Day When Christ Will Return.

Unforgiveness Is Spiritual Filthiness, So Get Washed In The Water Of God's Word To Forgive And Stay Clean.

Trending Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Robert Smithson

Category