Favorite sentences from Joyce Meyer
(power thoughts)
Le succès de Joyce Meyer vient sans doute de la façon naturelle et personnelle qu’elle a lorsqu’elle parle devant des dizaines de milliers de personnes (ou même 1 million récemment à Mumbaï en Inde) pendant des heures sans lire de notes, utilisant le même ton que lorsqu’elle échange des propos avec quelques invités au cours de ses programmes télévisés..
Elle est capable de faire passer en quelques phrases une foule dans un stade de sport du rire à la réflexion et la remise en question personnelle.
Elle parle d’elle-même en toute sincérité, de son enfance durant laquelle elle a été abusée sexuellement par son père pendant de nombreuses années, de son couple, sa famille, son action et avant tout de sa relation avec Dieu, sans chercher les effets oratoires faciles et ramenant chacun à ses propres expériences.
Bien sûr, elle délivre un message d'espoir, l’homme n’est pas déterminé par son passé, Dieu veut toujours nous relever et libérer.
La vie spirituelle ou la vie tout court est pour Joyce un long chemin d’apprentissage mais malgré les obstacles, il faut apprécier ou jouir de ce chemin dans l’instant présent. Un thème qui revient et qui est le titre de son émission télévisée est que nous devons « enjoying life, everyday life », citant une phrase de Jésus, « je suis venu pour que vous ayez la vie en abondance » Jean 10-10.
Une idée centrale de Joyce Meyer est que l’on peut contrôler ses pensées et ainsi ses émotions et ses relations avec autrui. Nous devons prendre responsabilité pour nos pensées. Elle s’oppose à une certaine approche passive considérant que ce qui nous passe par la tête est le résultat de notre enfance, notre environnement et qu’il n’y a pas grand-chose à y faire.
Bien sûr le changement des pensées implique un renouveau de l’être, de toute l’approche de la vie.
A ce propos, Joyce reprend la division traditionnelle de l’être
humain en esprit, âme et corps. L’esprit est la partie la plus profonde de l'être,
là où l'esprit de Dieu est présent et pour Joyce, la vie du chrétien consiste à
incarner la renaissance qu’il a reçue dans l’esprit au niveau de l'âme (les
émotions, l'intellect, la volonté) et finalement du corps. C’est ce qu’elle appelle
« the battlefield of the mind » ou le champ de
bataille de la pensée, titre de l’un de ses livres à succès (elle en a écrit
plus de 70).
Ainsi à tout moment, il faut contrôler ses pensés sans pour autant devenir centré sur soi même mais tout en étant tourné vers les autres et agissant vers les autres.
Avoir peur ou se soucier sans cesse pour différentes choses ne va pas les améliorer alors qu’avec la foi et la paix intérieure, on peut agir constructivement « a peaceful life begins with a peaceful mind »..
Elle insiste toujours sur la responsabilité et la capacité de chacun de contrôler ses états mentaux. Une façon efficace pour JOYCE MEYER de changer ses structures ou modèles de pensée est de prononcer à haute voix des versets de la Bible ou des paroles inspirantes,
Une autre est de se rappeler que Dieu est un bon père qui a un bon plan pour nous et donc s’attendre à ce que des bonnes choses arrivent, à ce que Dieu nous fasse des cadeaux, de ne pas perdre espoir et toujours lutter contre l’approche pessimiste, négative des choses, du futur. Vous trouverez ci-dessous quelques citations et thèmes chers à Joyce Meyer
- We have to begin to really walk in love, not
just to talk about it
- It is amazing of how many things we pray for
God to do that he wants us to do by ourself.
- Make a commitment every day to make an act of
love toward someone, being mindful to be blessing, seeking to do good.
Sometimes we pray God to meet someone’s need but don’t want to give our stuff, we should never pray to meet a need when God gave us
the resources to meet that need.
- Forget yourself, God will take care of you,
he will do a much better job at it than you are doing.
- Love is the most effective way to do
spiritual warfare.
