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What We Need To Understand Is That When Traditions Become Laws, Rules, Obligations And Expectations Others Put On Us That We Don't Want To Fulfill, Then They Lose Real Meaning And Steal The Joy From Our Lives. And If We're Too Religious, We Won't Be Able To Be Led By The Holy Spirit And Enjoy An Intimate Relationship With Him.

-Joyce Meyer

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What We Need To

Joyce Meyer

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What We Need To Understand Is That When Traditions Become Laws, Rules, Obligations And Expectations Others Put On Us That We Don't Want To Fulfill, Then They Lose Real Meaning And Steal The Joy From Our Lives. And If We're Too Religious, We Won't Be Able To Be Led By The Holy Spirit And Enjoy An Intimate Relationship With Him.

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Leaps And Bounds

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Be Patient With Yourself Even When You Make Mistakes.

Making Mistakes

You Know, God Will Give Favor To Anyone Who Will Believe Him. Every Day You Should Confess That You Have Favor Everywhere You Go. God Will Begin To Open Doors That You Wouldn't Believe.

Is All Anger Sin? No, But Some Of It Is. Even God Himself Has Righteous Anger Against Sin, Injustice, Rebellion And Pettiness.

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One Step At A Time

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Lifestyle Choices

The Absence Of Pain Means Death, So When Something No Longer Bothers You, You've Died To That Thing.

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Wisdom Is Exercised In The Choices You Make.

Choices You Make

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

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.

Too Often We Spend Our Time In The Past Or The Future. We Need To Learn To Live Now - Mentally As Well As Physically And Spiritually.

Embrace Your Life, Count Your Blessings, And Don’t Complain About What You Don’t Have.

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

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.

To Compromise Simply Means That You Go A Tiny Bit Below What You Know Is Right.

Your Soul Is Your Mind, Your Will And Your Emotions. When The Word Gets Rooted In There And Begins To Change Your Mind, It Begins To Heal Your Emotions And Turn Your Will Away From Self-will And Onto Doing The Will Of God.

If I'm A Blessing To You, Then Either God Will Put It On Your Heart To Bless Me, Or He'll Use Somebody Else To Bless Me. If I'm Friendly With You, Then I'll Have Friends. If I'm Merciful With People, The Bible Says I'll Get Mercy Back. If I'm Not Judgmental, Then People Won't Be Judgmental With Me. And It Works Also With Finances. If You Give To Help Other Hurting People And You Give To The Preaching Of The Gospel, Because You Love God, Then God Takes Care Of You.

If You're Missing Joy And Peace, You're Not Trusting God.

As You Pray For The Holy Spirit To Make You Aware Of Thoughts That Come Into Your Mind That Don't Line Up With God's Word, You'll Begin To Realize When Those Thoughts Come And You Can Renew Your Mind With The Word.

Nobody Likes To Have Trouble. The Moment We Get A Hint That It's Coming, A Common Response Is, 'oh No! Not Again!'

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

Breaking Old Habits And Forming New Ones Always Takes Time, But It Is Worth It In The End.

God Is The Source Of Real Love, Joy, Peace, Wisdom And Everything Else We All Need To Be The People He Has Created Us To Be.

Every Person Who Confesses That Christ Jesus Is Lord, Repents Of Their Sin And Gives Their Heart To God Is A Child Of God And Belongs To Him. And In Christ, We Are Made Right With God, We Are His Righteousness, And We Have The Power Of Christ In Us To Live Right.

If Selfishness Is The Key To Being Miserable, Then Selflessness Must Be The Key To Being Happy!

The Only Way To Break The Chains Of Fear And Doubt Is To Know In Your Heart That God Loves You-no Matter What.

I Imagine That It Saddens The Heart Of God When We Murmur And Complain, Instead Of Being Thankful After He's Been So Good To Us.

A Positive Attitude Gives You Power Over Your Circumstances Instead Of Your Circumstances Having Power Over You.

You Don't Have To Give Way To Careless Speech Or Complaining. You Don't Have To Let Your Feelings Get In The Way Of What God Wants To Do In Your Life.

Unhappiness Comes When You Try To Be Like Everyone Else Rather Than Embracing The Unique Person That You Are.

As Believers, Our Joy And Peace Are Not Based In Doing And Achieving, But In Believing. Joy And Peace Come As A Result Of Building Our Relationship With The Lord.

We Are Not Filled With The Spirit Of God To Do Easy Things. He Fills Us With His Spirit So We Can Do Impossible Things.

Impossible Things

At School I Pretended I Had A Normal Life, But I Felt Lonely All The Time And Different From Everyone Else. I Never Felt Like I Fit In, And I Wasn't Allowed To Participate In After-school Activities, Go To Sports Events Or Parties Or Date Boys. Many Times I Had To Make Up Stories About Why I Couldn't Do Anything With My Classmates.

Don't Just Let The Devil Use Your Mind As A Garbage Dump.

Simplicity Is A Key To Avoiding Complication. Part Of The Definition Of Simplicity Is 'not Complex Or Complicated; Sincere.'

There Is No Man On Earth Or Devil In Hell Who Can Keep You From The Very Best God Put In You.

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

The Bible Says That Christians Are The Salt Of The Earth And The Light Of The World. On The Job, In The Grocery Store, Even Among Unsaved Friends And Family Members, God's People Are There To Bring Seasoning To An Unsavory Situation.

The More Positive You Are, The Powerful Youll Be.

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.

Words Are Containers For Power

There’s Nothing More Dangerous To The Kingdom Of Darkness Than A Believer With The Word Of God In Their Mouth.

One Of The Best Ways To Walk In Love Is To Be A Blessing To Other People Or Simply To Help Them.

Trust Means We Always Have Questions That We Don't Have The Answers To.

I Never Get Tired Of Hearing The Great Testimonies Of People Whom God Has Touched. I Pray That The Changes God Has Done In Me Will Then Be Done In Others.

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.

Seek His Face And Not His Hand.

There Is Absolutely No Power In Our Human Effort To Live Holy. It Is Only By His Grace. And The Result Of Receiving Grace Is We Get Better At Living Like Christ, Which Is Something We All Want, Right?

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