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You Can Have Jesus In Your Spirit And An Outrgeous Mess In Your Soul, And If You Don't Know What That's Called It's Called Religion. That's What It's Called Dead Dry Religion......jesus Said You Are A Bunch Of White Washed Tombs Full Of Dead Men's Bones, And I Tell You If That Didn't Describe Me I Don't Know What Did, Because On Sunday Mornings I Dressed It Up And Took It To Church.

-Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer

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You Can Have Jesus In Your Spirit And An Outrgeous Mess In Your Soul, And If You Don't Know What That's Called It's Called Religion. That's What It's Called Dead Dry Religion......jesus Said You Are A Bunch Of White Washed Tombs Full Of Dead Men's Bones, And I Tell You If That Didn't Describe Me I Don't Know What Did, Because On Sunday Mornings I Dressed It Up And Took It To Church.

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God Is Good, And He Cannot Be Anything Else.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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I’m Living Now In My Reward.

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The Truth Is God Created Us To Have Relationship With Us. He Wants To Love Us And Take Care Of Us, And He Wants Us To Love Him. That's Where Our Walk With Christ Has To Start.

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.

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

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Compliment People. Magnify Their Strengths, Not Their Weaknesses.

It Seems Like A Lot Of People Seek Their Peace In Things. And Most Of Us Are Not Even Satisfied With The Things We Have... We Always Want More.

If You Don't Love Yourself, It's Impossible For You To Love Others. You Can't Give Away What You Don't Have.

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Many Sophisticated, Intelligent People Lack Wisdom And Common Sense.

Love Listens To The Other Person And Searches For Clues On Ways To Serve, Bless And Lift Up That Person.

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.

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

Everything God Ever Asks You To Do, Even If It's Difficult, He Asks Because He Has Something Great In Mind For You.

Trusting God Brings Life.

Start Believing The Word Of God Over Our Feelings. The Truth Always Overrides Our Feelings. Find The Truth In The Scriptures.

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

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.

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