Joyce Meyer Quotes

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.

Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

God's delays are not God's denials.

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

I've always believed in staying in a positive frame of mind and allowing God to work and move. It's about having patience.

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.