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In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
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Pauline Joyce Hutchison
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I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.
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God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.
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When you walk in love, you give up your right to be right.
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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.
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Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
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It`s important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.
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I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.
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Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life.
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Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
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I think we need to get smart enough to do what's going to help us and not just continue to do things that are going to hurt us. It's pretty easy to read something or hear about it in a message, but it's that personal application of that where it's just you, God, and your problems, that are going to give you the power to get stronger and stronger.
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Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.
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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.
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Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you.
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Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
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Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.
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Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.
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What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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