Joyce Meyer Quotes

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of — throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but he is building a palace.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

Advent creates people, new people.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.