- If you want to defeat the devil, then make a
commitment to everyday put a smile on somebody else face.
- We should live a giving life style and not
just give some money in the church once a week.
- The reason people are not happy is that they
are not doing anything for somebody else, are not reaching to other people. We
are not created to reach in but to reach out, selfish people cannot be happy.
Instead of thinking of some deep thing that you think is destroying your life,
do something for someone else. If you walk in love, the devil cannot do to you.
- We have all to take responsibility for our
own level of joy, our actions.
If someone is very negative, complaining all
the time, tell him « I love you but you are starting to pull me down and I
cannot be your friend on such a base”. Is he really your friend or using you as
a dumping box? If he is not helped by now, he is trying to take advantage of yourself. Do not become co-dependant of the problems of
others. You cannot have one sided relationship.
You can be around people who are not behaving
right as long as you affect them and they are not infecting you.
-You cannot make somebody love God, don’t try
to impose your faith, do not behave like an overzealous, fanatic religious
person who has the spiritual answer to everything going on. Have real
relationship with people, having things in common beyond Christ. God himself
won’t try to force himself on everybody. You say “But I am just trying to help
them” but sometimes, it is our own pride that makes us think everybody wants
and needs your advice on everything.
Relationship has to be a two way thing. One
side relationship is not relationship. Many people trying to love somebody but
do not have really love to give because they have something to fix first. First
God loves you, you love him, have faith in God’s love, then you love him then
you can love others.
- I will
not promise you an easy life because I would be lying but I promise you your
worst day with Jesus will be better than your best day without him.
Stop having always yourself on your
mind, thinking always about yourself
Get your mind off your troubles and
go to help somebody
« It is just a mirage »
when you think if only I would be married, have a job, then you would be happy
Anxious, worrying
mind or peaceful mind. Worries does no good, the alternative is to
worry or trust in God
Spiritual warfare :
We don’t have to think on everything that comes into our mind. We must think
about what you think about.
I am shaking off jealousy, I am shaking
off resentment, I am shaking off bitterness, I am getting rid of unforgiveness, I am shaking off this bad attitude.Must spend time thanking, prayer spending time
with God, obedience, love walk,
Mind of the flesh
: sense and reason without the Holy Spirit which is death. Mind of the
spirit: life and peace. Some of the mess in your life comes from mess in your
mind
Saw your pain as a seed and then God
can bring a harvest in your life. This is why God is always trying to get us to
forgive those who hurted us.
When the devil is trying to tell us
“it is all over, you ruined your life” you must say no, it is a new beginning.
We need to be content where we are
but we should not be totally satisfied, we need to have goals, dreams, to be
reaching in faith for something. It gives you a reason to live. I would rather
want everything and get half of it than want nothing and get all of it.
“Without a vision a people perish ».
- If you choose to do what is
right, then your feeling catch up with your decision, if you wait to feel right
to do what is right, you can wait a long time. If you would
just stop talking about your problems.
“I do not
make decisions based on my feelings.” “I do what is right when all feels
wrong”. “Be bold and strong”, « Do it afraid, I will not bow down to fear»
“I promptly obey God”
Basically
these sentences mean you have to do things when you know that they are the
right things to do even if you feel afraid. We must not be guided by our
feelings but by the word of God and our conscience and do things even if we
don’t feel like. This approach runs counter a certain view that we should feel
good about something before doing it but our feelings are not the base for good
and evil.
On Grace:
“Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit, coming to us free of charge, to help us
to do with ease what we could never do on our own with any amount of struggle
and efforts”. This sentence seems to be
contradicting the previous one but in fact does not speak of the same thing,
sometimes we have to go against our feelings but at the same time, God’s help
opens doors, makes easy things that appear impossible to do…
“I am in right standing with God”, “I can do whatever I need to do in life” Bible verses to
reinforce confidence.
« What
would have become of me if I would not have believed that I would see God’s
goodness in the land of the livings » Psalm 27-13. Phrase attributed to
David meaning we should always keep hope.